Jill Shearer is a writer and journalist with over fifteen 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 also 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:                                   

• HOMES, GARDENS & INTERIORS
• LIFESTYLE
• GREEN & ETHICAL LIVING
• PARENTING
• WORK & MONEY
• HEALTH & WELLBEING
• POPULAR PSYCHOLOGY
• TRAVEL 

With a post-graduate qualification in journalism from the London College of Printing, 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
• INTERVIEWING
• SUB-EDITING / COPY EDITING
• PRODUCTION
• COPYWRITING
• 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@resourcefulwriter.co.uk

re·source·ful  [ri-sors-fuh l]
–adjective:  able to deal skillfully and imaginatively with new situations; capable of finding effective solutions to a variety of problems   [Origin: 1611 [O Fr. ressource, resourdre – to rise again]
–Synonyms talented, able, imaginative, adroit