NEW BOOK OUT NOW!
The Mess of Our Lives is a Y/A novel, also targeting New Adults. Heartbreaking and raw, it addresses the sadness of a hoarding disorder and child neglect.
Welcome to the website for Mary-anne Scott, an award-winning author, columnist, musician and public speaker from Havelock North, Hawkes Bay.
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Latest Articles
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Two Havelock North writers have drawn on their own family histories to write books that are now finalists in the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.
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How I write: Mary-anne Scott likes to write in the morning when there are no distractions.
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Celebrated children’s writer Joy Watson died on October 4, aged 83. Her daughter Mary-anne Scott writes about their farewells, synchronicity, and life in a big family of books.
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Hawke's Bay author Mary-anne Scott's latest book, The Tomo, is her best yet. She has crafted her characters so well that by the end of the book I really didn't want to say goodbye to them.
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Author Mary-anne Scott has just released her latest book, The Tomo, with OneTree House ($24). This novel for young people is based on some old family lore; we asked Mary-anne to tell us more
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Mary-anne Scott is close to taking Aotearoa’s crown for best-written young men with this, her fifth book for young adults.
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About
Mary-anne Scott is a writer and musician from Havelock North, NZ. She has written six novels for young adults and children, Snakes and Ladders, Coming home to Roost, Sticking with Pigs, Spearo, Fantastic Mr Bean and The Tomo.
Mary-anne has four adult sons and six grandchildren. She is an avid reader, a guitarist and singer and writes a weekly column for Stuff News.
‘Dear Mary-anne’
Dear Mary-anne is an agony aunt column that runs on Stuff News each week and in about 30 papers around the country. Read the letters and the advice here.