The Sound of Butterflies
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Soapbox.

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My book Magpie Hall is currently the Christchurch City Libraries Community Read, which means everyone is encouraged to read one book and...
Wednesday, June 03, 2015

"Literary Cooties."

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I read this article  by Nicola Griffith with interest and not a lot of surprise, which talks about how books with women as main protagonist...
Sunday, December 14, 2014

On the occasion of my father's 69th birthday.

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As today is my father's birthday, and because I marked ten years since his death by introducing the Michael King Memorial Lecture at th...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

On mess.

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"You don’t know what you’re doing for a long time. It seems like a huge mess because it is a huge mess. If you looked at the notes f...
Sunday, October 06, 2013

Butterflies, Magpies and Selkies - a talk.

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This is very late notice, but I am giving a talk to the Friends of Christchurch Libraries tomorrow (October 8), and anybody is welcome to at...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Medals and being batsh*t crazy.

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Last week, I was honoured to receive The Esther Glen Medal for junior fiction at the LIANZA Book Awards. It's New Zealand's longe...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

A book tour and some very big weather.

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I started writing this on Friday, and it is in danger of becoming out of date before I can finish it, so I'm posting it now... will be b...
Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Avenues.

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Avenues , a Christchurch magazine, has very admirably put a writer on their cover - me! I'm very happy with the story, which is one of...
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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Good news!

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I am delighted to announce (somewhat belatedly) that Red Rocks is a finalist in the Junior Fiction category of the NZ Post Children's...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

NZ Book Month Antics.

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Here's a picture of me*, yesterday, talking to about 90 kids at the Shirley Library in Christchurch. Being as how it is New Zealand B...
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Rachael King
The Sound of Butterflies was the title of my first novel, published in the UK by Picador, in the US by William Morrow and in New Zealand by Random House, and translated into eight foreign languages. In 2009 my next novel, Magpie Hall, was published in New Zealand by Random House, and in 2012 my first novel for children, Red Rocks. This blog is my thoughts on the world of writing and books. Photo by Sharon Blance.
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