B+ Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary / New Zealand / Rock-Star6 Comments
Dear Karina Bliss, When I read the You Had Me At Christmas anthology recently, my favourite novella was Play. When you offered me a review copy of Fall, I snapped it up. It took me much of the book to work out that Fall begins before the action in Play. ... more >
B- Reviewsasthma / Billionaire / Contemporary / New Zealand / single mum / widower6 Comments
Dear Serenity Woods, I saw this story advertised in your newsletter, so I bought it. Pediatrician Brock King, together with his brothers, Charlie and Matt, run the “We Three Kings” foundation; a charitable organisation for sick children and their families. Their younger sister died after an asthma attack when Brock ... more >
Publishing Newsad blocking / censorship / Chrome / copyright / intellectual property / New Zealand / piracy / spam / YouTube6 Comments
Book banned after Christian complaint -New Zealand now has its first banned book in more than 20 years, Ted Dawe’s Into the River, which was named Book of the Year in 2013 at the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards. The ban is particularly troubling because the main character in ... more >
Publishing Newsconference / copyright infringement / harassment / New Zealand / poetry / rugby / Science Fiction / WisCon / YouTube6 Comments
WisCon’s flaky response to harassment incident sparks Internet uproar – You may have read about the sexual harassment allegations against former Tor editor Jim Frenkel last year on John Scalzi’s blog. Despite the widespread attention the allegations got, Frenkel was back at WisCon this year, and it was only afterward ... more >
B- Reviews19th century / chick-in-pants / Historical / New Zealand / shipboardComments Off on REVIEW: Close to the Wind by Zana Bell
Georgiana da Silva is catapulted out of the Victorian drawing rooms and into a world of danger when she escapes her fiendish fiancé to engage in a mad dash across the world to save her brother before an unknown assassin can find him. Meanwhile, Captain Harry Trent is setting sail ... more >
Publishing NewsAuthor Reader Relationship / New Zealand / publicity12 Comments
The end of kindness: weev and the cult of the angry young man – Have you heard of the Free Weev movement. Weev is a famed internet hacker who decided a woman on the internet displeased him. In response he released photoshopped pictures of her children in obscene poses. He ... more >