Congratulations to SpecFicNZ member Kura Carpenter, who has won a copy of Frozen!
Elizabeth Knox on writing literary & genre fiction
Earlier this year, I attended WORD, the Christchurch Writers Festival, where I saw Elizabeth Knox deliver the inaugural...
Win a copy of Frozen! (no, not that one)
With thanks to our friends at The Realm, we have a copy of Frozen to give away, book one in the...
Judges needed for NZ Children’s & YA Book Awards
Booksellers NZ is now accepting expressions of interest to judge the 2015 New Zealand Book Awards for Children...
Self-publishing illustrated print books in NZ
Next up in our series on self-publishing in New Zealand Aotearoa: James Russell of Dragon Brothers Books decided...
Online literary festival reaches international crowds
Sarah Shaffi at The Bookseller reports: “Gollancz’s one-day physical and digital festival reached nearly three million people on...
All hail Kiwi Young Adult fiction
Great piece from Sarah Forster on the Booksellers NZ blog about Kiwi YA fiction: “The wonderful thing about...
NZ book TV show looking for authors to interview
Face Television NZ has launched a new TV programme: The Book Show. Now they’re putting out a call...
Free talks around the country on authors’ rights
Jane C. Ginsburg, of the Columbia University School of Law, will be visiting NZ soon and giving a...
Litcoin: a new kind of Kickstarter
Interesting development on the crowdfunding front: novelist Julian Gough has launched ‘Litcoin’, as reported by Alison Flood in...
Changes in NZ book review media
For all you self-pubbers out there doing DIY book promotion – an update. All book reviews for Fairfax...
News from Steam Press
News from Steam Press on Beattie’s Book Blog – Paul Gilbert’s fantasy novel The Sovereign Hand is being well...
Superman comic sells for $3.2 million
Got any old comics in your attic? Dig them out and dust them off, they might be worth...
AJ Fitzwater’s report from Clarion Writers Workshop
I feel like this write up about my time at Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop in San...
Space Opera is the new black
Great piece from Damien Walter in The Guardian: “Science fiction is not a genre … Today space opera...