Testimonials

I’d always been intrigued by travel journalism but feared that I’d left it too late to change careers and didn’t really have the confidence that people would want to read my reports. Lennox’s individual crash course was a bracing experience but it gave me the self-belief that I needed. I swiftly acquired the know-how to spot a story and the chutzpah to pitch to national newspapers and magazines. As the air miles mounted up, so did the commissions and within a year I was flying high and earning enough to make the transition into my absorbing new career. I can’t thank Lennox enough as my life has completely changed

Ian McCurrach, (Travel Editor, CitytoCities & Jet; Travel Columnist, The Independent on Sunday & Harper's Bazaar), London, England

Time management and self-discipline were my key issues after I was lucky enough to secure my dream book deal and quit my city life in Scotland for the Italian rural idyll. As a journalist the writing part was easy for me but working unsupervised and juggling my book time with other commitments risked stripping the momentum from my project. Lennox taught me to set realistic deadlines and more importantly to stick to them. I am now on schedule for publication in May 2010.

Tracey Lawson, author of A Year in the Village of Eternity, Bloomsbury Publishing; south of Rome, Italy

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I am fascinated with the stories that people have to tell, so when I went to live in Alexandria, Egypt for four months Lennox suggested that it would be the perfect time for me to break into journalism.   

With her guidance I proposed an article on the experience of studying and living in such a different society to the main broadsheets in England. The education editor of The Guardian expressed immediate interest.

I was slightly unsure of how to approach writing a feature for a newspaper. Three years at Bristol University had finely tuned my academic writing, leaving me out of touch with my creative streak. Emails from Lennox suggested engaging ways to introduce my piece and strategies to keep the reader interested.

I'll never forget the feeling of seeing my name in print for the first time, the buzz that someone was reading about my time in Egypt and discovering a small slice of what I had experienced. Added to that was the thrill of receiving my first payment as a journalist. 

Being published gave me the confidence to approach the BBC with a news story on Muslim women in Bristol. My report has since been broadcast on BBC One's Politics Show and I have also scripted a short documentary about Kurdish and Somali refugees. 

I am now a freelance writer based in Cairo, specializing in the Middle East.

Amy Smith, freelance writer and broadcaster, including publication in the Complete CAE from Cambridge University Press; Cairo, Egypt 

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I met Lennox Morrison on a plane travelling from Glasgow to London. Sitting beside each other we struck up a conversation and much to my amazement she was an author. I had just finished writing a manuscript and I honestly did not know if it was any good. Lennox offered to read it and give me her opinion. I was tremendously encouraged by her input and advice and was honoured when she offered to write the synopsis for my manuscript. Owing to her professionalism and experience I now have a publisher. Thanks Lennox.  

Hugh Gallacher, property developer, Glasgow, Scotland