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Kathy Badan was born in Auckland, New Zealand and has lived practically all of her life there. From a young age she was passionate about books, writing her first one Read more...at the age of twelve. Kathy trained as a Registered Nurse in the 1970s.She had several years break to bring up her two children and during that time dabbled in other careers such as counselling and massage.She eventually returned to nursing and continues to work part time in this profession.In her spare time she enjoys yoga, tramping and travelling. Kathy also manages to find time to support her autistic daughter. Kathy's lifelong ambition has been to publish a book. Her father's anecdotes about his childhood inspired her to write his memoirs.'Bread & Dripping' was published in April 2007. Read less...

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Bread and Dripping

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5 readers and one bookshop hardback "My Favourite Places" written.

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Hannah Bain is the pen name of Maggie Maxwell, actor, teacher and writer. She lives in Auckland, has published two novels and written a number of short stories. She has Read more...given talks on her writing experience to several library 'friends' groups in the Auckland area and is available for speaking engagements at other interested organizations. Currently, she is directing a short extract from her play 'Musadora' for the ETS One Act Play Festival in Auckland. The journey towards writing her first novel, 'Isabel' began with Maggie's love of Spain - a country she has visited several times and whose language she speaks 'moderately well'. 'Fragments from a Figment' is a wry and fictional look at the experience of writing a first novel. Read less...

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Adam Baird is a entrepreneur, investor and author with a passion for supporting other people to achieve their dreams and goals. Adam's brand new book Take The Plunge Now is Read more...an easy-to-read publication that will assist you to achieve your own dreams and goals. Read less...

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Retired Nursery Teacher of 30 years. Well versed with children and what entertains them and helps them learn. Well loved and trusted by children of all ages. Have been writing Read more...stories songs and poems for children of all ages and cultures. Read less...

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Originally from New Plymouth, New Zealand, Jamie Banks has a BA Honours and a Diploma of Teaching from the University of Waikato. He has travelled to Europe and America to Read more...conduct free psychology workshops, to Israel to undertake research on religions, to South Africa for love and to Australia for roller-coaster joyriding. He has been to Japan a number of times and taught English there for two years. After a short stint in his youth of setting up pins in a bowling alley, he is now a secondary school teacher and television extra and has set up his own business running stress workshops for schools and companies. His interests include sport, ethnic cultures, international peace and playing guitar. Read less...

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Navigating Love
We Slept Through Armageddon
Whatever You Do Don't Smile

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I am a writer with 20+ years in the corporate world. My back ground is in Marketing and Marketing Communications Management. I write a mixture of fiction and Read more...non-fiction works. I am currently working on a spiritual book to help people create and heal their lives based on personal experience. Read less...

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BA in Art History. I work as an exhibition assistant at puke ariki in New Plymouth. Soon to be jetting off overseas to embark on my big European O.E.Recently decided Read more...I would fufil my dream of writing a childrens book. Focus is on a primary school aged girl who visits The Birth of Venus at a temporary museum exhibition. any suggestions welcome. I also need an illustrator... Read less...

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Miriam Barr is a New Zealand page and performance poet. She is creative director for The Literatti, a performance poetry troupe that combines poetry with music, theatre and visuals. Read more... She is also founder and editor of the bi-monthly, pocket-sized poetry zine, Side Stream. Her poetry has been published in such places as Black Mail Press, JAAM, Magazine, The De-Formed Paper & Tongue In Your Ear. She has published two books, Tangents (2006) and Observations from the Poetry Factory (2007), both with audio CDs of her poetry set to music. Read less...

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Pat Barrett has delighted thousands of New Zealanders with his images and writing about this country and its spectacular scenery. His photographs and writing have been published extensively in magazine and Read more...newspapers. Pat's images have been used on postage stamps, calendars, postcards, and greeting cards. A keen tramper, he has taken his camera into some of New Zealand's most remote and beautiful areas, capturing that beauty on film and writing about the joys of exploring the country. Little surprise his work has found a ready outlet in the nation's travel pages, and publications that celebrate our natural beauty and heritage. Pat has built up an extensive library of thousands of images, which are available for commercial use. Read less...

