Judy Lawn

Judy Lawn has been writing for nearly thirty years.

A keen fisher, Judy's first published short story was a fishing yarn.

Other short stories have been published in the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, New Zealand/Australian Woman's Day, and Takahe Magazine.

Judy's first novel 'Progressions' won the 2005 EPIC Award for Best Single Title/Mainstream. Two novels in the Rose Rountree Mystery series, 'Daisies Never Die' and 'Watch Over Me' are now available.

Her children's picture books are 'The Shrimp Who Wanted to be Pink', Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd 2003 and 'Sebastian's Tail', Penguin Group (NZ) 2008.

A long-held dream of starting her own publishing company came to fruition in 2011, with the launch of 'Jupiter Publishing NZ Ltd'. The company ran until the end of July 2015. Five books were published: A non-fiction book on Creative Writing, two children's picture books, 'Jossie's New Home' and 'Jamie's Monsters' a book of Short Stories, a YA novel 'Time Boy Book One: Gondwana' and a chapter book, 'The Giant Greglusam.'