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Creative Kiwis, an Amazing Journey into the Future
Published by Bill Rosoman
Copyright 2011-20 Bill Rosoman
All Rights Reserved, No reproduction in any form without
the permission of the Authors, Bill Rosoman, nugrownz@yahoo.com.au
First Published 2011
ISBN 978-1-927157-05-3
Smashwords Edition
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Table of Contents
Introduction
About Creative Kiwis
How it all Started
About Bill Rosoman
About Craig Lock “the writer”
Interesting Websites
2020 Update
Bills Bio
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Craigs Bio
Bills Ebooks
Craigs Ebooks
Co-Authors, Craig Lock, Bill Rosoman 2011
Introduction
Hi, Gidaye and Kia Ora. Craig and Bill have been busy developing Books and Ebooks to
make them available to the world via the Internet. This book is the state of affairs in 2020. We hope you enjoy some of our efforts. Please feel free to browse some of our Books or Ebooks. We would acknowledge all the assistance we received from
various websites. "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
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Winston Churchill (in an address to Harvard University in 1943)
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About Creative Kiwis
www.creativekiwis.com is a joint venture between Craig and Bill. Creative Kiwis is our Empire, our Portal to the World. It provides us with a Platform to Promote mostly our Books and
Ebooks. It has been a fantastic journey of discovery and enlightenment.
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How it all Started
Craig and Bill meet at Matapuna Training Centre in Gisborne
www.matapuna.co.nz/ in the 1990s. Bill was a Trustee of Matapuna and Craig was a Student and a
frustrated writer and author. Bill and Craig got talking about Craig's life and his attempts to
get books published the old fashioned way of finding a publisher
and sending a manuscript and lots of money. Bill explained that there was a new way of publishing on the
Internet and On Demand. Craig did have a website that he and Tony had set up. At one
stage Craig offered a free writing course but was overwhelmed
with takers. Bill after a cyber war with Tony took over the site and applied
some common sense and lots of marketing to the site. Today we have a main site of www.creativekiwis.com as well as
personal sites of http://leftfieldnz.webnode.com/ and
https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com
Our empire is steadily growing especially with our charge into
ebooks. www.tinyurl.com/ckcraiglock and www.tinyurl.com/ckbillebooks
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About Bill Rosoman
Bill has been involved in Telecommunications and the Internet
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type things for all his adult life. It has been a journey of learning
and discovery. Writing and publishing ebooks and books has been a natural
extension of Bill's efforts over the few years. Bill has learnt Computers and the Internet mostly by trial and
error. Though Bill does have a Diploma in Computing. So we are on a roll and this book is www.creativekiwis.com to
provide information and to promote our efforts. Bill had an email account by the early 1980s (before the Internet)
and created his first website in 1995. Life has been full of learning since then. What a Journey!
Bill never thought he was creative, but on moving to Tokomaru
Bay above Gisborne in NZ he found that there are different ways
of being creative. Tokomaru Bay was a very creative place. 80% of the
population is Maori (Indigenous) and they have strong links to
their culture and crafts. Also in the 1960s and 70s it was
somewhat attracting alternative life stylers who had crafts or
learnt local crafts like flax weaving, rug making, pottery and
wood/bone carving, etc. Bill joined a Co-op (the Whanau Marotiri Cooperative Ltd) in the
80s who ran the local Post Office, Liquor Store, Craft Shop and
Café for several years. The Co-op then ran a Craft Shop and
Information Centre for many years. From the Co-op Bill got involved in wood turning. When computers and telecommunications came along in the 80s
Bill jumped on board.
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Computers and the Internet have now grown in Bill's life to were
he is today (2011). A few websites selling ebooks, books, courses
and CDs. Life is getting better and things are looking good!
