ABOUT ME

HOW CAN I HELP YOU?
I’m a lifestyle writer – think C for consumer. I have worked with clients across property, retail, heritage, education, health, beauty, travel and wellbeing websites. Maybe you want:
• new words for a new website
• edits on content you have already written
• blogs to tell people more about you and your work
• single pages, like your profile, about page, product pages, interior design stories, case studies or testimonials.

HOW DID IT START?
In writing I have found my niche, but that’s not how my career as a content writer started. During my degree in Printmaking at an art school in the north of England (when Lawson was ‘Pearce’), I sought internships every summer on magazines in London. When college ended I took a job as a typist in a features agency. That led to a three-month journalism course, which confirmed what I’d always known – I wanted to write.

WHERE HAVE I WORKED?
I’ve freelanced for 30 years, but these companies contributed in a major way to my early career trajectory:
• Bristol United Press
• Emap Elan (Slimming Magazine)
• BBC Worldwide (BBC Good Homes Magazine)
• Publicis Blueprint (Asda Magazine)
• John Brown Publishing (John Lewis Edition Magazine)
• Wordfairy – my home since 2018, casting spells for websites.
For more details visit my LinkedIn page

SINGAPORE 2012-2017
• For five years I lived and travelled around south-east Asia, freelancing for several expat titles in Singapore before taking a part-time job as the editor on an events website.
• I also gave tours at the Peranakan Museum (“this way please”)
• I wrote a travel blog – partlycloudy.co.uk. You can read the posts from my cherished tropical diary here.

SPARE TIME
• Creative writing is a big part of my work, as I believe creativity contributes to commercial work – but I also simply love it. I’ve taken courses at the Open University and Curtis Brown Creative.
• Thanks to family links and my expat life I’ll always hold a deep love for south-east Asia: the food, culture, friends and climate.
• I’m a baking addict but I’m not decorative. I just make spongy, crumbly, oozy, airy treats. Favourite cake: Victoria Sponge.
• Singing loudly (folk songs in pubs as a kid, choirs intermittently, cheap karaoke, in the kitchen while cooking).
• I don’t read enough but an online Facebook club keeps me clinging on to the Kindle, and I pick up real books now and then.
• Family & friends: one husband, one son, one dad, one sister, one brother outlaw, two cats, cousins, aunties, uncles, and friends who have become family – you know who you are.
• Despite extensive travel while we lived abroad, we have so many more plans and I’ll chart them all, one blog at a time.