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. |
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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. |
