Looking forward to this year's NZ Book Festival to be held in Auckland at Mt Eden War Memorial Hall on Saturday 17th November from 10am - 4pm. It'll be the fourth festival that I've attended and each year they offer more for book lovers and readers and have giveaway bags for the first 100 attendees.
The above You Tube clip features the 2015 Book Festival highlights and it was the first that I attended on the North Shore, the Festival has since moved to Mt Eden. At the time I had only self-published 3 books with dreams to continue on my journey.
Now three years later and some 15 books later, I'm really enjoying the journey and constantly anticipating the next book to come. I'm currently now working on a book that commemorates the 1918 flu epidemic that took the lives of perhaps 25% of the Samoan population in 1918.
It might also be the reason why there may be some things i.e. stories, genealogies missing in our Samoan culture and through the generations that weren't passed down due to so many affected by the killer disease.
But this clip is a reminder about where I started and the continuing journey that I hope will be an encouragement to others to never give up on your dreams, no matter how long it takes to get there - it's worth the journey...
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