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Meet Tessa Harris - Author
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One very large out of court settlement later, she decided that newspaper journalism was not for her and set her sights on women’s magazines. In 1987 she was in at the launch of Best, the million-plus selling women’s weekly magazine, before leaving to be assistant editor on Heritage magazine. When motherhood beckoned she spent 10 years freelancing for several national magazines, including Woman’s Journal, Homes & Gardens and Ideal Home and wrote regularly on interiors for the Daily Telegraph. She also won a major European-wide screenwriting competition and had her screenplay optioned by a production company. Over the past 25 years she has interviewed dozens of actors, writers, sports stars and politicians including Margaret Thatcher, Jeffrey Archer, Antony Hopkins, Susan Hampshire, Alan Titchmarsh, Jackie Stewart, Boris Johnson and has even had one of her spoons bent by Uri Geller. In 2002 she started working for Archant, first as a chief writer on Hampshire Life, then on Berkshire Life. In 2006 she was made editor and loves the variety that the role offers – especially the socialising! The magazine has a mainly female readership and many of them are entrepreneurs in some capacity, so one of her aims is to reflect their interests in her editorial and to provide a platform for publicity for their products and services. In July 2010 Tessa signed a three-book deal with a US publisher and her first novel, The Anatomist's Apprentice, is out in January 2011. It is a murder mystery, set in the 1780s, featuring an American doctor who becomes the world's first forensice scientist. She is also freelancing and do PR for select clients. She can be contacted on 07905 423536 or via email at anatomists_apprentice@hotmail.co.uk |
  
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