Joanne Cormack

I am writer at, and owner of, Lifetime Legacy. We are a Christchurch based business dedicated to capturing individual lifestories into book formats or as interviewed-video. Our goal is to honour and preserve life stories as the taonga of their respective family and for the generations of their family to come.


Genre:

  • Adult Non-Fiction
  • Autobiography / Memoir
  • Biography
  • Business Writing
  • Feature Articles
  • Freelance Writer
  • Ghost Writing
  • Mind Body Spirit
  • Web Writing

Skills:

  • Corporate Writing
  • Editing
  • Freelance Writing
  • Ghost Writing
  • Proofreading
  • Website Content

Branch:

Canterbury

Location:

Christchurch

Publications:


The Art of Recovery

Commissioned by The New Zealand Spinal Trust, this book tells the personal stories of six individuals on journeys of recovery after traumatic life events. I was privileged to be asked to craft these stories for publication and to co-ordinate the structure of the book.

Life is a Celebration

Memoir ghost-written through my business entity of Lifetime Legacy.

Creating Financial Resilience

This book is a corporate publication for the insurance industry, written on behalf of Financial Advisor Alistair Holt. It involved interviewing fourteen individuals who experienced illness or injuries that affected their personal and professinal lives. In each situation it demonstrated how life and trauma insurance played a signifcant role in more positive outcomes.

Thinking about your future

This publication was produced on behalf of Sovereign Insurance for their broker Cosgroves. I interviewed and wrote the stories of eight business professional.

Leaving the Red Zone behind

I am one of many poets who contributed poetry for this book about the Christchurch earthquakes.

Magical Moments from my Lifestory

This is a templated book style with native NZ flowers and birds as a backdrop to personal story narrative. 

Before I forget

Memoir created with and for Alisoun May Hight.