Freelance profile

Susan Wallace

I'm established as a senior, full-time, freelance feature writer in regional and national British Press and women's magazines worldwide. My journalistic experience includes: True-life stories/Case studies. Psychology, (using my degree). Self-help/Personality quizzes. Health. Property. Women's interest. TV/Soap/Celebrity interviews. Supernatural real-life. Career/Work. Liverpool reportage. Freelancing/Writers' issues. Travel/Lifestyle. Off-beat. Psychology of gambling. (I worked six years in casinos – a one-time, teenage Playboy Club Bunny Girl!). I also provide advertising editorial - targeted, with a creative flair; edit novels for self-publishing authors; have talked on celebrity break-ups on TV; have had short theatre scripts performed and poetry published.

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Contact details:

Town: Remote working from home. (Liverpool.)
Region/nation: London
Country: United Kingdom
Also find me on: LinkedIn |
Telephone: 0844 330 8023

Skills:

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Feature writerRates: Print media
Online journalismRates: Online/writing
ProofreaderRates: Sub-editing
Book editorRates: Print media - editing/producing books
ResearcherRates: Researcher
ScriptwriterRates: Broadcasting
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Subjects:

  • Women's issues
  • Media
  • Health and fitness
  • Consumer affairs
  • Advertising
  • Business and commerce
  • Celebrities
  • Humour
  • Crime
  • Youth

Major clients:

  • H.Bauer Publishing Ltd
  • IPC Connect
  • Emap Elan
  • Trinity Mirror Group Newspapers
  • The National Magazine Company

Profile last updated: 2023-01-02 20:25:36


Extra information:

Looking to commission an article from someone very experienced? Do you have an untold extraordinary true story? Say hello to Susan Wallace, a well-established, print and online, freelance journalist and feature writer published for many years now in national, mid-market women's, glossy and supernatural magazines plus many major regional and national newspapers, their supplements and websites.

A talented, senior writer, if you are more interested in online/technology and have got the social media/digital formats in place, Susan has the right words to reliably raise your SEO, brand or marketing game.

Susan started out on a summer internship at Vogue in London while still a psychology student at Liverpool University. With previous life experience in modelling and sales, this former casino croupier maintains her interest in gambling journalistically attending gambling conferences in the UK (Cambridge, Birmingham, many in London) and Las Vegas - sometimes also doing travel writing e.g. Vegas, Paris, Germany. She has a current, keen interest in online gambling writing too.

Her specializations -include sourcing, securing, pitching, interviewing and writing fascinating exclusive "real life case studies", celebrity, true supernatural stories and tv/showbiz  interviews with numerous household names. Her health articles include exclusive case studies, expert comment and state-of-the-art research/data - to inform, influence and improve lives. She also compiles high-quality, popular psychology quizzes in print and online and features (on relationships, sexuality, addiction, work, behaviour, personality, emotions, loves, lives and issues) using her psychology degree and expert/academic contacts.

She has written on property and interiors for the Daily Express, the Manchester Evening News magazine and the Mail On Sunday.(Search Susan Wallace on Mail Online.)

Susan is a published poet and offers a confidential proofreading/editing service to university students, self-publishing authors and others wanting  the confidence boost of her professional input.

Susan is an award-winning advertising brochure writer. She prides herself on  blending artistic writing flair with achieving marketing results if you want a truly bespoke service.

Other writing topic experience (in no particular order) includes: work/ career issues/psychological insights and solutions/ job profiles/entrepreneurship/work-life balance; freelance writing issues/journalism/writing ethics/digitalization/copyright and retaining rights/self-employment; women's issues; the psychology of gambling; off-beat/lifestyle; first person/opinion/politics; rewriting material in technical instruction manuals in plain English; Liverpool reportage; education, and more. 

She successfully obtained a Masters degree in Screenwriting.

IF YOU WANT MORE DETAIL ON SUSAN’S PORTFOLIO, PLEASE READ ON:

MAGAZINES:

Bella, Best, Candis, Celebs on Sunday (The Sunday Mirror magazine), Chat, Chat it's fate, Company, Cosmopolitan, Healthcare, Healthy, love it! My Weekly, Natural Health, Pick Me Up, Psychologies, Radio Times, Real People, Slimmer, Take a Break, Take a Break's Fate & Fortune, Take it Easy (The Sunday People magazine), That's Life! TV Times, Vogue, Woman, Woman & Home, Woman's Own, Woman’s Weekly, Your Health, 3 mobile magazine.

Former magazines.

Annabel, BIG! BBC’s Star, Catch, Eva, In The Know, Lounge, Number One, Me, (including front cover,) more!  Plus, Weekend, Woman’s Realm, Yes! with the Sunday People.

Susan has also done paid work for: the Sunday Times Magazine, TV Quick, and Cosmopolitan (USA edition) following a face-to-face meeting at the Cosmo/Marie Claire offices in New York.

