Last night NZ Book Month was officially launched with a party in Auckland at the Hopetoun Alpha. The attendees were all from book related trades - publishers, editors, journalists, authors, actors and librarians. After a speech from Judith Tizard, the Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, there were a number of short dramatisations of passages from books and plays. I can't decide which was my favourite - the letters between a tween and an author from "Is she still alive?" by Tessa Duder or the hilarious interview from "Roosters I have known" by Steve Braunias.After the official part of the evening was over I had a chat with Michael Green. He's an author from the Hibiscus Coast. His new book "Blood line" has just been published and will be on library shelves very soon. During our conversation he mentioned that he was one of the bloggers on the NZ Book month site. Each invited author is responsible for 3 blog posts. The subjects of the posts have ranged from favourite words, favourite books, travel issues, publicity, publishing, formats and further. Make sure you have a bit of spare time before you start reading otherwise you'll end up like I did wondering where the time went!
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