@josimons.bsky.socialIt‘s Aotearoa NZ Bookshop Day tomorrow 10 October and all sorts of events will be on at bookstores. Here in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland there’s a bookshop tour. I wonder how many I could visit in a day … #pukapuka #Books www.booksellers.co.nz/event/auckla...
@antzlapwood.bsky.socialRemember, remember the 5th of November!
That's when my new #pukapuka Mincemeat will be launched 🐶
6pm, Unity Books, Wellington.
Free, all welcome, but RSVP appreciated.
@christchurchlib.bsky.socialOh hai my booky friends. Did you know it's Aotearoa NZ Bookshop Day tomorrow (Saturday 10 October)? We've linked to local Ōtautahi Christchurch events, & bookshop pics. my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/bookshops/
Scorpio fans - the expansion opens āpōpō! Here are pics from yesterday. ^DR
#pukapuka
@sisyphusreturns.bsky.social#booksky #pukapuka 💙📚🇳🇿 my next read, Withered Hill by @davidmbarnett.bsky.social someone else in CHCH is waiting to get ahold of this book,
@antzlapwood.bsky.socialEvery book has a whakapapa and I wanted to shout out a few influences for my forthcoming novel Mincemeat 📚💚
@thesaplingnz.bsky.socialWhy do publishers work in publishing: the people/the creativity/the thrill of the next beautiful book or potential bestseller arriving over the desk/a child who might think ‘that’s me!’ when they open a book:
the publishing panel at the #storylineshui2026
#pukapuka #booksky
@thesaplingnz.bsky.social‘Please feel free to hate me’
Li Chen on her incredible success
#booksky #pukapuka #storylineshui2026
@thesaplingnz.bsky.social‘Who knows, it could be true’
Gavin Bishop on adding a fictional element to PIANO ROCK, a non-fiction book based on his early life
#pukapuka #booksky #storylineshui2026
@thesaplingnz.bsky.socialRachael Craw suggests starting to build a fictional world by creating a problem
#storylineshui2026 #pukapuka #booksky
@thesaplingnz.bsky.socialSwapna Haddow’s TERRIBLE TRIO series (with Minky Stapleton) was a big seller overseas, particularly Canada and Mongolia where it has a cult following!
#booksky #pukapuka #storylineshui2026
@thesaplingnz.bsky.socialJosh Morgan brings his trademark honesty & sincerity to his workshop on the highs & lows of a life in illustration
#pukapuka #booksky #storylineshui2026
@thesaplingnz.bsky.socialZak Waipara has his workshop participants story boarding an eight-page book
#storylineshui2026 #pukapuka #booksky
@thesaplingnz.bsky.social‘I freaking love picture books’
Sacha Cotter on her drive to write, at the Storylines Hui
#pukapuka #booksky #storylineshui2026
@thesaplingnz.bsky.social‘Research asks, what happened?
Story asks, what matters?’
Maria Gill on writing non-fiction for kids at the Storylines Hui
#pukapuka #booksky #storylineshui2026
@sisyphusreturns.bsky.social#booksky #pukapuka this has been on my TBR for a while, it’s been reasonably popular at the library. I keep seeing it promoted on this site so I’m keen to give it a go @nnedi.bsky.social a nice sci fi
@thesaplingnz.bsky.socialPerspectives on publication: Melinda Szymanik and Holly Walmsley on getting published in New Zealand:
tinyurl.com/3e79ypw9
@shambolika.bsky.socialIt's the anniversary of my liberation from the womb, and I got sent a copy of my super mulitalented cousin's #pukapuka - Terri Te Tau. Yaaaaay Terri!
Has anyone read it yet?
@antzlapwood.bsky.social
@notjustdna.bsky.social@sisyphusreturns.bsky.social