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Simon Whaley has been writing and taking photographs since his early teens, but only became a full time writer/photographer in January 2004 following the success of his best selling book ‘100 Ways For A Dog To Train His Human’. He has since gone on to provide walking route descriptions for magazines such as Country Walking and Country & Border Life, as well as contribute to a variety of other magazines.
Living on the Welsh Borders, he feels that Wales is his back garden, although the Lake District also makes a good day trip. He has also produced work for corporate clients, such as the Welsh Tourist Board and the Stillwell Holiday Cottage Guide, and was commissioned by Frances Lincoln to produce ‘Best Walks in the Welsh Borders’ published in 2007. The Bluffer's Guide to Hiking takes a light hearted look at walking, published in 2009.
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| As well as writing, Simon helps to run writing holidays on behalf of HF Holidays at their hotels across the UK.
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| Writer and Photographer contributing regularly to Country Walking’s Down Your Way section, and producing the popular Country & Border Walks With Simon Whaley column for Country & Border Life magazine. He has also written for Walking Wales, In Britain, British Life, Dogs Monthly, Holdiay Cottages, Cumbria, People’s Friend and The Lady.
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Oct 2006: OWG Award for Excellence for walking features (series category) in Country & Border Life magazine.
Sept 2006: 1st Prize - National Association of Writers Groups Article Category
April 2005: 1st Prize – article Category – Shrewsbury Readers & writers Literary Competition 2005; March 2005: 1st Prize – Signpost Travel Writing Competition
The Bluffer's Guide to Hiking - (Oval Books - 2009)
The Bluffer's Guide to Banking - (Oval Books - 2008)
Fundraising for a Community Project (How To books - 2007)
The Little Book of Alternative Garden Wisdom (Zymurgy publishing) - 2007
Best Walks in the Welsh Borders (Frances Lincoln) - 2007
Freelance Photographer’s Projects Book (contributor) – BFP 2005; Puppytalk – Hodder Children’s Books 2005; Running a Writers’ Circle – Ignotus Press 2005; 100 Muddy Paws For Thought – Hodder & Stoughton 2004; 100 Ways For A Dog TO Train His Human – Hodder & Stoughton 2003 (several foreign editions)
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| Main areas of interest | |
| Wales and the English/Welsh Borders, and the Lake District; walking, the countryside, UK travel and Self-Catering in the UK.
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