Interviews

Slam Poet Interview: Carrie Rudzinski

Posted Wed, 05/10/2011 - 23:15 by travis.cottreau

Carrie Rudzinski is a full time performance poet.

Steam Press - an interview with the Editor

Posted Wed, 06/07/2011 - 21:31 by Cassie

Something exciting happened in late May this year. Steam Press, a brand new publisher of Speculative Fiction, was launched by editor, Stephen Minchin. Curious to find out more, I sent him an email to see if he’d be interested in answering a few questions to give us some insight into what goes on behind the scenes. To my delight, I found that Stephen is a man very passionate about both speculative fiction, and New Zealand writing. Read on to find out more about Steam Press…

SoCNoC mini-interview: Lee Pletzers

Posted Thu, 30/06/2011 - 23:22 by travis.cottreau

Born in Avondale, Auckland Lee Pletzers moved to Japan last November for good, having previously lived there for 10 years.

His web page is:http://kobefiction.we.bs/ and his two main blogs are:http://kobefiction.we.bs/site/(main blog) and http://reviewer-sffh.blogspot.com/(The Reviewer). He reviews mainly ePub books and is a major supporter of the eBook in general.

SoCNoC mini-interview: Cat Connor

Posted Mon, 27/06/2011 - 00:15 by travis.cottreau

Born in Christchurch, Cat Connor now lives in Wellington. She claims that it's better that way since she seems allergic to Christchurch.

She writes thrillers and this leads to some interesting conversations around the dinner table with the kids suggesting new types of gruesome deaths for new victims. This is somewhat ironic, since her 12 year old is too young to read her own mum's books, managing to read only the first chapter of KILLERBYTE before being too scared to read on.

SoCNoC Month mini-interview: Philippa Ballantine

Posted Sat, 11/06/2011 - 03:17 by travis.cottreau

Philippa was born and raised in Wellington, New Zealand, but currently lives in Manassas, Virginina, where she is promoting three of her novels. She is fantasy writer, with several series on the go at the same time. She has the Books of the Order series with Ace Books ("Geist" is already out, and "Spectyr" will be out in July this year with two to come out later, "Wrayth" and "Harbinger").  

With Tee Morris,  she co-wrote a steampunk adventure romp called the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series ( the first book, "Phoenix Rising" came out in April and the second book is due next year).

SoCNoC Month mini-interview: Fleur Beale

Posted Sat, 11/06/2011 - 02:37 by travis.cottreau

Born and raised on a Taranaki dairy farm, Fleur Beale is a Wellington author with more than 20 novels under her belt. The 2nd book in her Juno series, “Fierce September” recently won the 2011 New Zealand Post Children's book award for young adult fiction.

She is probably best know for her novel “I am not Esther”, about a young woman left to live with highly religious relatives.

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