Book One: The Yoga of Sailing
Leaping free from the world into spiritual experience. A romp with Alice, her daughter Emily and father Roger, on a sailing adventure through the Pacific. Sailing is the protagonist of the story, the sails, the sea, the winds and the destination. While Emily is...
Anchors in an Open Sea trilogy
Sailing into the full catastrophe of living. Have you ever wondered what it is like to be driven by an overwhelming desire for spiritual experience most of your life? Explore with Alice through thirty tumultuous years, cycling, tramping, sailing, making love, sitting...
The desire to understand self and mind
Fly over any city and see millions of people doing much the same thing in much the same way. The house may be large or small, expensive or cheap, but the desires and pressures and options will be similar. Fly over any Pacific island and the lives below are very...
Introducing Fiery Scribes
Novels of Life and Adventure, including “Anchors in an Open Sea” Trilogy DYANA WELLS writes about family, sailing, love and adventure, all wrapped in spiritual autobiography. BRIAN writes about adversity and redemption, all wrapped in thrillers, both ancient and...
Sailing adventure and spiritual autobiography
Sailing – a life on the ocean that can be like extreme sports, before the term was invented. Alice enjoys sailing, the thrill, the exhilarating physicality of the tug of war with nature. That’s with nature, not against it, because Alice feels more in tune...
Building A City – In Fantasy and Real Life
Many writers labour over the details of their characters and the environs they inhabit. In fantasy, the towns and cities and building can take on any form their imagination allows. In real life, Christchurch city in New Zealand has to juggle the reality of what is...
How to be a writer
A talk by Steve Hely at the Word Festival, Christchurch, 2016. “What I like about books is you can really get into someone’s head. In books you can have inner monologues.” Steve frequently contrasted his work for tv talk shows and comedy shows with...
Adventures in Publishing
A talk by Scott Pack at the Word Festival in Christchurch, 2016. Two months ago Pack received an invite from Rachel King, managed to convince his family (primarily his children) that he was a worthy world-travelling speaker, and finally had a brainwave for the theme...
Being ‘Other’ in New Zealand
Being Chinese / White / Other in New Zealand. Notes on a conversation between Alice Canton and Helene Wong. Held at Word Christchurch Festival on Friday 26 August 2016. Helene emphasised that many of the older Chinese liked the ‘fair go’ attitude in NZ and...Already Published!
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