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Writing Credits

One book, Living and Working in London (published Survival Books, January 2000), various short fiction and poetry, hundreds of magazine and newspaper features and book, movie and music reviews (click here for samples).

Computer Skills

Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint (office tools)

Macromedia Dreamweaver (web design)

Adobe Photoshop (image manipulation)

Good knowledge of HTML

Employment History

1991 - now: Freelance Writer/Editor/Researcher

Freelance writer/editor/researcher for range of clients, both print media and online, specialising in arts journalism and comment. Regular reviewer for several music & entertainment-related magazines and content provider for corporate and artist websites. In the past I've worked for b2b, trade and consumer magazines on a range of topics including tourism, hospitality, medical/health, leisure, food & drink, telecoms & retail.

Past and present freelance clients (in alphabetical order) include: AQA, Audiophiles, Books, Burn, Chris Cornell, Club Mirror, Convenience Store, Dogs Today, Don's Hard News, Drinks Buyer,The Good Book Guide, The Grocer, Handbag.com, Healthscout.com, Highland Council, HMV, Home & Studio Recording, Keyboard Player, LearnDirect, The Literary Review, London School Of Journalism, Mail on Sunday, MENSA, Multiple Buyer & Retailer, Music Technology, New Zealand Herald, Northwords Now, QSDG, Scandic Hotels, Sounds, Subba-Cultcha, The Sunday Times, University of Cambridge, William Reed Business Information, Wordworks Ltd, World Tobacco, The Writers' Bureau, Zero

Book Living and Working in London published January 2000 by Survival Books in the UK. Currently editing short story collection Thin Places: Modern Sipstream Fiction From The Highlands and researching material for a major music biography.

Organising and co-ordinating international street team for American singer Chris Cornell and maintaining official and unofficial website content.

Co-organiser of local group West Coast Arts which promotes and organises a range of professional concerts, shows and theatre events in two venues. Liaising with touring companies, artists and agents, promoting, publicising and organising all aspects of events.

Musician/lyricist with internet-based music project, Species 8472, and local jazz group Black Cherry.

Have also worked as a freelance tutor for Highland Council community education department, teaching evening classes and workshops in Creative Writing and Teleworking and as a distance learning tutor for The London School of Journalism, Learndirect, the government-funded online learning initiative in the UK, and The Writers Bureau in Manchester, UK.

1990-91 Assistant to Director of Music, King's College, Cambridge, UK

Assisting Stephen Cleobury, Director of Music. Organising foreign concert tours for the world-famous Choir of King's College, Cambridge. Running the director's office and liaising with promoters, record companies, visiting musicians and singers as well as college authorities and teaching staff, undergraduates, boy choristers and their parents. This position was a one-year contract covering permanent employee's extended sickness leave. At the end of the year I was offered the job on a permanent basis but chose to concentrate on work.

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