Fiction (most genres), biographies, commercial texts, corporate training guides and manuals, management, children's books, law, humor, book formatting, cover design,

Who are we?
We are a husband and wife team who are experienced authors (fiction and non-fiction) and business writers. Our work (over the last 20 years) has been in education, training, recruitment and sales as part of running a busy national employment agency for professionals.

We now run a small independent publishing company and have been working through Guru (since 2010).

Our combined resume reads as follows:

BSc Civil Engineering
Honors degree in Modern Languages (French and Spanish)
Chartered Librarian
Qualified teacher of adults
Qualified Montessori teacher
40 years (combined) as directors
Estimator in the construction industry
UK Schools Quizmaster

Computer skills:

Fully familiar with all office programs
Book formatting experience with mobi (kindle), epub and pdf
Experienced designer of book covers and creatives
Competent with HTML plus knowledge of Javascript and ASP

Languages spoken - English (as native speakers), French, Spanish, Italian and German

At home with UK, US and Australian English

Books written under our own name:

Damaris West
Queen Anne's Lace
Skolthan
The Wolves of Little Mouse Valley (about to be published)

Clive West
The Road
Hobson's Choice and 15 Other Twist-in-the-Tail Short Stories
Job Interview Success
Lymphedema - Living with the Disease
Blakefields Mansion - A Victorian Romance (in conjunction with Jen Smith)
A Snake in the Grass and 15 Other Twist-in-the-Tail Short Stories (about to be published)
Stonecrest (sequel to Blakefields Mansion and written in conjunction with Jen Smith)

Book genres offered (please ask if what you see isn't here)

Fiction
Action and adventure
Children's
Crime
Drama
Erotica (nothing, repeat NOTHING, shocks)
Fantasy
Horror
Humor
Mystery
Poetry
Romance (historical and contemporary)
Sci-Fi
Suspense
Young Adult

Non-fiction
Biographies
Business and commerce
Business and money
Education and training
Home and garden
Learning languages
Photography
Quizzes
Recruitment and HR
Spirituality
Travel

Founded: 1992

Work Terms

If you're not happy, we're not happy and that sums us up. If we work for you then we are a team and only perfection is good enough!

Our terms
We work through the Guru SafePay system for payment.

Contact
We can be contacted by email, IM (SKYPE) or by phone.

Policy
If we take a job on, it is a matter of personal pride as well as a commercial consideration that we see that it is carried out to the highest standard and to the full satisfaction of our client.

As far as we are concerned, each book, article, design, script etc bears our brand - even if we are functioning as ghosts with no acknowledgement of our contribution.

We never bid for jobs which don't intrigue us and thus anything we do is carried out with genuine enthusiasm and desire to see a top-quality finished product. Never underestimate the importance of freelancer commitment.

We love a challenge and nothing fazes us. Post a message for us today and you'll not be disappointed.