Fiona Tankard

After a career training teachers to teach English as a Foreign language my husband and I moved to Umbria Italy in 1994. I worked on a number of academic books as well as writing a book about Italy for children and writing for various magazines both on and offline. I got the idea for Italy magazine in 2001, approached a UK publisher and became editor for five years working from Italy. It became the top selling glossy on Italy in the UK with a hugely successful website. As well as commissioning journalists and photographers and planning the magazine I also wrote for it regularly. I then became the magazine business development manager selling advertising space in Italian and English to many top brands.

I decided to leave the magazine and go freelance in 2006 (we also moved to Tuscany) and now do a variety of work, mostly online, including web SEO and writing for an Italian marketing and real estate company, writing for facedog.com a dog owners site (a job I got through Guardian media), freelancing for a US name development branding company, writing for a UK English language publisher and now promoting Andrew Crofts novel The Overnight Fame of Steffi McBride online. I am also a ghostwriter and am currently working on a novel for young adults and a non fiction book. I also know a lot about SEO (search engine optimisation) and internet marketing, own two pet websites and speak Italian.