I have been a writer, editor and journalist for 25 years. In that time, besides being office tea-girl, I have worked as a news reporter, sports and features writer, stylist, fashion writer and women’s writer. For two years I was editor of the highly-regarded Eastern Daily Press Norfolk Magazine, after which I moved to the Buckinghamshire-Oxfordshire border, where I became editor of Oxfordshire Life before it merged with Cotswold Life. I have had articles published in magazines and newspapers across the country and been a regular guest on local radio shows.
Recently married, I decided to take my husband’s name professionally as well as personally so that I’m not confused when I answer the phone. You may have come across my more recent articles under the name Sandra Kessell. I now work as a freelance writer, journalist and editor, juggling my work with looking after six children, a diminishing number of chickens and a dog. A county badminton player for 10 years before becoming a squash player, I’ve had to give up competitive sport since rupturing both my left and right achilles tendons, and now have to content myself with walking and going to the gym.
In 2010 my goal is to finish writing a novel and get it published in 2011, recognising that if everyone who ever wrote fiction had felt as worried about their manuscript as I do about mine, there would be no books for me to read – and I love reading.
Besides this blogsite, I have another in my new married name Sandra Kessell, and some of my past work is posted on my website www.sandrakessell.co.uk
Though I’m an inveterate tapper of the keyboard, I try to bear in mind the following quotes:
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money,” and “What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” Dr Johnson
