Sue Copsey / Olivia Hayfield
@suecopsey.bsky.social
Editor, history nerd, nature lover.
Author of modern retellings of historical tales & spooky stories for kids.
Writer for Royals Monthly.
New novel QUEEN, KING, ACE out now.
Rep’d by High Spot Literary
Author of modern retellings of historical tales & spooky stories for kids.
Writer for Royals Monthly.
New novel QUEEN, KING, ACE out now.
Rep’d by High Spot Literary
Steps up to the Poet’s Seat at Allen Bank, where Wordsworth composed an ode or two. All by myself; a cuckoo calling. Sign said ‘you might catch a glimpse of a red squirrel’. I did not. Did it matter? Only a little.
May 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Steps up to the Poet’s Seat at Allen Bank, where Wordsworth composed an ode or two. All by myself; a cuckoo calling. Sign said ‘you might catch a glimpse of a red squirrel’. I did not. Did it matter? Only a little.
Definitely time for a quokka intervention.
April 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Definitely time for a quokka intervention.
Happy book birthday to this little belter! 🎉
#2 in our series of romcom novellas, Miss Lovelock's Agency for Broken Hearts. Pure escapism, lots of fun, plus some pass-me-my-fan spice, but beware of some groan-out-loud puns. You've been warned.
@cjrauthor.bsky.social
#2 in our series of romcom novellas, Miss Lovelock's Agency for Broken Hearts. Pure escapism, lots of fun, plus some pass-me-my-fan spice, but beware of some groan-out-loud puns. You've been warned.
@cjrauthor.bsky.social
April 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Happy book birthday to this little belter! 🎉
#2 in our series of romcom novellas, Miss Lovelock's Agency for Broken Hearts. Pure escapism, lots of fun, plus some pass-me-my-fan spice, but beware of some groan-out-loud puns. You've been warned.
@cjrauthor.bsky.social
#2 in our series of romcom novellas, Miss Lovelock's Agency for Broken Hearts. Pure escapism, lots of fun, plus some pass-me-my-fan spice, but beware of some groan-out-loud puns. You've been warned.
@cjrauthor.bsky.social
That’s me sitting there looking across Lake Pukaki to Aoraki Mount Cook thinking, 30 years since we moved to NZ and I reckon that was a good thing to do 💙
March 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
That’s me sitting there looking across Lake Pukaki to Aoraki Mount Cook thinking, 30 years since we moved to NZ and I reckon that was a good thing to do 💙
Spooking NZ school kids via Zoom for #NZReadAloud this morning 👻
March 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Spooking NZ school kids via Zoom for #NZReadAloud this morning 👻
Saturday nights don't get better than this! On the purple carpet for the launch of Six the Musical last night. Don't miss!
March 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Saturday nights don't get better than this! On the purple carpet for the launch of Six the Musical last night. Don't miss!
Ghost earrings ✅
Copy of book I wrote a loooong time ago and reread last night to remind myself what happens - even spooked myself ✅
Great fun Zoom-chatting with the #NZReadAloud schools this morning. Told them all about the eruption of Mt Tarawera and the phantom waka. What a (true) story that is!
Copy of book I wrote a loooong time ago and reread last night to remind myself what happens - even spooked myself ✅
Great fun Zoom-chatting with the #NZReadAloud schools this morning. Told them all about the eruption of Mt Tarawera and the phantom waka. What a (true) story that is!
February 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Ghost earrings ✅
Copy of book I wrote a loooong time ago and reread last night to remind myself what happens - even spooked myself ✅
Great fun Zoom-chatting with the #NZReadAloud schools this morning. Told them all about the eruption of Mt Tarawera and the phantom waka. What a (true) story that is!
Copy of book I wrote a loooong time ago and reread last night to remind myself what happens - even spooked myself ✅
Great fun Zoom-chatting with the #NZReadAloud schools this morning. Told them all about the eruption of Mt Tarawera and the phantom waka. What a (true) story that is!
