Kirsten McKenzie and Sarah WilsonKirsten McKenzie and Sarah Wilson

Kirsten McKenzie works at her family's antique store in Mt Eden. She is the author of Fifteen Postcards, and her second book, The Last Letter, is due in November. She was born in Auckland in 1974. Sarah Wilson, a writer living in Nelson, was born in Auckland in 1987. She has a shameful degree in communications and studied poetry with Hinemoana Baker at the IIML. She likes cats and eating chocolate in bed.

So you want to self-publish your own book: are you crazy? Two writers discuss the pros and cons

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With many mainstream publishers downsizing and disestablishing and generally being kind of dismal places to work, fewer New Zealand books are being published. A solution: self-publishing. Two writers – Sarah Wilson of Nelson, and Auckland novelist Kirsten McKenzie, who released her novel 15 Postcards last year – discuss some of the pros and cons. Sarah … Read more