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My first published work was in the Times Educational Supplement sometime in the mid 1990s. Fired up by that I wrote a few more and some for my union magazine, followed by some little text books for First & Best in Education. In those days they produced photocopiable texts, these days they do .pdf. All three are still available, though somewhat out of date.

My educational work helped me get a job at Techsoft UK Ltd where I was support manager for eight years. Back then TechSoft was smaller than it is now, and everyone multitasked. My tasks included writing advertising copy, catalogue bumf, advertorials and training manuals. Quite often it included the photography, illustration and DTP work too.

I left TechSoft at the end of 2005 to become freelance writer.

With eight years experience in IT, writing for computer magazines was the obvious first step. I had been contributing to Micro Mart regularly for a couple of years by then, so it was relatively easy to get more work there. That led to work on MM's sister publication CTO and since CTO was sold to Intent Media and merged with  PC Retail  I have written for that too.

I have also written for Personal Computer World, several IT related websits and now have a regular feature in PC Utlilites.

I still contribute occasional features and reviews to the TES, write semi technical features for the Western Mail and during the last year have written for a couple of trade publications, BioFuels International and Tank Storage Magazine.

When not writing I do a bit of part-time teaching and a lot of DIY. And even the DIY has now become a topic to write about.


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March 8th, 2008

Get your sK1 logo here.

January 8th, 2008

Tested site pages at http://validator.w3.org They are compliant so now I can display this:

Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional

November 16th, 2007

Submitted the DIY Wiring book to publisher, so back to journalism for a while. Other projects in the pipeline though...

November 1st, 2007

The new Bryn Villa website goes live.