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Writer - plays, novels, nonfiction, blog WednesdayBusk, workshops Your Life Your Story, Breaking and Entering - writing a crime novel . Reader, gardener, cook.

Otaki, New Zealand
Joined November 2012
"A very clever present for someone, and yourself... I highly recommend it as a reading adventure" - @leafbookshop A lovely end to a tough month. Very cool for DARK DEEDS DOWN UNDER to be incl with @Connellybooks, @Beathhigh, @richardosman etc youtu.be/UNDdIX0MjzM via @YouTube
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ALL THE SINNERS BLEED by @blacklionking73 EXPECTANT by @vandasymon EVERYBODY KNOWS by @jordan_harper STRANGE SALLY DIAMOND by @lizzienugent OZARK DOGS by @elicranor
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We're giving away a double pass to @CircaTheatre's 'Wednesday to Come' by Renée @WednesdayBusk 💖💖 Click through to this link or comment here to enter #wellingtontheatre #wednesdaytocome #Renée facebook.com/readnztepoumura…
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Morena. For my latest fortnightly column for 'Murder is Everywhere', a fab website bringing together writers from many countries and continents, I've chatted a little about the authors/novels recently longlisted for the #2022Ngaios. Check it out: murderiseverywhere.blogspot.… #yeahnoir
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Final edits. Getting oh-so-close. Truly honoured to be editor for this first-of-its kind antipodean crime & thriller anthology, now series. Kia ora rawa atu to all involved, esp @LindyCameron1 and all our wonderful storytellers. I'm a lucky guy. Pre-order: clandestinepress.net/product…
We just got called Maori bastards, s..ts and the c word on Ponsonby Road. Dealt with it like Maori.
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My motel in Ashburton has this at the reception desk……. Thoughts on what I should do?
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Stop this. Stop it. It's shameful, racist, bigoted, shit. It's ignorant. It's hateful. It's vile. It's disgraceful. Stop it.
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Go Craig! 🥳
We're excited to announce that Southern Cross Crime by @craigsisterson has been shortlisted for the H R F Keating Award at the 2021 @CrimeFest Awards! Congratulations Craig & good luck! To buy, visit bit.ly/ulverscroft or ask your sales rep 💿📖 @cross_crime 👀
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CRIME BY THE COAST: 2pm, Saturday 1 May 2021 After a COVID-induced hiatus in 2020, Mystery in the Library returns (we're quietly confident; go team of 5million!) this year, including our first-ever event at Ōtaki Library. Join us for a fab afternoon of mystery and mirth #yeahnoir
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this sentence could have used a comma or full stop or something.
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GOOD BOOKS is very proudly the first New Zealand bookshop to be an accredited Living Wage Employer. The Living Wage is the hourly wage a worker needs to pay for the necessities of life and participate as an active citizen in the community. @LivingWageNZ @LWEmployerNZ
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Thank you @nikkikaye for your service to Auckland Central. Big boots.
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"An intriguing, gripping read that covers some brutal topics. Renée shines a bright light into the shadowy parts of our society, and our history, that some want to keep shrouded." @WednesdayBusk #yeahnoir #2020Ngaios @WORDChCh nzbooklovers.co.nz/post/the-…
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Paperback officially out this Thursday! Hive (support local bookshops): bit.ly/2EsYa9i W/Stones: bit.ly/2RNpty1 Blackwells: bit.ly/32PkBP8 Amz: amzn.to/3iTIfzK Copies have arrived in Australia, NZ, USA; order from your fave local bookseller.
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In such a tough year, I regularly forget that after a lifetime of loving books (& 12yrs of talking about them for magazines/festivals etc), I have my own first book out in 2020. So much upheaval; more of life is online, virtual, intangible. Seeing these pics from NZ made my day.
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It’s 10 yrs since the presentation of the inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. This year, join us as shortlisted writers read from their books before the presentation of the #2020Ngaios: @vandasymon @WednesdayBusk @WORDChCh @GudrunFrerichs wordchristchurch.co.nz/progr…
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Ka tangi te ngakau ki a koutou te iwi o Raukawa. A wordsmith, a historian, a community man and proud champion for his iwi. Ka whawhai tonu tātou mo ake ake @raukawa8
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"The main character ... [is] a theatre-stealing, boss ass wahine toa determined to solve the mystery of her friend’s death, even at risk to her own life," says @atariasharman of @WednesdayBusk's THE WILD CARD, now a #2020Ngaios finalist: pantograph-punch.com//posts/… #pantograph-punch
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Today, 2pm, Paraparaumu Library, Renée @WednesdayBusk talks about crime novels she loves and about her @ngaiomarshaward longlisted novel The Wild Card — crime on the streets of Porohiwi. All welcome. Koha entry. A Friends of the Kāpiti Libraries event. #yeahnoir