What had you wanted to share at your session “Hot off the Press?” I was planning to read the gross bit where protagonist Ellie, trapped in Deans bush by a patupaiarehe’s spell, accidentally bites a gecko in half. We were all disappointed when The Press Christchurch Writer’s Festival was cancelled. When the event was cancelled, Jacqui Taylor of Christchurch City Libraries contacted her for an interview instead. Healey was scheduled to present at the The Press Christchurch Writers Festival 2010. Her advice to budding authors? “The only right way to write is the right way for you.” “I like writing a terrible first draft and then fixing it up, like I might fix up an antique car - if I were into cars.” Guardian of the Dead is her debut novel.Īimed at young adults, it’s a suspenseful mix of Māori legend, mythology and teenage struggles and is set mostly in an evocatively captured Christchurch, before moving north for a stunning climax in Napier. “Sometimes I wish I were a velociraptobearshark,” says Karen Healey on her website, and this along with her love of World of Warcraft, baking and cheerleader movies, makes for an interesting author with a quirky sense of humour.īorn in Whangarei in 1981, she has worked in a variety of roles, including shelf filler, tutor and as an English teacher in Japan.
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