Mary Novakovich

Freelance journalists are known for being able to turn their hand to a diverse range of work, and I’m certainly no exception. For more than 25 years, I have been working as a journalist in newspapers, magazines, books, radio and television. Since I left the BBC to go freelance in 1997, I have worked regularly for The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Daily Telegraph, London Evening Standard and Guinness Publishing, among many others.

I focus on travel writing and editing, but I also do television criticism, book editing, proofreading and researching. In the line of work, I trekked through Costa Rica’s rainforests, learnt how to snowboard, drove a vintage Ferrari without crashing it and actually got paid for falling in love with France and Italy.

For much of 2011, I was researching and writing the latest edition of Frommer’s Provence and the Riviera guidebook, which is published in March 2012.

If you click on the relevant links on the left, you can read some of my articles, find out about my background and special skills (including several foreign languages) and my client list.

I’m a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers, which you can check out at www.bgtw.org. I also write a blog about my travels, Small World, and you can read a selection of my travel articles on my Travel Intelligence page. If you’re into Twitter, you can follow me here.