Since 1969, The Navigator has been the student newspaper for Vancouver Island University (formerly Malaspina University-College). In April 2008, I contributed a profile of a CHLY radio programmer to this publication on behalf of the station. While this was a one-off project, it may be resurrected in the future.

Freelance contributor, April 2008

The Harbour City Star and Nanaimo Daily News are two of Nanaimo's community newspapers. Both are published by Canwest, twice weekly and Monday - Saturday respectively. Upon recommendation from More Living magazine, I was approached to freelance for these publications.

Freelance contributor, March - May 2008

Based in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, Dueck General Contracting is a family business providing residential and commercial building contractor services. In January 2008 I was commissioned to create simple relevant content for the company's new website.


Internet Copywriter, January 2008

Based in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, More Living is a bimonthly lifestyle magazine published by Bonnie MacQueen's Mac Publications. I have been writing for this publication since the July/August 2007 issue, contributing locally-focused, wide-ranging articles featuring individuals, businesses, events and other topics of interest from the Central (Vancouver) Island region. These can cover anything from local musicians and artisans to energy healing, culinary festivals to architecture.

Some of my articles for the print version are featured on the More Island Living website, launched in September 2008. I created the introductory paragraphs for each category page and will be contributing fresh and exclusive content to the site as it develops.

Contributor, Contributing Photographer and occasional Contributing Editor, 2007 - present

The EyesOnBC Media Group is based in Bowser on Vancouver Island. The company's activities include the publication of the community magazine The Beacon, to which I've been contributing locally-focused music and arts features since August 2007. I also contributed articles to their currently suspended title, The Baynes Sound Current, from September 2007.

Contributor, 2007 - present

Launched in 2006, Coastlines was the bimonthly magazine published by Tugboat Media Inc. in Vancouver for Harbour Air - the world's largest seaplane airline. Rich in fascinating content and beautiful photographs, this peculiarly west coast publication was dedicated to the people and places that make British Columbia the wondrous province it is. I contributed humour columns, historical profiles and travel-based articles on essential B.C. destinations from 2006 to the final issue in spring 2009. A selection of my work for this publication appears in the Previous Issues section of the Coastlines website.

Contributor, 2006 - 2009

Jo-Ann Lapointe left the real estate business in late 2008 after an award-winning career as a RE/MAX realtor in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. I undertook a total overhaul of her website content as my first big Internet copywriting job after arriving in Canada. Her change of career direction means her website has been taken down, but you can see how Jo-Ann rated my work on the Testimonials page.

Internet Copywriter, May - July, 2007

Until its founder, Judy Clark, moved to Australia in the summer of 2008, Speke Management Services was a professional speakers consortium (or bureau) in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. I created all content with which her website launched in June 2007. The site still exists, but the content has been replaced and updated to reflect Judy's new professional direction. You can read how she rated my original work on the Testimonials page.

Internet Copywriter, June, 2007

Not a client, in fact, but a search engine optimization and Internet marketing company in Brighton, UK, that employed me as an Internet Copywriter between May 2005 and August 2006. During this period, I was instrumental in the formation of a dedicated Internet copywriting division of the company called Web Writing and created copy for a diverse range of clients.

Links to a selection of these clients can be found below, with a description of my brief for each. Further information and links to examples of copy created for each website can be found on the samples page.

Escapes2 - Overseas property investment: AREA GUIDES

White Sand Weddings - Exotic overseas weddings and
honeymoons: AREA GUIDES / GENERAL CONTENT

Pop Art To Go - Online 'pop art' e-tailer: ENTERTAINERS' BIOGRAPHIES / GENERAL CONTENT

Internet Copywriter, 2005 - 2006

In an overcrowded marketplace, Newsquest publication The Source was the leading free monthly arts and listings magazine for Brighton, England, until it came to the end of its run in 2008. Initially unpaid, I contributed mainly concert previews from 1998 to 2006, but was occasionally called upon to write features. My contributions were originally in dedicated column format on my own page, then retitled and merged with other contributors' content following a redesign.

Contributor, 1998 - 2006

Cheeky Guides is the Brighton, UK company responsible for producing four editions of The Cheeky Guide to Brighton, plus similarly irreverent handbooks to love, student life and the city of Oxford! I edited and contributed to the music section of The Cheeky Guide to Brighton: Fourth Edition, published in 2006, and am credited in the book to this end.

Contributor, 2006

The London, UK-based Comes with a Smile was a greatly revered, independent music magazine of high design, content and production values. Although each issue was published in a limited run, it remained an internationally distributed magazine boasting highly collectable, cover-mounted CDs of exclusive tracks from featured artists. I contributed album reviews and interview features from issue # 6 in 2000 to the final issue, # 20, in 2006. Passionately sharing the vision of editor Matt Dornan, everyone who contributed to Comes with a Smile did so without renumeration beyond the occasional free CD or gig guest list place. Although folding (temporarily, it is hoped) in 2006, this legendary publication lives on through the superb Comes with a Smile website where I have many more articles amongst the site exclusives.
(Details can be supplied upon request.)

Contributor, 2000 - 2006

The Latest was a longstanding, monthly Brighton, UK arts and listings magazine that morphed into the monthly property listings / entertainment dos a dos publication Latest Homes / Latest 7 in 2002. I contributed music reviews to its original incarnation from 1998 to 2000. L.U.V. (Latest Underground Vibe) was a short-lived music offshoot; I was commissioned to contribute twin features to the 2003 launch issue.

Contributor, 1998-2000