Writing and Editing Resume

Writing and Editorial Background


Writing: Professional writer for 5 + years, with experience in website content, blogging, e-zine, magazine, newspaper, and business writing. Author of over fifty articles in over a dozen national, international and on-line publications; author of one book, (with two in progress for an independent publisher); contributing writer and photographer to best-seller; various corporate and business materials, (see below). (See publications list for details.)


Editing: Former editor of four 10,000+ monthly traffic websites; popular blog editor for high-traffic music website;  electronic newsletters; various corporate and business materials, (see below). Experienced in manuscript and copyediting, content editing, and proofreading.


Business and Corporate Writing: Writer, editor and designer of corporate, publication and art/music web content; 5+ years legal writing and editing; press releases; CD liner notes and other promotional materials; web content, briefs, proposals, marketing briefs, speeches, newsletters.


Social Media: Consultant to several high-profile artists and musicians; assisted national print publication transition to on-line format with major focus on blogging and social media; singlehandedly doubled blog traffic for national music website; proven track record in artist, business and venue PR with Twitter, YouTube, Tumbler, Facebook personal, fan pages and app. development; familiar with basic html, Blogger and WordPress.


Speaker: Invited speaker to this year's Pulp Fest.

Representative Features and Interviews

Mike Seeger, Part One

Mike Seeger, Part Two, (the last interview before his death)

Representative Publications


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Contributing Writer

On-line



States News Service

Print

Richmond Times Dispatch

Style Weekly

Northern Virginia Magazine

South Jersey Magazine

Books

The Everything Ghost Hunting Book, (contributing writer/photographer)

Virtual Reality Applications for Defense, Smi Publishing, UK

Beowulf, (in progress, Airship 27 Publishing)

The Purple Scar, (in progress, Airship 27 Publishing)

Free-lance fiction and non-fiction manuscript and proposal editing.


Blogs

The Official GratefulWeb Blog

The Norvell Page Page

High Noon

The Conjure Woman's Corner

Social Media

Twitter

My Blogger Page

Facebook

Facebook Fan Page

ReverbNation

MySpace

YouTube

Tumblr

TwitPics

Blip.fm

Digg

LinkedIn