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A.J. Ponder

Cosy and Epic Fantasy Fantasy Adventure Author, Te Pae Tawhiti Award Convenor & USA Today Bestselling Author

Dive into adventure, mythology, and storytelling with a side helping of kiwi (New Zealand) fantasy and two adorable moggies, Maisie and Herbert.

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A.J. Ponder's Worlds of Adventure

Fantasy adventure Hi, I hope you’ve had a great week and wherever you are you have the perfect place to escape on a book adventure. Here it's the perfect weather here for cups of hot cocoa and snuggling up with a book. But part of me would like to escape to somewhere warm and spread out under a shade umbrella maybe with cocktails on the beach and a whole pile of reading. I've never done it before, but it does seem that it would be a lovely thing to do—even if I'd miss my cats. And what would...

2 days ago • 3 min read

Fantasy adventure Hi, I hope you’ve had a great week with lots of fantastic reading. I have to admit, I've really enjoyed my latest read, The Astral Library, and have moved onto Hemlock and Silver by T Kingfisher. Which has started with a poisons expert, and a scene that gave me flashbacks to "The Apothecary Diaries" a show that I watched with my eldest last time they came home for a visit. Of course, besides taking poison in their role as poison experts, the characters are very different, so...

23 days ago • 2 min read
AJ Ponder Worlds of adventure with Sylvalla looking over a burning city, sword in hand

Fantasy adventure Hi, I hope you’ve had a great week. And you've been reading some great books. Thank you for your reading suggestions. Now I'm not even sure where to start! Hemlock and Silver by T KingfisherThe Astral Library by Kate QuinnA Resistance of Witches by Morgan RyanOf Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara TrueloveThe Witches of Eileanan by Kate ForsythBooks of the Raksura Witch King and Queen Demon by Martha Wells So, I was wondering which of these books do you think I should read...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Maisie a cream, orange and grey long-haried tabby looking gorgeous, head turned from the camera. .

Fantasy adventure Hi, I hope you’ve had an amazing week. I've been busy with my job as convenor of Te Pae Tawhiti, interviewing our judges for the website, organising the convenor manual and just generally ticking off formatting jobs like Into Treachery for paperback. Now live! And Eileen Mueller's Dragon Battle paperback, which will be live soon! Not to mention the Dragon Transport and Pacification Society! Also in exciting news, I've organized the art for the new covers of the Blood of the...

3 months ago • 3 min read

Fantasy adventure Hi, I hope you’ve had an amazing week and wonderful break over Easter, however you celebrate. I'm looking forward to our family's Easter Sunday egg-cracking tradition. Knocking boiled eggs against each other to see whose egg lasts the longest without cracking. It's a strange but fun tradition my husband's family brought with them from Lithuania almost a century ago. Oh, and, yes, this is the new-look email from KIT. Finally I've managed to get it up and running. I hope you...

3 months ago • 2 min read