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I began taking photos on a 12 month trip around New Zealand and discovered so much that had to be shared. Mostly produced for family and friends but am willing Read more...to sell. Read less...

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An extension project for a strong group of students at Taranaki's Costal School in Okato.

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Shades of Green

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Adrienne Tatham is the granddaughter of Newton King, a man who had a huge impact on the development of Taranaki businesses and the province. Adrienne compiled the information around her Read more...grandfathers life and developed it into a fantastic self-published book that had sold out its first print run before the books were printed. Read less...

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Music plays in my head. They are not lyrics. It is an entire novel waiting to be written. My song will change the world.

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Alan spent his childhood living at the Waikeria Prison Village - attending Kihikihi & Waikeria Primary Schools, then Intermediate School and College at Te Awamutu. After a period in the Read more...NZ Police, he moved to Tokoroa where he initially worked as a Laboratory technician at the Kinleith Mills - then became involved in extra-mural study towards his teaching qualifications. He began teaching full-time in 1985 - and taught at various schools in the Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Waiouru areas - before becoming a Principal in 1989. For the next 15 years he was Principal of a number of schools in the King Country and Taranaki regions - before leaving full-time teaching to begin working on publishing and website development projects. For the past twenty years he have had a very keen interest in all forms of ICT equipment (having owned a wide range of video & audio equipment, video, digital & traditional photographic equipment, computing and associated equipment, etc) for both recreational and work use - and made extensive use of this equipment as part of his work as a teacher and now as a an author and website developer. In all communities that Alan have lived in, he has taken an active role in community affairs - by joining (and usually playing a leading role and/or holding office-holder positions at a local, regional and/or national level, in) a wide range education-based, trade union, sporting and community-service groups & organisations. Read less...

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Don was a part of our efforts in World War II. From a child to young adult, he was affected by the war. "I'm a product of my time. I Read more...lived through that era and I say you don't know what you're talking about if you start to weep and wail and lament about the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. It was necessary at its time, as much as we detest that, it had to happen. So that finishes the war off. That's the end of World War II." Don's life-long interest in those tumultuous years continues. He has created a book, collecting accounts of personal experiences from those who were in the armed services during WWII, as well as those civilians who lived through the war years. Read less...

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Everyone's War

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The author has been involved in the trustee field for over 40 years. His past experience included roles as Trust Officer for what was the ‘Special Estates Section’ of the Read more...Public Trust in Wellington and Manager for Planning and Development of the Guardian Trust Head Office in Auckland. He is a Registered Trustee of the NZ Trustees Association, a Registered Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and has qualified as an Associate of the Executor and Trustee Institute. Rob remains a trustee of a number of private family trusts and regularly attends meetings of the Trusts Special Interest Group of the NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants. He attends the conferences of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and the NZ Law Society conferences on Trusts. Read less...

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Viti Taylor, eldest daughter of Trevor & Winiwini Chambers, was born and educated in Foxton where she met and married her husband Kim. Together they have three children, Bharti, Read more...Dara and Amber, and three beautiful grandchildren, Janelle, Malachi and Kiara. Viti's creative art and forms of writing shine through with expressions of humour, passion and warmth. She currently resides in Paraparaumu, on the Kapiti Coast, NZ. Read less...

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call me Cobber

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This bubbly young woman has two huge passions in her life -- drawing and Christmas. Sarah began by drawing her favourite cartoon characters, she then moved on to drawing portraits Read more...from photographs, interpreting them into her own unique abstract style. Her medium is black felt pen and oil pastel, she confidently draws the outlines then colours with pastels. Sarah has the amazing ability to include details almost unnoticeable in the original photograph. Her uncanny knack of bringing out personal quirks and picking up on spiritual attributes of the people she draws is astounding. Read less...

