by briant | Aug 28, 2016 | Novels, Observations, Publishing
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...
by briant | Aug 28, 2016 | Novels, Observations, 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...
by dyanaw | Aug 25, 2016 | Dyana Wells, Novels, Philosophy, Sailing, Yoga
I need to calm down, reef my sail, meditate. Cross-legged in the saloon with a cushion in the small of my back, I sink behind my tumbling thoughts, behind my compulsive activity, behind the entrancing glamour of living. I follow my breath slowly down into a still...
by briant | Jul 30, 2016 | Novels, Red Diamond, Thriller
Tammi was starting to see her career as a dancer, and a gang leader, flushing down the toilet. She turned to the club manager, knowing his name from the previous times she’d danced at his clubs with her crew. “Please Mr Fabian, we’ll never do it again, ever!” “It’s...
by dyanaw | Jul 15, 2016 | Adventure, Dyana Wells, Novels, Sailing, Yoga
The boat is our vehicle and although it creaks and groans it’s pretty solid and unchanging for now. The boat gives us a sense of stability. Not like a house on solid ground, but a moving stability. Pea-pod shaped, not an extended cube. Minimal stability, like a...
by dyanaw | Jul 5, 2016 | Dyana Wells, Novels, Sailing, Trilogy
The science of yoga claims that all experience is a combination of the qualities of the five elements — earth, water, fire air and space. We know the world and ourselves as the ever-changing fluxing of these elements. Water, the sea, the rolling fluidity of...