KIRSTEN MCKENZIE
A full time author, Kirsten is a former customs officer and antiques dealer, and who has also dabbled in film and television.
Her historical time-slip series - The Old Curiosity Shop Series (which includes Fifteen Postcards, The Last Letter and Telegram Home), has been described as 'Time Travellers Wife meets Far Pavilions', and 'Antiques Roadshow gone viral'.
Her books Painted and Doctor Perry were best sellers in the Canadian and Australian charts.
Her historical thriller The Forger and the Thief launched on the 56th anniversary of the devastating Arno River floods, the setting for the thriller.
The first two books in Kirsten’s second time travel trilogy — the Ithaca series, are now available, with work well underway on the final book in the trilogy.
SYDNEY HUNTER
Sydney has a love of writing passed down to her by her mother. Sydney’s writing can be irreverent, cutting and with humour that is very dark in places.
After twenty years in advertising, she decided it was time to put all those stress-induced nightmares to better use by including them in her writing. She also takes perverse delight in eviscerating a few former managers along the way.
Her pet hates include reality television and dieting...
ANDRENE LOW
A multi-genre author, finds joy in crafting stories that bring smiles. Her unique humour, often leaning toward the dark side, adds a distinctive touch to her work.
Readers should be prepared for a delightful twist of humour that adds a distinctive flavour to her work, and that leaves a lasting impression.
Her Seventies Collective explores the wild ride that the seventies was for anyone lucky enough to be alive during that craziest of decades. Chock full of the kitsch of the day, it will delight those who lived the time, and those who didn't.
Writing as Andie Low, her successful Marina Witches Mysteries—a cozy paranormal series—has now launched a spinoff series, set amidst a vampire dating agency. This starts with Dead and Married, with Stake and Fries, the second in the series now underway.
FLETCHER MCKENZIE
A former ad man, Fletcher is the producer of global TV show, FlightPathTV and the author of the bestselling Lessons from the Sky series.
His specialist area is the aviation industry, where he has worked with MD Helicopters, Aeronet, Air & Ground, Reliance Aircraft International, Oceania Aviation, Temora/Omaka and Avalon Airshows, C4 Systems, NZDF, Royal New Zealand Air Force and Pappus.
He also holds a private pilot’s license, with various ratings, and he has won two National Flying competition titles. Not to mention his experience with paragliders, gliders and parachuting (do ask him about his parachuting accident…).
Fletcher’s newest title - 72 Lessons From The Sky: Cessna 172, is now available.
He last appeared on New Zealand television flying a WWII Spitfire.
LEE MURRAY
A research scientist turned author, editor, essayist, poet, & screenwriter; Lee is a New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award winner for Literary Achievement in Fiction & a USA Today bestselling author.
Described as “New Zealand’s Stephen King” by NZ Woman’s Weekly, she is a five-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, four-time winner of the Australian Shadows Award, & New Zealand’s only recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award for psychological horror. Her works have been translated into German, Italian, Romanian, & Spanish.
Lee’s multi-award-winning Taine McKenna military thriller series — Into the Mist, Into the Sounds, & Into the Ashes, is described as a ‘tension-packed thrill-ride’.
With her first fiction collection gaining international acclaim, look for several exciting new collections from Lee on the horizon.