Teen mags: B, Bliss, Blue Jeans, J17, Mizz, more! 19, Shout.

Also, Practical Professional Childcare (A Norland nanny), the Institute of Leadership and Management's, Edge magazine, The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) News, ScriptWriter magazine and the Press Gazette.

NEWSPAPERS:

National newspaper work includes: the Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Daily Record (Scotland), Guardian, Independent, Mail on Sunday, The New Zealand Herald. The Sunday Times, Times Higher Education Supplement.

National weekend supplements include: Saturday (Daily Express), Sunday (News of the World), Sunday Post magazine, Yes! and Take it Easy (Sunday People).

Susan has also had numerous articles published in leading UK regional newspapers and their supplements. Some of these articles have had photo by-lines, been full-page psychology columns or double page spread, three-nighter specials. Brackets () are used here to indicate where Susan has had around 15- 20+ articles published in any given title: Aberdeen Evening Express, Aberdeen Press and Star, Belfast Telegraph, (Birmingham Evening Mail), (Bristol Evening Post and Seven magazine), The Citizen, Daily Post, Dublin Herald, (Eastern Daily Press 25+), Edinburgh Evening News, (Evening Echo, Cork, 50+), Evening Gazette, Examiner, (Glasgow Evening Times), Gloucestershire Echo, (Guernsey Press and Star), Halifax Courier, Hartlepool Star, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, Irish News, Liverpool Echo, (Manchester Evening News and MEN magazine) (including front cover), Newcastle Journal, North West Enquirer, Portsmouth Evening News, Sandwell Evening Mail, Sheffield Star, South Wales Echo, Sunday Mercury, Sunderland Echo, Western Daily Press, Western Mail, Western Morning News.

ADVERTISING WRITING WORK:

Susan has worked for Anderson Consulting (Manchester), Creative Edge Design, Liverpool), Finch Partnership (Liverpool), Kaleidoscope Advertising and Design (Liverpool), Tim Neate Design (Leeds), Dutton Merrifield (London), Wordwide (London), Barrington, Johnson and Lorraine (Manchester). the Echo Arena and BT Convention Centre Liverpool, (ACCL), Crownhouse Publishing, Direct Holidays, Eurocamp, Granada Television, Liverpool City Partnership, Multi Media Arts television production company, OWNhome.com, the Mersey Partnership, The Riverside Group, Simply Be, SONY and a broad variety of private businesses/SMEs. Her full-page advertorials have appeared in the Daily Telegraph magazine, Weekender (Daily Mail) and the Liverpool Echo.

CELEBRITIES INTERVIEWED:

Susan’s celebrity interview list (some with National front covers) includes: Lysette Anthony, Jane Asher, Boris Becker, Michael Bentine, Beverley Callard, Todd Carty, Lewis Collins, Rosemary Conley, Ross Davidson, Terri Dwyer, Pam Ferris, Sheila Hancock, Jimmy Hill, Eunice Huthart, Ross Kemp, Carla Lane, Charles Lawson, Maggie Philbin, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, John McArdle, Paul McKenna, Sue Johnston, Taylor Kane, Matthew Kelly, Michael le Vell, Eddie Kidd, Simon O’Brien, Cynthia Payne, Kazia Pelka, Julie Peasgood, Denise Robertson, Monica Seles, Michael Starke, Una Stubbs, Dean Sullivan, Claire Sweeney, Owen Teale, Rita Tushingham, Paul Usher, Roy Walker, Emma Wray, David Yip. She's interviewed Alex Zane in London, meeting Emma Willis, and the late Sir Norman Wisdom at home on the Isle of Man – who told her Cary Grant would have loved her! Plus countless other TV Soap Stars from Brookside, Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, EastEnders and “behind the scenes” on various TV/film locations. Some of these had national breakfast television interviews/coverage.

Susan did research in the New York Public Library for “Uri Geller Magician or Mystic” and met him. Susan has also appeared on television talking about celebrity relationship break-ups in ITV1’s Celebrities Exposed: 50 Ways to leave your lover.

PSYCHOLOGY QUIZ/ SELF-HELP PERSONALITY TESTS:

Susan has a psychology degree with honours from Liverpool University. Her high-quality psychology quizzes/self help personality tests on Universal topics have appeared in the Daily Express, Bella, Company, www.handbag.com, Healthy, Natural Health, Psychologies, Take a Break, 19, Woman's Way, Lounge, Shattered, uk.tickle.com and others. Dozens of her quizzes are syndicated Worldwide - notably Australia (Woman's Day) South Africa (Move!, Sarie and Fairlady and others), Mexico (Elle), India and the UAE. She has also sourced and written  Australian real-life stories for that's life! and Woman's Day magazines in Australia - with follow up interview/s on national breakfast television.


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Susan Wallace at a conference  November  2021 © Susan Wallace Susan Wallace at a conference November 2021
Attending Digital Manufacturing Week 2021.