About Helen
I’m a writer, ghostwriter, author and journalist. I’ve been ghostwriting books for celebrities, TV, film, and music personalities, and ordinary folk with extraordinary stories, for a few years now. Before that, I freelanced for newspapers and magazines (I still do) and in May 2007 I launched H ezine, my online magazine and networking website for media, creative and showbiz talent.
I relaunched my website in May 2008 because I’m passionate about helping people live their best life. Since then I’ve added hundreds of articles, opportunities, blog entries, interviews, reviews, tips and media requests, and I will continue to do so no matter how busy I get. This site is dedicated to helping you succeed.
Travel, books, writing and people are (a few of) my passions. Fortunately, my job allows me to combine all four. Over the years I’ve amassed a contacts book bulging with showbiz and media names and I’m happy to pass on opportunities and media requests that land on my desk.
If you’d like more info about me or my work please get in touch via my contact page or email helen@myhezine.com. I hope you enjoy my website!
More About Me
Born on 13th February 1974, I spent the first 25 years of my life in Plymouth, England, before moving away to study creative writing, art, media and journalism in Bath, Cornwall, London and Scotland.
I’ve been a writer since the day I learnt to hold a pen, but nowadays I specialise in memoirs and autobiographies, not scribbling on walls! In the early days of my writing career, I sent letters to magazines on a variety of topics and had almost 100 published before progressing to short stories and articles, and then books.
Due to the confidential nature of ghostwriting, I can’t reveal all books that I’ve been involved with, but I am the author of the 2007 book Escape Domestic Violence which was published by Hodder Arnold in partnership with ITV show This Morning.
My articles have appeared in various magazines worldwide, including Prima, Real, Junior, Grazia, Love it, Shout, Canadian Newcomer, She and Mother & Baby.
I spent my childhood knee-deep in comics and books, enjoying authors such as Enid Blyton, Louisa May Alcott and Roald Dahl but preferring Cosmopolitan to Jackie and Danielle Steele to Roger Hargreaves. I played the lead role of Mary in the school nativity play, sang in the school choir, was a brownie and girl guide, and learnt to play the recorder, xylophone, guitar and trombone.
A creative child and an obsessive bookworm, I was a member of the reader’s circle at the local library, and became an accomplished speed reader in my quest to notch up 100 books in six months. It meant burning the candle at both ends (something I’m still guilty of today), hiding under my bedcovers with a torch, to satisfy my passion for reading and writing.
By the age of 10 I had read the works of Steele and Blyton and had progressed to writing my own short stories and poetry, winning first prize in a national writing contest with, ‘The Cat That Went To School’, a short story that was published in a bedtime storybook for 2-year-old HRH Prince William.
I’m a keen explorer, adventurous, a free spirit and a risk taker who burns the candle at both ends (and in the middle) because I’m passionate about life. When I’m not writing books, I’m travelling, reading, relaxing to music, cooking, running on the beach, and dreaming up ideas for future books. My idea of a fun night? Anywhere, as long as I’m in good company!
