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About me

Gillian is the channel manager for Asian History at Helium. A writer both by nature and inclination. Aside from writing at Helium, she has had a short story published in Neonbeam e-zine and recently had two letters accepted for the Unsent Letters anthology. Her aim it to publish her novels and continue to support the short story genre which has long been her favourite.

Gillian lives near the Welsh/English border with assorted children, her partner, best friend and various cats. She is a pagan who loves music, wrestling and French musicals, cookery, reading, writing, walking and life in general.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

Writing

I know too much about ...

Music

My parents always told me ...

to shut up

My childhood ambition ...

Was to be a writer

My favorite memory ...

Sitting on Glastonbury Tor at dawn

Why I write ...

I have to. If I don't get the words out of my head I'll explode! Not to mention the pure pleasure of watching those words flow out of my fingers or my pen.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Reading 'Dear Fatty by Dawn French/Listening to Brandan Flowers - Flamingo

My first job ...

Hosiery Counter Sales Assistant

My best moment ...

Getting a personal reply from Paulo Cohelo

My inspiration ...

Life!

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Arts & Humanities > Writing at Helium Guidelines for presenting yourself professionally on Helium: 2 of 10

As soon as anyone signs up to Helium they should immediately head to their 'About Me' page. Simply click 'My Helium' and then 'Edit About Me' and get the information filled out. If a reader finds your writing style or a particular article attributed to you to be interesting the chances are they will want to know more about you. Use a real name - Many people prefer to use an alias and that is fine but the point to remember is making it sound real. If a publisher sees a cute or funny name they are not likely to want to put that as a byline on their publication. Equally, people want to connec...
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