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Mark Allan

Mike Hampton has a lot say. None of which is complimentary. Very active on the net. The very antithesis of what should be.

And the reason for this post.

I was one of half a dozen people to have challenged him in court. A forum where he has lost every time. Despite which it has little impact on him, on and the damage he does. He simply doubles down and it has taken this long to get any measure of accountability.

‘Irrational, offensive’ blogger jailed for six months without internet access

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The Island

A novel based on the true story of Spinalonga, a leper colony established on an island off the coast of Crete.Victoria Hislop The Island
The book is salvaged from deteriorating into a tiresomely predictable love story by the account of life on the island in the leper colony. That struggle between adversity and the emergence of the human spirit.

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Samantha Osman

Creative writing for the web - web content writersA part-time freelance writer with published articles in Marie-Claire, Fair Lady and Psychologies magazines. A book is currently ‘work in progress’; a humorous look at personal calamity; embracing change and giving adversity a proverbial kick up the backside.

Aiming to provide the following services; creative content writing of articles and web pages, research and information gathering, editing and proof-reading. Improving quality of overall content, leading to increased traffic and thereby profitability.

Previously a background in events management in the UK, followed by a ten year stint guiding horseback safaris and lodge management in the Waterberg region, Limpopo.

Rates are time and project dependant.
sam@askthelocals.co.za

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Writers in the Garden Route

According to Google Nikki Ridley is the only journalist and ghost writer on the Garden Route which for “a nook of the country that offers inspiration to the writers and artists whose presence gives it a trendy flavour”, this is a pretty poor showing. But at the same time it should be seen as both a challenge as well as an opportunity.

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A challenge that took me all of three weeks to get this site to rank alongside hers and an opportunity to add some real value to what I have started. It’s not difficult to do. To the contrary anyone could do the same with little or no training.

And this brings me to the point of this post. What is it that is stopping us from making use of these sort of tools to open doors into the global market place? What is stopping us from setting up and and growing a local cottage based industry that is not driven by the erratic and unpredictable tourist traffic everyone sits back waiting for? And this is a direct challenge to every single one of those would be ghost writers to change the way it appears not to be.

We are looking for a newspaper that will be kind enough to mentor us. To track and record our little successes and more often than hoped for, failures. We are looking for writers who will let us have short sharp monthly features of two hundred words or less in return for us promoting and marketing their sites and or services. We want to build a workshop for emerging writers that does really work and it can be done if enough people have enough reasons to make it happen.

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THE PROFESSOR

When all you have is a body of jumbled information, and you really need a logical, easy to understand, no nonsense, document, that conveys the essential facts and information about you or your business, this is the person you would want to use.
He will extract or gather the essential information, and compile a document that clearly conveys the features and or benefits of the different components to the reader. And if the purpose of the published document is to motivate readers to acquire a product or service, referred to in the document, you can be assured that the call to action will form part of the document he compiles.
People have different skills, and composing text, for media publication, may not be part of your skill set. So contact us and use the available skills to get the information regarding your business, your skills and expertise or your products, into the public domain.
Your business needs to be visible to those who may need whatever it is that you have to offer. We provide innovative, cost effective, dynamic, solutions to help you grow your business.

prof@thedotshop.net