I write to record events, so you can step back inside them. This work is sensory, visceral and emotionally intelligent.
Together we'll return to the smallest moments — the ones that rarely vocalised. The warmth of a kitchen. The sounds that signalled the time of day. The weight of their hand finding yours when words were no longer enough.

It's often the quietest details that carry the greatest emotional truth.

My language is deliberately plain. I don't believe powerful writing needs complicated words. Instead I choose a considered and restrained tender vocabulary that lets the emotion do the work.

A memoir develops its own voice, because every life has one.

I listen to how you speak, and the writing evolves to sound just like you.

Every memoir develops its own visual identity.

Together we'll create a visual look and feel that belongs only to your memoir.

Typefaces, sizes, paper weight, chapter titles, image placement, colour palette, photographs, family documents and the overall rhythm of the finished book.

Some memoirs are dense with photographs, maps, recipes, letters & ephemera

Some memoirs feel quiet and understated.

We take our time, over 12–15 weeks we'll meet every week or ten days for an hour to an hour on behalf online.

Some conversations have their own purpose. Like the moments your life changed direction. Other weeks I'll send prompts or a theme before we meet so you have time to ponder what you might like to revisit.

Some conversations are completely free flowing; sometimes I'll gently guide you with questions that help unveil memories that have been sitting dormant for decades.

Between sessions, memories keep arriving. We capture each one as it finds its way back

Memories rarely arrive while we're looking for them. An old photograph. A recipe card. A familiar song. The pattern on a dress. Someone passing in the street who reminds you of a friend you haven't seen for forty years. Those moments matter. When they arrive, send them to me.

We'll use Messenger, text message or WhatsApp for those moments. You can send photographs, voice notes, memories, or simply a message saying, "I'd like to talk about an old friend next time."

For our scheduled conversations, I use Microsoft Teams. It's reliable, free to download, and lets me record our sessions (with your consent) — so nothing you say is ever lost to a bad connection or a faulty memory (mine, not yours). But I'll happily adjust to whatever you're already comfortable with — Messenger, Instagram, FaceTime, or an old-fashioned phone call all work just as well.

The communication method is whatever feels easiest and most comfortable for you.

Every memoir has its own project notebook. I create a memoir story board in Microsoft OneNote as the words, visuals, colour and style reveal themselves.

It's where I gather timelines, notes, memories, research, sequencing, edits, rewrites, photographs and family contributions if you'd like them included.

It is a living working document folder rather than a polished manuscript.

Once your memoir is complete, I'll give you the e notebook as part of this project — a record of how your story came together.

I write every word myself. I don't outsource interviews, editing or writing because, I want this work to remain personal, intimate and deeply considered.
Quality matters more to me than quantity.

Each year I write around eight memoirs, alongside Legacy Letters and Last Word projects. Although those pieces are shorter, they carry just as much emotional responsibility and care.

When you work with me, you're working with the same person from our first conversation to the final printed page.

In the wider community, I deliver complimentary memoir workshops throughout New Zealand & Australia in independent living, retirement villages, hospices, prisons and community groups.

They remind me how quickly memories disappear unless recorded.

I've learned how precious it is to help someone remember a few more memories while there is still time

I do it for people from all walks of life because everyone should have the chance to see their memories take shape on a page.

A pleasure to have & to hold. There are no templates. Every memoir is designed around words, photographs and the life within the pages.

Professionally printed & bound made to be opened and kept for generations to come

Your words, my writing - belongs to you.
When your memoir is complete, copyright is transferred entirely to you

Everything you share is treated with complete confidence and will never be published, circulated or used by me without your written permission.

Every word is written from my old 1940s wooden home in Aotearoa.

I wake up hungry for words. I write from dawn til dusk. Words come easy to me.
I spend my days clattering on a keyboard listening for the sound of silence to hear the right descriptors.

Sometimes I look up and notice the changing light on the water, watching the southerlies gain momentum.

II have to be in the mood to write, and Wellington - with its hills, winds and village feel gives me that mood. Are you in the mood?