Stories
Latest news and stories from the Kiwi independent author community.
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What We Become in the Dark: A Story of Loss, Strength and Becoming
It’s the book you reach out for when you’re walking in the dark. Champions Are Made in the Dark: A Story of Loss, Strength and Becoming is a book of...
Indie Books and First Applause Partnership: Helping Self-Published NZ Authors Get Discovered
For independent authors, writing the book is only half the challenge. The hardest part can be helping the right readers discover it. But now...
From Five-Year Draft to Bookshop Shelves: Christina Woods’ Self-Publishing Success Story
A novel published in April this year has already reached milestones that many self-published authors can spend years working towards.Fuelled by the...
Finding Light in the Darkness: Elizabeth Deacle’s Gentle Guide Through Grief
With the author’s meditative voice, You Won’t Just Cry When They Die by Elizabeth Deacle is an audiobook that gives out warm hugs – even if the...
Baggage Books
In 1996, Tony Hopkins and Moira Wairama founded the Baggage Co-op to share theatre and storytelling. When publishers closed, they launched Baggage...
Geoff Lawson
When Geoff Lawson was young he was fascinated with history and spent hours alone at the museum absorbing it all. Geoff's first foray into writing...
Jodie Shelley
Jodie Shelley writes novels set in New Zealand, which are easy to read and fun, but which explore grittier themes such as problem gambling and...
Stephanie Ruth
An award-winning contemporary romance novelist and short story writer, Stephanie lives in Te Waipounamu, the South Island, and writes popular...
Dahlia Malaeulu
Dahlia Malaeulu has gone from searching for Pasifika children’s stories to creating them. As an award winning author, publisher and founder of...
Rochelle Maroon
Former children’s book editor and journalist, Rochelle Maroon, has turned first-time novelist with her new urban adventure for middle readers The...
Denise Fitzpatrick
As a born and bred Kiwi growing up in the South Island, Denise developed a passion for reading mysteries. She devoured Enid Blyton’s Famous Five...
Vicky Adin
As a Welsh-born, Cornish raised immigrant who married a fourth-generation Kiwi bloke with Irish, Scottish and English ancestors, Vicky developed a...
Helen Ellis
Helen Ellis, researcher and author, is a veteran of distance parenting and grandparenting. She is the founder of DistanceFamilies.com. In 2020,...
Pat Backley
Pat Backley is an author, born in England but now based in Auckland, New Zealand. Passionate about people and travelling the world, she has spent 70...
Tom O’Connor
Tom O'Connor was more than a writer – he was a voice for rural communities, commentator of politics and champion of learning our New Zealand...