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Canterbury Foothills & Forests
Nelson/Marlborough Foothills and Coastal Regions
Scriptures Calendar 2009
True South
Westland Foothills & Forests
Wilderness Walks

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I'm a grandmother, (born in NZ, using my pen-name, not real name, for this site) living with a little dog, a cat and a few pet mice; with a wealth Read more...of life experiences. As an adult I've gotten 1/2 way through my (Screen & Media + Theatre Studies)Uni degree when I got sidetracked by writing for children and art. Currently I am at Art School; learning to illustrate 2 of my books (one I'm still rewriting). One I've had listed with the USA Library of Congress Copyright Office... "Magpie The Fairywitch, and Frog Island" ... I am currently tweaking this book. I feel I'm still perfecting my writing and drawing/painting crafts. My aim is to either find a publisher or if I have to; to self-publish. A few years ago I self-published, and wrote for, (the hard way) a 40pg club magazine. Read less...

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SUP PEEPZ DA NAMES KELZ, IM A MOTHER OF 4 BEE-UTIFUL CHILDREN & AM FINDING OUT I HAVE THE MEANS OF BEING AN AUTHOR:) (hu wuda thort???) X0X

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I was born in New Zealand of Irish and Swiss heritage. I am happily married to Trevor, with three precious adopted granddaughters. Eight years ago I completed a poetry course and Read more...went on to have some poems published. Also I had five poems broadcast with Radio Rhema on their poetry segment. More recently I completed several courses with the Continuing Education Programme on writing a novel. Then over twelve months I completed a creative writing paper with Massey University. The last two years have been devoted to writing this memoir. For the last 6 months I have been working with Zenith Publishing in New Plymouth with ‘The Rainbow Road’. Currently I am writing a nonfiction book tentatively called “Return of the Prodigal Daughter’. In the future I hope to finish my fantasy novel “Beyond Heaven’s Gate”. Read less...

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The Rainbow Road

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John Barton is a failed scholar who never gave up. He is Librarian to the Dalberton Library, for which he has written, edited or compiled 28 non-fiction publications, mainly historical. His Read more...main interests are mediaeval and later printed books and manuscripts, and related studies such as deciphering early handwriting. He specializes in small limited editions, which are acquired mainly by libraries and universities in NZ and the USA, and had lived in New Plymouth for over 50 years. Read less...

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Dr Michael Bassett is probably New Zealand’s best known political historian. He is the author of nine books on New Zealand political history and is currently working on several more. Read more...He also writes a political column every second week for Wellington’s Dominion Post and Christchurch’s The Press. Dr Bassett was New Zealand Minister of Health and Local Government between 1984 and 1987 and Minister of Internal Affairs, Local Government, Civil Defence and Arts & Culture between 1987 and 1990. He spent ten years (1994-2004) as a tribunal member of the Waitangi Tribunal that deals with the claims of New Zealand’s indigenous people, the Maori. Read less...

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Born in Taranaki, Aithnia does detailed work in collage, acrylic and oil paintings. Received an award from the Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO for her first children's picture book.

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Author of 90+ books for children and young adults some of them award-winning and some sold in translation, I now work as a national children's magazine in Australia (www.littleears.com.au). I Read more...also compile a fortnightly online magazine Buzz Words (All the Buzz About Children's Books) for those in the children's book industry (www.buzzwordsmagazine.com). I have worked as an editor on Puffinalia (Penguin Books, a national children's magazine, and on a state-wide children's magazine, the NSW Department of Education School Magazine. I have toured for the National Book Council, worked as a bookseller, editor of a provincial newspaper and manuscript assessor. My writing career to date has spanned 25 years. I am married to award-winning YA novelist Bill Condon and currently have my own business organising and running school bookfairs. I also write as a freelancer, continuing to accept commissions from trade and educational publishers. Read less...

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Juliet Batten is a well-known psychotherapist, writer and artist. She has a PhD in English and has taught extensively in the areas of creativity and personal growth. Juliet has been Read more...an exhibiting artist for over two decades and has run art workshops and facilitated collaborative art projects. Since 1990 she has been in private practice as a psychotherapist. She lives and practises in Auckland, New Zealand. Visit her website about the seasons: www.julietbatten.co.nz or her blog www.seasonalinspiration.blogspot.com (Author Photo courtesy of Claire McMeekin) Read less...

