My
novel RANGATIRA has had a good year: it won the fiction category of the 2012
New Zealand Post Book Awards, and the fiction category of the 2012 Nga Kupu Ora
Maori Book Awards. This week, thanks to nominations from the Auckland and
Wellington Public Libraries, it was longlisted for the 2013 International IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award. More info here: http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/nominees/rangatira/
Although
RANGATIRA is still in search of a UK publisher, it's had a flying start in
Germany, Austria and Switzerland, where it was published in September
by Walde+Graf/Aufbau. I was in Frankfurt in June and again in October (for
the Book Fair, where New Zealand was Guest of Honour), in Hamburg in July,
in Berlin and Cologne in September, and in Switzerland in October, doing lots
of press, readings and festival appearances. I wrote a series of blog posts
about it all for the Frankfurt Book Fair between July and October, and they're
collected here: http://blog.book-fair.com/author/paulamorris/
My
third YA novel, UNBROKEN, will be published by Point/Scholastic US in February
(in hard cover and as an e-book), but it's already available in a special
paperback edition in the US through Scholastic Book Fairs. UNBROKEN is a
sequel to RUINED, and is set in New Orleans and New York. http://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-Ruined-Novel-Paula-Morris/dp/0545416418
I
recently updated both my web site (www.paula-morris.com),
though I've been neglecting my blog (trendybutcasual.typepad.com),
I'm ashamed to say - once I've finished the latest round of assignment marking,
I'll be writing a new post.
Moving
news: I've accepted a new position as Fiction Writer-in-Residence at the
University of Sheffield in England, so Tom and I will be moving south in the
new year. I'm hoping this new (part-time) job will give me MUCH more time for
writing.
Photo of Paula Morris above by Mike Brooke,
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