Bonnie Shotbolt

Bonnie Shotbolt

Bonnie Shotbolt is from Dunedin, New Zealand, and is an English and Chinese teacher. She enjoys writing, and helping young people use language well. She is now a first-time novelist with her fantasy adventure novel for middle grade readers. Shotbolt Books FollowFollow...
Kate Gordon-Smith

Kate Gordon-Smith

Kate Gordon-Smith spent 90% of her childhood reading books about ponies. The other 10% she spent galloping around the garden with her family’s pet Beagle. Now she’s penning fun adventure and mystery stories about brave friends, ponies and unicorns, and...
Elizabeth-Kirkby McLeod

Elizabeth-Kirkby McLeod

If Elizabeth could travel in time she would go back to when Aotearoa New Zealand still had moa and giant eagles! Along with the Eugene’s Island book series, she is the author of children’s book World Folk Tales, poetry collection, Family Instructions Upon Release, and...
Sue Carpenter

Sue Carpenter

Sue Carpenter is an award- winning writer of speculative fiction, romance, young adult, and children’s literature. She is the winner of the 2025 Te Pae Tawhiti Outstanding Achievement Award for the Blood Protectors collection and longlisted for the 2026 Saint...
Anne Ingram

Anne Ingram

Anne Ingram is the author of the Lucy Bee trilogy which follows Lucy through the adventures and challenges she faces from age 10 to 15. Anne has always loved reading and wanted to write from a very young age. She has worked as a journalist, editor, teacher, librarian,...