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A Cup of Sunlight
Celebrating the Southern Seasons
Dancing with the Seasons: inspiration and resilience through tim
Growing Into Wisdom
Power From Within
Releasing the Artist Within
Touching Snow

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Tony has spent over 30 years creating and owning businesses in New Zealand and Australia, covering a wide range of industries including: Road transport, Builders Supplies, Earthmoving, Hire Equipment, Commercial Read more...Equipment manufacturing and sales, Food manufacturing, Hospitality, Fast Food and Electronics. He founded the Chick-A-Dee franchise and grew it to a national chain of 21 franchisees and was the inaugural Chairman of the New Zealand Franchise Association. He also founded Advantage Electronics which he sold in the late 80’s and which became the publicly listed Advantage Group now renamed Provenco Group Ltd. Tony has conducted retailing study trips to the USA, consulted to retail divisions of the Oil Industry and presented major seminars on Franchising. He has spent a number of years as a Franchise and Business Consultant and Coach and has also undertaken various Financial and Investment Advisory roles. Tony is a Principal Advisor with Alto Business Advisors Limited. Read less...

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Avoid a Recession in your Business

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Formal Qualifications Bachelor of Arts with Distinction, majoring in Theatre Arts and Creative Writing from Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Diploma of Secondary Teaching (Performing Arts Specialisation) Read more...from Wellington College of Education, Wellington, New Zealand. Work History SOME ACTING CREDITS: Gasparo ("The White Devil" by Webster, directed by Barbara Dennis, 1993, Perth); Father/Voices ("A Piece of Monologue" by Samuel Beckett, directed by Tarquin Smart, 1993, Perth); Myron Hasler ("The Pajama Game", Musical, directed by Barbara Dennis, 1994, Perth); Duke Senior ("As You Like It", 1996, directed by Miranda Harcourt and Guy Boyce); Various Characters ("The Man whose Mother was a Pirate" adapted for stage by Andrew M. Bell from the book by Margaret Mahy, directed by Lewis Rowe for Gecko Children's Theatre, 1997); Him ("Body Dreams", written by Craig Thaine, 1998 Wellington Fringe Festival); Appeared in several episodes of "Telly Laughs" (Gibson Group for TV3); Appeared in several episodes of "Newtown Salad", satirical comedy (Channel 7, Wellington); Several parts in short and feature films (NZ & Australia); TV commercials (NZ & Australia) Read less...

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Belz has been a proffessional writer for film, television and theatre since 2000. His credits include storylining for local N.Z soap, Shortland Street and also the Mataku Series. Read more...In 2003 his play 'Awhi Tapu' was nominated as the Best New, New Zealand Play at the Chapman Tripp Theatre awards and was subsequently published by Playpress. In 2006 he won the Bruce Mason award for Best New, New Zealand Playwright, and also the Chapmann Tripp award - Best New, New Zealand Play for a piece about Jack the Ripper titled 'Yours Truly'. He is currently in the midst of writing several projects. These include a project for film which is an adaptation of Bruce Mason's play 'Awatea', and also his own fantasy novel for young adults titled 'Aria'. Read less...

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B Rutherford Benjamin is an Australian born resident of New Zealand having been living in this land for 51 years. I am married with five children, now grown up with Read more...families of their own. Educationally I have a BA from Massey and a Masters Degree from Victoria. I have written quite a lot in my life but it is during my retirement that I have given most of my time to the writing of poetry, with the occasional short story and/or article. I have not had much success on the publishing front except for regular writing for my church's National Magazine some years ago (it is no longer being published) and a few items in local publications. In my working life my most recent position was as a Student Advocate at the Central Institute of Technology in Upper Hutt where I live. Read less...

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DUNCAN BENNETT established himself as a designer in both industrial and architectural endeavours. He worked in the area of national trade exhibits and international expositions and established his own Read more...company, Dimensional Designs Ltd, in 1969. Since then he has been active on a broad range of projects from architectural design of private homes, hospitals and shopping malls throughout New Zealand to small selective retail projects. Keeping his company small, limited to a few creative collaborations allowed for expanding into other areas of creative endeavour such as graphics, signage and photography, which has now become the main creative outlet during extensive travels throughout the world. Duncan is a member of the Wellington Photographic Society and is an exhibiting member of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts. He has held several solo photo exhibits. Today, 35 years on, still avidly involved in creative photography, currently engaged in writing a photo travel book based on his recent trip to Antarctica. Read less...

