I’m a freelance writer available for work.
Since 2012 I’ve had approximately 14 articles published in UK magazines. I don’t consider myself a professional writer, it just started as a hobby, but I’ve been lucky enough to have everything published that I’ve submitted, along with my own photographs. I have written mainly for the three popular UK sailing magazines – Practical Boat Owner, Yachting Monthly and Sailing Today. I have also contributed to an article in Woman & Home, and most recently I have had two pieces published in Your Cat magazine.
My aim in 2016 is to branch out and write different articles for other magazines.
I recently won the Star Letter and prize in ‘Writing Magazine’, in which I referred to the need to take good quality photos to accompany magazine articles.
Since I have started my blog, I have been asked to be a guest contributor on several other blogs including a post on Wandering Wives.
Another opening for would-be writers which I have discovered, is on travel sites. I wrote one article for a USA sailing site CruiserTV about the pleasures of sailing in Greece.
I came across another German-run holiday company called Zizoo, who offer tailor-made sailing holidays worldwide. I noticed that they didn’t have much information on sailing in Greece, which is a huge and popular sailing area. I contacted them and offered to write an article on sailing in Greece, and they have now commissioned me to write one article a fortnight for them! You can read my first two articles here.
My most recent publication was in an in-flight magazine. You know those magazines you get in the seat pockets on the plane, that you might glance at while waiting for your in-flight lunch to arrive? I flew from Greece to London with Monarch, and I sent in something which was published in their “Essentials” section in their ‘Passport’ magazine.
I really like what you have here 🙂 Since part of your goal is to branch out, and you seem to be doing so, I’ve nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award 🙂 http://lifexperimentblog.com/2016/01/21/the-versatile-blogger-award/
Best Regards for a successful 2016!
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Thanks for liking my post. I like the idea behind your blog, your life sounds so exciting. Good luck with the magazine writing. I have had no luck as yet with publication, so I’ll carry on blogging.
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It seems you would be perfect to write a travel book with all your wonderful experience. 🙂
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Thank you! If I didn’t spend so much time on my blog I could have written it by now!
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Lol, don’t I know this. It takes discipline to rearrange our priorities, and wishing there were more hours in a day. 🙂
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Congrats on all your publications! I agree with dgkaye in that your experience would make for great travel writing. Love all your photos and they’re one way for me to get to Greece. 🙂
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Thank you for kind comments. I do hope you get to visit Greece one day!
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…you live my dream 🙂 would like to sail along, what do I have to do for it? LOL
I plan to spend my retiree time on a greek island, thought ofn euboea.
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That’s a nice comment, thank you! I hope you achieve your dream one day. Euboea/Evia is a lovely island, we know it well.
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