Join author Sophie Rogers as she talks about how a high school research project became a historical romance novel. Sophie will discuss what she discovered about Chinese-European relationships and marriages during Otago’s goldrush era. Sophie will also talk about where she sourced her information, and the challenges of weighing historical accuracy with entertaining fiction, plus the process of turning it into a novel.

Sophie is a Central girl through and through. She completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Otago, majoring in History. She published her first book, Nightshades and Paperwhites, in 2022. She is currently working on the sequel. You may know Sophie from Alexandra paper plus, where she currently works.