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A Hutt Valley High School teacher and part-time author says he has no plans to quit his job after a British publisher bought the rights to distribute his novel globally.
Bernard Beckett's sci-fi thriller Genesis for young adults has been picked up by publishing house Quercus in a deal worth £100,000 ($250,000).
Mr Beckett won a New Zealand Post book award last year for the book which explored a New Zealand set in 2052 that had been renamed The Republic and cut off from a disease-ridden world.
He had no plans to give up his day job and concentrate on writing, he told The Dominion Post.
"I love it (teaching), no two days are the same. And the energy you get from the students is amazing," he said.
- NZPA
