Currently, I am acknowledging the contributors, some regular, some one-off contributors, who joined me “…on Anything, Really” this year—as a thank you for their time and energy to help make this blog an interesting place to visit.

So of course I have to mention those who undertake reviews for the blog — including this year’s “one-off” reviewers:

Karen McMillan:

Karen lives in New Zealand and is the author of both fiction and non-fiction. She has a Diploma in Professional Writing and an Advanced Diploma of Applied Arts (Writing). Her non fiction title,  Love in Aotearoa, was short-listed for the Ashton Wylie Book Award in 2005.

Previously an award-winning fashion designer, Karen has worked full-time for a leading book publisher based in New Zealand for the past twelve years. Karen has written articles for a variety of different publications and from time to time she takes on ghost-writing projects. She also volunteers for her local hospice and writes articles that promote the life-affirming work that they do.

Karen reviewed Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh

Lou Stella:

Lou is a scientist, conservation worker, and former plumber who removes gorse and pines from her rural land with chainsaw and scrubcutter, before replanting with native trees. She then lies exhausted on her couch and reads—and occasionally reviews—dystopia and historical fiction.

Lou reviewed The Twelve by Justin Cronin.

Chris Whelan:

Chris  is a long time viewer, reader and occasional writer of fantasy and science fiction. He makes a living in middle management and lives, generally, with a glass of red wine somewhere to hand.

Chris’s “one-off” project was to review the final three novels in the Wheel of Time series, which he has been reading avidly since the first one was published way back in 1990. The exigencies of life in middle management (he swears it’s not the red wine 😉 ) mean that so far he has only been able to read the first two. He reviewed them here:

The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

Towers Of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson