Dark Souls had some shaky characterization, but Morris's plot was creative, creepy, and rich in historical detail (all things I approve of in a ghost story), so my hopes were high. You can also visit the blog "written" by her character Jane Shore, from the novel TRENDY BUT CASUAL: everybodyneedstwoorthreefriends.After reading Paula Morris's novel Dark Souls earlier this spring, I decided to hunt down the two books in her earlier series, Ruined and Unbroken. She has taught creative writing at universities in the US and the UK, and is currently Fiction Writer-in-Residence at the University of Sheffield. and the US, including an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Paula has degrees from universities in New Zealand, the U.K.
She is the editor of THE PENGUIN BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY NEW ZEALAND SHORT STORIES (2008).īoth HIBISCUS COAST and RUINED have been optioned for film. Paula's short stories have been widely published and broadcast in both New Zealand and the US, and her short story collection, Forbidden Cities (2008), was a regional finalist in the 2009 Commonwealth Prize. In 2013 she published her first children's book, HENE AND THE BURNING HARBOUR (Puffin New Zealand). RANGATIRA won best book of fiction at the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards and the Nga Kupu Ora Maori Book Awards. Paula is also the author of award-winning novels for adults, published by Penguin Books in her native New Zealand: QUEEN OF BEAUTY (2002) HIBISCUS COAST (2005) TRENDY BUT CASUAL (2007) and RANGATIRA (2011). She is the author of three novels for young adults, all published by Scholastic: RUINED, a mystery with a supernatural twist set in New Orleans DARK SOULS, a novel set in the ancient - and haunted - city of York, England and UNBROKEN, a sequel to RUINED. For ten years, she worked in London and New York, first as a publicist and marketing executive in the record business, and later as a branding consultant and advertising copywriter. Paula Morris is a novelist and short story writer from New Zealand.
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