This review first appeared in Otago Daily Times, 18 January 2020.
What type of editing does my manuscript need and how much will it cost?
This article first appeared in NZ Author Magazine, Summer 2019 issue. Confused about the difference between developmental editing, manuscript assessment, line editing, and proof reading? Want to know what kind of editing your manuscript needs and how much it might cost? Read on!
Book Review: The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
This review first appeared in Weekend / Otago Daily Times, 21st December 2019.
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This piece first appeared in The Three Lamps, 20th December 2019. 
The Three Lamps Journal: Sideways by Caroline Barron
Book Review: Chances Are, by Richard Russo
This review first appeared in the Otago Daily Times, 9th November 2019.
Book Review: A Good Enough Mother, by Bev Thomas
This review first appeared in the Otago Daily Times, 6th July 2019.
Book Review: Everything in Its Place, by Oliver Sacks
This review was first published in the Otago Daily Times, 22nd June, 2019.
Book Review: Islands, by Peggy Frew
Such a beautiful, originally-told book. Frew examines how much a child should be allowed to shoulder in the face of tragedy, through the poetic rendering of a Melbourne family’s disintegration in the wake of divorce and the disappearance of the younger of two daughters, 15-year-old Anna.
This review first appeared in Otago Daily Times, 18th May 2019.
Book Review: The Great Wide Open, by Douglas Kennedy
A damn good go at the Great American Novel. If you enjoyed Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmonds, Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, or Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, this book is for you.
This review first appeared in Otago Daily Times, 27 April 2019.
Reading the Great Wide Open, in the, ahem, great wide open.
Book Review: Love for Imperfect Things by Haemin Sunim (Penguin Random House, 2019)
The Monk-on-Twitter, and founder of The School For Broken Hearts, relays his sage advice. Love for Imperfect Things will remain on my shelf, in the hope that one day—on just the right day—one of my children will happen upon it, slide it down from the shelf, and find just what they need.
This review first appeared in Otago Daily Times, 27 April 2019.
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