Barbara Dreaver

I think people do need to be brave.

And it's easier said than done.

It's actually one of the hardest things to do is to find it deep down inside yourself.

I'd been a bit burnt because I'd gone to see a publisher.

He'd said to me, oh, there's no interest in Pacific stories and, you know, and just don't think this would sell.

Why don't you just write a feature story and sell it to North and South or something?

This is probably the happiest time of my life.

I don't think I've ever felt this content.

It feels like coming home, I'm not going to lie.

It's nice.

It's really good.

The minute I saw you, it's like, oh, Petra.

I'm pleased to hear that.

It's important to me that people get something from it and walk away with something.

And I don't know what it will be.

It's different for everybody.

It was fun because, well to start with it was, and when you come to deadlines it's not so much fun as we all know.

It was when...

Mary Varnum from Our Press and she'd rang me and said, oh, you know, you're thinking of writing a book because a mutual friend had put her in contact with me.

And I'd been a bit burnt because I'd gone to see a publisher before that and he'd said to me, oh, there's no interest in Pacific stories and, you know, and just don't think this would sell.