I am a freelance writer, trainer and copy-editor, based in Oxford, and can help you with the following services:
• COPYWRITING - copywriter for blogs and brochures, web and SEO text, manuals and much more …
• TRAINING in writing skills, journalism, and media topics for groups and individuals across the UK
• BOOKS – Help with writing, copy-editing and self-publishing. Guidance, direction and assistance to get your book into print
• JOURNALIST - Feature writer, specialising in local government, rural and social issues for the national press.
Clients describe my writing as: ‘a relaxed and flowing style’, and ‘quirky, well researched and thoroughly interesting.’
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Business book authors
Recession, what recession? More and more people are self-publishing books, not just on familiar topics like fiction, family history and children’s books, but also business books.
“Business books work very well for consultants and others – they can raise their profile and enhance their brand,” says Richard Burton, co-director of the publishers Infinite Ideas Ltd. Despite the recession, he says the market for business books is “more buoyant than it has been for some time.”
The Self-publishing magazine – October 2007
Grow your business – GUARANTEED!
WRITING A BOOK is a great way to grow your business.
To some this may sound a whaky idea, to others it’s a ‘MUST DO’. For those in doubt, have patience and allow me to explain.
First, let’s debunk three myths…
A business book DOESN’T have to be long… you DON’T have to be a great writer … I bet yo ALREADY HAVE half a book written in notes and other material.
TOP TEN web-writing tips … or, ‘My pet hates’
During the last 18 months I have reviewed around 100 websites for companies across the UK (as part of around 20 training courses I have run in ‘Writing for the Web’ for 4 different clients).
Here’s what I think are the most common web writing mistakes – otherwise known as ‘My pet hates.’ They cover issues such as website structure and style, language and layout.
Writing tips and techniques – 10 ways to write and complete longer documents
You can do it
1.) There is no need be afraid of writing longer documents – they are a series of well-written short documents. But use a theme, eg conveyed through the headings, to provide a coherent whole.
2.) And you don’t have to be a great writer to write a book – you are not aiming to write a literary work, or the biggest seller ever. If you have passion for your subject it will show through in your writing, and that will make it an interesting read.
… just be sure to plan
Trading Standards prepares for cuts
Across the country, trading standards services are preparing for next year’s budget cuts - wondering how to spread ever-thinner resources, and what will be the impact on consumers. Some of the answers are greater risk assessment and prioritisation of activities, but staff and projects will also be lost in this austerity drive.
Take Somerset, a service that expects cuts of £230,000 out of its £1.2m budget. “The lower end of our risk assessments won’t get attention – or will have to be done in different ways”, says Paul Clarke, group manager for Trading Standards.
TS Today, March 2011