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I am writing my first book, an autobiography, and have no experience. I am an Australian lady and am 61 and have to fit writing into my day as I work as Read more...well. Read less...

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I love to read and write. Currently working on my first novel.

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I was born in 1972. I am married have 2 children who were born 2003 and 2006, I live in Auckland, New Zealand. I started creating poetry in 2003. Read more... Read less...

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Ugandan born, with a passionate interest in motor racing and flying. Helicopter work would take him away from the family for long periods of time. Upon returning home, Nigel would Read more...tell helicopter rescue related stories to his young son. These stories were eventually taped and then written down. Twenty something years later, after much encouragement, the first of these stories has been "polished and published". The second in the series is ready for printing. Read less...

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Waldo rescues Gerald

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Peter Blakeborough was born on a dairy farm near Hamilton, New Zealand, in 1937, the eighth of eleven children. His first non-fiction book, The Coinage of New Zealand, 1840-1967, was Read more...published in 1966 by Minerva. He was the editor of The New Zealand Coin Journal from 1966-1967 which was distributed nationally and internationally and he has written numerous newsletters and brochures. He is currently re-working an historical fiction trilogy and has a recently completed a non-fiction travel adventure, From Snags to Hitches – The Adventures of a Kiwi Truck Driver in America, which he expects to be published in 2009. He has worked as an electrical lineman, sales rep and sales manager, coin and stamp dealer, taxi driver and tour operator, escorting tours to Australia, Malaysia, China and Pakistan. He is now semi-retired, occasionally driving tours in the North Island. The author learned to fly in 1954 and toured New Zealand by Piper Cub in 1957. He flew more than fifty types of aircraft and was also a gliding instructor. He is currently a flight simulator enthusiast, has been a yachtsman and has completed numerous walks in remote areas of New Zealand. Peter Blakeborough was a candidate for the New Zealand Parliament in the general elections of 1972, 1975 and 1984. He is available for public speaking engagements on travel, tourism, flying and writing. He is a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors, the Franklin Writers Group and is the editor of the Franklin Historian for the Franklin Historical Society. Read less...

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I am 66 years old and have been reading tea leaves for 28 years. As a child I watched my mum and nana try to make things out of Read more...the tea leaves in their cups. Later in life I found a book on tea leaf reading in a shop and decided to try it for myself. From this I gave friends and family readings at home. A friend talked me into writing a book on my experiences. So I wrote my book and self published it. I have sold about 50 copies. I donated a book to the Tamworth Library as it is out of jurisdiction for them to buy them in Australia. I also donated the book to other places as I thought it would be good advertising for me. I sent my book to the National Library of New Zealand resulting in 10 libraries purchasing it. I am the only New Zealander so far to have a copy of a tea leaf reading book in libraries in New Zealand. I also sent copies to the Spiritual churches, and have sold 2 copies to them. With my friends help, I had a book launching at the Invercargill Public Library. It was a good night for all involved. I would thoroughly recommend the experience to anyone. Read less...

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My Experiences with Tea Leaf Reading
My Experiences with Tea Leaf Reading

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E.Doreen Blundell (née Tait) grew up with her family on an apple orchard in Tasman. Nelson, one of New Zealand’s prolific fruit-growing districts. She attended Mapua Primary School and Motueka Read more...District High School. Doreen has lived in Auckland since 1970 and has three adult children. She was treasurer and later president of the now defunct Self-Publishers Association of NZ. She self-published her first book, The Amazing Apple. A history of apples, in 2008. The second edition was published in June 2008. Reviews and Views Growing up on an orchard surrounded by apples was all the inspiration Doreen Blundell needed to get writing. Nelson Mail The Amazing Apple is nicely written and enjoyable. You will probably look at this publication more than once. The Motueka Guardian . . . this is a most worthwhile and interesting book. It’s quite quirky in its content and easy to assimilate. Doreen Blundell is an experienced writer and her prose is always clear and lively. The Orchardist Anyone who is amazed by apples will love this book. Those of you who just like apples may enjoy it too. Weekender/Gisborne Beacon This is an amazing compendium of all you ever wanted to know about apples but were too busy munching them to ask. The Bay Chronicle, Kerikeri Read less...

