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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 05/10/2026

Narrowing it down to nine wasn't easy.

Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 13/07/2026

My favourite Sam Neill movie is Dean Spanley. Despite it's London, Edwardian setting, it's actually an NZ production. Wonderful film. There's a long dinner/drinking scene with the four actors, and every one of them brought their A game. It's a masterclass of acting and direction.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 10/07/2026

Watching UNDER THE MOUNTAIN on this chilly Matariki afternoon. There needs to be more Auckland-set horror movies.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 24/05/2026

The Mystery in the Library crew at Whangaparāoa Library. We had a great panel discussion yesterday (Sat 23rd May) on the craft of crime fiction. Big crowd turned out to join us.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 16/05/2026

Fantastic mystery author panel in Brokenwood (aka Warkworth) on Wednesday night (May 13th).

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 08/05/2026

I'll be in Brokenwood (aka Warkworth) next Wednesday (May 13) with a fantastic set of fellow mystery authors for a lively panel discussion on the craft of murder and mayhem. Come along and join us!

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 10/02/2026

My latest short story (a wee tale of murder and mayhem in London and Edinburgh in 1949) appears in the March/April 2026 Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 30/12/2025

Out with the old, in with the new. Good luck to us all!

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 24/12/2025

Today's entertainment. A Hammer classic.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 05/12/2025

My book is launching tomorrow! Hope to see you there!

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 31/10/2025

Halloween seems an appropriate day to announce the launch of my book. 🙂 Do come along!

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 02/10/2025

COVER REVEAL 😃 (publication is soon) 𝙒𝙚𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮! 𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩!

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 22/08/2025

My story, MURDER IN F-SHARP, appears in this issue. On sale now. "𝑀𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑃ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑀𝑟. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑏𝑦. 𝐻𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑘..."

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 01/06/2025

We had a wonderful time at Whangaparāoa Library for Saturday's Mystery at the Library event ("Crime by the Coastline"). A criminally great discussion on the craft of crime fiction writing.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 24/05/2025

If you're in Auckland next weekend, drop by the library in Whangaparaoa for a fun afternoon of mystery writers talking about the craft of mystery writing. See you there!

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 07/05/2025

Cool news no. 2 this week! Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology has received an Anthony Award nomination for Best Anthology! (My story ROOM OF ICE is in this book.)

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 01/05/2025

Cool news! Murder, Neat: A SleuthSayers Anthology received the inaugural Derringer Award for Best Anthology! My story ROOM OF ICE is in this book.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 21/04/2025

I know it's perfectly fine, but when writing in NZ English, I am so wanting to change that verb to "centimetred."

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 12/04/2025

Saturday afternoon at the Whangaparāoa library with one of New Zealand's finest writers, Graham Reid. Wonderful.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 28/03/2025

Saturday. Writing. I see it's taken two months to write 11k. WIP is currently 62k and change. Onward. The plot is thickening. #writing #amwriting #booksky #WritingCommunity #WritingLife

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 27/03/2025

Grrr. LibGen has stolen (scraped, pirated) several of my published short stories to develop their dataset. Meta (Zuckerberg) doesn't give a damn about copyright. Apparently, Meta considered paying authors, but then decided, fuck it, let's just steal it.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 20/02/2025

I would actually start watching Bond movies again if this were a thing. (Yeah, it's from The Onion.)

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 12/02/2025

He should have named it "Gulf of the Americas" to be more accurate and inclusive, but then, inclusivity isn't his thing. It's been known as the Gulf of Mexico for 400 years, and 400 years from now, it will still be the Gulf of Mexico.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 08/02/2025

"Success nourishes hope!" (My mother was from Skye; I don't live there, but it's my spiritual home.)

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 01/02/2025

I just learned that the MURDER, NEAT anthology (published last year) has been short-listed for the inaugural Derringer Award for Best Anthology. (My story ROOM OF ICE is in this book.) Nice news on a Sunday morning. 😃

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 25/01/2025

The Devils (1971) - Ken Russell. Based on the book The Devils of Loundun by Aldous Huxley. I've seen it only once (in a cinema in the early 1980s). Unforgettable. One of those films that burns itself into your memory.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 23/01/2025

Sometimes a pipe is not a pipe. But a Nazi salute will always be a Nazi salute.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 18/01/2025

BLOOD SIMPLE. I saw this movie late night in a theater 40 years ago (yeah, it's now 40-years old). I had no idea what it was about. I went on a whim. It's still one of my favorite movies.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 18/01/2025

What lies beneath (my desk). A solid foundation of literature.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 16/01/2025

RIP David Lynch. The architect of many of my inspirations.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 16/01/2025

I would love a boost, Brittney! A follow for a follow. Every time. Bring it on! 😀 No meme, but here's my favorite picture of a cat.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 10/01/2025

51k completed. Starting today on the final 30k (ish) to take me to the end of the book. I like seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. Writing a book is like dragging a pyramid across town in heavy traffic. #writing #amwriting #booksky #WritingCommunity #WritingLife

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 10/01/2025

Friday night. Music night. Working on an arrangement of a song I wrote 37 years ago. #musicsky #musician #rockmusic #music #songarranging

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 31/12/2024

Well, that's 2024 on the bus and heading out of town.

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 24/12/2024

I'm embarking on an awfully curious reading adventure: GET EDALJI. And this is a delight of a book to hold (see the photos). All books should come with such lavish presentation (supplements, hard-bound encasement).

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 22/12/2024

Alan Rickman says, "It's a Christmas movie!"

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Ꚃᴛᴇᴘʜᴇɴ ʀᴏss @stephenross.net · 21/12/2024

We had a Cinerama here in Auckland when I was a kid. The only one in the country (NZ). Opened in 59 and closed in 84. Curved screen the size of an apartment building. Greatness.

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