Welcome to the website of Judy Lawn - Writer
Judy Lawn has been writing for more than thirty 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 holiday exploring the countryside and beaches of New Zealand's North Island.
A keen fisher, Judy's first published short story was a fishing yarn, Sam's Kingie.
Click here to read the story.
Other short stories have been published in various magazines, including New Zealand Woman's Weekly, Australian/New Zealand Woman's Day and Takahe Magazine.
Two children's stories were produced on National Radio.
Judy's first novel, Progressions, won the 2005 EPIC Award Best Single Title/Mainstream.
Daisies Never Die and Watch Over Me are the first two books in the Rose Rountree mystery series - set in New Zealand.
Her first children's picture book, The Shrimp Who Wanted to be Pink, Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd, was published in 2003.
Sebastian’s Tail, Penguin Group (NZ), was published in 2008.
A long-held dream of starting her own publishing company came to fruition at the end of 2011, with the launch of Jupiter Publishing NZ Ltd. The company ran until the end of July 2015. Five books were published: two children's picture books, Jossie's New Home and Jamie's Monsters, the non-fiction book, Creative Writing, the YA novel, TimeBoy Book One: Gondwana, and a chapter book, The Giant Greglusam.
All children's picture books come with a soundtrack read by Gael Ludlow. Gael has also written a fun song about monsters for Jamie's Monsters.
You can download your free monster posters from this website.
In 2017 Judy published another children's picture book, One Haunted House, illustrated by Daniela Frongia, and a collection of her short stories entitled, The Other Side of Solitude.
Another non-fiction book about writing, Take Heart & Write was published at the beginning of 2016.
Judy's latest book, a Journal, Fashion Favorites, has just been released.
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 holiday exploring the countryside and beaches of New Zealand's North Island.
A keen fisher, Judy's first published short story was a fishing yarn, Sam's Kingie.
Click here to read the story.
Other short stories have been published in various magazines, including New Zealand Woman's Weekly, Australian/New Zealand Woman's Day and Takahe Magazine.
Two children's stories were produced on National Radio.
Judy's first novel, Progressions, won the 2005 EPIC Award Best Single Title/Mainstream.
Daisies Never Die and Watch Over Me are the first two books in the Rose Rountree mystery series - set in New Zealand.
Her first children's picture book, The Shrimp Who Wanted to be Pink, Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd, was published in 2003.
Sebastian’s Tail, Penguin Group (NZ), was published in 2008.
A long-held dream of starting her own publishing company came to fruition at the end of 2011, with the launch of Jupiter Publishing NZ Ltd. The company ran until the end of July 2015. Five books were published: two children's picture books, Jossie's New Home and Jamie's Monsters, the non-fiction book, Creative Writing, the YA novel, TimeBoy Book One: Gondwana, and a chapter book, The Giant Greglusam.
All children's picture books come with a soundtrack read by Gael Ludlow. Gael has also written a fun song about monsters for Jamie's Monsters.
You can download your free monster posters from this website.
In 2017 Judy published another children's picture book, One Haunted House, illustrated by Daniela Frongia, and a collection of her short stories entitled, The Other Side of Solitude.
Another non-fiction book about writing, Take Heart & Write was published at the beginning of 2016.
Judy's latest book, a Journal, Fashion Favorites, has just been released.