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The Amazing Apple

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Robert Philip Bolton is one of PublishMe's biggest selling authors. He has been writing professionally most of his adult life specialising in short stories about New Zealand and New Zealanders. Read more...He has published five books all of which are published and available here; he is now working on a new novel. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1945 and has travelled extensively throughout New Zealand, Australia, Britain (where he lived and worked), Europe, Asia and Japan, as well as the United States where he worked in Atlanta, Georgia. The father of two adult children, he lives with his wife, Kath, (also a writer) in Greenlane, Auckland. Read less...

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For Viktor
My Marian Year
Nana's Special Day and other stories
Quickies
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The Boltons of The Little Boltons
The Collected Short Stories
The Dolphin and other stories
The Tapu Garden of Eden

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Merlins Bookshop is a dedicated supplier of books from the Mind, Body, Spirit genre. We aim to be New Zealand’s foremost retailer of material for the Mind, Body and Spirit. We Read more...promote Knowledge, Truth and Wisdom for Mind. You can be assured of convenience and safety when buying from us as we are Kiwis based in Auckland, NZ! We are happy to be a part of PublishMe and listed in the PublishMe Shop. Read less...

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10 SECRETS FOR SUCCESS & INNER PEACE CARDS-Wayne Dyer
101 MEETING STARTERS-Mel B
A GIFT TO MYSELF-Charles Whitfield
ALL MY RELATIONS-Susan Chernak McElroy
ANGELS, GODS & GODDESSES ORACLE CARDS-Toni Carmine Salerno
ANIMAL DREAMING-Scott Alexander King
ANIMALS & THE AFTERLIFE-Kim Sheridan
ARCHETYPE CARDS-Carolyn Myss
AROMATHERAPY 101-Karen Downes
AROMATHERAPY A-Z-Colin and Alan Higley
AROMATHERAPY FOR THE HEALTHY CHILD-Valerie Ann Worwood
ASK THE KABALA ORACLE CARDS-Deepak Chopra
ASPECTS- Robin Antepara
ASTROLOGY FOR BEGINNERS-Joann Hamper
ASTROLOGY THROUGH PSYHIC EYES-Sylvie Browne
BEYOND THE BEDROOM-Douglas Weiss PhD
BEYOND WORDS-Marta Williams
BLACKOUT GIRL-Jennifer Storm
BORN TO BE TOGETHER-Terry Lamb
BORN TO LOSE-Bill Lee
CHILDREN OF TRAUMA-Jane Middleton-Moz
COSMIC KARMA
COSMIC TRENDS-Philip Brown
DAILY AFFIRMATIONS - for Compulsive Eaters-Susan Ward
DESTINATION JOY-Earnie Larsen
DROP THE ROCK-Bill P, Todd W, Sara S
ECLIPSES-Celeste Teal
ELECTIONAL ASTROLOGY-Joann Hamper
EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY-Tian Dayton
ENLIGHTENMENT CARDS-Gary R. Renard
FREEDOM FROM ADDICTION-David Simon & Deepak Choopra
FROM THE FIRST BITE-Kay Sheppard
GODDESS SIGNS-Angelica Danton
GOLF'S INNER GAME-Golf Magazine
HEALING MOTHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP WITH ASTROLOGY-Maritha Pott
HEALING THE CHILD WITHIN-Charles Whitfield
HEALING WITH THE FAIRIES CARDS-Doreen Virtue
HELL IN THE HALLWAY-Sandi Bachom
INNER PEACE CARDS-Wayne Dyer
IS YOUR PET PSYCHIC-Richard Webster
IT'S NOT OKAY TO BE A CANNIBAL-Andrew Wainwright & Robert Po
LOVE AFTER SEX-Olivia
MAPPING YOUR BIRTHCHART-Stephanie J Clement
MAPPING YOUR FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS-Stephanie J Clement
MAPPING YOUR FUTURE-Kris Riske
MAPPING YOUR MONEY-Kris Riske
MAPPING YOUR SEX LIFE-Stephanie J Clement
MASTERY OF LOVE CARDS-Don Miguel Ruiz
MEMORY AND ABUSE-Charles Whitfield
MIDPOINTS-Don McBroom
MIND/BODY MAKEOVER CARDS-Mona Lisa Schulz
MONEY CARDS-Suze Orman
MY NAME IS FUNKY ...and I am an Alocoholic-Tom Batiuk
MYTH ASTROLOGY-Raven Kaldera
MYTHIC ASTROLOGY APPLIED-Ariel Guttman & Ken Johnson
NATURAL HEALING FOR DOGS & CATS A-Z-Cheryl Schwartz
NATURAL NUTRITION FOR DOGS & CATS-Kymythy Schultze
POWER ANIMALS-Steven Farmer
POWER THOUGHTS FOR TEENS-Louise Hay
PURR MORE, HISS LESS-Allia Zobel Nolan
REWIND, REPLAY, REPEAT-Jeff Bell
SOUL LESSONS & SOUL PURPOSE-Sonia Choquette
SOUL MATES & HOT DATES-Maria Shaw
STAR GUIDE TO GUYS-Elizabeth Perkins
STILL WATERS-William Alexander
THE ART OF PREDICTIVE ASTROLOGY-Carol Rushman
THE COMPLETE ACoA SOURCEBOOK-Janet Woititz
THE CRYSTAL ALLY CARDS-Naisha Ahsian
THE EMOTIONAL LIVES OF ANIMALS-Marc Bekoff
THE EX BOYFRIEND BOOK-Rowan Davis
THE EX FILES-Rowan Davis
THE LANGUAGE OF MIRACLES-Amelia Kinkade
THE MISSING PEACE-John Lee
THE POWER OF SELF-ESTEEM-Nathaniel Branden
VEDIC ASTROLOGY SIMPLY PUT-William Levacy
WHAT ANIMALS TELL ME-Dr. Monica Diedrich
WHOSE FACE IS IN THE MIRROR-Dianne Schwartz
WISDOM FOR HEALING CARDS-Carolyn Myss
YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE AFFIRMATION KIT-Louise Hay
YOUNG, SOBER & FREE-Shelly Marshall

