And @paepukapukanz.bsky.social have a sale on for New Zealand National #BookShopDay if you go check them out on October 11th! 📚💙

A young girl fishing in the mist with her father. What terrors remain unspoken in the deep water beneath them? 🩸📚💙 #ShortStories

A lot of the fears in my stories are about how others perceive a character, or how they see themselves. #PretendPanel 🩸📚💙

Congratulations on this gorgeous cover, Melissa Gunn! The novel will be out by the end of the year. #coverreveal #bookrecs #newbook #urbanfantasy #specficnz

More ways to support the wonderful creativity of New Zealand writers! 📚💙 #GraphicNovel #CyberPunk

The scariest things for me to write are not the horrow things. My editor would probably say it's easy for me to drift into creepy scary elements to my stories actually. #PretendPanel 📚💙

Lots of great book news to share at the moment, get out there and read! 🇳🇿📚💙

Check out my creepy story "The Assumption Of Brother Tibbons", inspired by the Sorcery TCG, in episode 24 of the Contested Realm podcast at minute 36. 🩸📚💙

I have decided the title of my next book, with help from a lot of you! 🪐📚💙 #FunnyFantasy #CosyFantasy

What's your favorite Bluesky account that primarily posts about something other than current events/politics?

Do you know about the different awards for scifi and fantasy that comes from New Zealand? Check out SFFANZ.nz and SpecFic.nz for more about these! 🪐📚💙📚🇳🇿

We are so proud of Miss 11, who is so interested in story telling! 📚💙

I think part of why I have written so many books independent from each other is related to this. 📚💙 #PretendPanel

Some days are more trying than others. 📚💙 #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity

I could really use some outside perspective on which title gives more of a cosy, funny, friendly, witchy impression. 🪐📚💙 #FunnyBooks #WritingCommunity #CosyFantasy

I certainly try to imbue my characters with very different ideas, but I think my own preoccupations guide how they behave a lot too. 📚💙 #WritingCommunity #PretendPanel

I like my banner! I'm going to stick pictures of my latest books in the gaps on it. 📚💙 #WritingCommunity

Lots to tidy up, but also lots they enjoyed. Time to Lock In and give this thing a final polish! Who would give themselves such a short deadline, honestly?? 🪐📚💙

Would you make the same choices as the main character in my novel Rotten? 🩸📚💙

I had a thought about which characters stood out to me and talked about bit about, but now I'm thinking about memorable side characters and villains who the reader DOESN'T know the motivations of. What about them? 📚🇳🇿 #PretendPanel

#stitch with @Runa Veda | Author 👽🌀🪐 From a certain point of view, I always start my drafts with a book long chapter. 📚💙 #IndieAuthor #WritingCommunity

SpecFicNZ member Janna Ruth has a new book out: Ghosts of the Monarchy (Parisian Ghosts 7). If you like cave-crawling adventures, hopeless romantics, and ghosts, you'll enjoy Ghosts of the Monarchy Get your copy today: books2read.com/b/ghostsofth... #bookrecs #bookstagram #urbanfantasy #specficnz

Follow me through today's writing conference with www.SpecFic.NZ I got a lot of great ideas and inspiration, and it's a great group to be a part of. 📚💙 #SpeculativeFiction #WritingCommunity

Hopefully I've chosen the best things to reveal about each of the witches in my new book! If you want to find out more, you'll have to keep buying my books so I can write more! 📚💙 #PretendPanel #WritingCommunity

There's a book event coming to Auckland next year that looks cool, but it also made me think of something annoying about finding books these days. 📚💙

I love the way little details show the solid connections, but also the way so much was thematically mirrored through each journey. 📚💙 #Reading2025

I have very very broad strokes of my characters in mind before I begin writing, and then I explore how they act as events unfold. 📚💙 #WritingCommunity #PretendPanel

I'm so excited, this is a cool author milestone: You can borrow my horror novel about zombie things showing up in Wellington from libby! (Auckland libraries at least, not sure about elsewhere...) Go borrow my book from an actual library! 🩸📚💙 #WritingCommunity

Spreading the word about release events for New Zealand writers! I hope it goes well! 📚💙 #DarkRomantasy

Put this one in the calendar! Get ready for #AgesOfPages Bookfair! 🇳🇿📚

I think the closest I've come to a self insert character is a grumpy guy who mostly runs away from monsters. #PretendPanel 🩸📚💙 #WritingCommunity

stitch with @Michele Shaw Author Ranking novels with train covers has to include my one! A steam age fantasy adventure is nothing without a good train journey. #TrainNovels 🪐📚💙

A few words from the readers of Rotten, my horror novel set in Aotearoa New Zealand. What happens when there's an outbreak of zombie-like monsters in Wellington? 🩸📚💙

Talking about how I smash together bits and pieces of loss of people when I start making new characters for #PretendPanel 📚💙 ##WritingCommunity

#stitch with Michele Shaw Author Figuring out what swear words would be part of a fantasy world is a big part of my world building! I think it really gives an understanding of the society. Sorry about my noisy bird in this video. 🪐📚💙

Check out my Linktree to find yourself a copy of my fantasy thriller "There Is A Stranger Here"! 🪐📚💙

Sharing gorgeous handmade bookshelf decorations by The Wild Earthling. Check out more of their creations at their website! #Fantasy #NZArtist #Artist

I had a lovely encounter with a reader at last weekend's Indie Writer Festival. It's always lovely to hear what people enjoy about your work! 🪐📚💙 #Kaiju #SpeculativeFiction #ShortStories

Admitting that I have quite a few half read books scattered around this house for #PretendPanel #WritingCommunity 📚💙

Huge thanks to Te Manawa Westgate for hosting their Indie Writers Festival as part of #WeReadAuckland I had a great time, and i thoroughly recommend going to check out the space if you're nearby 💙📚

We're just about set up, but the buzz is already happy and excited. Come check out all sorts of local Indie Writers if you're nearby today! #WeReadAuckland 💙📚🇳🇿

Just one more quick reminder about this event happening tomorrow, Saturday the 30th of August! #WeReadAuckland

I must admit, I'm am very very curious to hear what people think of my stories usually. Admitting to a bad habit for #PretendPanel #WritingCommunity 💙📚

I loved the way this essay looks at how we try to wallpaper over any complaints in NZ and how that infiltrates all our stories. 🪐📚💙📚🇳🇿 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Reviews are just a way to have. conversation about the things you like or didn't like in something you read, right? Continuing #PretendPanel 📚💙

It's less than a week before the Indie Writers' Festival at Te Manawa! #WritingCommunity #WeReadAuckland 📚💙

Who runs the formal parts of the religion in my latest novel? Explaining a bit about Mercy's Shield in There Is A Stranger in Here for #MythAugust 🪐📚💙

A bit of poetry for NZ National Poetry Day! I hope you enjoy, and consider picking up my short collection "omens". 📚💙 #poetry

I am oblivious to the hot trends in the bookworld, so I'm just going to keep plugging away with my writing for now. One day I'll develop a better way of planning ahead!! #PretendPanel #WritingCommunity 📚💙

My reading is aspirational, but my writing is tangible, at least so far this year. #PretendPanel asking about where our strengths are this time. #Booktok #IndieAuthor #kiwiauthor #nzauthor ²