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Sarah's Christmas

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Kerri Louise Thomas is a New Zealander living in Wanganui, New Zealand. At a young age, she left her home town of Hamilton and moved to Sydney, Australia, staying Read more...there only long enough to earn funds that would take her further afield. Starting in Israel and going through Egypt, Greece and the rest of Europe, she eventually stopped in England where she lived on and off over the next ten years. Settling back down in Auckland, New Zealand, she studied for a business degree majoring in law while holding down a full-time job as a business adviser in the heavy transport industry. Wanting a change, she then moved into the social services sector. She also co-owns a café/art gallery. She has completed two novels and is working on a third. Read less...

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Afinidad
Aztec Dawn

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Louise Thomas began freelance science writing in July 1998, since then she has completed numerous commissions about New Zealand science and technology for various mainstream media. In addition, she is Read more...a regular writer for the Royal Society of New Zealand's Alpha and Gamma series for secondary school science programmes. Louise also enjoys writing for young children—two children’s science stories originally published in New Zealand have recently been published in the United States. Louise is the New Zealand Correspondent for the South Pacific Science Press in Australia, publishers of Position magazine and Spatial Business. Louise also contracts for many organisations within the science community—contributing to newsletters, annual reports, research reports and press releases. These include the Association of Crown Research Institutes (ACRI), Coal Association of New Zealand (CANZ), CRL Energy Ltd, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA), Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, National Science and Technology Roadshow, Victoria University of Wellington, and the Wellington School of Medicine. She has recently developed a science communication course, which was launched in 2007, for the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. Louise has a B.Sc in Earth Sciences from Massey University and a postgraduate certificate in Environmental Management from Victoria University of Wellington. Before becoming a freelance science writer she has worked in mineral observing, soil mapping, and seismic surveying fields, she has written and edited for various organisations including three and a half years as the communications adviser and Web master for the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology. In 1999, Louise was awarded the Science Communicator of the Year by the New Zealand Association of Scientists—"for an outstanding contribution to advancing general appreciation of science in New Zealand". She is currently working on her first fiction novel. Read less...

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I'm currently writing and working part time as a chef in Rotorua, NZ, but I have dreams and plans of getting my work published this year!

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I am a published illustrator and author living in Brisbane, Australia. I have a CERT IV in digital design and studied Visual Art, majoring in animation, at Griffith University. My Read more...first children's fantasy novel, 'David and the Heart of Aurasius' was released in October 2010. My second novel, 'The Brothers of Turoc', will be released next year and was short-listed in the 2011 Text Prize for unpublished manuscripts. Read less...

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David and the Heart of Aurasius

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Chilton Tinling - Artist Chilton Tinling, better known as Tony or Rusty to Read more...those in the Coromandel area, has had a varied career in the art world. Art was a passion from an early age and after completing studies at Takapuna Secondry School, Chilton attended the Elim School of Art followed studies at Auckland Technical Institute. After completing his education, which included attending the Flockhouse Farming College, Chilton tried his hand at farming, which he enjoyed immensly. However art was his passion and he soon returned to this field. Over the years Chilton had screenprinting and signwriting businesses where he could use his talents in a variety of projects, allowing him to use his many skills including, murals, book illustrations,designer airbrush, graphic art and writing children's books. At this time in his life, with children grown and grandchildren and great grandchild to keep him young, Chilton now has time and opportunity to fully commit to his love and passion for creating works of art. Read less...

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Yabob's Gift - His Earth Trip

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I am ~~~~~Getting Older"""" 5' 6"1/2, have good skin, medium build, ash blonde hair and grey/green eyes; I was born in Invercargill on 24th DECEMBER 1961, to good Read more...parents and an older sister and brother. I did a Commercial Course at school, at my Mamas advice, and did reasonably well, going to Dunedin for 6 months to finish up with a Secretarial Course, before going to England and overseas. To date I have done two writing Courses, which I found invaluable, and a few computer courses. I also studied Music and Science down South. I have found New Zealand a little difficult at times, but must love it because I have worked overseas twice and always ended up coming home. My sister lives in Waikanae, near a beautiful big beach. The South Island is "~"~~"~"breath-takingly beautiful.{I HOPE YOU WILL VISIT IT ONE DAY)!*!*!!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!!*!*!*!*!* I am a Christian/Spiritualist. Such are the many different cultures I have rubbed noses with in my lifetime. Read less...

