PEN for HIRE

(well, maybe a keyboard…)

I can help you to create business documents that articulate exactly what you want to say in clear language, using any terms particular to your business. Great communication is the key to unlocking potential and making sure your message is being heard, understood and getting the response you intend.

Experience & Skills

  • Writing

  • Editing

  • Proofreading

  • Interpreting loose ideas into workable text

  • Specialist in interpreting and translating complex ideas into accessible language

  • Sponsorship

  • Keynote speeches

  • Workshop content

  • Online content

  • Sales, marketing, motivation, business growth

What I can do for you

  • Writing

  • A regular blog

  • A regular newsletter

  • Website text

  • Formal emails

  • Letters: business, personal (thank you, with sympathy, invitation)

  • Speeches: keynote or personal (wedding, birthday, graduation)

  • LinkedIn or other bio

  • Ghost write your book

  • Create or update website content

  • Email campaign content, copywriting

  • Editing, proof reading

  • Anything that can be created on a keyboard (…or with a pen)

Work History

  • Ghost writing

  • Scripts for live and animated explainer videos

  • In depth guides

  • Speeches

  • Business case preparation

  • Sponsorship application, management and assessment

  • Editing and proofreading

  • Fiction

  • Administrative management of health and safety review for 250 staff

  • Change management interview process and timetabling for redundancy and relocation project

  • Text for a sales enablement platform

How I work

  • Taking on a project

  • When I take on a project, I read the proposal, ask questions, research, ask some more questions.

  • Learn the terminology used, listen to the client, understand the ‘voice’ of the person or company

  • Produce a first draft for discussion

  • Work to the specific requirement of each client

  • A lot of time is spent thinking and accumulating ideas, material and scoping out the project before writing starts

  • I like clear deadlines and a project plan with a realistic timeline

  • Expectations on both sides must be agreed before the project starts, with flexibility on both sides to amend elements of the project as it progresses



My favourite work

  • Clients with shared values

  • A person or company with philanthropic values

  • A desire to promote positivity, diversity and equality

  • Learning about something new

  • Bringing creative thinking to business writing

    If you ask, I will give my honest and fair opinion, backed by evidence and reasoning to support my view. I am diplomatic, not blunt, kind not cruel and I’m aware that this approach does not suit every one.

I am a professional writer and administrator with over 30 years experience in marketing, sales, business development, change management and sponsorship. I like reading, writing, thinking, problem solving, intelligent conversation, good writing, thrilling fiction - novels, tv and films as long as I know what happens in the end. I love spoilers and often read last pages first.

I share my current home on the South Coast of the UK with a visiting gang of tabbies who use my garden for bird watching, mouse chasing and snoozing under the fig tree in the shady cool.