Month: March 2020

12 March – 14 March 2020

VOTE FOR THE TALE OF PRINCE!

BACK A NZ AUTHOR AND HELP TURN THIS AWARD-WINNING BOOK INTO A MOVIE!

Hello everyone,

My name is Bianca Staines and I am the author of The Tale of Prince, an award-winning book for children and young adults.

This week, starting at 6am on Thursday 12th March 2020, The Tale of Prince, will be entered into a contest called TaleFlick Discovery.

TaleFlick is a US curation company looking for the next big story success to turn into a movie or series, and the TaleFlick Discovery contest allows the public to vote on which stories they would like to see adapted to film. The winner of the competition will be pitched to producers and potentially score a movie deal!

I would like to ask your help to achieve my dream.

Please visit https://taleflick.com/pages/discovery and vote for The Tale of Prince by Bianca Staines.

To find out more about my books, reviews, awards and who I am, please go to www.biancastaines.com

The competition closes at 12pm on Saturday 14th March 2020.

Thank you for your support!

John Lazenby is a writer who has settled in Whangarei and has written for Scene magazine and Northland Inc. 

He’s known for a career in journalism and for publishing three books about cricket, including most recently Edging Towards Darkness: The Story of the Last Timeless Test, published by Bloomsbury in 2017. 

From BookDepository.com:

‘Cricket matches didn’t always top out at five days, regardless of a result or not – they used to be ‘timeless’, with play continuing until one team won, no matter how many days that took.

The last of these – which took place in Durban in 1939, in a series pitched against the backdrop of impending war – is now universally acknowledged as ‘the timeless Test’. Weighing in at a prodigious ten days – the match stretched from 3-14 March 1939, and allowed for two rest days, while one day’s play (the eighth) was lost entirely to rain – it is quite simply the longest Test ever played. A litany of records also perished in its wake and ‘whole pages of Wisden were ruthlessly made obsolete’. If that was not enough, one player, the fastidious South African batsman Ken Viljoen, felt the need to have his hair cut twice during the game. Only the matches between Australia and England at Melbourne in 1929, which lasted eight playing days, and West Indies and England at Sabina Park, Jamaica, a year later (seven days), come remotely close in terms of their duration.

In Edging Towards Darkness, John Lazenby tells the story of that Test for the first time. Set firmly in its historical and social setting, the story balances this game against the threat of encroaching world war in Europe – unfolding at terrifying speed – before bringing these two disparate strands together in an evocative and vibrant denouement.’