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For the last week I have mostly been reading three books by Stephen Fry. This was for work, you understand, not for pleasure. I am not a fa...

Possibly of the year, possibly of the decade. My proudest publishing moment was getting a letter printed in the Economist . That beat g...

From the edition of Saturday 13 February. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the Waikato Times :...

In the New York Times , Michiko Kakutani enthuses that: Garth Risk Hallberg’s “City on Fire” is a big, stunning first novel and an amaz...

From the February 2016 issue of the Literary Review , a full-page ad, page 7, facing the Contributors* list on page 6, which is a hi-visibi...

From the edition of Wednesday 10 February. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the Waikato Times ...

Before social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and whatever the young people use, authors had to promote themselves in other ways...

I suppose this is the future of publishing: crowdsourcing. How depressing. The NZ Book Council’s Booknotes Unbound reports : This Mot...

From the edition of Monday 2 February. As always, spelling, punctuation, grammar and logic are exactly as printed in the Waikato Times . ...

From the edition of Thursday 28 January. This seems a very Waikato letter, and has perhaps the best-ever heading of any letter to the  Waik...