The South Head Vagabond

Kia ora Tatou!

Hope you can feel summer coming on, and all is well with you, your whānau and friends.

I’ve just been compiling the long-awaited final session of my online webinar series ‘Write that Book – Tell that Story’, ready to send it forth to the 100 plus people who were brave enough to take on the five-week study programme in learning how to write with flair and excellence.

The samples of writing that members submitted at the end of the course were very exciting to read – so many said the course had enabled them to make great strides in their written compositions: a few even got seriously stuck in and wrote entire short books!

Comments came back like:

“You changed my entire outlook on what my writing could achieve!”
“You finally motivated me to do something I had been putting off for twenty years!”
“Hearing from real people and real writers in the course made a massive difference.”

I’d encourage anyone who’s still feeling the urge to get serious about their writing to have a look at the webinar resource page on this site.

Finally – while the course was running – I took up a personal challenge to see if I could write a whole new book myself – using elements that have been rattling around in my head for a couple of decades.

And I did it! It’s actually one of three autobiographies I have been playing with for ages. The book I am releasing is called ‘Broadside – in a Cloud of Smoke!’ It’ll make you laugh, cry and will hopefully give you a ton of inspiration.

I’m offering an early-bird special as the books start coming off the presses and I reckon it will make a great Christmas present for anyone who loves nostalgia, great yarns and some meaty stuff to chew on.

Check out ‘Broadside’ on my books page – and have a great summer!

Ngā manaakitanga

– Rob