Writing Experience
SUMMARY
Versatile writer with extensive experience writing in-depth, well-researched pieces as well as shorter, social-media friendly “listicals,” blog posts, reviews, email campaigns and other marketing materials. Especially familiar with topics related to travel/entertainment/culture, marketing/sales, work/small business/entrepreneurship, dogs/pet ownership, and parenting/motherhood. Believer in marketing through storytelling. Conversant with all major social media formats. Top-notch SEO skills. Proven experience in meeting or exceeding tight deadlines. Easily adjusts writing style/tone to match defined specifications, format and style. High energy individual with a “can do” attitude.
EXPERIENCE
Examples of recent projects (ghost written and bylined) include:
· AuthorsPublish.com: essay on editing your own work, called How Reading Out Loud Can Make You a Better Writer
· The Ride: regularly ghost write a blog about promotional events, pricing specials, and what’s happening in New York City for this NYC tour and entertainment provider
· Braze: created online marketing content for this comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers relevant and memorable experiences between consumers and the brands they love
· Psafe: ghost wrote blog posts for this developer of mobile apps including 6 of the Absolute Best Android Apps for Animal Lovers
· Clarity Consultants: developed internet copy on topics related to creativity and learning/development
· Palm Beach Poetry Festival: my poem, DGS, won an honorable mention in this prestigious annual contest
· The Sunlight Press: contributed 2 poems, Interior Design and Face to Face, to this well-regarded digital literary journal
· Chicken Soup for the Soul: Your 10 Keys to Happiness: contributed “A Year of New Things” (essay)
· Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Very Good, Very Bad Dog: contributed “Best Friends” (essay)
· Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Power of Yes: contributed “A Year of New Things” (essay)
· Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive, Live Happy: contributed “When ‘Have To’ Becomes ‘Get To’” (essay)
· DogVills.com: contributed How Getting My Son a Dog Changed My Life Forever (article)
· Sylvan Learning: created marketing materials for this tutoring and college prep company
· Wicked Start, LLC: produced marketing content including email campaigns/newsletters, seminars/webinars, ebook, social media posts, and ghost-written blog posts on SCORE for this consulting firm which advises entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses.
· Air: A Radio Anthology (published by Hippocampus Books): contributed “The Radio Was Always On” (essay)
· The Searcher (a periodical published by the Southern California Genealogical Society): contributed “War Wounds” (essay)
· Ghost Stories (SEZ Publishing): contributed “Last of Her Line” (poem)
· Bargain!: A Themed Anthology (Creative Writing Institute): contributed “Senior Class Prank” (short story)
· Songs of Ourselves (Blue Heron Book Works): contributed “Musings from a NYC Mom” (excerpts from a blog that covers motherhood, living, health/wellness, and fashion/beauty)
· Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 4 (Southeast Missouri State University Press): contributed “Finding My Way Home” (interview)
· Parachute/Mapquest: wrote more than 100 online articles on travel, entertainment, and cultural topics
WORK IN PROGRESS
Close Call: The Story of a World War II POW, the true, first-person account of my father’s experience escaping from a German prison train, hiding out in the Tuscan countryside, fighting with the Italian Partisans, and finally making his way back across the Allied line.
SOCIAL MEDIA
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