Come travel with me as I introduce you to the exciting world of a creative writer. With qualifications in journalism, travel and yachting, writing is my passion and my livelihood.
My area of travel writing expertise is Australian travel and tourism, cruise, luxury and super yachts, sailing, boating and lifestyle, developed from extensive experience across related industries.

In fact I'm particularly focused right now on developing the ultimate travel guide for Australian boaties: The Australian Marinas Guide, which will be the definitive guide to every marina in Australia.

Within the travel industry, I've worked at the forefront of leisure travel, advising first time travellers who weren't sure if they needed a passport to visit Tasmania. In the corporate world I've sweated over business traveller emergencies in the jungle clad mines of South America on the graveyard shift. I've up sold, cross sold, even over sold, until I had nothing left to sell in the competitive, commission based world of retail travel.

In researching destinations, I've lost room service crumbs, and indeed, my mini bar virginity, in the ridiculously starched linen of opulent hotel beds. I've fallen in love with an Arab guide over a hubbly bubbly pipe beneath a starry desert sky while researching middle eastern culture.  Trying to overcome a fear of heights, I've suffered vertiginous paranoia while crawling across a glass floor hundred of metres above a city. I even once considered, then quickly dismissed the idea, of bungy jumping out of a perfectly sound building, all  in the name of research to sate travel clients and readers in their lust for adventure.  Oh, I also managed to squeeze in almost 30,000 nautical miles of ocean passaging across the Asia/Pacific region.

Along the way I've learnt an enormous amount about travel, and travel writing, with all its exhilarating, heart stopping encounters that entice us to explore the world. As an insightful Travel Writer, I draw upon this knowledge, plus the idiosyncrasies of the industry in order to inform and entertain.

But travel and marine writing is not all I do. As an accomplished writer, with scores of publishing credits, I'm also a talented commercial Copywriter. I can write text (or copy) for your website, newsletter or press release, regardless of the subject. Anything really, that requires succinct, dynamic text to engage your target audience.

Member : Australian Journalists Association   Australian Society Travel Writers   International Travel Writers Alliance

But don't just take my word for it. Here's what other Publishers and Editors have to say:

"Thanks so much Fiona for your copy. Gee that was quick!" Scoop Traveller
"Fiona writes features for us and does a very good job" Australian Yachting
"I much enjoyed your sea lions story" Coast and Country
"Thanks for the terrific submissions-I really like the Dongara piece. Nice job on the wine, women, walking story too. Thanks for all your help in emergency situations this issue" Australian Traveller
"Your article is absolutely fabulous" Go Boating
"Very frustrating [that we cant fit your article in this issue] given that the text is so good" Club Marine magazine
"I really enjoyed reading your Pilbara piece. I'm very much looking forward to publishing this story" OUTthere (inflight REX & Skywest)

"My guarantee is that material will meet or exceed your expectations"

Why don't you commission me as a Travel Writer, Boating Writer or Copywriter to write exclusive text for your business?

Wouldn't your business benefit from dynamic, engaging copy?

Travel….. Boating….. Lifestyle…..

 

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