Gareth Ward: Book shop owner goes from commando to magician to author
26 Apr, 2021 02:45 AM
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Gareth Ward is a steampunk author who talked an audience at The Treasury through the art of building your steampunk character. Photo / Alison Smith
Gareth Ward is a steampunk author who talked an audience at The Treasury through the art of building your steampunk character. Photo / Alison Smith
Gareth has been a commando, a hypnotist and a magician.
A book shop owner from Hawke s Bay, he s now a steampunk author.
Gareth was at The Treasury in Thames on Friday delivering a workshop to about a dozen people on how to build your steampunk character.
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Oliva Hayfield is a pen name under which British editor Sue Copsey writes glamorous modern fiction loosely based on Tudor history: so far, Wife After Wife (2020) and Sister to Sister (2021). Copsey lives in Auckland and works in publishing. She is also the author of several children s books, including The Ghosts of Tarawera, which received a Notable Book Award from the Storylines Children s Literature Trust of New Zealand.