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My weekend at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2025

I had a wonderful time at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2025 – a fabulous and fascinating weekend away with friends!

I’ve pulled together some of my notes and photos from the weekend…

Saturday 10 May 2025

Our first day involved an early start and driving over the hill. We had a quick pitstop for coffee and cheese scones in Greytown, then split up for our various morning sessions around Featherston.

My first session was ‘Going Coastal’ with Damien Wilkins, Mandy Hage...

Mystery in the Palmerston North City Library 2025 (audio recording)

It was fantastic having Manawatu People’s Radio at Mysterious Manawatū on Friday at Palmerston North City Library!

Thanks to Hugh for his excellent work with the sound system and recording, now anyone who didn’t make it on the night can listen back to The Bookshop Detectives, Riley Chance, Tina Shaw, and myself discussing our various literary misdeeds:

Listen to the Mysterious Manawatū 2025 recording (01:05:46) Off The Page writers series

The Off The Page writers series is a pa...

Mysterious Manawatū 2025

I had a blast at last night’s ‘Mystery in the Library’ author panel event in Palmerston North with The Bookshop Detectives, Riley Chance and Tina Shaw.

Mysterious Manawatū panel (L-R): G. B. Ralph, Riley Chance, Tina Shaw, Gareth Ward, Louise Ward.

We had a great time discussing the importance of the New Zealand setting in all of our books, our ever-growing cast of characters, how we tackle research, the business of being an author, and so much more.

We had a wonderful audience and it w...

Felonies in Feilding (Mystery in the Library 2025 event)

Fantastic night with this bunch of felons in Feilding! The Bookshop Detectives, Bing Turkby, and Patricia Dunmore chatted crime, character, research, plotting, and how they take something from just an idea to a fully fledged novel. Great fun!

If you missed out tonight, we’ll be doing another Ngaio Marsh Awards ‘Mystery in the Library’ event tomorrow night in Palmerston North! And this time I’ll be up the front with four other brilliant authors.

I’ll see you at 6pm on Friday 2 May 2025 ...

Mysterious Manawatū is back this Friday

Mysterious Manawatū is one of 30+ ‘Mystery in the Library’ author panel events being held in the lead up to the Ngaio Marsh Awards.

Last year’s panel was great fun and I know this year will be too! I’ll be joining four other criminally good authors: Gareth and Louise Ward (The Bookshop Detectives), Riley Chance, and Tina Shaw. We’ll be at the Palmerston North City Library on the ground floor (George Street entrance) from 6pm, Friday 2 May 2025.

If you’re local, or based not too far away, ...

My 99c book sale campaign with BookBub Featured Deal boost

Yesterday morning Murder on Milverton Square went out to BookBub’s cozy mystery mailing list of over 1.5 million readers!

99c on Amazon.com99p on Amazon.co.uk

US: 8am PDT Sunday 13 April 2025 – 8am PDT Sunday 20 April 2025
UK: 8am GMT Sunday 13 April 2025 – 8am GMT Sunday 20 April 2025

Milverton on sale this week

I’ve discounted the Murder on Milverton Square Kindle ebook this week to a criminally low 99c in the US and 99p in the UK.

I’d warmed Amazon up to the idea I mig...

#1 Best Seller: Milverton tops the LGBTQ+ Mystery chart!

2½ years after Addison stumbled over his first death in Milverton, he’s back on top!

Thank you so much to all the wonderful readers for sharing my cosy, quirky, queer, Kiwi mystery. It means everything!

You can check out the chart for yourself, but be quick if you want to see Murder on Milverton Square in the top spot because the charts are updated frequently:

Amazon.com Best Sellers in LGBTQ+ Mystery chartBuy Murder on Milverton SquareKindle / ebook

Amazon US | Amazon U...

Caution! Murder on Milverton Square is 99c/99p this week only

Are you feeling a little dangerous? The first book in the Milverton Mysteries is criminally cheap this week in the US and UK!

99c on Amazon.com99p on Amazon.co.uk

Nab yourself a copy of the Kindle ebook to see why our anxious hero Addison Harper is tripping over dead bodies, choking on food in front of the handsome Sergeant Jake Murphy, causing mischief with 70-something-year-old Mabel Zhou, and being ignored by disdainful ginger cat Keith.

99c on Amazon.com99p on Amazon....

Over 100 turnout for Riverside Wrongdoings at Whanganui Library

Riverside Wrongdoings was a brilliant event last night in Whanganui! I had a wonderful time with my fellow authors / accomplices Charity Norman, Cynric Temple-Camp, and Stephen Johnson.

And what a turnout! So many readers that we had to switch to a bigger space at the library and then keep bringing more chairs out. It was amazing to see and I’m so grateful to everyone who joined us!

The event is part of the Mystery in the Library series which is running in the lead up to the Ngaio ...

Event: 2025 Mystery in the Library, Whanganui

The time is almost upon us! Tomorrow evening I’ll be be joining a truly disreputable bunch of wrongdoers – Charity Norman, Cynric Temple-Camp, and Stephen Johnson – on an author panel in Whanganui.

The event is part of the Mystery in the Library series being held across the motu in the build up to the Ngaio Marsh Awards later in the year. Each will feature a panel of local authors discussing crime, mystery, writing, publishing, and plenty more I’m sure. You can read more about this event in t...