Simone Da’ Costa is a writer, author, freelance magazine writer and self-publisher. She believes achieving excellence is the driving force to success.

Simone is an writer and author who enjoys the compelling feeling that writing brings. In the words of Miss Da Costa ‘Writing is seen as a tool with which to free yourself in a limitless world of playful words while at the same time welcome your ideas, thoughts and imagination onto the page. Most off all, the passion to write is, simply put, inspiring, challenging, enjoying and empowering.'

She is the founder of a blog called, Simone's blog - Depicting the Writer in You. The blog's mission is to express the literary art of writing and its evocative quality that gives all writers much joy.

I have self-published two books, Remember to Pray: Day Planner and 2013 Hummingbird Day Planner.

Remember to Pray is a planner that is designed to remind us to pray daily, but more especially it helps us establish a connection with God and to maintain that connection on a daily basis. Through daily prayer we acknowledge His importance in our lives and take time out of our numerous other commitments to worship and give thanks to Him.

2013 Hummingbird Day Planner. Beautifully designed 2013 Hummingbird Day Planner helps you plan your day. It encourages and guides you to set objectives for yourselves through-out the year (12 months), hence to achieve your goal. The highlights of the planner are: Weekly Planning, Calendars, Notes, 2013 Holidays and Monthly Goal Plan.

My recent work, a newly published children's book called A Silly Rhyming Alphabet Book about Animals from A to Z. It is an instructional book but one which is cleverly disguised as a rhyming, animal book. children will unknowingly learn the alphabet, be introduced to animals new and known, and pick up the subtleties of rhyme.

I have have done freelance magazine work for a few magazines. Africulture, Planet Africa, Mudd magazine and The Canadian Journal Newspaper.

Self-publishing Q & A /Advice, Writing Tips, free Press Release advertising and author interviews.