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I am available for assisting you with self-publishing your work. I can supply you with advice or completely project manage the publication for you. I can also provide you with Read more...a print-ready pdf if you prefer to manage the printing yourself. Read less...

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Harley spent many years as a mechanic with his family in New Zealand and also took them to the jungles of Papaua New Guinea where he worked as a missionary. Read more... Read less...

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Married to Kevin with three grown up children. I have no previous writing experience but have some good life experience I would like to write down. I am just starting Read more...phase 1 and am really looking forward to the challenge of writing my first book Read less...

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I am a trained counsellor, life coach, budget advisor, and the mother of two financially responsible young adults. I am a Director together with my husband of 25 years of Read more...Silbo Systems. Silbo Systems is dedicated to empowering you and your family to be and stay financially well by teaching money and life skills. I am happiest when I am helping people make positive changes in their lives.  I am particularly passionate about teaching parents to become more financially intelligent so they can pass those skills on to their children.  I have written my book - "Parents! How to stop your kids from going broke in a "how to do it " not a "what to do" approach.  My book can help parents with little or sound financial knowledge pass those skills on to their children. Read less...

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Parents! How to stop your kids from going broke

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I was born in the U.K. and grew up in New Plymouth. I am a trained teacher with an M.A. in Communications. I have also been active in the music Read more...industry and related fields, including the production of music videos and desk top publishing. Read less...

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Philip has experienced life as an accountant, credit manager, company director, business coach, shepherd, scrub-cutter, tree pruner, freezing worker, plastics factory worker, saxophonist, guitarist, army driver, tour bus driver, stage Read more...and television actor, builder, lecturer, facilitator for men’s groups, stage and TV actor, AIDS workshop co-facilitator, writer, reporter, publisher and (in the Australian bush) as a barman, horse and camel trekker and stock-whip teacher ... and he's wondering what's next! Read less...

