Judy Lawn has been writing for over twenty five years.

Her ideas for her stories come from her love of animals and nature, and a childhood spent in the country where she and her two brothers spent every weekend and school holidays exploring the countryside and beaches of New Zealand’s North Island.  
A keen fisher, Judy’s first published short story was a ‘fishing yarn’.
Click here to read the story.

Other short stories have been published in various magazines, including the New Zealand and Australian Woman's Day, and Takahe Magazine. Two children’s stories were produced on National Radio. Two adult novels have also been published, with ‘Progressions’ winning the 2005 EPIC Award for Best Single Title/Mainstream. A third novel, 'Watch Over Me', the second in the Rose Rountree Mystery series, is now available.

Her first children’s picture book was ‘The Shrimp Who Wanted to be Pink’, Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd 2003.
‘Sebastian’s Tail’, Penguin Group (NZ) was published in 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 first publication is a non-fiction book on Creative Writing. Next will be a children’s picture book, ‘Jossie's New Home'.