Kate Goldstone Freelance Copywriter
Beautifully written, persuasive words for your website
Here’s one for Extinction Rebellion Torrington branch, my local XR group. We live in a rural, mostly agricultural area where farmers are struggling to change in the face of climate change, without the necessary government support, advice or funding. As […]
My first novel – a comedy thriller – is out in the wild with a bunch of proofreaders at the moment, so I thought I’d showcase a few random excerpts from it. Here’s some content from The Nurse Diaries: The […]
I’m thrilled to launch my brand new copywriter website, designed on a fresh but well-aged domain I’ve had for years. I’ve built it myself in WordPress, neatly proving that WordPress has to be one of the easiest, most intuitive CMS […]
You sell products. You’ve got pictures and descriptions of those products on your website. But are you making the most of product descriptions? What makes a description of a product special? If you’re not sure you’re hitting the mark, here’s […]
Sometimes it’s a pain keeping up with social media obligations. The period before Christmas 2019 was one of those times. Faced with a shortage of time and lots to do, something had to give. I decided to drop LinkedIn completely […]
…Without Injuring Spiders (Including; why you really need this knowledge, the components of ‘Jackie’s Unpatented Wonderful Web Wand’, instructions on its construction and what you can do with it.) An introduction from Kate: My good friend Jackie has invented a […]
I don’t know about you, but I do my best to avoid buying from businesses that pollute, emit CO2 like nobody’s business, or blithely carry on doing the same crappy things they’ve always done despite climate change. I thought I’d […]
This one is for the Extinction Rebellion. As an XR member, this is why our movement matters. The climate change debate – Rumbling on since the 1800s You’d be forgiven for thinking climate change is a relatively new thing, and […]
As a freelance writer I’ve created content for several best-selling US thriller authors over the years, and I’ve always fancied writing a book myself. A few years back I had a close call with a funny book about Yorkshire, then […]
Consumers are fighting back. We don’t just assume that brands do the decent thing. We’re asking questions. Awkward questions. It’s called Value Based Consumerism and it’s changing the face of commerce. Will your business fall foul of it or do […]
You put your mobile phone in the back pocket of your new trousers, but it’s too shallow so you move it to the front pocket. You bend over to scoop water out of the pond – great for watering plants […]
The internet contains, apparently, all of humankind’s wisdom as well as being rich in utter crap. It’s all there for the taking. People like me just need to search for it. As you can imagine the web has changed the […]
Like most people these days we recycle, re-use and re-purpose. We switch the lights off when we leave a room, and every light bulb in the house is an LED. We focus on local food, and we’ve reduced food waste […]
Back in the early 2000s I wrote loads of email marketing campaigns. It was bread-and-butter stuff, a cash cow, a reliable way to delight clients. My work drove really good open rates and we enjoyed some exceptional conversion rates. Life […]
It’s all go in the tech world. Facebook has launched its own crypto-currency and the original and best – Bitcoin – is back in the game again, shooting up in value. The USA is busy developing an AI-baffling military camouflage […]
Tell you what, I thought long and hard before nailing my colours to this particular flag. It’s risky. For all I know half my clients might be rabid right wing status quo monkeys, lovely as they seem. Do I want […]
Yet another bunch of emails pops into your inbox… including three different pre-created protest emails to send to your MP. It’s brilliantly easy to make your feelings known online through Change.org, 38 Degrees and a host more pressure group platforms. […]
I donate to lots of charities, and that means I get plenty of charity mailshots. The thing is, I can’t bear to open them just in case there’s a terrible story inside, so I throw them away unread. While it’s […]
When we lived in the crowded south east of England, in Brighton, the night skies were the colour of iron-rich mud, a nasty orange-brown. Now, in remote north Devon, we’re rediscovering night’s extraordinary natural variety. As it turns out, the […]
Look up. See the sky? Right now, this very second, there are around half a million humans up there, flying to and fro. At the same time experts predict aviation will soon be the biggest single source of CO2 emissions. […]
