Renee Hapimarika van de Weert is the author of New Zealand Post 2002 Short-listed children’s books ‘The Last Whale’ published in English and as ‘Te Tohora Whakamutanga’ in Te Reo Maori. A jack of many trades, including hill country farmer, agricultural journalist and columnist, creative writing and adult literacy tutor, parliamentary electorate agent and political junky, she has retired to the beach to write full time and is fully immersed in her Speculative Fiction series ‘Reveille’. ‘Reveille – Book I – Resistance’ 2019, ‘Book II – Revenge’ 2020 and ‘Book III – Redemption’ late 2021. She is now researching Book IV – working title Resolution for publication late 2022.