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My name is Aaron Adams and I am 17 years old (soon to be 18). I live in Pukekohe and have been since I was 8 or 9 years old Read more...before that Manurewa. I've been interested in writing ever since primary school when I would fold A4 sheets of paper together to make my own books. Unfortunately I stopped writing in year 10 (4th form) for no good reason. I picked it up again at the start of year 12 (6th form)which was two years ago. I am yet to write a complete novel but I am determined to finish my current novel titled The Journal. Read less...

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Sharon Adamson and Neil Higgins compiled a extensive history book for the Kahui Alpine Club to celebrate their 50th Jubilee. It was a mammoth task that was worthwile in the Read more...experience to research and compile information leading to the completion of the book 'The Dark Side'. Read less...

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I am Niuean/English born in Niue. I came to New Zealand when I was 6. I was educated throughout my younger years in Invercargill and received my Bachelor of Science Read more...degree at the University of Auckland. I have 3 young daughters who are the loves of my life. I have been writing poetry since 1993. Penina he Magafaoa is my first bilingual poetry book. I received a Creative NZ grant to publish this book as a poetry resource. My second bilingual poetry book for which I also received a Creative NZ grant is Takai. For any more info please contact me by email - day5@orcon.net.nz. Read less...

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Penina he magafaoa
Takai

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Author, illustrator, photographer, with over 60 books in print. Now helping new authors to become published, as well as designing book covers for authors around the world. Author of world-famous Read more...books as in the 'Max and Rastus the motorcycling cat' and 'The Frencolion Chronicles' series. Read less...

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An Angel in a Horse Suit

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my name is mary and i've been writing since i was 8. my goal is to publish at least 2 novels. i have already started on one but seeing that Read more...i would like to perfect my ideas and take them to a higher level; it would have to take time and effort. thankfully, that is something i am willing to give. Read less...

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I specialise in proofreading and copy editing, but can help with design work and layouts. I have helped four authors to self-publish in the past 12 months. I do PHOTO Read more...RETOUCHING AND RESTORATION - please see my website under SERVICES for examples. I have recently restored 120 old photographs for a history book. I am also a good amateur photographer and can often provide excellent photos for a self-published book. In main role as a proofreader, I enjoy helping people make their work that little bit better. I also have contacts for having your book printed – particularly for short runs and even one-offs. I have worked 25 years in England (self-employed). I have a BA in Music and Languages (Auckland University 1977) and a Diploma in Book Editing, Proofreading & Publishing. I work in Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop, Microsoft Word and Publisher, and I have considerable skills in typesetting and photo restoration. I am editor of Focus (magazine of National 60s-Up Movement of NZ) and I produce a newsletter for the Torbay Branch. I write copy, and edit and proofread websites for an Auckland company. I have recently worked on two books by Auckland authors – please see my website www.amproofreadingnz.com for testimonials. My interests are wide and varied, having lived in four countries. I feel I can offer expertise in a range of areas. I am light-hearted, but serious when it comes to doing a good job! Please feel free to contact me by phone or email with any enquiries – all details are on my website. Thank you. Read less...

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Colin, who was born in Essex, England, has always been a controversial figure whether as a protester against nuclear weapons, conditions for the politically oppressed in Chile, Indonesia and elsewhere. Read more...He speaks five languages including Russian, French and Spanish. He lived in Spain for two years and this included writing articles for Guidepost and interviewing filmstars and royalty amongst others. In his travels around the Mediterranean he visited the suggested sites for Atlantis sought out characters from Durrell's Alexandria Quartet in that sensuous city. On his return to England, he wrote 'New Atlantis, the Secret of the Sphinx' and this was published in 1976, the year he came to live in New Zealand permanently. He has a son, Simon from his first marriage and a daughter, Tara, from his second marriage. He married Yvonne in 1987 and they live at the edge of the Manukau Harbour in Auckland. He has travelled widely in the Pacific including around the rim of Australia's coast. He now works as a barrister and his legal circuit is centred in South Auckland mainly in criminal and immigration cases and he has frequently appeared in media interviews, perhaps the most controversial the so-called burqa case where he challenged the right of women witnesses to appear in New Zealand courts dressed from head to toe in the all-enveloping burqa. Read less...

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Always the Outsider
Ten Minutes to Midnight

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I am a mother of four, one Boy 15 and ¾, three girls 13, 9 and 7. I remarried this year to a wonderfully supportive man. Who not only took on Read more...my four but would like 2-4 of his own. Nuts or just loves kids? A bit of both! I am a Sagittarian and so is Gary in fact we were born on the same day at opposite ends of the north island. And I lived in the same town as him for 3 years and we never met. In fact it was my ex husband who introduced us ten years ago. Strange but true he is even Godfather to my two oldest. Fate I believe plays an interesting part in your life. Because of my ex we left Wellington to move to the Waikato. I lost contact with Gary until April last year. It is because of my children, my oldest two a started looking into alternative health. Today I am a Student of Kinesiology. My first passion has always been the written word, my second to help those I can. So I figure I will yet publish a book that may make a difference in someone’s life. At the moment I am working on a book about life love, morals verses passion, death and the ties that bind us. I am hoping it will appeal to late teens to grandmothers. Also working on but am a while away from finishing a science fiction/fantasy book for children. Read less...

