In this episode we got to chat with Dunedin author Sharon Hannaford, about Urban Fantasy, marketing, and the importance of character flaws. 

You can find Sharon here at her website

As ever your co-hosts are: 

Nix Whittaker

Kura Carpenter

Mat Danaher 

In this episode we talk about rights for writers and other creatives, fiction as a way of exploring what's happening to our world, and why New Zealand writers should join the NZSA. 

Mandy's website can be found here

The New Zealand Society of Authors can be found here

And as ever your co-hosts can be found by clicking on the links below:

Kura Carpenter

Mat Danaher

Nix Whittaker

If you have any questions or feedback or would like to be interviewed please flick an email to: [email protected] 

In the episode Wellington writer Melanie Harding-Shaw talks about the 2020 World Science Fiction Convention, or Worldcon which is coming from Wellington this year. She also talks about the new anthology she is helping to edit (Black Dogs, Black Tales), and why submitting a lot of short stories is the key to success. 

You can find more Melanie's website here, the CoNZ website here and the Facebook Page here. 

Just like last season your co-hosts are:

Kura Carpenter

Nix Whittaker and,

Mathew Danaher

And as usual the Podcast is brought to you by SpecFicNZ which you can find here. If you're already a member don't forget to join the Facebook Group here. 

For this episode we were joined by award winning Hamilton based author Jean Gilbert. She talked about teaching writing to young people, living with face blindness, and writing for film and TV. 

You can find her here:

Web.

Facebook.

Twitter. 

As always your co-hosts are:

Kura Carpenter

Nix Whittaker

and Mathew Danaher, who is also to blame for any audio glitches or issues. 

In this episode we had a chat (and a laugh) with Jamie Sands. We talked about their YA book the Suburban Book of the Dead (buy it here), identity, role playing games, and romance, among other things. 

You can find them at the following links:

Blog

Facebook

Twitter

Patreon

You can buy their romance novels here

As ever you can join SpecFicNZ here 

Your hosts are: 

Kura Carpenter

Nix Whittaker

Mathew Danaher (who amateurishly edited and produced this episode). 

In this episode your hosts talk about what they wished they had known before starting out down the self publishing, or traditional publishing routes. 

Some of the things they talk about are: 

Amazon Author Central. 

Book Funnel. 

New Zealand Society of Authors and their contract reading service. 

And vanity publishing and why you should avoid it, You can read more about them on the Writer Beware website. 

As every your hosts are: 

Kura Carpenter

Nix Whittaker

Mathew Danaher. 

And this podcast is part of SpecFicNZ which you really should join. 

We had a lot of fun recording this episode as you can probably tell. Apologies from Mat for being a bit mumbly, as he was sat in the room where the recording was happening, there's no excuse. He will try better next time!

Trudie Jaye 

Trudie is one of the hosts of the wonderful and super useful if you are or want to get into self publishing SPA Girls Podcast. Available on all good apps. Subscribe to it already!

We talked a lot about: 

20 Books to 50K

Craig Martell

Romance Writers of New Zealand, and of course SpecFicNZ. 

Your hosts:

Kura Carpenter

Nix Whittaker

Mathew Danaher (who also does the recording, producing, and editing). 

If you would like to be interviewed or otherwise get involved - get in touch: [email protected] 

You can find Tim Jones Online:

Blog

Twitter

NZ Book Council

You can buy his latest book - Where We Land. 

And you can read a review here - SpecFicNZ

As ever your co-hosts are:

Kura Carpenter

Nix Whittaker

Mathew Danaher 

You can find out more about Eileen at her website here - https://www.eileenmuellerauthor.com/

Ava Fairhall's map for Dragons Realm - http://www.geysercon.nz/updates/avafairhallsfantasymaps

50booksto20k 

Book Funnel.

As ever your hosts are: 

Kura Carpenter

Nix Whittaker

Mathew Danaher

In this episode we talked with award winning Wellington based horror writer Dan Rabarts. 

You can find him online at:

http://dan.rabarts.com

https://twitter.com/rabarts

https://www.facebook.com/rabarts

He is a member of the Australasian Horror Writers Association, as well as FFANZ. 

As usual your co-hosts are:

Kura Carpenter

Nix Whittaker

Mathew Danaher