The popular Australian children's book author said he had always thought being a writer would be fun, but he never thought it was something he would actually get to do for a living.
"But a friend of mine ... was already a published author. She and I would quite often talk about writing, and one day she told me that her publisher was looking for new authors to help out with a series called Zac Power.
"I'd never heard of the series before, but I did a bit of investigating, and then had a go at writing a Zac story of my own."
After sending it to the publisher, he assumed that would be the end of it.
"But then, a couple of weeks later, the publishers got in touch and said they wanted to turn my story, Volcanic Panic, into an actual book."
Since then, Mr Morphew has written 12 books in the popular Zac Power series, and four books in the new young teens Phoenix Files series.
When he finished high school, he had a short stint as a primary school teacher before starting writing for children and young adults.
Mr Morphew was at the Dunedin City Library on Saturday to give a talk about his writing career and sign autographs as part of the Storylines Free Family Day.
