Welcome!
I am professional writer. I have many published books under my belt and hope to have more before I finally unplug the computer.
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'Professional' means three things to me. One is excellence – everything I write must be of top quality, in clarity, accuracy and approachability, but also have flair and ‘feel’. The second is reliability – the whole business of sticking to briefs and hitting deadlines. A third is being pleasant and easy to deal with.
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I actually learnt these priorities as a gigging musician, a calling I pursued for a while (until I realized I was in the ‘good-but-not-quite-good-enough’ category, and duly bowed out)(I still play for fun.)
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Over the years I have done many radio and a few TV appearances, and written for much of the major national media.
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I worked in marketing, initially as a copywriter but developing an interest in strategy that led me to end up teaching the subject as a guest lecturer at City University.
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I also work as a ghostwriter, helping ‘thought leaders’ in business develop and express their ideas. I like to think that this has given me a broader set of perspectives than simply following my own passions would have done. It’s certainly been very enjoyable.
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My other main interests are psychology ( I studied counselling in my 40s) and history.
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My current project is a political history book on Big Ideas in British politics over the last two hundred years since the Great Reform Bill. The title, perhaps inevitably, is From Reform to Reform UK? (the question mark is important: will these people really end up running the country?)
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I have also written crime fiction (set in China) and poetry.
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