Easy writer

Whenever author Stacy Gregg gets stuck on a story, she’s learnt the hard way that blindly bashing away at the keyboard in the hope the answers will appear rarely works. Instead, when writer’s block strikes, she steps away from her computer, pulls on her jodhpurs and riding boots, and makes the hour-long drive west to the stables where her horse, Cam, is housed. Stacy saddles up the beautiful big Arab gelding she shares with daughter Isadora (Issie), jumps atop and takes off into the forest for a life-affirming, stress-busting gallop.

There, surrounded by nature, she is able to nut out plots, iron out her characters and solve the problems from earlier. And by the time Cam is put back in his stable and Stacy returns to her desk at home in Auckland’s Herne Bay, the 53-year-old continues with the writing that’s made her one of New Zealand’s most successful authors.

Since her first Pony Club Secrets book now in production, and demand for her epic tales showing absolutely no sign of waning. The third and fourth tales in her Spellbound Ponies series have recently hit the shelves, and her books have touched young readers so deeply that her fans have been known to weep when they meet her.