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Books may be purchased through this website, using the Contact Form HERE
Please ensure your postal address is included.
Payment:
New Zealand: payment should be made to account: K D Zelas 010797 0283318 00 using your name as reference, adding $5.00 p&p per copy.
Overseas: payments can be made to Karen Zelas using PayPal.
Please include p&p for hardcopy books:
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Resolution is a novel written by Karen Zelas, the first in a projected series featuring family lawyer Rebecca Eaton and set in New Zealand.
When Lawyer for Children, Rebecca Eaton, is invited by martinet Jacqueline Thompson to be her Junior Counsel in a murder/infanticide trial, Rebecca sees a path to achieving her ambition of becoming a partner in the law firm. How can she know this will trip a series of events that will challenge all the beliefs and plans that give her world structure, purpose and peace? Pressure mounts as a Family Court case escalates to tragedy. Rebecca is grief-stricken and feels unreasonably responsible. Her competence is questioned, media hound her ...
But deep in the lush and rugged bush country of New Zealand, her intense involvement with a Maori family causes Rebecca to risk opening doors, to risk loving and being hurt ...
Our initial venture into epublishing, Resolution is available for purchase from
Amazon Kindle Stores - 'fiction books karen zelas'.
Publication date: December 2020
ISBN: 978-0-473-55442-2
Price: $NZ5.77
Print books
broken lines / in charcoal, edited by Joanna Preston and Karen Zelas, is an anthology of poems by 37 poets, new, emerging and well-established. These poems had their origins in the Poetry Classes of Joanna Preston.
Publication date: 24 September 2020
ISBN: 978-0-473-52742-6
Pages: 148
Price: $30.00
37 poets - new, emerging, well-established.
128 poems - varied, surprising, breath-taking, heart-felt, their beginnings in the Poetry Classes of poet and tutor, Joanna Preston.
'I love broken lines / in charcoal. Editors Joanna Preston and Karen Zelas have brought together an anthology brimming with sumptuous poems by names well known and new. Reading work by Gail Ingram, Jeni Curtis, Jane Simpson, Marisa Cappetta, Lynn Tara Austin, Ian McCartney and so many more, I found myself, in turns, moved and awestruck. This collection is a fitting testament to the power of workshops to enrich authors’ lives and poetry.' – Siobhan Harvey
'This is a rich and satisfying collection, adroitly curated by Joanna Preston and Karen Zelas. The result? Wonderful poems: careful poems, daring poems, cheeky poems, quirky poems; poems of delight, poems of grief; formal voices, free-spirited voices; each voice individual and memorable.
Many writers have become prominent nationally, while others are relatively new; all are worth reading. broken lines / in charcoal is a celebration of the imagination and a fine tribute to the art of poetry.' – James Norcliffe
'What the poems in this remarkable anthology have in common is a love of the exuberance and mutability of language. What sets them apart is the diversity of voices. From the experimental tone of the beginner to the assured cadence of the seasoned writer, there is much to delight and savour.' – Morrin Rout
'broken lines / in charcoal is a book of treasures that speaks to our collective poetic inheritance.' – Johanna Emeney
Podcast interview
Listen to Morrin Rout talking with Joanna Preston and Karen Zelas about broken lines / in charcoal on Bookenz Plains FM Podcast at https://d2j8uygm5y8062.cloudfront.net/StationFolder/plainsfm/Bookenz%2029%20Sept.mp3
Includes readings by Helen Mongillo, Irena Tojcic and Ian McCartney.
Contents Under Pressure by Gail Ingram blends poetry, narrative and collage, and is complemented by collage-style illustrations by Rata Ingram. It tells the story of a mother-turned-graffiti-artist and her teenage sons, who experience mental health and drug issues as they grow up through the after-effects of the Christchurch earthquakes.
Contents Under Pressure reads as a novella in verse.
Published:2019
ISBN: 978-0-473-47034-0
Pages: 85
Illustrations: 7; b&w
Price: $25.00
Gail Ingram has pulled off something special here. - Sue Wootton
Years after the Christchurch earthquakes, the breakages continue. A young physics student is falling apart. His mother takes to the streets at night, tagging her rage and anguish onto the city's walls. Their story is raw, painful, brave and at times strangely hilarious. Language is shattered in these pages, street art conjures up the nightmares. There's energy to burn here. - Bernadette Hall
To hear Gail Ingram discussing her book with Morrin Rout on Bookenz at Plains FM, click HERE
Aspiring Light is Robynanne Milford's third book of poetry. It comprises poems of celebration and lyrical beauty that trace the early history of Wanaka and celebrate the wilderness of Central Otago.
Milford was inspired in part by the works and pursuits of artists, musicians and writers drawn to this region in the 1940s.
ISBN: 978-0-473-31412-5
Published: 2015
Price: $25.00 SOLD OUT
feathers unfettered: 25 New Zealand Birds is a collaboration between Karen Zelas and Hawkes Bay poet and artist Jan Fitzgerald.
Both the poems and illustrations are quirky, but ornithologically accurate.
ISBN: 978-0-473-28797-9
Published: 2014
b & w
Pages: 63
RRP: $20.00
NOW $15.00 2 copies for $25.00
