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USA Today bestselling author, and winner of the Wright-Murray Residency 2021, A.J. Ponder (BSc, Dip Teach) is the author of numerous novels and short stories including the award winning Frankie and the Netball Clone, Dying for the Record, The Sylvalla Chronicles, Wizard's Guide to Wellington and more.

A.J. lives in a hundred year old house overlooking Wellington harbour with three cats and a family all obsessed with games, books and dungeons and dragons. A.J. has a head full of monsters, and recklessly spills them onto the written page. Beware dragons, dreadbeasts, taniwha, and small children—all are equally dangerous, and capable of treading on your heart—or tearing it, still beating, from your chest.

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The World is Spinning

The world, my friend, is spinningAround a fire as hot as hellAnd the thread that keeps you down to earth Is a gravity well But if the Earth was hangingBy a silken thread
Would you cut it?
 For we can see the scissors in the scienceAs we watch some money-grubbing foolsSnipping away At the blanket that keeps us cool  And so the fates would have us hanging
Witch, Female, Girl, Fantasy GirlBy a single silken threadSo, will you cut it?   Read more of this blog post »
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