I am enthusiastic about memoirs and local history projects and have specialist training and experience in music and farming, so I bring a broad skill set to support novelists, businesses/clubs by ensuring relevant printed material is high quality. This includes proofreading and editing novels, brochures, newsletters, advertisements, books, and magazines.

My career qualifications include a Diploma of Editing from the NZ Institute of Business Studies, a Bachelor of Music from Victoria University and a Graduate Diploma in Rural Studies from Massey University. I was Head of Music at Taradale High School before co-owning, and managing, a dairy farm and a beef block near Whanganui for over thirty years.

My writing experience includes Making Waves, a biography of Captain Jock McGregor, Whanganui's first permanent immigrant settler, which was published by Steele Roberts in 2004, and they published my second book, The Bennier Story, Wanganui 1917, in 2008, followed by a second edition of Making Waves in 2010. I wrote Nicola Sciascia 1840-1898 as an e-book, commissioned by Professor Piri Sciascia, in 2008, and in 2016 I self-published TOWNHALL, researching the relevant minute books held by the Whanganui District Council Archives to explain the evolution of Castlecliff and Gonville townships and the Borough of Eastbrook, and how the three amalgamated with Wanganui Borough in 1924.