Bill has now retired at Glen Afton in the Waikato to be near
family etc. It is great, nice community. About Craig Lock “the writer” Craig has been involved in the corporate world (life assurance)
for over twenty years in South Africa, Australia (briefly) and
New Zealand. However, through a strange set of circumstances
and finding himself in a small town near the bottom of the
world ...and with nothing else to do, he started writing. Five
published books later (well they turned out to be a vanity
publisher and he and his family lost everything, their life savings, including the kitchen sink* - that episode is a book in itself!). Now many years later, “recovering“, having written another
twenty manuscripts (on widely differing subjects - well what else
is there to do here?)... this is where Craig is in the
"journey/adventure" that is life. Craig has taught at the local Polytechnic, as well as running a
successful creative writing course (not teaching sheep!). Together
with his “technowhizz”friend, Bill Rosoman, he was the author of
(as far as we know) the first creative writing course on the
internet and this has developed to new writing and publishing
courses we have introduced on our new www.CreativeKiwis.com
website. * that’s a metaphor, btw (“by the way”)
Craig has many varied interests and passions. He is particularly
interested in the field of psychology – studying the human mind
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and what makes different people "tick-tock grandfather clock". He is fascinated by the "overlap between psychology and the
dimension of spirituality". One of his missions in life is helping people make the most of
their hidden potential and so finding their niche in life... so that
they are happy. Craig’s various books probably tell more about his rather "eventful" life best (no one could believe it!). He writes books
with serious messages and themes, then as a contrast "rather
crazy, wacky stuff"...to keep him sane here. As an ‘anonymouse’ person wrote: "All of us are born mad; some of us remain so." Well nothing else much happens in quiet provincial New Zealand, other than headlines like "Golf Ball Thrown at Policeman" and
"Beach Toilet Closed for Season.". True!
The “writer” loves to encourage and empower people to be the
best they can possibly be, and to create what they want in life. Craig has learnt plenty from the "school of life" (still "battered
and bruised") and also from a few "hard knocks on the head". He
is an extensive world traveller (on a "shoestring budget") and
failed professional emigrater who has spent most of his life's
savings on airfares. He is still sliding down the razor blade of life
on the beautiful undiscovered island that is New Zealand, somewhere near the bottom (rude!) of the world near Antarctica. There he talks to the 60 million sheep!
Don't worry about the world ending today... as it's already tomorrow in little scenic and tranquil New Zealand
Interesting Websites
http://www.smashwords.com/ To Publish Ebooks and get
Information. https://kdp.amazon.com/ To publish ebooks and books.
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Our Websites:
Smashwords: www.tinyurl.com/ckbillebooks
Smashwords www.tinyurl.com/ckcraiglock
Main Website: http://www.creativekiwis.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/leftfieldnz
Blog: http://leftfieldnz.wordpress.com
Blog https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com
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2020 Update
Well what a busy few years. We are still out there promoting and
selling our books and ebooks. We tried a relaunch of our once popular Online Creative Writing
Course, but that was not a success. Times have moved on Online
and we have to too. So we are back to basics and updating and modernising our
website and marketing. www.creativekiwis.com
We promote our site and our blogs and will see if we can increase
our sales. We will spend some time updating our books especially the How
To ones as technology moves extra fast now. So everyday is a good day and life is full of wonderful surprises. So we are still having fun and make some money to help with our
retirement.
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May all your blessings be little ones LOL. In 2020 we have branched and are developing more products;
We now have;
CreativeKiwis Books
books Ebooks
www.creativekiwis.com/ebooks
www.creativekiwis.com/books
CreativeKiwis Media
Videos Youtube VBlogs Blogs
www.creativekiwis.com/media-video
Creative Kiwis an Amazing Journey Into the Future. We have many Books and Ebooks Available for your enjoyment
and enlightenment. Bills Bio
Bill Rosoman's Dip CS Skills
