In 2013-14 she co-wrote a Writing for Young Readers MOOC for the Commonwealth Education Trust. For 13 years the coordinator of the Kiwi Write4Kids writers’ group, she is in demand as a visitor to schools, creative writing tutor, reviewer and short story judge. Most of her titles have appeared in New Zealand Post Book Awards shortlists and Storylines Notable Books lists. In 2016 her book Anzac Heroes won both the New Zealand Book Trust Awards for Children and Young Adults for Non-fiction and the Margaret Mahy ‘Book of the Year’ Award.