Sideways NZ: August 30, 2022 – From Dream to Reality
For years I wrote at a desk until one day I decided a laptop, while sitting on a couch, was easier, more expedient, and less formal. For those years I wrote at a desk I had two images hung on the wall directly above my monitor. The image on the top is a...
Sideways NZ: August 11, 2022
I realize my last blog dealt with Day One of my camper van journey in NZ. I was going to go backward from July 12th and work forward, but after the events of Saturday I’ve decided to leap ahead to the end, then fill in the middle here and there. This photo...
Sideways NZ: August 2, 2022
Fat Sally's Pub & Grill. I was hoping to blog my Sideways NZ: The Road Back novel research road trip, but every day has been so filled – exhilarating, exhausting, thrilling, dismaying (at times), wondrous, magical (yes, lucky breaks) – that by the time I...
Sideways NZ: July 11, 2022
Leaving Prophet's Rock – Thank You Pacific Horizon Motorhomes. The Sideways NZ novel research road trip begins. Thanks to Pacific Horizon Motorhomes and a whole host of other great Kiwis it's finally happening. Today, I'm disembarking from...
Sideways NZ: June 26, 2022
Dreaming Sideways NZ: The Road Back I’m bivouacked here at Prophet’s Rock Winery’s guest cottage, 15 miles outside of Cromwell (in the south of the South Island of New Zealand), a beautiful drive along Lake Dunstan, then three miles up a sinuous graded dirt road to...
Sideways NZ: June 18, 2022
Aotearoa New Zealand's Central Otago wine region – on the south of the South Island – is remarkably new. Serious viticulture didn't begin until the late seventies, according to legend Alan Hardy and the inestimable Rudi Bauer of famous Quartz Reef Wines. ...
Where I’m At
The first three weeks in New Zealand has been hectic. After arriving in Auckland mid-May I made my way all the way to the bottom of the South Island to the fabled wine region of Central Otago, an argument whether it’s the southern-most wine region in the world...
Sideways NZ
Hi Sideways fans,It's been two years in the making, but I'm finally jetting off to New Zealand to research and write Sideways NZ. I just closed a book deal with Blackstone Publishing – the publisher of my current novel The Archivist –...