![]() Along with her boyfriend Cade – who’s more interested in making a quick buck out of her dying grandmother – she returns to the Taranaki farmhouse she grew up in. It’s great to see traditional publishing promote the talent of a speculative writer like her.īutcherbird is a supernatural thriller about Jena, a down-on-her-luck 20-something in a relationship going nowhere, who is forced to come to terms with her dark family secret by the impending death of her ailing grandmother, Rose. ![]() It’s her first traditionally published novel, but by no means her first novel she’s written over ten books and novellas alongside work in various anthologies, and is a regular finalist in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards. That’s why I was so excited to read Butcherbird,by Cassie Hart (Ngāi Tahu). Many of us rely on blogs, journals and anthologies, or pursue self-publishing to get our work out into the world, especially when it comes to speculative novels. ![]() Any speculative writer in Aotearoa knows it’s incredibly hard to get published here. ![]()
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