Renée van de Weert
Renée Hapimarika van de Weert, te Atiawa o Taranaki, is the author of The Last Whale/Te Tohora Whakamutunga, a children’s picture book that was shortlisted for the NZ Post Children’s Book 2002.
Reveille - Book I - Resistance, published in September 2019 by XLibris is the first of a series of Adult Fiction stories set in a dystopian future New Zealand. Book II - Revenge should be published mid-2020 and Book III - working title Resolution, at the end of 2020. Renée worked as a lab technician, scrub cutter, rousie, tomato picker, veterinary assistant, sheep, beef and tree farmer, agricultural journalist and columnist, budget adviser, adult literacy tutor and, latterly, as a Parliamentary Electorate Agent. She says she was always willing to have a go at most things as long as they were legal and loved them all; not least because they were all fuel for her writerly fires.
She has now retired to the beach to write full time.
Genre:
- Fiction
Skills:
- Freelance Writing
- Journalism
- Novelist
Branch:
Central Districts
Location:
Himatangi Beach
Publications:
Reveille - Book I - Resistance
When a camping trip goes terribly wrong, young Joey Winter finds himself seriously injured, apparently abandoned by his mother and her friend, and in the care of dangerous strangers. As he slowly recovers, he learns he’s in even more danger than he could have imagined and still, his mother has not come to get him so, when the opportunity to escape arises, Joey takes it. With three companions, one the woman who’d tried to kill him once already and who would no doubt try again, Joey is determined to survive and go home.
Reveille - Book II - Revenge
After disaster strikes their camping trip and a gang of thugs attack them as they try to find help, Hunter regains consciousness to be told his injuries nearly killed him, his partner Cat is missing presumed dead, her son Joey is lost and gone forever.
Hunter refuses to believe it. He’s determined to get well, get help from the authorities and then, he’s coming back to find the men who attacked them and make them pay, in full, with interest.