George A

Creative Director, Author

Fiverr • Self-employed

Jun 2015 - Present • 11 yrs 4 mos

Founder & Principal Writer | Heedrum Hodrum (2020 – Present) Authored and published commercial satirical works, including the 54-page holiday satire An Unreliable Atlas of Xmas for the Seasonally Befuddled. Conceived, wrote, and produced the 50-card flash-fiction collection pairing archival fine art with original satirical prose, successfully distributed across independent UK galleries and retail stockists. Designed original narrative and deduction gameplay writing for tabletop formats, including a 24-card Scots dialect deduction game. Journalist, Columnist & Commercial Copywriter (Freelance) Regular political and cultural blogger for Newsnet. scot across a two-year tenure, generating 8,000+ reader hits and strong audience engagement. Researched, drafted, and placed long-form cultural journalism and essays, including a featured newspaper double-page spread on social commentary and ageism (Elderspeak). Authored critically received essays and articles addressing Scottish observational humour, social psychology, and cultural stereotyping. Achieved consecutive 100% marks across advanced journalism and professional non-fiction feature-writing modules. Delivered 1,000+ commercial commissions across print, digital, and script formats, maintaining a consistent 5-star rating for tone calibration, comedic punch-up, and human-crafted copy.