I am in the process of revamping this website to make it more user friendly, but in the meantime I’m pinning this post for those of you wanting to get your hands on my books. I’m really thrilled with the way Ghost Bus turned out and even more thrilled so many of you are enjoying it. Below are the details…
Feature image by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash I’ve been thinking about writing this blog for a while but always end up agonising over whether it’s the right time. There are so many voices that need to be given the space to be heard right now – more and more every day it seems. So it feels selfish to try to…
You thought the Space X launch was exciting? Well today is the e-launch of Ghost Bus – Tales from Wellington’s Dark Side!
Tomorrow I will be publishing my second book
Before our entire country was (quite rightfully) sent to our room, I was already seeing a bunch of messages from historians in writers’ forums asking people to write about the pandemic. It was a moment in history we were living through and we should be documenting it, they said. I thought about it, I really did. I write non-fiction, I…
This is a blog I have been putting off writing for a while. It’s about letting go, but I have to keep reminding myself that it’s not about giving up. We’ve talked about this for a while but it wasn’t until the last time we took the boat away that we officially made the call. We’re putting Wildflower up for…
This blog is all out of order. It’s not the one I was planning to share but events have overtaken things. Sailors may want to give it a wide berth too (see what I did there?) as it is about the opposite of water, it’s about *shudder* being a dirt dweller. Our home About three years ago Paddy and I…
The yachtie circle of life. So here I am on holiday, finally getting the chance to finish writing up the blog I started last time we went on holiday. If that isn’t a wake up call to take more time to tell life to get bent and do more writing, I don’t know what is! (Of course I say that…
Porridge in the air Comedian and mental health advocate Mike King describes depression as feeling like walking through mud. That was the inspiration behind the first Gumboot Up NZ day on April 5. The idea was for people to walk a day in the shoes of someone with depression, while raising awareness and funds for youth mental health support. For…
RIP big fridge A few months back something truly sad happened. After 13 years of loyal service, the mega boat fridge Paddy built – the one that made it all the way round the South Pacific, helping out cruisers with less functioning fridges and housing the 50kg Tuna of Terror – cooled its last cold thing. Since we were no…