Promoting public awareness of the value of books and reading for young people and encouraging an appreciation of New Zealand children’s literature. On the Portal Page you will find links to dozens of helpful websites covering topics such as:

• Advice about publishing
• Advice about writing
• Competitions
• General book releases
• Literary organisations
• New Zealand authors
• New Zealand book awards
• New Zealand writing news
• Upcoming literary events around New Zealand
• Writing courses in New Zealand.

If you have any suggestions for a website that could be of interest to Bookrapt members, please contact Bookrapt and let us know about it.

Details about this year's seminar are now on-line.

Feeling dejected after being rejected?

Then this list might inspire you to keep on trying .....

Robert Persig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 121 rejections.
John Grisham, A Time to Kill, 45 rejections.
Margaret Mitchell, Gone With The Wind, 38 rejections.
Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken Soup for the Soul, 33 rejections.
Stephen King, Carrie, 30 rejections.
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, 26 rejections.
Richard Adams, Watership Down, 26 rejections.
James Joyce, Dubliners, 22 rejections.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 22 rejections.
Richard Hooker, M*A*S*H, 21 rejections.
Frank Herbert, Dune, 20 rejections.
Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki, 20 rejections.
Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone, 18 rejections.
Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, 18 rejections.
Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries, 17 rejections.
Anne Frank, The Diary Of Anne Frank, 16 rejections.
Patrick Dennis, Aunty Mame, 15 rejections.
Pearl S. Buck,, The Good Earth, 14 rejections.
Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, 12 rejections.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter, 9 rejections.
Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl , 5 rejections.

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