Editorial and communication consultants
Eco Editors is run by highly experienced editors and award-winning writers Linda Vergnani and Tony Spencer-Smith. A husband and wife team, they share a background in the mainstream media and a passion for the craft of great writing.
Linda Vergnani
Linda Vergnani
The founder of Eco Editors, Linda is an award-winning freelance journalist, a versatile content writer and a highly skilled editor. She has web, book, magazine and newspaper writing and editing experience.
Her freelance journalism articles have appeared in more than 25 newspapers and magazines on five continents.Publications that have published her stories include ABC Environment Online, The Sydney Morning Herald, Green Lifestyle, Nature Index, Australian Doctor, Sydney Alumni Magazine and Times Higher Education.
She has also contract writing and editing for organisations including WWF Australia, the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, the City of Sydney, Tourism Australia, CSIRO, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, the NSW Food Authority, IDP Education Australia, Macquarie University and Fuji Xerox Australia. See what others have said about her.
Her previous roles include serving as South African correspondent of The Chronicle of Higher Education and head of communications for the Independent Development Trust, which spent around $1 billion funding programes that improved health, education and housing for the poorest people in South Africa. The trust worked closely with the government of Nelson Mandela in facilitating post-apartheid development programs.
Her photographs have been published in two books and numerous magazines. See some of her stories on her journalism website.
She loves gardening, watching wildlife and snorkelling in coral reefs. Linda tweets as @ecowrite.
Her freelance journalism articles have appeared in more than 25 newspapers and magazines on five continents.Publications that have published her stories include ABC Environment Online, The Sydney Morning Herald, Green Lifestyle, Nature Index, Australian Doctor, Sydney Alumni Magazine and Times Higher Education.
She has also contract writing and editing for organisations including WWF Australia, the Nature Conservation Council of NSW, the City of Sydney, Tourism Australia, CSIRO, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, the NSW Food Authority, IDP Education Australia, Macquarie University and Fuji Xerox Australia. See what others have said about her.
Her previous roles include serving as South African correspondent of The Chronicle of Higher Education and head of communications for the Independent Development Trust, which spent around $1 billion funding programes that improved health, education and housing for the poorest people in South Africa. The trust worked closely with the government of Nelson Mandela in facilitating post-apartheid development programs.
Her photographs have been published in two books and numerous magazines. See some of her stories on her journalism website.
She loves gardening, watching wildlife and snorkelling in coral reefs. Linda tweets as @ecowrite.
Tony Spencer-Smith
Tony Spencer-Smith
Tony Spencer-Smith is an outstanding corporate writer, editor and trainer. He is also an award-winning novelist and a former Editor-in-Chief of Reader's Digest magazine in Australia and South Africa.
He has done contract work for blue-chip corporations, government departments and not-for-profit organisations. His clients have included AMP, ATO, Austrade, Digital Transformation Agency, MSD (Merck), Office of the eSafety Commissioner, Optus, Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children, Wesley Mission and Westpac.
In 1992 he won South Africa's biggest literary prize, the M-Net Award for his children's environmental fantasy The man who snarled at flowers. His other books include The essentials of great business writing (Editor Group).
He relishes writing, bird watching, reading about nature and the origins of life and playing a mean game of tennis. Tony tweets as @syllababble.
He has done contract work for blue-chip corporations, government departments and not-for-profit organisations. His clients have included AMP, ATO, Austrade, Digital Transformation Agency, MSD (Merck), Office of the eSafety Commissioner, Optus, Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children, Wesley Mission and Westpac.
In 1992 he won South Africa's biggest literary prize, the M-Net Award for his children's environmental fantasy The man who snarled at flowers. His other books include The essentials of great business writing (Editor Group).
He relishes writing, bird watching, reading about nature and the origins of life and playing a mean game of tennis. Tony tweets as @syllababble.
