Sue Copsey
Sue Copsey is an editor and freelance writer. Her books include junior fiction and non-fiction, and under her pen name Olivia Hayfield she also writes adult fiction. Her debut adult novel, Wife After Wife, a retelling of the story of Henry VIII and his six wives, won the NZSA Pitch Perfect competition in 2018 and was subsequently published by Hachette UK and Penguin Random House in the US. Sue lives in Auckland and makes regular trips back to England to research her modern retellings of historical tales.
Genre:
- Adult Fiction
- Children's Fiction
- Non-Fiction
Skills:
- Editing
- Freelance Writing
- Manuscript Assessment
- Novelist
- Readings
Branch:
Auckland
Location:
Auckland
Publications:
Our Children Aotearoa
For primary school-aged children, on the theme of diversity. Featuring 17 New Zealand children from different cultural backgrounds. Storylines Notable Book 2012.
The Ghosts of Young Nick's Head
Book 1 in the Spooky Adventures series for children aged 8-13. A lot of fun and a little bit scary – and educational, but don't tell the children.
The Ghosts of Tarawera
Book 2 in the Spooky Adventures series. Storylines Notable Book Award-winner, 2016. Featuring a phantom canoe and Mt Tarawera.
The Ghosts of Moonlight Creek
Book 3 in the Spooky Adventures series. Our heroes are invited by Anastasia's movie-director father to visit the location of 'Dragonlord Rising', which is being filmed near Queenstown. They soon discover there's more than one reason the old gold-mining settlement of Moonlight is known as a ghost town.
Wife After Wife
Adult fiction – a modern retelling of the story of King Henry VIII and his six wives.
Sister to Sister
This sequel to Wife After Wife is a retelling of the early years of Elizabeth the First's reign, and centres around her relationships with her sister Mary, her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and her favourite, Lord Robert Dudley.
Notorious
A whodunnit based on England's greatest unsolved mystery - the disappearance of the Princes in the Tower and the royal enigma that was King Richard III.