Copywriting, content writing, proofreading and editing: mid-winter update for Whangarei

July has seen a lot of diversity in the writing jobs people have been asking me to help with in Whangarei, Northland and Auckland.  People I…

How To Write A Media Release To Share Your Northland News

Media releases are easy to handle – so long as your information is clear. Firstly, understand that readers might have little prior familiarity with what you’re…

NZME. Northland has dumped me as a columnist because one unqualified person wrote one angry letter

A Whangarei person wrote a letter to the editor of the Northern Advocate on July 14 in response to an upbeat, helpful column I published in…

Keep Your Mental Health Up Over Winter

Keep Your Mental Health Up Over Winter By Michael Botur Winter worsens our mental health for lots of reasons – there’s no daylight after work, it’s…

New short story collection: now over to the editors

Whew! I’ve just completed the latest draft of True? which will be my fifth short story collection, after the success of LowLife which was released in…