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David Collins retired as a Judge of the Court of Appeal in 2024, having previously served as a High Court Judge for seven years and as Solicitor-General for six years. His first book, Medical Law in New Zealand, was published by Brooker & Friend in 1992.

Benedict Collins is a political journalist working for 1News in the press gallery in Wellington. From day dot as a reporter, he's had a strong interest in covering anything to do with illicit drugs and enforcement. He's covered punitive drug-testing sanctions applied to beneficiaries, attempts to legalise pill-testing at festivals, the 2020 cannabis referendum, and in 2018 helped expose a meth-testing scandal which revealed government, landlords and homeowners wasting hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Fifi Colston has a richly varied career as a writer, illustrator, poet, Wearable Art designer, film costumer, television presenter and occasional columnist. She has illustrated numerous books for trade and education and for many years she has presented arts and crafts programming, first on the children's television show What Now, and later on TVNZ's Good Morning show. Her second novel Janie Olive: a recipe for disaster! was a CLFNZ Junior Fiction Notable Book for 2006, as was her third, Glory, which was also an Esther Glen Award finalist in the 2010 LIANZA Book Awards. Colston's latest two costuming books for children, Wearable Wonders and Ghoulish Getups, were finalists in the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, with Wearable Wonders winning the 2014 Elsie Locke Medal for Non-Fiction. Colston previously served as a New Zealand Post Book Awards judge, convener of the Wellington Children's Book Association, and Wellington committee member for the Storylines Festival.

Calanthe is a fantasy/sci fi romance author from Aotearoa New Zealand. She writes romantic books that balance exciting adventure or tense situations with the quieter moments of life. Her stories usually have magic, almost always have cooking or gardening, and definitely always have sweet romances that, no matter the heat level, are comforting, like a snuggly blanket and a mug of hot chocolate on a rainy day. The world has been a bit rough on all of us lately. We all deserve a comforting read every now and then.