An NZSA Auckland Branch Meeting
Friday 4 March, 6.15pm – ONLINE EVENT

Due to COVID Omicron this will be a live Zoom event (it will not be recorded). Current Auckland Branch members only will receive the zoom link the day before so book it in your calendar now!

How can you make an impact with your author promotion right now, while developing your brand and sales over the long-term? What role can social media engagement and marketing play? Is it worth building a profile even if you aren’t published yet? And why should you keep at it even when it doesn’t seem to be working? Two successful authors are joining us this March to help answer these questions.

Kirsten McKenzie fought international crime for fourteen years as a Customs Officer in both England and New Zealand, before leaving to work in the family antique store. Now a full time author, she lives in New Zealand with her family and alternates between writing time travel trilogies and polishing her next thriller. Her spare time is spent organising author events and appearing on literary panels at various festivals around the world.

Jack Remiel Cottrell is an itinerant flash fiction and short story writer with a sideline as a volunteer rugby referee. His collection Ten Acceptable Acts of Arson and other very short stories won the Wallace Foundation Prize in 2020 and was published by Canterbury University Press in August 2021. His short stories have recently appeared in the NZ Listener and Takahē Magazine, and he is currently working on a novel.