Geoff Taylor and Richard Walker bring the experience of a combined fifty-plus years working in media to offer a bespoke writing service. Whatever your story, they will find the best way to tell it.
They have worked on numerous books, including co-authoring the official Fieldays fiftieth anniversary book, Mystery Creek Magic, and the story of the first forty years of Hospice Waikato, Living Every Moment.
Geoff Taylor
Geoff Taylor is a former deputy editor of the Waikato Times and former editor of Waikato Business News. He is a Hamilton City Councillor. Geoff’s books include Mystery Creek Magic, Living Every Moment and The Truth Behind the Loss of Flight 370, an account of the extraordinary disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines airliner, presenting compelling evidence about what happened in the final hours of Flight 370. Geoff also edited Give a Man a Spanner, a biography of Waikato personality Russ Rimmington.
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We’ve all read books that we can’t put down. And we’ve also read the other type. If you’ve got a great story, then you want people to read it. That’s my speciality. Over years of journalism I’ve honed the art of keeping people reading.
There’s nothing I love more than interviewing people for a book. Slowly, bit by bit the wonderful anecdotes come out and it’s an incredibly rewarding feeling and a privilege to be capturing them. It is these gems scattered throughout a story, interwoven with complete accuracy, that make a book really sing.
My craft is making someone’s story a thought provoking, enjoyable and above all, memorable journey for the reader. Every person, every organisation, every business has done something special and something original. They deserve to have their story told well.
Richard Walker
Richard Walker is a feature writer at the Waikato Times, and is a former editor of Waikato Business News and former journalism lecturer at Wintec. He has an extensive background in book writing and editing, including co-authoring Mystery Creek Magic and Living Every Moment with Geoff Taylor. He was commissioning editor for The Village on the Hill, a celebration of 125 years of Waikato Hospital, and edited a 72-page commemorative supplement for Waikato Times marking Hamilton’s 150th anniversary in 2014. He wrote and edited Linking the City, a book marking the building of Hamilton’s Ring Road.
I love the process of putting a book together, from interviewing and writing through to editing and design.
My background in journalism is mainly in longer-form writing, and books provide the perfect opportunity to develop that on a larger scale.
I also love books as objects, the ease with which they can be picked up and leafed through – it’s old technology that is yet to be bettered in our internet age. I’m an avid reader myself, and happily read news online, but when it comes to books I’ll go for the print version every time. Mostly, I just love a good story and relish every opportunity to tell one.