Authors

Adam Langstroth is a writer, publisher and bee enthusiast. Born in Torquay, United Kingdom, Adam was raised with bees in his backyard. In recent years, he has seen the exponential rise in the number of people keeping bees and the corresponding disastrous collapse of the number of wild bees.

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Anthony Lapwood’s fiction has appeared in numerous outlets such as Sport, Takahē, Mayhem, Turbine | Kapohau, Radio New Zealand, The London Reader, and elsewhere, and been anthologised in Middle Distance: Long Stories of Aotearoa New Zealand and Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. He has a Master of Arts through the International Institute of Modern Letters. He is of Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Whakaue and Pākehā descent. He lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington and can be found on Twitter and Instagram @antzlapwood.

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Emily Larkin is the USA Today bestselling author of the Baleful Godmother historical romance series, a series that readers are calling "sexy, unusual and vastly entertaining," and "ridiculously wonderful." When not reading or writing, Emily can be found hiking, preferably somewhere off the beaten track. She loves to travel, and has lived in Sweden, backpacked in Europe and North America, and traveled overland in the Middle East, China, and North Africa. Her varied career includes stints as a field assistant in Antarctica and a waitress on the Isle of Skye. Emily writes historical romances as Emily Larkin and fantasy novels as Emily Gee. She has been a finalist in the Romance Writers of America RITA award, National Readers Choice, Booksellers Best, and Sir Julius Vogel awards, and has won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year and New Zealand Romance of the Year awards.

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Melissa Hori is one of the authors of When Sex Is Not Enough. A lifelong educator, she has been a tutor, a dance teacher at her own Dance School, and a Secondary School Science teacher. She is now a Pilates and barre instructor, and an award winning workplace literacy and numeracy trainer. She received her Bachelor of Science and Post Grad Diploma in Secondary Teaching from the University of Auckland. She never thought about being a writer, but when her fertility struggles began she became frustrated at not being able to find a book that was personal, authentic and that she felt connected to. She decided this was a book that needed to be written in the hopes that it could be that resource for someone else. Melissa pulled together her two friends, who were also in the fertility battle and in May 2018 the plan was made. A South Auckland born and raised woman, she is a lover of Pilates, rescue dogs, Whittaker's chocolate, most sport, being at the beach with a good book, and being with her whanau and friends. Stephanie Larnder is a born and bred South Auckland woman with a desire to help others through her own experiences. This began after completing her Business Studies where she started her career in Finance where her economic savviness allowed her to help customers achieve their financial goals before moving onto different management roles in Marketing and Sales. This has continued with fundraising activities, support groups and now with this book which she hopes will provide comfort or guidance to whoever reads it. She has a huge love for animals, and as a Taurus she loves being outdoors in nature. Discovering new places and cultures has led her curiosity all over the world with extensive travel. She lives an active lifestyle, loves coffee, upcycling DIY projects and caring for the environment. Family is incredibly important to her and who she spends most of her time with. She is a huge believer that if you can be anything in this world, then be kind and hopes to encourage others to live by the same principles. Simone Fernandes was born and grew up in South Africa, and moved to New Zealand in 2009 with her family and partner (now husband) to start a new life. With a Bachelor of Communications (majoring in Public Relations), Simone took to a career in Marketing and specialised in copy and content writing. Struggling for many years with infertility, Simone was thrilled to co-write her first book with two friends, with the vision of helping empower and inspire others experiencing similar fertility struggles. She loves animals, going to the gym (her happy place) to weight-train, spending time with loved ones, swimming in the ocean, watching Formula 1 racing, and reading a good paperback book - Nora Roberts is one of her favourite authors. When she gets the opportunity, she loves to travel and discover new places, admiring the various architecture and the history that she learns along the way.

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Rebecca Larsen writes books for adults and children. Her most notable works are a series of sing-along picture books set to the tunes of popular nursery rhymes, and based on the main characters of a pukeko, kiwi and hoiho. Her other picture books include Tane Mahuta Has a Forest and Twinkle Twinkle Matariki.

Wilma spent the first half of her life in Italy. Her school education started with Grammar School and ended with a Maths degree. She worked in the private sector then moved to teaching Maths at public schools, while moonlighting with feminist theatre. She spent a few years in Japan, following the work of her then partner, now husband. After a short interlude in Italy, where their only daughter was born, in 1996 they moved to Christchurch, New Zealand, and started a vineyard and winery business. Wilma’s activities expanded to voluntary work: radio, a TV cooking series, a festival, coaching the opera chorus, events of all kinds, and the Dante Alighieri Society, for which she started the Christchurch Language School. Besides working as the Marketing Manager for the family wine business, she taught Italian for Musicians at the Canterbury University, and Italian language and cooking at evening classes. In 2018 the couple retired to Auckland, where eventually this book was completed. Wilma received from the Italian Government a civil knighthood, the “Star of the Italian Solidarity”, for her activity as a journalist and teacher, and a gold medal from the Dante Alighieri headquarters.