About

The writer behind Writion

Hello — I'm Gaye Miller. I'm a New Zealand author, based in Hawke's Bay, and I built Writion.

Most writers won't say this out loud, but they feel it to the core: the hard part isn't the writing. It's everything around the writing — and how quickly that everything eats the time you meant to spend writing.

I've written and published several books. Two New Zealand family-travel guides — Where Shall We Take the Kids? (New Holland Publishers NZ) and The Guide to Travelling in New Zealand with the Family (Upstart Press) — and a children's book, Gran's Magic and the Midgetagoo, which I published myself. So I've seen this business from both sides: working with publishers, and doing everything on my own.

I've also lived the other side of it — as a publisher. I founded and ran my own fully digital magazine, the first of its kind to become a member of the Magazine Publishers Association of New Zealand. I've been the one commissioning writers, managing the schedule, and sending the invoices as well as chasing them. And before Writion, I ran my own bookkeeping business — everything from day-to-day accounts through to final accounts and tax returns. So the invoicing and the deadlines in Writion aren't guesswork; they're built from years of doing exactly this work — the part of writing no one sees.

One more thing, because it matters for where your data lives: I built Writion myself. I hold a recent Bachelor of Information Sciences, and I designed and developed the platform — so when I tell you your writing and your earnings are handled carefully, I'm telling you about something I built with my own hands, for my own writing first, and only then opened up to yours.

I tell you all this not to list credentials, but because you should know exactly who's behind a tool you're thinking of trusting with your work, and your income. If a website won't tell you plainly who made it, that's a fair reason to be wary. So: it's me.

Both roads

Books I've written

Traditionally published and self-published — I've walked both roads. And every one came with the other work too: the invoices, the deadlines, the quiet admin behind the covers.

Cover of Where Shall We Take the Kids? by Gaye Miller
Where Shall We Take the Kids?
New Holland Publishers (NZ)
Cover of The Guide to Travelling in New Zealand with the Family by Gaye Miller
The Guide to Travelling in New Zealand with the Family
Upstart Press
Cover of Gran's Magic and the Midgetagoo by Gaye Miller
Gran's Magic and the Midgetagoo
Self-published
The reason

Why I built it

When I set out to write full time, I assumed the hard part would be the writing. It wasn't. It was everything else — the article ideas I didn't want to lose, the school visits, the freelance jobs, the book in progress, and the familiar 2am moment of wondering whether I'd invoiced someone three weeks ago. There were so many small pulls dragging me away from the desk that I almost stood still and did nothing at all. I didn't need more discipline. I needed order — so that I could write.

The tools built for writers were all about the writing itself — the drafting, the manuscript. Nothing helped with everything around the writing: which project was at what stage, who I owed what, when things were due, where that file lived. And that everything-around quietly ate the time I'd meant to spend writing. The chapter didn't get written because the invoice had to be chased first.

There was one more thing I wanted from the very start: a quiet way to show a publisher — or anyone who needed to know — that the work was mine. Not a badge or a checkpoint, just evidence that builds up on its own as you go, a by-product of simply doing the writing.

When I self-published Gran's Magic and the Midgetagoo, I wore every hat at once — writer, editor, project manager, and the person tracking every cost and deadline. And here's where my working lives met. Having run a bookkeeping business, I know the money side of writing is almost always an afterthought — you do the work first and reckon up the cost later, if at all. I wanted to change that for myself: to see plainly what my writing was actually costing me, and whether I was breaking even. So I built the accounts and invoicing in Writion the way I'd have set them up for a bookkeeping client — correct, GST-ready in NZD, and made for how New Zealand writers really get paid, not an afterthought bolted onto a writing app.

I couldn't find a tool that pulled all of this together, so I made one. Writion is the tool I needed. I use it every day.

In one sentence

What Writion is

Writion is built for the everything-around your writing — it's not a place where you write, it's a place to manage all the rest. It gives that side somewhere to live — books, assignments and online work tracked from first draft through to publication, with the contacts, deadlines and NZ invoicing that go with a real writing life, all in one calm place, so it stops eating into the writing. It's not built to serve everyone. It's built for writers who have more than one thing on the go, and who are serious about their craft.

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A promise about your words

You may be understandably cautious about putting your work, and your earnings, into something online. I'd feel the same. So let me be clear about how Writion treats what's yours.

Writion never reads your writing.

Its whole job is the everything-around — so it never needs the manuscript. Writion does not read, store or analyse a single word you enter. Your words are not our training data. They are not a product we sell. They stay yours, entirely. In an age when writers' work is being taken to feed systems they never agreed to, this is a line Writion holds and won't cross.

Building on that same principle is the Provenance Report — the part of Writion I care about most. It quietly records the story of how you work: the sudden burst of energy when a deadline is upon you, the novel developing slowly in the background, the rhythm of your writing days that is unmistakably yours. It builds that picture from simple timestamps alone — the shape of the work, never the words. It is built and finished, and it will be available from 1 January 2027.

And because that story builds up on its own, a by-product of simply doing the work, it is yours to share if you choose: evidence you could set before a publisher or an awards judge that the work grew in your hands, at your pace, the way you say it did. Not a verdict, and not a detector — just an honest record of your own way of working, for whenever you might need it.

I built this platform and designed it from the start so your manuscript is never something Writion reads — only the details around it. I wanted to protect my writing and my IP, and I also wanted to be able to show the provenance of my work. Privacy is something I believe in strongly. Your account is protected, and your manuscript stays with you — wherever you store it, on whatever platform you write on. You can read exactly how your information is handled in our Privacy Policy.

Get in touch

Come and say hello

Writion is a New Zealand registered company. If you have a question, an idea, or you just want to know more before you sign up, write to me directly at support@writion.co.nz. It reaches me, and I answer.

I hope Writion gives you back some of the time the everything-around had been quietly taking — the time, and the calm. The writing should be the joy. Everything around it can be Writion's job now.

Gaye Miller
Author and Founder, Writion