Title:
Sympatico Travel
Description:
Sympatico is the online portal for Bell Media, one of Canada's major players in the media market. Receiving tens of thousands of unique visits monthly, Sympatico has put together one of Canada's largest travel portals.
An absolutely avid traveller and writer, I pitched some freelance stories to them. After that, the conversation went something like this:
Sympatico: We really like your travel articles. Want to write more of them?
Me: Yup.
Sympatico: Want to work for us?
Me: Yup.
Sympatico: Are you good with words?
Me: [pause]... Yup.
The rest, as they say, is history!
View Travel Articles
Title:
EAT Magazine
Description:
EAT Magzine is a Victoria-based print and online publication focussing on a wide variety of food stories. I am a long-standing fan of food and eating in general. A wealth of travel has allowed me to sample amazing roadside food at a number of places around the globe. Despite the occasionally mixed results (both taste-wise and medically) that come with eating from a semi-clean roadside stand, it's given me a real appreciation for different local dishes around the globe. I have been picked up a freelance Food Writer contributing to EAT Magazine, and expect to research diligently and be overweight in short order.
Recent Articles:
Poutine à la Victoria
Late Night Eats
The Taste of Home (Away from Home)
Title:
Road Game (Face Off Magazine)
Description:
While living in the UK, I pitched a series of articles to Face Off magazine, a British mag focusing on ice hockey. The series featured my twin passions of hockey and travel, and the articles taught readers about hockey in cites around the world while also acting as a travel feature. Face Off loved the idea, and my series became a monthly feature. I also contributed to other features as needed. Sadly, ice hockey never exactly exploded in popularity in England, and after two years of writing for them, the magazine folded. You can still check out the sample articles below.
Collectors' Items:
Road Game Montreal (pdf 476kb)
Road Game Oslo (pdf 2.7mb)
Road Game Toronto (pdf 1.1mb)
Title:
Pitt Meadows (website)
Description:
Pitt Meadows, BC achieved City status in 2007. With their new status came new branding, and that meant a new website. Like many municipal websites, their site contained hundreds of pages. With so much information having been added over numerous years, the website content was (insert euphemism here) "muddled".
I was hired to re-write all the content for all 300+ pages, ensuring that all pages were penned in a singular, unified voice. The work included a wealth of both editing and creating original content. Work completed while employed at Atomic Crayon.
View Website:
Website launching May 2007
Title:
Atomic Crayon (website)
Description:
On top of my freelancing, I am also currently a full-time employee at Atomic Crayon Web Design. Part of my duties for Atomic involve writing. I am the de facto writer for any new projects that come in and need some penmanship, as well as for our own site. This includes case studies, portfolio pieces and any "what's new" articles as they come up. Working at a relaxed, young company allows me to do copywriting with some creative licence, which is always fun.
View Website:
www.atomiccrayon.com
Title:
Looking for Mr Riot
Description:
Having studied film at Concordia university, one of my major passions became scriptwriting. A few years later, while living in London, I completed a script for a film entitled "Looking for Mr Riot". The film is a satirical mockumentary based on the modern wave of protestors and some of their well-intentioned and ill-advised rebellions. Based on first-hand knowledge from my own dubious efforts at protesting - I learned to love the smell of tear gas - the script became a Finalist for the prestigious ScriptFactory scriptwriting program in London.
The script is currently in its 3rd draft. Production slated for 2008.
Read Sample Scene:
Ready for Battle (pdf 24kb)
Title:
Travelbugger
Description:
Without a doubt, the number one passion in my life is travel. I have been lucky enough to have visited over 40 countries in the past decade, and I feel like I am just getting warmed up. In 2000, back before the blog-splosion of the last few years, I traveled to South America for seven months. I kept an online travel journal, relating stories ranging from riding a bicycle down the World's Most Dangerous Road to taking a guided tour of a maximum security prison in Bolivia... led only by an inmate.
I have kept up my writing throughout my travels, sold a few articles, and, thankfully, improved my website a little since 2000, as well.
View Website:
www.travelbugger.com
My writing work includes a wide array of formats and media, from travel to sport and from print (magazine) to scriptwriting to writing for major web portals. I write both creative works and press releases & corporate communications. I studied scriptwriting both at Concordia university and at Raindance in London. My writing has specialized in travel and sport writing, and a series I pitched and wrote in England, "Road Game", featured both. I also cater to my other love, and write food articles.
Presently, I write copy for my current employer, Atomic Crayon, and I continue to write travel articles whenever I can rub a couple of nickels together and jump on a flight somewhere.
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