- May 8, 1980
- May 1, 1981
- January 1, 1983
- May 8, 1985
- April 1, 1991
- July 23, 1992
- January 1, 1993
- April 1, 1996
- January 31, 1997
- May 1, 1997
- May 12, 1998
- February 1, 1999
- January 1, 2000
- January 31, 2001
- May 1, 2001
- June 1, 2001
- January 1, 2003
- August 1, 2003
- November 1, 2003
- July 1, 2004
- September 1, 2005
- December 1, 2007
- February 1, 2008
- May 1, 2011
- October 1, 2011
- May 1, 2013
- May 8, 2014
- December 15, 2014
- March 1, 2015
- January 1, 2016
- May 1, 2016
- March 1, 2017
- November 15, 2017
- February 1, 2018
- April 12, 2018
- May 17, 2018
- September 17, 2018
- April 1, 2019
- November 1, 2020
- May 8, 2021
- June 5, 2023
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Event 01
Born in Whakatane to parents also born in Whakatane. Dad is a fisherman and diarist; Mum is an expert on early childhood, as well as death and dying. My sister Tania was 9 at the time. -
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Event 03
Moved to Gisborne with Mum and gained three step-siblings; Dad visited often! -
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Event 05
Moved to New Plymouth, horseriding every day and going to Highland Intermediate -
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Event 07
Moved to Auckland and started high school at Epsom Girls Grammar; joined St Heliers Bay Pony Club and made many lifelong friends -
Event 08
Switched to Senior College of New Zealand; went to weekly drum n bass gig The Breaks -
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Event 10
Wrote a thinly disguised autobiography called Shadows Are Moving in homage to drum n bass record label Moving Shadow -
Event 11
Moved to England; went to drum n bass clubs in London; worked in Bristol and Manchester; watched a lot of football -
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Event 14.0
Gained Cambridge Certificate in Teaching English to Adults and began ESL career -
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Event 16
Finished Manchester 1999AD; Dad paid to have it printed in India and distributed for free in Auckland and Manchester. The novella sank without a trace -
Event 17
Graduated University of Auckland and moved to Japan; lived in a remote mountain village, teaching ESL; went clubbing in Tokyo -
Event 18
Started writing Afterhours and freelancing for WorldDJ.com, gaining comp entry to many clubs; began blogging about life in Japan, food, travel etc -
Event 19
While living in Japan, made separate trips to San Francisco, Chicago, and Koh Phangan on clubbing R&D trips for my novel Afterhours -
Event 20
Moved back to Auckland and started working at unruly nightclub, Ink Bar. Made many lifelong friends -
Event 21
Gained a Graduate Diploma in Journalism from Auckland University of Technology -
Event 22
Managed a boutique cocktail bar, co-hosting Tuesday Blues with bFM radio host, The Professor -
Event 23
Went to England with Dad, adding New York, Valencia, and Berlin to the trip -
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Event 26
Finished formatting Afterhours and published it on Lulu and Amazon. Re-published Manchester 1999AD -
Event 27
Finished Afterlives and published it on Lulu and Amazon; hosted my first book launch -
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Event 30
Returned to NZ and lived in a picturesque fishing village, working at the Leigh Sawmill Cafe -
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Event 33
Completed a Master’s in Creative Writing at Auckland University of Technology -
Event 34
Awarded mentorship with Hachette Australia to develop Greyscale, the thesis of my master’s -
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Event 36
Started revising Dreams of a Family Tree in preparation for a pro manuscript assessment -
Event 37
Began the second major draft of my master’s novel, Greyscale, under the guidance of Hachette Australia; using writing app Scrivener for the first time -
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Event 39
We lived in California with my mother-in-law during the pandemic. No creative writing but started part-time work copywriting and editing. -
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Event 41
Got a full-time writing/editing job and in my scant free time began revising my master’s novel, now called FRUITLESS, in hopes of finding an agent and finally getting a publishing deal!