Deb E. Howell
@deb.deberelene.com
Writer, mum, general dog's body at work & around home. 🇳🇿📚🐴🎶 https://linktr.ee/DebEHowell Leftie. Hopeless idealist. Boring AF Middle-aged Cis-Het White Woman (BUFFER). Also on: https://mastoart.social/@debehowell Not looking for random DMs.
I’m delighted when people buy my book, but infinitely happier when they read it, however they manage to get a copy. Public libraries are life!
Every writer I know, and for my sins I know a lot of them, is absolutely 100% delighted for you to get their book out from your local library.
Same vibe: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen J. Gould
This horizon isn't so distant ;) Join us for the inaugural Te Pae Tawhiti Awards at our showcase gala! An evening of connection, celebration and communication! Moderator Lee Murray (ONZM) & expert panellists Pip Adam, Jade Kake, David Hair and Gareth Ward discuss how Aotearoa's speculative (1/2)
"Riveting, tender, and terrifyingly real." --Mia Fontaine, New York Times bestselling author Grab your copy here: jennywilliamswriter.weebly.com/house-of-lia... #bookrecs #newrelease #nzwriter #bookstagram #bookclubbook #specficnz
I once wrote a story about a Kiwi morning TV show host falling for her occasional French chef guest host. I've popped it up here: fictionite.com/f/culinary-d... if anyone feels like a short (2149 words), light-hearted, romance short story. #ShortStory #ShortFiction #Romance
Culinary Delights (version 1) – Culinary Delights (version 1) – fictionite
A Kiwi Breakfast Show host has fallen in love with her guest French chef
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Congrats Tim Jones! You can see the winners here: nationalflash.org/2026-nffd-co... #congrats #flashfiction #membersuccess #specficnz #ilovereading #ilovewriting
Congratulations to all the finalists for the inaugural Te Pae Tawhiti Awards! See all the finalists here: tepaetawhitiawards.nz/2025-te-pae-... #finalists #tpt #specficnz #ilovebooks #ilovespecfic #congrats
Great news everybody! Some very deserving writers in New Zealand have been spotlighted by the Te Pae Tawhiti awards! 🪐📚💙📚🇳🇿 #TePaeTawhiti
#BHN Marama called greedy by Ryan Bridge, Luxon calls Green Lunatics and all manner of insults show you they're scared #nzpol #nzpolitics @chewienz.bsky.social @iamprettyawesome.bsky.social
Sure, seems legit … Apparently they love my *second* book in the series (which, fair, it is superior to book one, but still …) Stay wary, fellow writers.
As always, today is a good day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, maybe consider signing up for a Patreon. Buy a book, a game, a painting. Commission a new piece. Tell a creator what they mean to you. Signal boost their work.
Join NZSA and Joshua T. Calvert on Thursday 18 June to hear how to write for SpecFic Readers. authors.org.nz/event/webwor... #professionaldevelopment #writingtips #specfic #ilovespecfic #knowingyourreaders
A very sweet book about misrepresenting yourself to someone in order to fleece them, and then gradually coming to wish you really hadn't done that. 😬
Oh hey HOW TO FAKE IT IN SOCIETY is an Amazon Best Romance of the Year So Far! Which okay it's only June, still nice. It's also still on at 99p in e everywhere (I think) so snap yourself up a bargain!
#WIPSnips 10th June: Clip Editing makes it still count as a WIP, yeah? Because I haven't used clip in my baby WIP. But it turns up a few times in Magician's Touch. #WriteSky #Romantasy #FantasyBook 🇳🇿📚
The #WIPSnips word for June 10th is "clip" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Another great video from Struthless. This one about AI. Can it be used for good? Sure. How to we ensure that's the case? youtu.be/11FIIPmdpHo
The Al question no one wants to ask
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#WIPSnips for 9th June: Warmth Well, go on then. Let's go for the opening paragraph for the whole book. And, yes, I have chosen to have a Prologue *gasp*. #FantasyBooks #Romantasy #AmWriting
The #WIPSnips word for June 9th is "warmth" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#WIPSnips 8th June: Smell A nice easy one for a baby WIP with a werewolf in it, so I had a couple of options to choose from. #FantasyBooks #Romantasy #AmWriting
Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips! The word for June 8th is "smell" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Head to specfic.nz to read these recent reviews of AJ Woolf's Lone Fighter Blue and Heather McQuillan's Truth Needs No Colour. Lone Fighter Blue is also a finalist in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards! Get your hands on these books here: www.ajwoolf.com and www.cloudink.co.nz/books/truth-... #bookreviews
He reads a big book He reads a little book He reads an old book He reads a new book He reads a book that reminds him of the good times He reads a book that reminds him of the better times
I think every city should just hire a handful of artists who go around making permanent art all over the city. No committees, no long processes - just give them a wage, an annual budget, and have them go make cool shit.
Te Pae Tawhiti is proud to present the finalists of the 2025 awards! See the full list at: tepaetawhitiawards.nz/2025-te-pae-... Thank you to the committee and our judges for making these awards possible! #NZBooks
Jumping in "early" with #WIPSnips "Guide" since it's already nearly 4pm in NZ, & my evening will be full. It's easy to find "Guide" in my WIP series titled "Guardians & Guides" 😁 Zane turns up again, and Anaïs has a brief internal conversation (italics) with her protective amulet, Damita (~~).
Here are the #WIPSnips words for next week! As always, synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine, please include Alt Text on graphics with the snip text, Trigger/Content warnings if necessary, and no unsolicited editing on posts. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
Since I *happen* to have popped in, and I have a paragraph with "happen" twice, so that's a little bit fun, I guess … #WIPSnips for 6th June: Happen. Meet Zane.
The #WIPSnips word for June 6th is "happen" #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
FINALISTS ARE ANNOUNCED!!!
Te Pae Tawhiti is proud to present the finalists of the 2025 awards! See the full list at: tepaetawhitiawards.nz/2025-te-pae-... Thank you to the committee and our judges for making these awards possible! #NZBooks
Can we agree that the profit motive & centering shareholder value over all else is a failed ideology, yet? Can we pursue real values now?
For the month of June, ALL of my books are 50% off in my itch shop! or you can grab all 10 books for $10! Best time yet to grab any or all if you enjoy fantasy or horror or mystery or illustrated books! More info on each of the titles in thread below 💜 itch.io/s/187094/whi...
since it's pride month you can give money to a trans woman by buying my music! any support is much appreciated 💞
Detritivore - Pakt is now live! For it's 15th anniversary you can finally stream Pakt everywhere and buy digital copies! Leftover physical media also for sale at Bandcamp! Check out the band I did noise for back in the day! detritivore-norway.bandcamp.com/album/pakt
I Am Frankelda is a boldly handmade film. It's all texture and jitter -- even the camera gets jostled. The film celebrates the natural flaws of stop motion. They aren't simply problems that need to be fixed, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-perfec...