Bill has;
a Diploma in Computing stream Support, Level five
30+ years computer experience
a passion for computing, telecommunications and the internet
been an author and publisher for many years
been a successful Book/Ebook Publisher on
www.tinyurl.com/ckbillebooks
been specialising in doing book layout, book covers and getting
the books and ebooks published online and selling
If Bill can help you get your Book or Ebook Online or if you
need a Website or similar contact him now
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leftfieldnz@gmail.com
Craigs Bio
Craig Lock's BA Skills
Craig has;
a BA
Spent many years in the corporate world in South Africa and
New Zealand. Financial Services. written some brochures on Money Management
been an author and publisher for many years
been a successful Book/Ebook Publisher on
Amazon http://goo.gl/8Xawh
www.tinyurl.com/ckcraiglock
many years experience with internet promotion and marketing
many years experience in proof reading books
If Craig can help get your project off the ground contact him now
craiglock@xtra.co.nz
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Creative Kiwis, an Amazing Journey into the Future. Books, Ebooks, Audio Books and much more
www.creativekiwis.com
Bill Rosoman ebooks on Smashwords
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www.tinyurl.com/ckbillebooks
Craig Lock ebooks on Smashwords
www.tinyurl.com/ckcraiglock
Creative Kiwis Videos at
www.youtube.com/leftfieldnz
Creative Kiwis Blog
http://leftfieldnz.wordpress.com/
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Bills Ebooks
Get A Life
By Bill Rosoman
The book “Get a Life (The Dummies Guide To Life)”, grew out
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of my brushes with life and my life long study of and fascination
with human nature. I also had a bout of cancer in 2006. I find it
interesting how people react to big events like finding out you
have cancer. www.tinyurl.com/ckgetalife
EPUB, How To Write and Publish an Ebook
By Bill Rosoman
An ebook, “EPUB, How To Write and Publish an Ebook”, using
free software (FOSS), Writing and publishing and ebook is quite different from a hard
copy book. This ebook gives you all the basic software and knowledge and
skills to create your own epics for the modern age. www.tinyurl.com/ckepub
How to Write a Book and Get Published
By Bill Rosoman
An ebook, “How to Write a Book and Get Published”, All That I
Know About Writing! Get Cracking and get your book written, completed and published now! We offer the complete package of
helping you write that book within you and to get it published. At
the end of the book you will have a published book, if you have a
manuscript ready to go!
www.tinyurl.com/ckwriteabook
Bill's Tome
By Bill Rosoman
An ebook, “Bill's Tome”, All That I Know about Life, the
Universe, Mortality etc! My thoughts and remarks as regard the
World and Humanity
www.tinyurl.com/ckbillstome
Creative Kiwis, an Amazing Journey into the Future. By Bill Rosoman
An ebook, “Creative Kiwis, an Amazing Journey into the Future”, this book is about the journey of two people in the world of
the Internet and Ebook and Book Publishing and Marketing. A
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massive journey and learning process. This is a free ebook. www.tinyurl.com/ckfreeebook
A'holes That I've Known
By Bill Rosoman
Adult
A look at some of the A'holes I have meet in my life. Life is not
always a bed of roses and you have to deal with some
not so nice people. Still life is great and you move through life
and it's ups and downs. Being confident, articulate and
assertive is the way to go, no door mouse for me. LOL
www.tinyurl.com/ckaholes
The Ultimate Desktop Publishing Book
By Bill Rosoman
The Ultimate Desktop Publishing Book
Desktop Publishing using Free Open Source Software. A Brilliant
Book giving
You All the Tools and Examples You Need to Create That
Masterpiece within You. Creating and publishing a magazine, ezines, books, ebooks, posters, flyers, calendar, menu, certificates, or business cards
could Never Be Easier. www.tinyurl.com/ckultimate
Don't Say Can't
By Bill Rosoman
Don't Say Can't, an ebook about the bad habit of people saying
can't, and how we should live in a “Can't Free Zone”. Do you
continue to bang your head against a brick wall and continually
meet the same obstacles of life or do you stop saying can't and
branch out in a new and positive direction in your life. www.tinyurl.com/ckdontsaycant
Way Outback
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By Bill Rosoman
Way Outback is a practical guide to going bush way out back in
the 21st century as a
