Wellington-based communications company 2Write is made up of husband and wife team Pat Martin and Pip Desmond. We’re available for writing, editing and design, web publishing, proof-reading university theses, speech writing, oral history projects, publications and workshops. We can also show you or your organisation how to set up a dynamic, affordable newsletter, blog or website, and help you maintain it.
Please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
Pip and Pat
Copies of Pip’s memoir, Song for Rosaleen, are now available from 2Write for $10 (RRP $30) plus postage. Song for Rosaleen is a celebration of Pip’s mother Rosaleen’s life and the intimate portrait of a family coping with dementia. It was published by Massey University Press and longlisted in the 2019 Ockham NZ Book Awards.
Please email Pip to place orders and for bank account details.
‘Love song, lament, protest song: Song For Rosaleen is all these and more. Highly recommended reading.’ – Sue Wootton, co-editor, Corpus
Pip’s other books are the award-winning Trust: A True Story of Women and Gangs (Random House, 2009) and The War That Never Ended: New Zealand Veterans Remember Korea (Penguin, 2013).