About the Authors
The writers are spread around New Zealand geographically. Kyle Mewburn is in Central Otago. Michele Powles is in Dunedin. In Wellington, Fifi Colston, Fleur Beale and Maureen Crisp. Auckland has four writers in the team, Melinda Szymanik, Brian Falkner, Kathy White and Tania Hutley.
Fleur Beale
I write books because it’s fun. You get to be anything you like when you’re writing: a witch, a rally driver or a princess. I live in Wellington and often skype my two daughters who live in London. I like travelling, hanging out with friends and lying around in the sun with a great book.
Fifi Colston
Fifi Colston is an artist, author and all round creative person who has a motto:
‘If you can’t draw it, write it- and if all else fails, get out the hot glue gun!’
She often does all three.
You can read about her latest novel ‘Glory’ here: www.florencebright.blogspot.com
Maureen Crisp
Maureen loves being a writer. She says “You can spy on people, write down what they say and make up characters in books that look just like them... but they will never guess. And reading all the time is research so I have to do it. (really!)”
Website for kids: www.bonesbymaureencrisp.blogspot.com
Brian Falkner
When Brian grows up he wants to be a fireman.
Or possibly an astronaut.
Or maybe a gorilla.
Fortunately that isn’t likely to happen any time soon.
In the meantime Brian lives in Auckland and spends his time practising the ancient martial art of Kau-Ch’poh taito and inventing improbable musical instruments.
(Caution, may contain traces of nuts.)
Tania Hutley
Tania’s favourite snack is avocado and peanut butter on toast. In a perfect world Tania would spend all her time writing, but she’s only able to afford all those expensive avocados by working for a company that makes computer games. Though she gets to play games a lot at work, she thinks making up stories is even more fun. She’s written a book for kids called Tough Enough and a few short stories too. She doesn’t hold any official world record, but her friends are convinced that she is actually the worst singer who ever lived.
Kyle Mewburn
I've always loved writing. Unfortunately my handwriting has always been horrendous. No matter how hard I try it always comes out looking like a cockroach has stepped in some ink and crawled across the page. Luckily some smartypants invented the computer. There was no stopping me after that! I've now written more books than I count without taking my socks off. When I'm not writing I'm either in my garden singing to my vegies, in the creek swimming or off exploring the strange land I've discovered at the back of my wardrobe. (OK, that last bit may not be completely true…)
I've also got a website - www.kylemewburn.com
Michele Powles
Michele Powles has been a dancer and arty type all of her life. She only realised she wanted to be a writer when she grew up a little while ago.
Most of her writing is for adults but sometimes a story will come up that is too exciting to keep just for adults so she’ll make sure kids get to read it too. In 2010 she gets to hang out in Dunedin watching the birds and rain as the Robert Burns Fellow.
Melinda Szymanik
Melinda can often be found glued to the television, tapping away on a computer keyboard or with her nose in a book. She has a cat and a dog, some children and a husband, and lives in Auckland. Melinda loves movies and hates driving on motorways and thinks it should be okay to wear pyjamas to work. Writing stories is her favourite thing to do and you can find some of her best stories on the shelves in bookshops and libraries, like Clever Moo, Jack the Viking and The Were-Nana (winner of the 2009 NZ Post Children’s Choice Award). Melinda is currently looking for the answer to the question ‘Who would win? Were-wolves or Gorillas?
www.melindaszymanik.blogspot.com
Kathy White
If I wasn’t a writer, I’d be a wildlife photographer. My favourite things are animals and words. Pictures come next. In my book called A Hairy Tale my favourite character has a haircut that makes her look like a baby gorilla called Lulu. I had no way of knowing back then that gorillas would turn out to be so significant in my writing. I’ve written 13 books and about 130 stories, articles and plays.
© 2010 by fabo
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home