I live, work and write in the lower half of New Zealand’s North island. I’m a parent, friend and confidant to two cool, now adult children.

Like most writers, I struggle to keep the bank’s grubby hands off my home so I’m a forced member of the precarious workforce (like some of the slightly-bitter characters wandering around in my books). My goal is to write a series of popular fiction books set in Aotearoa New Zealand. I intend to entertain readers with great stories while challenging their thinking about the society in which we live.

I’m not a fan of social media and I’ve tried most flavours. I remember when I left twitter (does anyone call it X?), I got back a few hours a week and I was far less enraged. Social media algorithms are designed to needle you into responding and spending more time on their platform so they can sell your eyeballs to advertisers. It’s a grim business model based on human misery - history will not treat the platforms and billionaires kindly.

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