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Obsessive-Compulsive DISASTER is my first little book all about my experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The idea of the story is to help fellow sufferers, provide support and to offer Read more...hope for not only sufferers but their family and friends as well. It sets straight the cliche ideas that TV/films portray about OCD and discourages the stereotypical perspectives. I am hoping to encourage awareness of OCD and help people to understand what it actually is. The story was written over the space of four years from when I was aged 13 till aged 17. The easiest way to purchase is via TradeMe at the moment, by searching Obsessive-Compulsive DISASTER. Read less...

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Willow Grace

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Am currently in second year of college.

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Majored in English at UNISA. Wrote short stories since childhood. Still writing short stories; also two novels, with no attempt to get these published. Reports, marketing letters, coaching material, Read more...travelogues, and personal creative writing projects. Minutes of Meetings. Read less...

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I am in the process of writing a book about a condition I have struggled with called BiPolar. I want to use this book as resource to other sufferers Read more...and hopefully to bring more awareness to mental illness. Read less...

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I am currently living in New Zealand. I am 17 years old and I write quite in-depth novels. I, being the modest person I am, can only sympathise by how Read more...utterly complex my literature is. I started writing literature when I was approximately 10-years-old, writing about my friends and I solving mysteries around our British-based school. I have matured in my literature since then trying hard to find topics which I will excel at. I am also working on a Biography called You Think It's Easy Being Me?, capturing the moments which are high-lighted in my Roller Coaster type life. Just before I decided to become a careering writer I suffered a serious brain injury whilst skiing. A perfect topic for a novel! My expectations of my work are astronomically high and I suspect I will go very far in my writing. Read less...

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In 1998 the Playwright's Association of New Zealand awarded me the Doug Wrenn Memorial Award for achievement. At the age of forty I started writing plays. It took me ten Read more...years to become established in community theatre. I've had about thirty productions in local venues and overseas. These are mostly one act plays. I'd managed to score part time work at my profession which gave me some time for writing. Now that I am retired I continue to work and am involved with a small press - The Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop At the age of fifty-eight I fell off a roof and damaged my head. This put me on accident compensation and gave me time to concentrate on longer works. I have finished three novels and published two. Read less...

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The Open Accounts of an Honesty Box

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Hailing from the UK, I have worked in publishing since 1988. Since then, I've covered almost every aspect of the process, working as an editor, proofreader, picture researcher, indexer, layout Read more...sub, ghostwriter and packager. I've also written a number of non-fiction titles for children and young adults. Upon emigrating to New Zealand in 2004 I spent five years as managing editor and, later, publishing manager at New Holland Publishers (NZ) Ltd in Auckland. In 2009 I left to set up my own business, Wooden Shed Publishing Services, offering the full range of publishing services to individuals and corporate clients. In the publishing community, it goes without saying that 'no job is too small', and I am happy to tailor my expertise to your personal requirements. Currently I am helping two authors self-publish their works, taking their manuscripts through the editorial process to print-ready pdf, negotiating print deals, and assisting with marketing and publicity. Meanwhile, I continue to work with publishers in New Zealand and overseas, including Penguin, HarperCollins, IMP, Dorling Kindersley and New Holland. Happy to discuss your proposal. Read less...

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My background has featured work in government departments mostly, with a leaning toward librarianship and computing (acquisition, processing and dissemination of information), and I managed an M.Sc. in mathematics plus Read more...a bit more on statistics. Last year while in the initial stages of "Heart of the Home" the book I am currently publishing through PublishMe, I contacted the Levin-Horowhenua Writers' Group for advice who kindly told me of a forthcoming PublishMe seminar to be held in Levin on 27 November which I attended. A very useful event. Read less...

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