Some things I’ve written.
I’ve produced marketing copy for the publishing industry, helped independent authors publicise their work, delivered snappy social media content for various publishers and agencies, and written long-form, creative and first-person pieces for online and print, as well as blog posts for some of the UK’s most respected publishers (think Canongate and Vintage). I love connecting ideas with audiences, and it goes without saying that I can follow a style guide, adapt tone of voice to the brief, and distil complex ideas into an effective message. Here are some highlights.
Articles, essays and features
Book marketing copy
Dominated by the black steel towers of the mine, Coalwood, West Virginia is a town the postwar boom never quite reached. It’s 1957, and for fourteen-year-old Homer ‘Sonny’ Hickam there are only two routes in life: a college football scholarship, or a life underground. But from the moment the town turns out to watch the world’s first pace satellite, Sputnik, as it passes overhead, Sonny and his friends embark on a mission of their own – to form the Big Creek Missile Agency, and build a rocket.
Looking back after a distinguished career as a NASA engineer, Homer Hickam paints a warm, vivid portrait of youth and ambition, innocence and promise; of a group of teenage boys who dared to imagine a life beyond the confines of the coal pit, and went on to design, build and launch the rockets that would change their lives, and their town, for ever.
Lauren really, really needs a break.
There’s just one problem: a bearded bohemian is squatting in her Highland cottage by the sea. He’s performing reiki on her plants and cluttering the fridge with strange ingredients. What on earth is aquafaba, anyway?
When her busybody granny turns up to crash her much-needed holiday, along with Lauren’s boyfriend Patrick – who really is perfect for her, by the way – things get even worse.
As her life unravels, Lauren is forced to confront the ghosts lurking in her idyllic Scottish retreat. But with a skilled hand in the kitchen and a heartfelt recipe or two, she might discover that maybe – just maybe – chickpeas aren’t so bad after all.
Declared unfit for active service after the Great War, Richard Hansen feels rudderless and out of place. But when the unthinkable happens and the shadow of a new conflict looms, he is thrust into enemy territory once again for a final, covert mission.
Devastated and mourning her own catastrophic losses, his wife Emily is alone and adrift in a once-idyllic marriage grown cold and distant. When one day a surprise visitor comes calling she is faced with a choice that may grant her the very thing she has always longed for… or lead her into terrible danger.
As Europe goes to war a second time and Richard and Emily’s paths are wrenched apart, each must confront the ghosts of their own past, battling forces both seen and unseen as their lifelong love is tested to its limits – by duty, grief, time, and betrayal.
lottie fyfe 