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ALAN BRESLAU is the Founder of The Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors and served as its Executive Director for 25 years on a volunteer basis. He is now retired Read more...and lives in New Zealand with his Kiwi wife, Delwyn, who served as the Society’s Associate Director for 10 years. Alan is a graduate chemical engineer and plastics consultant. On returning from a business trip to Rochester, NY on July 2, 1963, with the president and vice president of his small company to promote a patented invention to a national organization, they boarded a Mohawk Airlines flight. The small plane with a full load of 40 passengers and a crew of three, took off and immediately flew into a tornado. The plane crashed on the field, broke into 2 sections and burned. Alan was seated in the very front row next to the company president. All 7 in the front section, including pilot and co-pilot, were died in the fire. Alan was the only survivor there. Most of the 36 passengers in the rear section survived, although one passenger broke his neck and was paralyzed, another lost a leg due to burn injury, and another suffered a burned hand. Alan was burned 3rd and 4th degree over 45 percent of his body and spent most of the next 5 years in the hospital, undergoing a total of 52 operations (2 non-burn related). He wrote a book about his experience [The Time Of My Death, E. P. Dutton Co., New York 1977]. On a visit to the hospital in 1977 for a book signing tour [Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center] he was asked to visit a burned young man in the hospital who was deeply depressed. Immediately following his visit the patient’s depression abated. A close friend, an oncologist, seeing how helpful mutual support could be, suggested that Alan start a support organization. It was then that the seed was planted and Alan established the organization, which he named The Phoenix Society. A newsletter was begun [The Icarus File] which eventually reached a circulation of 10,000 sent to burn survivors and burn care professionals. Membership grew rapidly with members and representatives in 83 countries. [www.phoenix-society.org] In 1986 Alan started the first World Burn Congress which continues to this day. In 1994, with the help and support of the Byler Memorial Sertoma Club, he established Camp Susquehanna for burned children in Lancaster, PA with Delwyn serving as Camp Coordinator. Alan has since written several books and chapters of books on burns. He has been an invited speaker on burn support throughout the United States and in many countries including New Zealand, Australia, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Argentina and Venezuela. He was an active member of the American Burn Association (ABA) and was instrumental in starting the ABA Burn Support Special Interest Group, serving as its first Chair. The ABA presented Alan with a Lifetime Achievement Award. He was also a member of the International Society for Burn Injuries and a guest speaker at their Vail, Colorado Meeting, in Argentina and Venezuela. Alan has appeared frequently on television, radio and in newspapers around the world. Read less...

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My lifelong career has been Tourism and Hospitality sales, marketing and communications. Have substantial experience writing tourism articles, newsletters, brochures etc with many hours proofreading for international markets. Always wanted Read more...to own a bookshop! On return to HB from hotel marketing abroad I changed direction, firstly managing the local Library (close to resembling a bookstore!), and now part time with a regional tourism trust. I love to write. It competes with my other passion - art, so I'm hopeful they meet in the middle soon! Have undertaken most writing papers extramurally at Massey, and in the 2008 travel writing media awards. Hope to work with PublishMe on a book of varietal writing - short story, prose, autobiographical tales and traveller memories, personally illustrated - still in development! Read less...

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I have always had a flair for creative writing and have written my first children's book. I also love drawing and got great pleasure from illustrating my book.

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Diane is from Christchurch, New Zealand where she was a classroom teacher for over 25 years before becoming a lecturer at the University of Canterbury. Her interest, in education, is Read more...integrating ICT into the classroom. Read less...

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You have the inspiration - let me help you with the perspiration! I have a wide experience in proofreading and editing everything from short stories, books and documentaries to managerial reports. I Read more...have a good eye for errors and a passion for accuracy. Read less...

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Harry Brown has written two musical workbooks and has done very well in promoting and marketing them and has consistently made good sales for over two years now. A fantastic Read more...workbook for all students with musical interests. Read less...

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Pirie Brown knows the magic of real business success lies in the soul of the company. This book outlines how all companies can identify and promote their values to Read more...ensure that staff and customers alike simply love doing business together. Read less...

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"PIRIE BROWN'S POCKET BOOK OF BLOODY GOOD IDEAS!"