matter of dropping out financially for self-sufficiency, survival
and protection, especially
if TSHTF. People do not plan to fail, they just fail to plan. www.tinyurl.com/ckwayoutback
Two Centuries of Telecommunications in My Lifetime
By Bill Rosoman
Two Centuries of Telecommunications in My Lifetime, is the
summary of all the telecommunication changes in my short 64
year life, it is amazing how far we have come
in the last 50 odd years. Keywords
Telecommunication, Phones, Smart Phones, Telex
www.tinyurl.com/ck2century
Te Ao Wiremu Bill's World
By Bill Rosoman
Te Ao Wiremu
Bill's World
Honorary Black, Thirty years
on the East Coast
Bill Rosoman Spent 29 years living and working on the East
Coast of the North Island of New Zealand above Gisborne. Creative Kiwis an Amazing Journey Into the Future. This is his yarn about his life there and the funny and not so
funny things that happened. www.tinyurl.com/ckteaowiremu
Jochen Rindt World Champion F1 Driver
By Bill Rosoman
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Jochen Rindt, was a Super F1 driver. IMHO Jochen Rindt is the best F1 Driver of all times
He Died and was awarded the F1 Trophy posthumously. Motor Racing in the 1960s and 1970s was an exciting time and
the sport was much different than it is today. Jochen Rindt for me was the pinnicle of a super sportsman and a
great person, who lived in times that were much simplier . www.tinyurl.com/ckjochen
A Guide to Basic Small Off Grid Alternative Power
By Bill Rosoman
Having alternative power and living off grid is a liberating
experience. This Guide will help you Design and Build a System that fits
your needs. The Guide is for small Off Grid Power and Energy Systems. More
www.tinyurl.com/ckoffgrid
How to Use Android Smartphones and Tablets
By Bill Rosoman
This is a multi media series of tutorials and information on
learning to use Android Devices Basics. Whether it be a
Smartphone or a Tablet or other Android device. There is the Book, Ebook and many YouTube Videos to help you
get the most out of your Android Device. As well we offer online
assistance. This is a multi media series of tutorials and information on
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learning to use Android Devices Basics. Whether it be a
Smartphone or a Tablet or other Android device. There is the Book, Ebook and many YouTube Videos to help you
get the most out of your Android Device. As well we offer online
assistance. These tutorials cover from the Basics of how to make a phone
call or send a text message to using apps like Banking. Google
maps, Screenshot, Hotspot, Stream/Cast, Google Photos etc. www.tinyurl.com/Ck1ebook
Craigs Ebooks
HANDBOOK FOR SURVIVAL IN THE NINETIES
(now retitled and updated: ‘How to Survive The New
Millennium’)
This is Craig’s first book: A collection of writings on various
subjects to help every man or woman survive in a rapidly
changing, uncertain world after the “easy living and prosperity” of the seventies and eighties. An introductory look at the concepts
of success, motivation, attitude, goal setting and stress. www.tinyurl.com/cksurvive
THE END OF THE LINE
This is Craig Lock’s first novel. A short novel set in “the beloved
country”. A passionate and heart-breaking tale of South Africa, a
true story of the bad old days, but with the hope of the new. “The
End Of The Line” could be described as a “faction”, a fiction
with a serious factual grounding. It is simple, and therefore
moving. It gives yet another highly individual portrait of that
troubled land, and it does so through a believable and sustained
narrative form.” www.tinyurl.com/ckendoftheline
HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE
Craig Lock is an extensive world traveller and failed professional
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emigrater who has spent most of his life’s savings on airfares. He
is still ‘sliding down the razor blade of life’, stuck on a deserted
(other than a few brilliant rugby players) island at the bottom of
the world near Antarctica, where he is ‘trying to throw a double
six’ to get off and go out into the real world – but he doesn’t
know where!
In the style of Bill Bryson, HERE, THERE AND
EVERYWHERE tells tales of his hilarious hair-raising
adventures in his younger years through ‘Grate’ Britain and the
Continent
www.tinyurl.com/ckherethere
THE MAD MONEY BOOK
An introductory guide to make the most of your hard-earned
money. This work covers the basics of good money management
to helping guide the more serious (and sophistocated) investor. www.tinyurl.com/ckmadmoney
HOW TO MAKE A MILLION
(even if its only Italian lire!)
We’ll see whether the principles DO work, or whether he’s
merely dreaming!
