Tim Jones: Books in the Trees

  The Magical Mystery Tour is coming to take you away - away, that is, to Helen Lowe's blog, where she talks with me about whether men ...

How To Order A Tingling Catch I had hoped to do a full past about A Tingling Catch , the newly-published anthology of New Zealand cricket ...

... and Helen is celebrating this auspicious day with a great range of giveaways! Head over to Helen's blog to find out more and enter...

Homing He hears it, in every slap of wave against wood, as the ship cleaves water like a seabird, hears the word that he has hungered ...

Here are three bits of news of interest to writers and publishers - two about poetry, and the third for science fiction writers - plus a cou...

It isn't New Zealand Speculative Fiction Blogging Week any more, but that doesn't mean that speculative fiction in New Zealand has ...

Fantastic Voyages: Writing Speculative Fiction went very well last night, in this reporter's opinion - and also in the opinion of my fe...

Here is the press release for Fantastic Voyages: Writing Speculative Fiction, which is happening in Wellington this Thursday evening. If you...

Anomalous Appetites Shortly after the release of Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand was announced, New Zealand poet and edit...

Many thanks to Fitz for the poster That's right! Helen Lowe and I are going to be getting together on the 17th of September, under the ...

This afternoon I took part in a live discussion on science fiction and fantasy writing in New Zealand. Chaired by Radio New Zealand's Ly...

Hard on the heels of the news that a short story collection by science fiction writer Chris Beckett has won the prestigious Edge Hill Short ...

Voyagers Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand is getting good exposure in the Dominion Post this week. Louis Johnson's po...

Former biologist and science writer, Canadian Julie E. Czerneda has turned her passion for living things and love of science fiction into a...

Helen Lowe is a New Zealand poet and novelist. Her first young adult novel, Thornspell , has just been published by Knopf in the USA, and sh...

My fantasy novel Anarya's Secret , set in the universe of the Earthdawn roleplaying game, was on the ballot for Best Adult Novel at the...