Day: June 17, 2025

Alumni/Student success stories

Ali Berg’s successful publishing double act remains on track

When Ali (on the right above) gave up her job in advertising at the age of 24 to travel the world, little did she realise it would culminate in an innovative career built around books and a two-book deal with Simon and Schuster Australia and The Book Ninja (Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus, 2018) in bookstores around the world. Ali and Michelle’s second novel, While You Were Reading followed in 2019, and their latest book Fancy Meeting You Here launched with rave reviews.

17 June 2025

Podcast: So You Want to be a Writer

Writing Podcast Episode 668: Gareth and Louise Ward talk ‘The Bookshop Detectives #2: Tea and Cake and Death’

They always say ‘write what you know’, right? Well, authors Gareth and Louise Ward (two British ex-cops who moved to New Zealand and opened a bookshop) fully leaned into it with The Bookshop Detectives series – all about, you guessed it, British ex-cops who move to New Zealand and open

17 June 2025

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