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Born in South Africa, my husband and I, together with two children of 11 and 13, immigrated to New Zealand 14 years ago. We love living here, finding New Read more...Zealanders and South Africans to have a lot in common, particularly rugby and barbecues! We put down roots in Havelock North, Hawke's Bay, which I love passionately. On a summer's day there is nowhere better, with its sunny climate and beautiful scenery. I have had many years of experience as a proofreader, aside from my secretarial profession. For a number of years I had my own secretarial practice, offering a range of secretarial services, with no job too big or too small. * I have proofread and edited to the point of publication four short books on people's life stories, a novel and a play, all diverse and very interesting. * I have proofread calendars in the finest detail, as well as writing introductions, informative details and descriptions for these. * In a market research capacity, I have been instrumental in the proofing and collation of market research submissions for presentation to the company requesting the research. I have a great love of the English language and a keen eye for detail, easily spotting errors and the incorrect use of language, and would welcome the opportunity of assisting writers with their publications. Read less...

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Wallace Roy Burgess was born in New Plymouth in 1926. He is a man that has lived the true Kiwi lifestyle. After joining the Air Training Corps at fifteen he Read more...became a Sergeant before entering the R.N.Z.A.F until the end of World War II. Wally played representative rugby and cricket and even formed his own cricket club. Wally had a wife of 42 years before she passed away in 1990. He has six daughters, eighteen grand children and five great grand children, Wally owned and operated his own sawmill, independently started his own design and building company which was a huge success as he built many hundreds of houses and also owned and operated a kiwifruit farm. Wally now resides in Waitara and has an art for the written word. His first book Telling Tales was produced in 1995. Now he has written this fantastic book described as a tribute to New Zealand pioneers. Read less...

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My name is Derek Ronald Burt. I was born in England in 1934. I am 190cm tall and weigh 97 kilos. I was educated at Weston-super-Mare Grammar School in Somerset, Read more...England which I left in 1952 and entered the Royal Airforce. In 1957 when I left the Airforce I worked in the family business for two years and then started a market garden. It became an intense business with a vegetable shop and flower shop. I married Dorothy Jean Perryman in September 1963, she is 9 years my junior and we raised two lovely daughters. We left England in June 1973 and have been in New Zealand ever since. At the age of forty one I changed direction and trained to be a psychiatric nurse, staying in that profession for 27 years retiring at the age of 68 in 2002. A year before I retired I bought ten acres of land and built a house. In September 2005 during election week I suffered a heart attack and was taken to Palmerston North Hospital. After a few days lying in bed, I became bored. I would read the Dominion Post in an hour and a half, so asked my wife to bring me four or five A4 sized writing pads and a box of biros and started to write the book I had been threatening to write for ten years. I recovered and was allowed home, where I continued to write my book which is part biographical. I finished writing it in April 2006. I then put it on my computer hard drive. I was advised by an American Literary Agent to put it in double spacing and indent for every speaker and have it proof read. This took some time but the book has now been printed in single spacing on A4 paper and stored on CD's, the hard drive and a memory stick in double spacing. Real belt and braces stuff. I also have a synopsis. It is a novel which takes place in the West Country of England in Somerset and Wiltshire from 1952 till 1960. The title comes from a comment made by Harold McMillan, the Prime Minister of the day, because the economy was running at an unprecedented high and everyone was earning well and consequently living well he said. “You've Never Had It So Good”, of course he was right. Read less...

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Just started seriously going through the motions... have had poems and articles published before... started writing a drama novel... have written 2 childrens books for my friends children... about time Read more...I started taking myself seriously Read less...

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Camille Butler currently works full-time as a writer at Trends Publishing, as well as performing her relationship guru duties online at www.nzgirl.co.nz, where she is agony aunt Super Kitty. She Read more...also tries very hard to write her novel in her free time. Camille has a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in English. She studied under Stephanie Johnson, Albert Wendt and Witi Ihimaera at Auckland University's Creative Writing department. She has completed an internship at citymix magazine, written reviews for Groove Guide and has several written freelance articles for magazines, including USA mag 'Surf, Skate and Snow Girl'. Aside from writing, her interests include snowboarding, skateboarding, travel and reading anything and everything. Read less...

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Well Im not really and author yet. More of an aspiring author. Hoping to write plenty of good trilogies, novels sort of thing in the future, just having trouble planning Read more...so I joined up to an authro's website to see if I could find some help. Read less...

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