Lucy Sweet

Lucy_Sweet

Job Title:
Copywriter.

When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?:
An artist.

Favourite retro advert?:
Hope it’s chips…it’s chips…

What would your super power be?:
To speak every language in the world fluently.

What’s your guilty pleasure?:
Watching Homes Under The Hammer.

What item could you not live without?:
Sausages.

Describe your perfect Sunday:
Lie in, brunch, newspapers, a walk, cocktails, dinner, film, bed.

What’s your Tory name?:
Marjorie Marlborough-Pennells.

And now for the serious bit…

Responsibilities:
Writing copy for web and print, concepts, radio and TV scripts.

Experience:
20 years as a freelance journalist, contributing to Daily and Sunday Express, Punch, Daily Record, Sunday Times, Glamour, The Guardian, Radio Times, Independent, FHM, Sabotage Times
2007 – Author of the Louis Vuitton Travel Guide to Glasgow
2005-06 Author of two novels published by Corgi/Black Swan
2004 Scriptwriter for ‘Bosom Pals’, produced by Dawn French for BBC1
2002-04 Editor of Chica, self-published women’s magazine and winner of an EMAP Lifestyle Fanzine Award
1997 – Author of cartoon anthology ‘Unskinny’ published by Quartet.

Qualifications:
7 GSCES, 4 ‘A’ levels, art school drop out.