About Kris
I grew up surrounded by orchards in Hastings, New Zealand, and I've been a writer all my life.
True love story
I met my husband when we were both working for Television New Zealand. Being the newest in the department I was allotted one of the two desks down the back behind the filing cabinets. At the other sat an intriguing TV news director. Romance blossomed behind our barricade. One day we took our lunch to the botanic gardens and fell asleep in the sun. We sneaked back to work hours later with horribly sunburned faces. As easily as that, the cat was out of the bag. No wonder I'm a romance-writer...
In the years since then I've worked for a number of national and international advertising agencies - writing for TV, radio, magazines, press and direct mail. Then I became the advertising manager for a chain of furnishing stores and continued to write and write.
These days, in a total change of scene, we have our own decor company. It's amazing what you hear up a ladder while you're hanging curtains, and it's intensely interesting visiting beautiful properties and talking with an enormous variety of people. Story ideas spark all around me.
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Wellington - the harbor capital of New Zealand. It's the setting for several of my books.
The Clendon Award - New Zealand's premier romance-novel contest
This has been the launching pad for many of our best-known romance novelists - sponsored for the last ten years by generous Barbara and Peter Clendon (below).
2004 - my entry highly commended
2005 - Two books. A finalist, and highly commended, plus the Jane Porter Prize for the best category manuscript
2006 - commended
2007 - a finalist again
2008 - commended
2009 - third - top three at last!
2011 - commended
Conference time!
With friends Dakota Harrison, Gracie O'Neil, Cadence Daemon and Maggie Le Page.
Romance Writers of New Zealand has fantastic annual conferences with visiting agents, editors, and best-selling authors.
2011's headliners were suspense-author Tess Gerritsen and self-publishing guru Bob Mayer. In 2012 we're featuring Randy Ingermanson, 'the Snowflake Guy'. If you're a writer, you should move heaven and earth to attend.