Matthew Stibbe's Homepage Writer

Writer

Headlines:
I am a professional freelance writer specialising in business, technology, aviation and travel.  Magazine clients include Director, Popular Science, Wired, Air and Space, and The Robb Report.   Corporate clients include Microsoft, KPMG and Wingrave Yeats.  Please contact me if you would like me to write something for you. 

What I Write About 

I write about what I know and enjoy, including:

  • Business: company profiles, how-to advice, interviews, business travel, IT.
  • Science and technology: security, innovations, inventors, gadgets, futurology, internet.
  • Aviation and space: news, technology, private aviation, trip and plane reviews.
  • Luxury and business travel: destinations, hotels, airlines.

I also have a number of corporate clients for whom I write marketing copy, web site content, speeches, conference proceedings, research and white papers.

Clients 

US magazine clients include Wired, Popular Science, The Robb Report, Air and Space Smithsonian and Business 2.0.  

UK magazine clients include Real Business, Director, Employee Benefits, CBI Business Voice, New Business, PLC Director and PC Pilot.  

Corporate clients include Microsoft, Wingrave Yeats, KPMG, LloydsTSB, bCentral, Palm, the DTI, Wingrave Yeats, Different by Design, Redwaters, The Design Council and Marquis Jet. 

There's also a complete list of everything I've ever written (almost)

Client references

Here are some of my client references:

  • "What he says and how he delivers is clean, concise and highly intelligent"
  • "We have been extremely pleased with the writing that Matthew has delivered for Microsoft."
  • "He's a successful entrepreneur who can write!"

About my Writing 

My writing will be:

  • independent-minded,
  • grounded in the real world,
  • on subjects I personally find interesting,
  • based on my own personal direct experience and not press-releases,
  • critically engaged but not hostile - I won’t write about what I don’t like
  • written to the highest technical standards I can achieve,
  • fit and appropriate, in tone, content and style, for the commissioning publication and their audience,
  • researched and written in good faith, and
  • always delivered on time.

I subscribe to the NUJ code of conduct for journalists.

Recent Work

There is a complete list of all my work by subject matter and you can download PDF scans of most of the articles.  See also references from clients.


Review of the Wally Power 118 superyacht.  Article about McLaren's new factory.  From Pong to the Internet - a graphical feature on the secret history of computer games. 


Reviews of the Ariel Atom, Eclipse 500, Cirrus SR-22G2, business jet alternatives to Concorde, DA-42 Twinstar, the Agusta 109 Power Elite helicopter, Boeing Business Jet 2 and Piaggio P180 Avanti.


Zero-G, Company profile of Lionhead Studios; survey of the British space industry, travel and advice articles.


A fortnightly security column and other security-related information for bCentral and MSN.


High altitude airships, the Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer, Aircraft Cockpits, ejection seats and a review of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 for Popular Science


Review of Mars Rover toy, Home Grown Simulators - a feature about flight sim fanatics and a book reviews of Project Orion, Aerospace Design and other books for Air and Space magazine.

Games Industry

I used to work in the computer games industry and these are some of the articles and speeches I have written about it.

How to get a job in it

How to start a games company

How to prepare an idea to present to a publisher.

Managing Creativity

Working with Brands: a post-mortem of Dune 2000 and LEGO Loco.

A Brief History of Computer Games

Other Writing

Holiday in San Francisco

On tour with the RSC in New York

Holiday in Goa with Aileen Gonsalves

Everything I've ever written (almost)

Advice*

On Writing by Steven King is probably the only book about the craft of writing that I actually enjoyed.  The Elements of Style is a very short and very efficient guide to good grammar and style.  The Economist Style Guide is also very good but longer.  The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto explains how to create logical and compelling arguments and communicate them to other people.  

cover cover cover

* In association with Amazon.co.uk