The Jaded Kiwi at the Miami Book Fair

Nick Spill will read The Jaded Kiwi at the Miami Book Fair

At the Miami Book Fair - Saturday November 19 at 2 pm - 3 pm Room 7128, Building 7 Miami-Dade College/Wolfson Campus, 300 NE Second Ave, Miami.
I will be reading from my new dark Kiwi noir novel THE JADED KIWI, answering questions and signing books. Please join me. Arrive early, the Books & Books reading was standing room only.

The Public Storyteller on WLRN

I will be telling a story about Art Deco Weekend, the early days of the Save the Art Deco District, my dear friend Ira Lieberman fighting Nazis and the meaning of "Cut more velvet!" On WLRN The Public Storyteller at 4 pm Sunday October 30th. I will post the url once its online, sometime later.

Local Author Luncheon Nick Spill @MBJCC September 21

See Nick Spill at Local Authors Luncheon September 21, Wednesday at 12 NOON.
Miami Beach JCC - 4221 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach
Register at stella@mbjcc.org  $15  -includes lunch.

Packing out Books & Books on a Monday night with The Jaded Kiwi

Books & Books reading of The Jaded Kiwi in Coral Gables

Thank you everyone for turning up and listening to the reading of The Jaded Kiwi. And for buying all the books!
Remember to support your local bookstore - in this case Books & Books - the leading independent  bookstore in South Florida - Coral Gables - Miami Airport, Miami Beach and Bal Harbor plus other locations.

Without local independent bookstores we would have not have such a diversity of books and book readings!

36 years ago - Simon Buis murder still unsolved

Simon Buis took a series of stunning photos of Louise Gibbs and I back in the 1970s in a back yard in Grey Lynn in Auckland. He was a brilliant photographer who came to a tragic end when he was murdered next to my old Rugby club in Mt Eden on the night of 04/04/1980. I was in Wellington at the time and arrived in Auckland the next day to hear of this.

Argentinian Death Squad Recipe

Argentinian Death Squad recipe

Slice avocado, dice it with sharp knife, sprinkle, no, pour in brown sugar and add as much whiskey as you can - let stand for say 10 seconds then eat. There is always the other half. Recipe given to me by grand daughter of Argentina's Chess grandmaster - she found out much later he taught the Death Squad chess so they gave his grand daughter a pass. All her University class mates disappeared. Tragic story with more twists with State Department unclassifying new documents here: http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB73/
Also had an artist friend from Argentina who foretold his own death in a mail art piece he sent me and I exhibited in NZ. Could never get any answers from their Govt at the time.
Took me over 30 years before I could try this recipe. Bitter and sweet.

Boots - 02/2011 to 03/26/2016

Boots was born February 2011 and we rescued her and her three siblings, who were adopted by locals.

We found out Boots was a girl not a boy, otherwise we would have called her Nancy as in "These boots are made for walking."

She caught and ate snakes, lizards, squirrels and large rats. She also loved the cheapest dry cat food which she could throw up in large quantities.

Boots tried her hand at being a political pundit with ambiguous results. I do not know why she was sitting on Trump's face. But she was vocal about this.

She loved boxes and was a great promoter in her own way of my new novel The Jaded Kiwi.

Boots was killed in a hit and run on 43rd St and Post Ave, Miami Beach the night of March 26th, 2016.