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 Cristina Sanders is an historical fiction writer from Wellington, now living in Hawke's Bay. Her second novel, Displaced, for young adult readers, is being published in April.

What's your writing routine?

Do you have a certain time of day you like to write? I’m away sailing a lot, so block out whole days to write when home. A happy day is from 6am until someone calls me to dinner. It’s writing and research punctuated with dog walks and runs, where ideas fly around and the chaff blows away. If I lose that witty snatch of dialogue on a run, it’s for the best.

And where do you write?

First draft in a bedroom over the garage with open windows on four sides and the weather blowing through. Jungley pot plants. Feels outdoorsy – like a hideaway. I edit on a laptop, each draft somewhere different: on the deck, in the kitchen, in a library. Stories read differently in a library.

Can you share a piece of good advice you've received about writing?

Get it down first, then craft it. Saves so much pain. Write the big picture and then edit it until it makes sense; plot by plot, character by character. Then play with the writing. If you write beautiful prose at the beginning it’s far harder to throw it away. And if it doesn’t add to the story, throw it away you must.

What advice do you give to writers starting out?

Avoid cliches (in sentences, in plots, in characters, in metaphors).

What kind of books do you like to read for enjoyment?

Lots. Easier to say what I avoid which is anything cliched (see above) or anything with portals. If a character escapes by slipping through a portal, all tension drains away. The laws of physics must apply. And I don't read trash, but don’t judge people who do.

Do you read physical books or digital ones? Why?

I have Kindle for travelling and read paperbacks at home. More concerned that the author gets paid than the format, so I won’t borrow digital from the library. Authors don’t get paid a lending right for digital. I don’t think readers know that.

Do you write in the margins of books? Take notes in a digital version?

I write reviews, so plaster colourful stickies on books and write fat-fingered notes on the Kindle. Never write in a margin. Hell. Get whipped for that.

What “must read” book have you not read? Go on, fess up.

Nope. Don’t feel the pressure. If I “must read” it, I’ve got Wardini Books at the bottom of my road. I’ll walk down and buy it.

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Displaced is an enthralling historical novel about Eloise and her family, who must leave Cornwall on a treacherous sea journey to start a new life in 1870s colonial New Zealand.

In 2020 Cristina Sanders won the Storylines Tessa Duder award for an unpulished YA manuscript, with a novel about an immigrant family in the 1870s. Her debut novel, Jerningham, about Jerningham Wakefield and the recklessness of colonial New Zealand, was published by The Cuba Press in June 2020 and shortlisted for the NZ Heritage Literary Awards.

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