Claire Mabey is the founder of Verb Wellington, LitCrawl Wellington and Lōemis. She is also a books editor, book critic and co-curator of the writers’ programme at the Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts. She lives in Wellington with her partner and their five-year old. Claire’s favourite jobs include working for a publishing company in Belgium, shop assistant at a second-hand bookstore in Tauranga, and working on a farm in Dorset and on another farm on a monastery in Greece. Claire is currently learning the bodhran.

Claire joined Sunaina on release day of her book The Raven’s Eye Runaways to talk through what goes into writing a novel and where she got her inspiration for this parallel universe medieval tale.