After just over six months of active operation, LeafSalon is running at over 12,000 page views a month - and climbing. As well as avid New Zealand book fans, we’re getting visitors from as far afield as Finland, Mexico and the Seychelles. And our readership is increasing by a very healthy 20 per cent a month.

Last November, Peter Wells wrote in the Herald:

… for most New Zealanders, the New Zealand novel is still an uninspected motel, somewhat guiltily driven past on the way to more glittering diversions.

It looks like there are more people interested in our uninspected motels than we thought. So we’ll keep plugging New Zealand writers and publishers, and playing a small but hopefully effective part in promoting local literature.

So thanks for stopping by. And do keep those emails coming: we’re always open to suggestions.