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Within my freelance portfolio you can read articles I have written as a freelance journalist for Ask the Experts, and also a sample gardening column, a book review and a feature article I wrote for the online magazine Only in Winchester.

Testimonial:

Between 2009 and 2011, Mel has written a series of entertaining and intelligent articles on a range of topics for Splendid Fred. Mel is willing and able to adapt her writing style to fit a range of subjects and I have no hesitation in recommending her.

Glenn Fosbraey - Editor, Splendid Fred Magazine.


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Feb022010

Book Review - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Written by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, Quirk Books, April 2009

Review previously published in Issue 1 Only in Winchester - edited by Glenn Fosbraey 

As a Jane Austen enthusiast, it was with apprehension that I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a recent adaption of Austen’s most popular novel.  I need not, however have worried.  By the opening line I was smiling and by the bottom of the first page, chuckling aloud.  Because once you put aside the disturbing notion of Austen’s work being toyed with, of being invaded in the most disturbing of manners, and ignore any literary sensibilities you may have, you simply cannot deny that the addition of Zombies (or ‘Unmentionables’ as they are called), is incredibly funny. 

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