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Phil and Agata met in Dublin, Ireland. Phil had been writing a few bits and bobs for another project and Agata is a keen artist/illustrator. We finally decided to work Read more...on a children’s book together and that’s when the fun really began. Our first book in the series, Dingleberry the Sheep – Learning to Fly, took nearly 2 years from the original idea to the now published book. With the second book already at the pre-printing stage and the next two well under way, the Dingleberry series will be available in the not too distant future. Read less...

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Dingleberry the Sheep - Learning to Fly

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Taranaki pilot Cliff Emeny was a young man not afraid to take risks. Hunger for adventure took the 19-year old to England, where he was stationed at the outbreak of Read more...World War II. He joined the fray as a seaman gunner, and over a decade, had the unique distinction of serving in the merchant navy, the army and the air force. Even more unique was Cliff receiving three airmen’s wings; as an air gunner, radar observer and finally pilot. Author Tom Woods wrote of this outstanding achievement in the Cliff Emeny biography, “The Three Wings”. Cliff Emeny, NZ 40204 - born 11 January, 1920. 1937 joined Queen Alexandra’s Mounted Rifles. 1939 worked his passage to England on the “Port Caroline”. 1940 posted to 264 Squadron, Duxford, England, on Defiant Night Fighters. Promoted to Sergeant. 1941 commissioned as Pilot Officer. 1942 awarded Pilot’s Wings. 1943 posted to NO 60 OTU, Grantham, England for conversion to Blenheim Bombers. Soon after, he completed a Mosquito Fighter-Bomber conversion, and was posted to Burma. 1944 Emeny led a flight of six Mosquitos in a dawn raid on Meiktila, an enemy-held airfield, and was shot down. He was captured by the Japanese and imprisoned in the infamous Rangoon prison, where he was subject to harsh, cruel treatment. 28 April 1945 allied prisoners took control of the prison after the Japanese pulled out of Rangoon. Emeny was in the first patrol that ventured out of prison. A day later he led a party north to take over Mingaladon Airfield. May 1945 British forces arrive. Emeny flies to Calcutta, weighing just six stone 10 pounds. Cliff Emeny and wife Joan, herself a Returned Service Woman, raised a family of six children, and spent their retirement years in Taranaki. On Father’s Day 2000, Cliff took his final flight, in a Vampire Jet owned and piloted by son Brett, for a flight around the mountain. Cliff took the controls for much of the flight. It was a somewhat symbolic flight because the Vampire was de Havilland’s successor to the Mosquito Fighter-Bomber, so Cliff felt very much at home in the cockpit. A month later, he passed away. Cliff Emeny’s legacy as an outstanding airman lives on with his sons. Brett flies helicopters for ‘Helicopter Services’, his own business based in Taranaki. As well as the Vampire Jet, he also owns a YAK 52, both of which are stationed at New Plymouth airport. Read less...

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The Three Wings

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My name is Kyla Andersen. I am 16 years old and have been writeing storys for just over a year. I live in Havelock North New Zealand. and i have Read more...all my life. unfortunatly because of my other comitments I do not get enough to write my storys of which I have over 38. I love acting, I am quite a drama freak. another hold back is school. I love art, i do a lot of drawing and i am best with chalk pastels. I have ADHD and dislexia, because of this i cannot spell very well. but hey thats the reason why we have computers these days! right? I love to read. Mainly fanticy and i also write mainly fanticys and plays. I hate tragitys, I beleive in happy endings, fairys and dragons. I mainly beleive in fate and karma. I love writeing and liburys one day I shall have a libury in my own home but untill then I'm happy with the public one. Read less...

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Berta Anderson was born and raised in the Swiss Alps. Living and walking among mountains was as natural as breathing fresh air to her, and an indispensable part of her Read more...life. She came to New Zealand on a working holiday, aged 21, and found employment at Dawson Falls Lodge, on Mt Egmont/Taranaki. Berta soon fell in love with the mountain. She gradually fell in love with the Lodge. Then, to her surprise, she fell in love with the proprietor. Thus began nearly twenty-five years of marriage to, and robust partnership with, Keith H Anderson, mountain man, artist, and Taranaki icon. After the tragic loss of her husband it became apparent to Berta to chronicle his interesting life and to capture some of his beautiful art work before it was all forgotten. Writing this book was therapeutic, exhilarating and sad all at the same time. The incredible help form Zenith Print & Design, in particular from Stacey Ross made it possible to publish this book. Read less...

