A cheeky rewriting of conventional mythology within a rollicking queer romance - Life can be Hell, thank god."So your life sucks. Couldn't be suckier if you tried. Falling in love with the most hated figure of all time isn't going to make it any better. So he brought you back from the dead. Just say thanks. And move on. Very quickly. Please?"The Summer of '79. A remote southern New Zealand beach. A group of school friends spend one last Xmas holidays together before the cares...

Up - the little flightless weka - likes to visit his human friends on the remote southern isle of Rakiura. However they can't figure out each other's language, so there is always an adventure to had in the misunderstanding.Book 1: Up makes his very first human acquaintance - the Rev Dyson.Book 2: Up gets caught up in some very devilish dangers.Book 3: Up restores the sparkle to Xmas.Book 4: Up has a most discombobulating interaction with music.Book 5: Up ...

On Earth, a teenager struggles to come to terms with a whole new family experience. While, on the dying desert planet URF*, a banished alien child crash-lands on a beach where a mum with memory issues has gone walk about.Fortunately, with the help of some odd new friends, a lot of peculiar imagination, and a weird bunch of bits-n-bobs-beings, they all are soon "Making It Home".This madcap txt-comic adventure is made up of an inverted kaleidoscope of cartoons, books, music, fi...

Up - the little flightless weka - likes to visit his human friends on the remote southern isle of Rakiura. However they can't figure out each other's language, so there is always an adventure to had in the misunderstanding. For children 8 to 10.In Book 4 of the series, Up has a most discombobulating interaction with music. Is it an issue of mind over matter? In the end there is sweet harmony.Book 1: Up makes his very first human acquaintance - the Rev Dyson.Book 2: Up ...

A short story, complimentary to The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea, based on actual events, set two years later.Jude and Su have got embroiled in violent civil conflict that threatens to tear New Zealand-Aotearoa apart. Of course NZ being NZ it could only be about Rugby! ('Union' please! Not that boring stop-start nonsense they love across the Ditch in Aussie.) But as the nation's pride and joy Rugby is also the symbol of the nation's mind and heart. So when right wing Prime Minister 'Pi...

Up - the little flightless weka - likes to visit his human friends on the remote southern isle of Rakiura. However they can't figure out each other's language, so there is always an adventure to had in the misunderstanding. For children 8 to 10In Book 3 of the series, Up restores the sparkle to Xmas at the Christian Allsorts Church. And nearly spoils his own!Book 1: Up makes his very first human acquaintance - the Rev Dyson.Book 2: Up gets caught up in some very magica...

Up - the little flightless weka - likes to visit his human friends on the remote southern isle of Rakiura. However they can't figure out each other's language, so there is always an adventure to had in the misunderstanding. For children aged 8 to 10In Book 5 of the series, Up tries to look after the sick and becomes an accidental fashion stylist. Up's kindness and concern just might lead to an international online career!Book 1: Up makes his very first human acquaintance - th...

Up - the little flightless weka - likes to visit his human friends on the remote southern isle of Rakiura. However they can't figure out each other's language, so there is always an adventure to had in the misunderstanding.In Book 1 of a five part series, Up makes his very first human acquaintances - the Reverend Dyson of the Christian Allsorts Church, and her husband Skipper John. But will they beome friends?Book 2: Up gets caught up in some very devilish dangers.Book...

A second short story sequel to The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea.Jamie flies north to join Jude & Su for Xmas, gets injured in a storm and takes refuge in Christchurch's Cathedral Of The Blessed Sacrament. A little girl with an angelic nature convinces him to take part in the Xmas nativity.

When a man hits rock bottom, he needs someone to remind him life comes with second chances.Luke Lafontaine lost everything— his father, their family farm, and a whole way of life. He's survived the past year by putting one foot in front of the other in dead-end jobs to survive. Cleaning up city folks' trash at the State Fair is just another two weeks of money between him and being back on the streets. But seeing Mason Bell in the parade— gorgeous, gay, out-of-his-league Mason— stir...

Can a painful goodbye become a second chance?Adric's pretty sure his hopeless crush on his roommate Royce has an end date. They'll finish their EMT training course before the holidays and take the exam. When they pass—fingers crossed— he has plans for job hunting, but even when he teases or nags, Royce refuses to discuss anything beyond that looming test date. That has to be a red flag.Adric tries to be resigned to a bromance goodbye at Christmas. But when he and Royce end ...

Rusty Dolan tries to think of himself as lucky. When his folks declared him dead to them for being gay, he'd already turned eighteen, his hockey gear was in his truck, and NHL star player Scott Edison lived a dozen miles down the road. Which meant instead of crashing his life, Rusty had a place to stay and a goal to chase. At the end of summer, his old pickup wheezed over the mountains without dying, and Scott's coaching helped Rusty earn a spot on the Eugene Gryphons team.Now, hal...