Shauna Bickley

Posted on Tuesday 31st December 2019 by Shauna Bickley

Most of the media that I’ve read over the past few days (weeks even) has been swamped with ‘best-of’ lists of items or events from the past year/decade — books,...

Posted on Wednesday 13th March 2019 by Shauna Bickley

Last weekend seventeen writers met at my home to discuss and workshop ways to develop authentic characters and to ensure those character’s responses in dialogue, decision making and action remained...

Posted on Saturday 9th February 2019 by Shauna Bickley

Recently I attended the first New Zealand crime writing festival along with other crime writers, both the home-grown variety and many from overseas. In true Kiwi fashion it was run...

Posted on Tuesday 1st January 2019 by Shauna Bickley

While I find it ironic that we take an arbitrary date and suddenly we’re celebrating a new year and new beginnings, there is something about the end of one period...

Posted on Monday 31st December 2018 by Shauna Bickley

I’ve just taken the (as yet) current calendar down and put up the 2019 calendar. There’s no doubt some old wives’ tale that says I’m letting myself in for a...

Posted on Sunday 23rd December 2018 by Shauna Bickley

Yesterday we celebrated the summer solstice and the longest day, apparently 14 hours and 41 minutes of daylight. It took me a long time of living in New Zealand for...

Posted on Saturday 8th December 2018 by Shauna Bickley

Over the past couple of months we’ve completed a few road trips around parts of the central North Island of New Zealand and I thought I’d share a few photos....

Posted on Saturday 10th November 2018 by Shauna Bickley

While I tend to write and read more crime novels than romance, I’m a member of Romance Writers of New Zealand (RWNZ). I joined initially as membership was part of...

Posted on Monday 29th October 2018 by Shauna Bickley

Do you prefer to read a book first or see the film? If you read the book first is the film as good? These questions came up when I was...

Posted on Sunday 29th April 2018 by Shauna Bickley

I whizzed around the city supermarket — whizzed may be a slight exaggeration as it was very busy — chucking stuff in the trolley. I had a rapidly approaching appointment...