We love bookshops! This weekend you have our full permission to give your favourite bookshop haunt a hug. It’s National Bookshop Day and stores up and down the country are participating with all kinds of events. Head to the Booksellers… Continue Reading
L.J. Ritchie will be appearing in conversation with editor/YA aficionado Madeleine Collinge at Unity Books as part of their author talk series. They will discuss L.J. Ritchie’s upcoming novel Monsters of Virtue and the themes he has explored around the… Continue Reading
You are warmly invited to the launch of Monsters of Virtue by L.J.Richie. Tuesday, October 23rd at 6pm Te Auaha, Level 5 Studio, 65 Dixon Street Please let us know if you would like to attend via our Facebook event page.… Continue Reading
Hutt City Libraries is offering young Wellington writers a great opportunity to get some writing done and pick the brains of local authors, scriptwriters, publishers, poets and lyricists. The line up includes three of Escalator Press’ own authors. The sessions… Continue Reading
We’re very excited to have another Escalator Press author shortlisted in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults this year. Erin Donohue’s Because Everything Is Right but Everything Is Wrong is up for both Best First Book and… Continue Reading
We would like to invite you to download a free copy of Rudy Castañeda López’s Open Your Eyes, Jackson Ryder which at the beginning of this promotion jumped to the top of two of Amazon’s free ebook bestseller lists. It appeared… Continue Reading
For the last week of May, Erin Donohue’s debut novel Because Everything Is Right but Everything Is Wrong will be available to purchase on Amazon for $1.14. Click here to take advantage of this amazing price. Erin recently took part in… Continue Reading
Helen Margaret Waaka, author of Waitapu, is continuing to write about this small fictitious town. Her short story ‘The Apology’ which is included in a new collection from Huia Publishers, explores an event occurring in Waitapu in more depth. The collection, Stories on the Four Winds: Ngā Hau e Whā, edited by… Continue Reading
On the 7th of October we launched the first novel from our newest author, Erin Donohue. She’s had a busy couple of weeks with appearances in Wellington in the back of Te Auaha’s big yellow shipping container, and at the Nelson… Continue Reading
Escalator Press have recently been celebrating the success of their author, L. J. Ritchie. His first novel, Like Nobody’s Watching, has been shortlisted for the Copyright Licensing NZ Award for Young Adult Fiction as well as the Best First Book… Continue Reading