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Based full-time in Orlando, Florida
(but with regular travels in the Americas and Europe), Simon (from the UK) and Susan (from the Midwest) form a unique and
insightful writing business, both individually and as a dynamic team. Their basic ethos is to lead readers by the hand
into the varied and complex world of travel, to ensure everyone gets a full and valid perspective on their many subjects,
and also to provide a positive and user-friendly destination insight. They can turn their hand to any written media,
and have frequently been told their books and travel articles are "like having a good and knowledgeable friend take us
around." Their Brit Guide titles to Orlando and Disneyland Paris have garnered numerous accolades (including Best Guidebook
with the British Guild of Travel Writers) but, more importantly, have been the No 1 titles on their destinations for many
years with the people who count most - their readers. Separately, Simon and Susan have carved out distinctive and highly informative
styles for themselves, while together they are among the world's most distinguished and prolific travel teams.
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 Simon Veness
Author, Editor, Writer
Sports and travel writer Simon has been in the journalism business since 1981 and was the original
founder of the Brit Guide travel book series with UK publishers Foulsham in the mid-1990s. He quickly discovered sport and
travel were good companions as he developed the Brit's Guide series in tandem with his specialty for American sports coverage
with several British newspapers. His acclaimed freelance writing has grown to include a huge variety of outlets, from major
British newspapers The Sun, Mail on Sunday, Daily Express, The Telegraph and The Independent to specialty publications like RCI
Holiday, Essentially America and World of Cruising magazine (which he also edited from 1999-2014). He has featured on
BBC TV's Holiday programme, various UK regional radio stations, and Fox 35 TV in Orlando, while he also writes
the View From America column for SkySports.com. Other outlets include the Internet, web pages for the likes of Attraction
Tickets Direct and Orlando Attractions magazine. Simon has also partnered with wife Susan on various
writing projects, and their travels together continue to provide a rich source of inspiration for articles and books. A
committed and lifelong devotee of travel in all its forms, Simon is never happier than when detailing his observations and
thoughts, and his one big ambition is to tour the vast and inhospitable tracts of Antarctica. As final proof of the perfect
compatability of travel and sport, Simon's formative years were spent in Southern Africa, where his family lived for seven
years, and he was national junior tennis champion in 1975 and '76 - in Botswana!
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 Susan Veness
Author, Writer,
Webmaster Susan Veness is an
international travel writer, solo author of the hugely successful The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney
World and its two follow-up titles and co-author in the Brit Guide travel book series, having decided
that writing holds more fascination than her degree in Bioenergetic medicine. She was among the first (very young!) visitors
to Walt Disney World in 1971 and has maintained a keen interest in Orlando, Disney and the theme parks ever since, giving
rise to an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Mouse-like. Her eye for detail and Disney savvy led her to becoming a contributor
to a major (unofficial) Disney website and discussion forum, which she then parlayed into a job with the Brit Guide travel
series as principal research assistant on their Orlando title in 2001. Working with US-based author Simon Veness, their
professional relationship developed into a fully-fledged partnership in every sense, and Susan has also expanded her writing
horizons in recent years. She now contributes to a wide range of sources, from the Internet to magazines, and writes both
individually as well as with husband Simon. Recent credits include online content as an Orlando expert for Attraction Tickets
Direct, Orlando Attractions magazine and (jointly) for RCI Holiday magazine and the Telegraph and Mail on Sunday in the
UK, as well as an appearance for The History Channel in their America's
Book of Secrets series. She is also the webmaster of VenessTravelMedia.com. Together, Susan and Simon's travels
take them widely throughout the USA, plus the UK, Disneyland Paris and other parts of Europe, as well as the Caribbean and
South America. Her ambition is to spend a year just touring Europe, write all about it and then, possibly,
get some sleep.
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