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Fast Five with Roger Hall
Why did you want to be a writer? So girls would like me. (It didn’t work.) What’s the best thing about being a writer? You can get to work in less than a minute. What’s your favourite New Zealand...
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Fast Five with Nic Brockelbank
Why did you want to be a writer? To fundraise for charities. My first hand-written cookbook I sold to raise money for the Christchurch Earthquake Relief Fund, and then I hand-wrote two books to raise...
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Fast Five with Tania Hutley
Why did you want to be a writer? I think most writers start by being enthusiastic readers, and I’m no different. Through reading I discovered how much I loved the feeling of falling into another...
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Fast Five with Donovan Bixley
Why did you want to be a writer? I wanted to illustrate things that I was really interested in, which doesn’t always happen when you illustrate other author’s stories. So I decided to write my own...
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Fast Five with Lindy Fisher
Why did you want to be a writer? I can’t seem to help making images. I’ve done it forever! I enjoy texture and colour and playing with it. Sometimes my images are used to illustrate children’s...
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Guest Author: Barbara Else on The Queen and the Nobody Boy
We’re very lucky today to be joined by New Zealand author Barbara Else. As well as writing novels for adults and editing several short story collections for children, Barbara is the author of the...
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Fast Five with Kath Beattie
Why did you want to be a writer? I’ve been writing since I was a small girl. Telling stories is just something I do and want to do and as a small child had to do. We didn’t have many books…we were...
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Guest Author: Melinda Szymanik on A Winter’s Day in 1939
Today we’re joined by the wonderful Melinda Szymanik, author of the powerful new book, A Winter’s Day in 1939. Based on her father’s experiences during World War II, A Winter’s Day in 1939 is a story...
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Fast Five with Sarah Johnson
Why did you want to be a writer? Stories are one of my favourite things in the whole world (as are books), so it made sense to me that I would enjoy writing them, and I do. I have carried the stories...
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Fast Five with Melanie Drewery
Why did you want to be a writer? Because I have always had a vivid imagination, and when I was small I was a real chatterbox with lots of ideas to share. Writing is sort of like talking a lot on...
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