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I have a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Waikato and I teach English at Hillcrest High School. My main interests are writing poetry and histories. I Read more...haven't published anything yet. Read less...

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I have had the pleasure of working with spirit for over twenty years now. There were times of absolute frustration and even of pain and anger. These emotions Read more...were directed towards me and those trying to assist me on my spiritual path. Yet when I consider the bucket loads of Joy, Love, companionship and support I have received, I am grateful every day that these amazing, unseen Friends are part of my life. Read less...

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Blessed Be

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Steve is a graduate zoologist (BSc Hons)with a PostGradCertEd., both from UK. He spent his early years in Northumberland and Border Scotland. In the 70s and 80s Steve was a Read more...Royal Marine commando,and has since been an outdoor instructor and pro sailor. He still is a pro sailor actually. With many interests and a broad subject spectrum there is some difficulty pinning down any speciality in his work. Currently there is an illustrated children's book almost ready, a teenager book on otters waiting some illustrations, several other concepts at different stages and a thriller in waiting based around a murky past and some sailing. Steve is a good illustrator, offering either realism or conceptual styles, different mediums, will consider any proposals. please get in touch. Example of work on its way to office, I am a new member. Read less...

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Ann Andrews is an HR Consultant; author of 4 business books and contributor to several others. She is also a professional speaker and team facilitator and over the years has Read more...worked with some of the largest corporates in New Zealand. Read less...

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Originally from the UK, Donna Andronicos lives in New Zealand, and brings a wealth of experience and understanding to her work as a trainer, leadership coach and writer. As a Read more...keynote speaker and MC, she is often described as ‘entertaining, motivating, inspiring and energising’. A natural storyteller,Donna skilfully blends her credible insights with a mixture of humour and down-to-earth practicality, in a way that engages her audience in all aspects of her work and writing. A former consultant, with an extensive career working with leading organisations in the UK, New Zealand and Asia, Donna is passionate about helping others to move beyond their personal and professional barriers in life. Read less...

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Coping with Burnout

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im eighteen and have been writing for about seven years but i haven't actually finished anything because i get bored really easy haha. but i will finish one,, one day. Read more... Read less...

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Jenny Argante is a Tauranga freelance writer and editor, who is secretary of Tauranga Writers (www.taurangawriters.org.nz) and co-ordinating editor of Bravado, a literary arts magazine from the Bay of Plenty. Read more...She tutors online for the Waiariki Institute of Technology's Certificate in Creative Writing. She describes herself not as a poet, but as someone who writes poetry, and thinks this is an important distinction. Read less...

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My name is Yvonne Arnold. I was born in Switzerland and spent the first 30 years of my life there. In 2003, my husband and I immigrated with our children Read more...to New Zealand and we enjoy living here. Our four kids like the farm life as much as we do. When my oldest son started school, his teacher was busy finding books about cows. It was then that I started to make books about our farm life; true stories, just for my kids. Many of our visitors enjoyed the stories as well, so I decided to publish one. Due to a pleasing response there are currently two published and maybe some of the other stories will follow. Read less...

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Calf Season
Pet Day

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Brian Aroa is a poet, inventor and musician. Leader of a 14 piece band for 4 years, Brian has won talent quests overseas, appeared in 4 stage shows at Read more...the New Plymouth Opera House, played in halls around Taranaki and in front of an audience of 10,000 at the well-known Bowl of Brooklands. He is the inventor of (among other things) useful gardening gadgets and a hot-air hand-dryer now sold around the world. His poetry is based on life experience – both his and that of others around him. His friends and family are accustomed to being the inspiration behind Brian’s verses, and at times it is a dubious honour. Vernon’s Vulgar Verses is his first published work. He lives in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Read less...

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Vernon's Vulgar Verses

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Rustam Makhmudovich Arslanov, 1955. PhD. Honored with “Inventor of the USSR” medal. Married with two daughters. Living in New Zealand. Email: Read more...rustam.arslanov@gmail.com Read less...

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The Gravitational-quantum theory of the Universe

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I have worked as a clairvoyant for the last three decades, and felt it was time to share my experiences with those interested in the subject. Through the ability to Read more..."hear" from the spiritual world, I began receiving poetry, songs, and stories for others to enjoy. I trained as a hypnotherapist, counsellor and N.L.P. Practitioner in the nineties to enhance my skills. In more recent years, I have been receiving the higher mystical teachings to help and inspire others on their own search to greater understanding of life and what lies beyond. visit my website or google me. http://euniceattwood.webs.com/or email me at euniverse@windowslive.com Visit www.worthyofpublishing.com to read chapters from my books, and to see my latest Thomas Fairchild book. Read less...

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The Poetic Voice of Soul
The Temple Dancer
Thomas Fairchild

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