My foray into writing romance going well so far - message from a Booksprout reviewer in the US who gave me 5⭐️ 😃 (more ‘sexy times’ on the cards then) 😂
February 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My foray into writing romance going well so far - message from a Booksprout reviewer in the US who gave me 5⭐️ 😃 (more ‘sexy times’ on the cards then) 😂
Email to authors from CEO of Penguin RH in the US.
Well said that CEO.
Well said that CEO.
February 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Email to authors from CEO of Penguin RH in the US.
Well said that CEO.
Well said that CEO.
My gardening friends back home in the UK sometimes ask what I mean by ‘subtropical’
February 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
My gardening friends back home in the UK sometimes ask what I mean by ‘subtropical’
In Term 1 my children’s book The Ghosts of Tarawera will be read simultaneously by a group of schools as part of #NZReadAloud. And the teachers are discussing it online 😭😭❤️❤️
January 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In Term 1 my children’s book The Ghosts of Tarawera will be read simultaneously by a group of schools as part of #NZReadAloud. And the teachers are discussing it online 😭😭❤️❤️
They’re waterblasting the Auckland Harbour Bridge and there’s a little help yourself to earplugs thing. Only in New Zealand! 🥹
January 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
They’re waterblasting the Auckland Harbour Bridge and there’s a little help yourself to earplugs thing. Only in New Zealand! 🥹
Everyone in UK & US posting snowy pics so here is Ngauruhoe, NZ (aka Mt Doom) from my car window yesterday. Snow fell on this road, in the height of summer. ‘Unusual’ said the Met Service 🙃
January 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Everyone in UK & US posting snowy pics so here is Ngauruhoe, NZ (aka Mt Doom) from my car window yesterday. Snow fell on this road, in the height of summer. ‘Unusual’ said the Met Service 🙃
Help! They’re taking me back to the Manawatu!
Son and cat on their way home today.
Son and cat on their way home today.
January 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Help! They’re taking me back to the Manawatu!
Son and cat on their way home today.
Son and cat on their way home today.
Heh. Best bits of Jackie Collins and a stop-gap between Rivals seasons. Love this recent review - what author could ask for more? (OK one more star but I’m happy)
December 31, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Heh. Best bits of Jackie Collins and a stop-gap between Rivals seasons. Love this recent review - what author could ask for more? (OK one more star but I’m happy)
Our visitor for the holidays, the moment before my husband switched on the pond fountain
December 22, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Our visitor for the holidays, the moment before my husband switched on the pond fountain
“And they all lived happily ever after because, although she married a loser, publishers still paid the Duchess many pounds for putting her name on books written by peasants.”
December 20, 2024 at 11:44 PM
“And they all lived happily ever after because, although she married a loser, publishers still paid the Duchess many pounds for putting her name on books written by peasants.”
Auckland getting its Christmas on
December 3, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Auckland getting its Christmas on
I have no words left so I can’t tell you how good this feels
December 1, 2024 at 5:31 AM
I have no words left so I can’t tell you how good this feels
For the past 2 years, Daughter (Kiwi, living in Edinburgh):
MUM WHY IS IT SO COLD
Yesterday:
MUM WHY IS IT SO COLD
Yesterday:
November 25, 2024 at 1:44 AM
For the past 2 years, Daughter (Kiwi, living in Edinburgh):
MUM WHY IS IT SO COLD
Yesterday:
MUM WHY IS IT SO COLD
Yesterday:
Apparently it’s already Christmas in NZ. Seasons greetings! (Rest of world - that’s a pohutukawa, which flowers ‘at Christmas’.)
November 18, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Apparently it’s already Christmas in NZ. Seasons greetings! (Rest of world - that’s a pohutukawa, which flowers ‘at Christmas’.)
Merry Christmas, New Zealand! 😵💫
November 17, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Merry Christmas, New Zealand! 😵💫
This would’ve taken me probably half an hour on Canva. Amazon’s new AI tool took seconds. We are all going to lose our jobs and end up stupid, but wow, that’s pretty!
November 13, 2024 at 10:05 PM
This would’ve taken me probably half an hour on Canva. Amazon’s new AI tool took seconds. We are all going to lose our jobs and end up stupid, but wow, that’s pretty!