Established in 2017I formed my own freelance company - aHa! writing services - in 2017, having decided to dedicate myself full-time to the writer's life, which I love
My BackgroundMy background is in the not-for-profit sector.
If I had a pound for every report, grant application, policy document, proposal, discussion paper, and research study I've written in the past 30 years, I'd be sunning myself in the Bahamas now, rather than shirking the drizzle in the Scottish Borders. I also worked part-time for eight years or so as a copywriter with a Scottish mail-order gourmet food company. My EducationI have an MA in Philosophy and Modern History from Dundee University and a PhD in Philosophy from Edinburgh University, so I've written a few academic papers in my time as well.
My GoalMy goal is to write and to write well.
I'm a bit of a perfectionist and agonise over things like punctuation and sentence structure. I'm fascinated by language and how it works; I love to take it apart and put it back together again; I get a buzz from seeing it function efficiently, like a well-oiled steam engine. |
Our TeamMy Creative LifeI'm a widely published and award-winning poet, and I've held a number of creative writing residencies.
I ghostwrite and edit historical romantic fiction, contemporary westerns, and military adventures for several independent US publishers. For a number of years now, I've also run a (very) small community press called White Craw Publishing, which publishes poetry, memoirs, social histories, and novels. |