PETER EDWARD LANEY
Peter Laney was born on the 09 of November in the year of 1950 at Cromwell Hospital in Central Otago in the South Island of New Zealand. Educated in Dunedin Peter left school and entered the retail sector. After moving around New Zealand destinations he finally settled in Palmerston North in the North Island where he met Lesley and started a family.
Peter eventually took up a career as a Milk tanker driver within the dairy industry. It was while Peter was driving tankers he had the idea to write a book for his grandchildren about his career. The first attempt was much more like an instruction manual than a children’s book. So it was shelved. When his first grandchild was only two and a half Peter wrote his first picture book.
My Favourite Animal This was followed up with My Kiwi ABC. About this time Peter came up with the idea of turning his tanker driving story into a story about the tanker giving it a name and a character of its own Hence the birth of Mylo The Milk Tanker Peter has plans to turn Mylo into a series of children’s picture books. But before embarking on this series Peter wrote I Love Penguins for his second grandchild. It was not long before Peter wrote his first children’s short story book Not Just Any Old Twig soon to be followed up by Too Many Roosters his first Mylo story was not started until 2014 eight years after the first inception.
By 2014 Peter had only published My Favourite Animal all his other books were only printed on his home printer and were intended only for family and friends, but when his daughter Lisa Laney , also a writer, passed away after a long illness Peter was asked by her to continue with the publishing company, Hovding Publishing, she established in 2013 to publish her books through. At the time of her passing Lisa had written three and a half books and only one of these had been published. It became Peter’s job to complete the forth book and get these three published. He also decided to publish his own books through Hovding Publishing.
Peter eventually took up a career as a Milk tanker driver within the dairy industry. It was while Peter was driving tankers he had the idea to write a book for his grandchildren about his career. The first attempt was much more like an instruction manual than a children’s book. So it was shelved. When his first grandchild was only two and a half Peter wrote his first picture book.
My Favourite Animal This was followed up with My Kiwi ABC. About this time Peter came up with the idea of turning his tanker driving story into a story about the tanker giving it a name and a character of its own Hence the birth of Mylo The Milk Tanker Peter has plans to turn Mylo into a series of children’s picture books. But before embarking on this series Peter wrote I Love Penguins for his second grandchild. It was not long before Peter wrote his first children’s short story book Not Just Any Old Twig soon to be followed up by Too Many Roosters his first Mylo story was not started until 2014 eight years after the first inception.
By 2014 Peter had only published My Favourite Animal all his other books were only printed on his home printer and were intended only for family and friends, but when his daughter Lisa Laney , also a writer, passed away after a long illness Peter was asked by her to continue with the publishing company, Hovding Publishing, she established in 2013 to publish her books through. At the time of her passing Lisa had written three and a half books and only one of these had been published. It became Peter’s job to complete the forth book and get these three published. He also decided to publish his own books through Hovding Publishing.