Nitescope, a story of conservation and self-discovery was published earlier this year and launched in May.
It’s tale for children or teens and centres on Johnathan who sees a crime the night he decides to run away from home everything changes for him. He is threatened by the Black Power that if he says anything about what he has seen his house will be torched. Frightened, but not able to tell his father, he becomes bad tempered and rude. His father decides that he should spend the Christmas holidays at Mangawhai with a relative. Jonathan who has no idea where Mangawhai is doesn’t want to go, but on arrival it isn’t so bad and he becomes friendly with Anna who is a science student studying the fairy terns which nest at Mangawhai. This is a story with a conservation thread, but it also about a boy who finds out that he really isn’t a silly ‘pom’ and that he can do quite good things.
It was wonderful to write a positive story for young people and I liked working with the conservation theme. The book can be ordered online.
