I'm a freelance journalist and writer specialising in reporting on the latest social trends, getting the best interviews and writing thought-provoking features which cut to the heart of any subject. Other editorial services I undertake include writing books, editing, proofreading and editorial/PR consultancy. I always meet deadlines, and make sure my writing is sharp, accurate and original. I also happen to be a Lynne Trussite grammar fanatic, and quite frankly, there is little I wouldn't do to rid this world of apostrophes in the wrong places.
My writing career kicked off as soon as I could hold pen to paper. Anyone who knows academic North Oxford, with its tricyle-riding intellectual mothers and drunkards whose very laughter is educated, will understand the ivory-towered community in which I was raised as the 1978-born daughter of two Oxford dons. Education was everything. The reference points of this literary world were T.S. Eliot, Shakespeare and Chaucer - usually discussed by grownups on golden afternoons on a punt while we children showed our bottoms to the river.
After graduating with a degree in English Literature from Cambridge in 2000, I wanted to make a career as a writer somehow. In 2002, I was commissioned to write The Agony of Ecstasy , which came out in spring 2004. By that time I had done more freelance writing for national magazines and papers and was working inhouse as an editor/staff feature writer for a small healthcare publisher. I then decided to do an intensive postgrad course in magazine journalism to help me get further up the ladder in the incredibly competitive media jungle.
Armed with my trusty PGDip in magazine journalism, I landed a feature writing job at women's mag REAL. It was a fantastic job - finally I was being paid regularly to do what I love - seek out and talk with interesting people, and write about all kinds of fascinating, new and secret things. The freebies weren't bad either, of course!
After some time, I realised I could do even better freelancing, so I took the plunge and started writing for a host of papers and magazines, including the Observer/Guardian, Telegraph, Times, Mail, Red, SHE, NW, First, Essentials, Psychologies, Tatler, Woman's Own and many more.
In October 2006 I embarked part-time on an MA in Creative Writing at the University of London Royal Holloway, studying with Andrew Motion, Jo Shapcott and Susanna Jones, and I'm currently working on a non-fiction book proposal.
Please feel free to contact me if you would like to know more. I am friendly and responsive and always keen to hear ideas.