So, rather ironically given I work in communications for a living, it turns out I am a bit of a rubbish self promoter. I need to try harder to let people know Which Way is Starboard Again? the book is out there. To that end I have spruced up the blog and transferred it from the basic seamunchkin.wordpress.co to seamunchkin.com….
I’m packing up my house at the moment. There’s an exciting and scary and stressful and wonderful reason why I am, which I will write about once I’m done (and no it’s not the next sailing trip yet. Unfortunately El No No won that particular battle). I couldn’t have picked a worse time to pack up my house – the…
I don’t want to write this. I don’t want to write this. I don’t want to write this. If I write this it makes it real. But if I don’t write it I feel like I will burst. It’s ridiculous really, it’s not as though I knew the guy, but a huge part of my light and life has left…
Monster Weather Pattern! Horror Summer! The Godzilla Cthulu Sauron El Nino of 2015!- I’ve been putting off blogging about this because I haven’t wanted to jinx anything, but there appears to be no escaping this behemoth, and the accompanying headlines. I feel a bit selfish worrying about this. I’m not a drought stricken farmer or an islander waiting to get walloped…
Fuck. Drugs. Sex. If the above upsets or offends you, you can stop reading, you have that right – a right that has been taken away from a bunch of young Kiwis who may want to read a book called Into the River . For non-New Zealand readers, the book – an award-winning novel aimed at young adults – is at…
(Sorry for taking so long to post these on here – life and lurghies kind of got in the way.) Last month I ended up sharing more information about myself over the radio than anyone could possibly want to know. The Nutters Club is a late night show that runs from 11pm to 1am on Newstalk ZB. Hosted by comedian Mike King,…
The response from people who have read Which Way is Starboard Again? the book has been nothing short of amazing, but there are still a couple of reactions that I struggle with. One is ‘you’re so brave’ and the other ‘I could never do that’ Firstly, I’m not brave. I’m terrified of everything – cars, loud noises, sudden movements, having to…
(Now that the book excitement has settled a bit I can finally get around to finishing the blog about our Tasman Bay trip) Sometimes you can scare the pants off yourself over things. They build up as big bogies in your mind and you freak yourself out over them, regardless of how much logic tells you they aren’t an issue….
The last couple of weeks have been an amazing, exciting, terrifying blur. I nervously presented my book-baby to the world and so far the reaction has been really positive. I even had one lovely reviewer describe it as a “Monty Python sketch come to life” (see lovely review here) which is more than I could ever ask for! Of course…
Whenever I think about being an author I feel like a giant fraud. Like any minute now someone is going to come tap me on the shoulder ask for my credentials and force me to admit I’m just pretending. The packages that I arrived home to this afternoon however are forcing me to accept that this might not actually be…