A little travel writing for ya: Northland’s cold volcanoes

Northland Rocks: a week climbing cold volcanoes Michael Botur   How many volcanoes have you climbed since Monday? Up the top of the country, you could…

Support your local: Bizspace in Kerikeri

Hotdesking rocks. Now it’s available up north. Forget all that nonsense written by people who claim to love working from home in their pyjamas. Pyjamas are…

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…

‘Whanagarei’ and how proofreading by a WHANGAREI wordsmith helps

Getting a proofreader in Whangarei/Northland will help you avoid mistakes which some people might sensationalise. Spelling mistakes can harm your brand, your communication, turn off audiences,…

How to turn an interview into a news story

by Michael Botur, writer of interviews, blogs, content writing, journalism and web pages in Whangarei and Northland. I completed this long-ish news story in April, based…

Flash Fiction Finals – Northland Goes Hard

Northlanders kicked butt in this year’s National Flash Fiction Day competition, which celebrates one of the shortest forms of creative writing. I was along for the…