www.tinyurl.com/ckmakemillion
DROPPED OUT IN GODZONE
Craig Lock’s humorous travel book about his adventures in
provincial New Zealand. One man and his family – and their experiences “Down Under”. A new immigrant’s impressions of life in provincial New Zealand
(after coming from a large city in South Africa) ... and there were
one or two rather funny adventures, nay escapades in “Sleepy
Hollow” from time to time. The author and his wife contrast life in colourful, vibrant South
Africa with calm and kindly New Zealand – and with large
dashes of humour offer much understanding of, and sympathy
with the social attitudes of the two worlds. REVIEW:
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“DROPPED OUT IN GODZONE is an original and agreeable
piece of work. The picture it gives of New Zealand- to one who
has never been there- has a ring of complete authenticity. The
feeling of the country is relaxed, and perhaps rather unstimulating, but we get an overall impression from the writer that he views his
time there with some affection, and above all with tolerance.” This book breathes a natural humour and kindliness, which is
what gives it the individual character that is so appealing. Autobiography has a particular value as a literary form. It is a
shared kind of writing and I’ll continue to bang the drum. It is
unusual to encounter two such different manuscripts from the
same author. Both (THE END OF THE LINE is the other book)
have quality and share an easy and assured writing style that is a
pleasure to read. These short books are of first rate quality.” www.tinyurl.com/ckdroppedout
THE NEW RAINBOW
A tale of the many colourful and diverse people in the rainbow
nation of New South Africans
8. # SAhttps://tinyurl.com/ckherethere sportbook: MY
LIFELONG LOVE AFFAIR WITH SPORT
A tale of my intense passion for all sports throughout my life. www.tinyurl.com/ckrainbow
THE WINNING MIND
A look at the psychology of sport, the ‘arm-chair’ author’s great
passion. This manuscript goes into more depth, from the amateur
sports-person to the professional. How to master ones mind, the
“top two inches” www.tinyurl.com/ckwinning
STEPS TO SUCCESS, PROSPERITY AND HAPPINESS
A humorous and “mad” look at how to make the most of yourself. How to utilize your most probably unfulfilled potential to the
fullest as well as finding the “crazy” bits in you. The “secrets” by someone who thinks he has now found them –
by “throwing a double six”, at long last – after many, many years
of “sliding down the razor blade of life”. Also after having had
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many detours and come to numerous ‘cul-de-sacs’ (dead ends)
along the long and windy road that is life. Up hill and down dale, no rather up mountain and down valley – that is the story of my
life. Written for the ordinary “bloke” or woman in the street
www.tinyurl.com/cksuccess
‘QUOTE, UNQUOTE’ A collection of inspirational thoughts that inspired Craig early in
his writing “career” Uplifting thoughts on success, business, sport... and life. www.tinyurl.com/ckquote
I’LL DO IT MY WAY (An Autobiography)
Childhood in South Africa, South African Politics and Apartheid
and our new life in New Zealand
MY STORY: Just the real story of my life. As my dear mother once said, “I’ve been riding the rapids of life
in all my years”; so now its rather nice to be becalmed here in
these calm waters. Yes, here in the haven and at the same time, the harbour of “Sleepy Hollow”, we are sheltered from the storms
of life. And this is the reason why I have been able to write so
prolifically. Something that I like very much and a craft that gives
me great satisfaction. Though I don’t know why the story of my “insignificant little
life” should be so interesting as to have written a book about it. However, my dear wife, Marie said that it may be fascinating and
inspirational to others! She also said it might HELP other people
having a battle in the “game of life”. I really don’t know about all
that. I think I’m really quite an “ordinary bloke”. Anyway, whatever the “boss” says, gets done. So here is my story...
www.tinyurl.com/ckmyway
OVER THE RAINBOW
A look at the many colourful peoples, who make up this diverse
and vibrant society, as seen through the eyes of a newspaper
reporter. Many colourful “vignettes” in this “land of great
contrasts” – happy, sad and true, that was the fabric of South
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African life in the lead up to the historic Democratic Election of
1994. We live in a very complex country of great disparities and
extremes, especially in wealth and in living standards. A land of
great contradictions: a land of sunshine, a world in one country, a
land of laughter in this strange and beautiful place. Much of the
laughter from the very people, who have suffered the most and
felt the most pain in this strange tormented place of ours. Yes, there is that sadness in the eyes of them too. So to put it simply, South Africa is just one happy, sad land...and I hope that the
lives of ALL South Africans will become better in the sunny days
ahead. www.tinyurl.com/ckoverrainbow
ANGOLAN DAWN
The story of a nation’s agony and hope
A true tale of an Angolan migrant miner who goes to ‘e’Goli’, the
big city of gold in South Africa. Also a realistic portrayal of the Angolan conflict in “darkest
Africa” through the eyes of a hospital orderly. A moving and realistic novel about the evil and destructiveness of
war, as well as the inherent goodness within every human spirit. www.tinyurl.com/ckangolan
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Copies of this ebook is free from
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Smashwords: www.tinyurl.com/ckbillebooks
Website: http://www.creativekiwis.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/leftfieldnz
Blog: http://leftfieldnz.wordpress.com
Smashwords: www.tinyurl.com/ckbillebooks
An ebook, “Creative Kiwis, an Amazing Journey into the
Future”, this book is about the journey of two people in the
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world of the Internet and Ebook and Book Publishing and
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