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Marisa Wikramanayake - freelance writing & editing services
http://www.marisa.com.au
Marisa Wikramanayake is a Sri Lankan born, Australian based freelance editor and writer. She writes the Perth Diary column for the national newspaper The Sunday Leader about Sri Lankan and Australian politics, life in Perth, philosophy and popular culture. Her first book was published in 2001 at the age of 17 and she is currently working on her second novel Sedition. She also writes articles & poetry and has been blogging online since 1998 about her life and her experiences with writing, blogging, editing and freelancing. You can find her rates, services, policies, tips, advice, portfolio, published work and news at her website at http://www.marisa.com.au .
Recent Posts
Virgin Blue’s bad luck day
Virgin Blue screwed up big time today. At 3:06 pm I got an email from Virgin Blue telling me that I had received a free upgrade to the GOLD level of their frequent flyer program Velocity Rewards. I clicked through and could not get to the account p...
7 ways newspaper websites can succeed (or why Rupert Murdoch is horribly wrong)
Newspapers by Alex Barth on Flickr Also known as seven reasons as to why Mr. Rupert Murdoch is wrong about how the internet works. Consumer is king on the internet. Your reader is important. Seth Godin, marketing guru, would agree. On the internet, ...
You get to decide the future of Perth Diary
If you haven’t noticed, the Sunday Leader has got a brand spanking new website. I went exploring. Turns out that in the review section they are printing blog posts from the Kottu feed. Turns out there is no Perth Diary anywhere in the pages onl...
Help me out with the Society of Editors website
As you may or may not know, I am the website coordinator/admin for The Society of Editors (WA) Inc. I am not a particularly good one – the best thing I seem to have done so far is get the society’s website listed in the top google search ...
Eureka Street has published my poetry
Hi all, Eureka Street published my poetry, you can see the poetry here. I am the second poem down. They have invited me to contribute more. Would you like to read some of my poetry on a regular basis, posted on here? Let me know in the comments. Shor...
Music Review: The Beautiful Few’s The Nights You Did Your Hair
RTR FM has just published the music review I wrote for The Beautiful Few’s The Nights You Did Your Hair. The link for RTR FM is here. The full review is below: The Beautiful Few's The Nights You Did Your Hair There is a song for every sing...
