Kia Ora! I’m Charlotte Squire. I live with my family of four (plus one rowdy dog) in the small, close knit community of Golden Bay. My all women communications team live here too (apart from my transcriber who is travelling New Zealand in a motorhome with her hubby), working from home based offices in some beautiful places, to help me produce amazing books, documents, newspapers and music for people. FYI Golden Bay is in the north west of the South Island, New Zealand, nestled between two lush national parks.
Clear, honest, kind communication opens doors.
I’ve been a professional writer for 20 years and have had thousands of articles published in various media including daily, weekly and monthly publications. Every step of the way, I’ve worked alongside people to build trust and respect, so that they’ll allow me to write about them again.
My skilled team have decades of world class experience between them and we can take books from the seeds of an idea to a deeply satisfying reality. We handle everything for you: interviewing, transcribing, writing, editing, proof reading, book design and printing. And we stay in touch with you every step of the way.
We’ve published two short novels, five memoirs, and one historic non-fiction book, with another dozen more memoirs in various stages of completion for folk based around the top of the South Island. We also produce the newspaper Climate Love.
Are you ready to share your story with the world? I can support you to transform all those ideas swirling about in your mind into a beautiful book. I love to help people share their (often complex) stories in friendly, clear language so that folk of any age can enjoy them.
Get in touch if you’re ready to talk about writing your story – whether it’s your life story, a historic record, or capturing your knowledge to share it with others. We’d love to help you!
e – Charlottesquirecoms@gmail.com
p – (+64) 027 525 7455
Appreciation station:
“On behalf of Joan and I we would love to put forward a huge thanks to Charlotte Squire for helping us to make Joan’s dream come true in completing a memoir of Joan’s childhood life with her family.
Joan has become unwell in the last year and struggled to complete her story and a friend found Charlotte on Facebook. I contacted her and within a week or two we were into it. After 4-5 visits compiling papers, photos and many written memories we completed her many years of happiness on paper.
Joan was very, very happy with the final memoir delivered two weeks ago and has handed it out to her family and for extended family in the future.
We thank Charlotte so, so much and would recommend her to anyone who needs help to complete their dreams on paper.
Friends forever and grateful.”
Joan and Leanna Pollock
“My grandsons were round the other day and they saw the book and I didn’t hear a word from them for hours. They read the whole thing.” Joyce Bradley.
“ … We felt that Charlotte’s skill as a writer and her personal qualities as an employee enhanced the value of our newspaper. I know that she was also highly regarded by the people she interviewed and wrote about. After a while, Charlotte was head-hunted by Fairfax to be the Golden Bay correspondent for The Nelson Mail. We were disappointed to lose her professionalism and enthusiasm but happy to see her skills being recognised by a bigger paper …
Charlotte works to deadlines, organises her workload and always delivers on what she promises to produce. She writes with clarity and insight and she can employ different approaches for different subjects and purposes.”
Former owner of the Golden Bay Weekly Neil Wilson
“From the start Charlotte showed tremendous energy and work ethic to deliver stories from her patch. She has an infectious enthusiasm and a positive approach which helps get even difficult subjects to open up.
As a sole charge reporter she was self-motivated to find and deliver her own stories. She was particularly adept at writing feature stories, bringing to life some of the many colourful characters who live in Golden Bay.
She was also able to deliver breaking and other news stories, often working to tight deadlines which she met.
Charlotte had a good attitude to tackling any assignments she was given, and was a valuable member of the Mail team.”
Fairfax/Stuff/Nelson Mail News Director Warren Gamble
“Charlotte, I can’t thank you enough, your work has helped shape the foundation of our business! Your insight and clarity on our vision has taken our business to the next level. Our team is excited about working with you in the future to share the impactful stories that really touch the hearts of our audience. Thank you!” Simone Kidner, www.tinylifestyle.co.nz
“Charlotte has done work for me a number of times now and I have found her to be reliable, efficent and very easy to deal with. She has worked on Facebook posts, PR and magazine articles and I have been really happy with her work I will be using her again in the future and would recomend her to anyone else.” Nick Feint, founder, Stone Arrow Jewellery.
