Jill Shearer is a Wiltshire-based writer and journalist with over seventeen years' writing experience on a wide variety of subjects from toddler taming to green issues and interior design. "While much of my career has been working on blue-chip consumer magazines - including Homes & Gardens, 25 Beautiful Homes, Country Living, Woman's Realm and Practical Parenting - I've also written for The Daily Telegraph, have experience in book publishing, copywriting and PR and have ghost-written for well-known names. I undertake commissions large and small, from drafting a letter or a speech to researching in-depth features or writing copy for marketing and advertising."
Areas of interest:
LIFESTYLE, HOME AND WOMEN'S INTEREST FEATURES
PROFILES / INTERVIEWS
GREEN & ETHICAL LIVING
PARENTING
CONSUMER & PERSONAL FINANCE
HEALTH & WELLBEING
POPULAR PSYCHOLOGY
With a post-graduate qualification in journalism from the London College of Printing (now Communication), I have a broad experience of many different types of journalism including all aspects of copy editing, and magazine production from flatplanning through to reprographics. Specific areas of experience and expertise are in:
NEWS & FEATURE WRITING
COPYWRITING
SUB-EDITING / COPY EDITING / PRINT PRODUCTION
CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS
WRITING FOR WEB
RESEARCH
GHOSTWRITING
"The primary purpose of writing is to communicate. The best kind of writing informs, inspires, enlightens and entertains without losing sight of the message"
All the images on the following pages are extracted from magazine features I have written. Contact me at jillshearer@btinternet.com
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Jill Shearer is a Wiltshire-based writer and journalist with over seventeen years' writing experience on a wide variety of subjects from toddler taming to green issues and interior design. "While much of my career has been working on blue-chip consumer magazines - including Homes & Gardens, 25 Beautiful Homes, Country Living, Woman's Realm and Practical Parenting - I've also written for The Daily Telegraph, have experience in book publishing, copywriting and PR and have ghost-written for well-known names. I undertake commissions large and small, from drafting a letter or a speech to researching in-depth features or writing copy for marketing and advertising." 
All the images on the following pages are extracted from magazine features I have written. Contact me at 