 Just when I thought my birthday haul couldn't get any better, a copy of Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand was slipped into my letterbox. My story Women's Studies is among the 200 or so short, short stories featured in the anthology, which also includes work by Tracey Slaughter, Leanne Radojkovich, Zoe Meager, Owen Marshall and many other of my favourite authors.
Wow! Also - how much am I looking forward to reading Baby, The New Animals and Hera Lindsay Bird? Heaps!
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 Highlanders fans. Photograph (cropped) by Dunedin NZ, Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/dunedinnz/ WOW - my book Bruce Finds A Home is going to be part of the Little Landers Literature programme! Along with illustrator Robyn Belton (whose beautiful book The ANZAC Violin is in stores now), I'm going to be teaming up with The Highlanders to bring the joy of reading to Dunedin's children.
Visit the Otago Daily Times website to find out more about Little Landers Literature.  Kathryn van Beek on the set of The Cafe Wow, my children's book Bruce Finds A Home is going to be on The Cafe TV show on Monday 9 April! We pre-recorded the segment today. I got to hang out with Mel Homer and Mike Puru who are both seriously lovely. A huge thanks to my publicist Karen from Lighthouse PR for arranging this opportunity for me.
Hmmm, perhaps I'd better start thinking about the next Bruce book?
Thank you so much to everyone who came to the Dunedin Bruce Finds A Home book launch. I had a fabulous morning getting to know these little creatures, which at the time I thought were cats but upon closer inspection look rather fox-like.
I ran a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign to help fund the book, and as part of the campaign 73 people donated books to the Animal Rescue Network Dunedin. Today I was proud to deliver the 73 books to the network, and I hope they assist with fundraising. Bruce Finds A Home is now available in all good New Zealand book shops. You can also buy it online here: Thank you so much to everyone who came along to the Auckland book launch for Bruce Finds A Home - and to everyone who helped me organise it. An extra big thank you to the lovely ladies at The Dorothy Butler Book Shop who made the experience so special.
I'm looking forward to the Dunedin book launch this Saturday 17 February at the University Book Shop from 10.30am. All welcome! We've succumbed to Jacindababymania over here at Bruce HQ, and put a little something in the post for the PM and her first bloke.
 Bruce Finds A Home: Auckland book launch
11am, Sunday 11 February Dorothy Butler Children's Bookshop 1 Jervois Road, Ponsonby Join the event on Facebook. Bruce Finds A Home: Dunedin book launch 10.30am, Saturday 17 February UBS (University Book Shop) 378 Great King Street, North Dunedin Join the event on Facebook.  There will be TWO book launches for Bruce Finds A Home in February 2018 - one in Auckland and one in Dunedin.
Bruce Finds A Home: Auckland book launch 11am, Sunday 11 February Dorothy Butler Children's Bookshop 1 Jervois Road, Ponsonby Join the event on Facebook. Bruce Finds A Home: Dunedin book launch 10.30am, Saturday 17 February UBS (University Book Shop) 378 Great King Street, North Dunedin Join the event on Facebook. Both events are free, and everyone is welcome to attend. At both launches, free activities for kids will include colouring-in and face-painting. And of course, copies of the book will be signed and pawtographed. I hope to see you there! |
AuthorA graduate of Victoria University’s Institute of Modern Letters, I am the winner of the Mindfood Short Story Competition and the Headland Short Story Prize. My short stories have appeared in The Sunday Star-Times, takahē, Fresh Ink and Bonsai. My debut short story collection, Pet, will be available from August, and is being released as a podcast. I have also written and illustrated two children's books about my rescue cat, Bruce. Archives
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