“Sue Reidy is a confident, empathetic interviewer at any level. We required her to interview a range of people from Youth Court judges, board members, psychologists and social workers to our kaumatua, kuia, foster parents and staff. She distilled her interviews and research into clear, sharp articles that introduced our new behavioural intervention programmes for at risk youth and highlighted the expertise within our organisation to our target audience. Our staff and others delighted in their time with Sue and she achieved exactly the right tone in her articles.”
Cath Handley, CEO
Youth Horizons
“Sue Reidy provides a high standard of writing and editing for our newsletter Orbit.
She brings clarity to our technical stories and case studies to make them more accessible and useful to our clients and suppliers.”
Denis Brassard -
Export & Development Manager, Orica Mining Services NZ
“Sue is the writer and editor of our client publicationStevenson Way- and has been since 2007. She has also written and edited numerous case studies and publications for the Stevenson Group.
Sue always delivers for us – whatever the deadlines. She has high standards and leaves no stone unturned. She has taken the time to understand our business activities and the people who are an integral part of it. She is able, with the barest of facts, to write stories which are informative, interesting and right on brand. She gets to the heart of the matter with probing and intelligent questions.
I have no hesitation in recommending Sue’s services to anyone seeking a thoroughly professional editorial result – on time and on budget.”
Alison Hunter
Stakeholder Relations Manager, Stevenson Group Ltd
“Thank you for your thoroughly professional application and timely focus on our desired website revision. I am delighted with the look and content of our much enhanced and expanded site. A job well done.”
Julian Nalepa, Co-owner, The Estate, Church Bay, Waiheke Island, Auckland
“Sue is an intelligent writer who understands business concepts well and translates them into accessible, interesting, informed prose.”
Fiona Terry, Director, Kiokio NZ, Natural Bodycare
“The combination of professionalism, attention to detail and great writing skills make Sue a pleasure to work with.
I have always been able to rely on her to deliver faultless copy, on time. She also brings tact and persistence to the sometimes tricky job of gathering information from busy people.”
Jyoti Smith, EEO Trust
“Sue is an excellent copy writer for all types of written material, but I use her services for my website clients. Her work is extremely professional and well planned. Her rapport with my clients is also very professional and she is a great business partner to have.”
Jo Dalgetty, Director, Webtrix
“Sue is an excellent writer and able to take control and manage projects from beginning to end, in particular newsletters for Manukau City Council. She is thorough in her approach and enjoys the challenge of understanding a clients needs and issues and creating clear communications around those needs. She is also highly creative.”
Mary Davy,Owner, ellen&ellen
“Sue is thorough, detail focused, extremely efficient and highly professional. More than just a copywriter … Sue comes from a design background and has a good eye for layout … an invaluable asset when working together with mutual clients. I highly recommend her service.”
Adrienne Land, ABDesign
Feedback to Sue Reidy’s novel Four Ways to be a Woman
“Reidy breathes life into her characters’ angst, self-loathing and guilt with some wonderful crackling dialogue – she has a delicious gift for conversation that would lend itself equally well to writing for theatre or television.”
The NZ Listener
“Sue Reidy captures perfectly the self-flagellating internal monologue of the modern woman. These characters are in constant and amusing debate with themselves over the gap between how they ought to be and how they are.”
Evening Post, Wellington
Feedback to Sue Reidy’s novel The Visitation
“A wickedly funny, laugh-out loud first novel from Reidy about two young sisters struggling against the strictures of Catholicism . . . An offbeat, surprisingly entertaining look at Catholic girlhood, by a writer with a predator’s eye for comic detail.”
Kirkus Reviews, US
“Reidy’s joie de vivre and infectious sense of humour keep her portrait of Catholic childhood at once funny, affectionate and eminently entertaining.”
Publisher’s Weekly, US
“Rollickingly funny in parts; the novel is also a deeply serious look at the fraught journey to self-knowledge, teen sexual experimentation, and the spiritual lives of girls and women.”
Library Journal, US
“A dark, delicious comedy of sex, religion and growing up in 60s New Zealand . . . This gem of a first novel hits adolescence right on the rebellious tousled head.”
She, UK
