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Objective:
- An editorial position
with the ability to organize and affect excellent writing in
business and feature categories.
Strengths:
- Researching
- Interviewing
- Writing and editing
- Working with people
- Meeting deadlines
Accomplishments:
- Feature articles & essays for magazines.
- Effective interviewing across the board: construction, celebrity,
design, medical, municipal government.
- Newspaper columns; social & fashion.
- Written & researched historical novel on the Southwest.
- Grant writing; parks & recreation grant.
- Organized & created material for multi-page newsletters. Formed
liaisons with designers, printers & mail houses.
- Municipal government meetings.
- Co-Authored travel book. Traveled a multi-state area finding best
places to stay & dine as well as listing activities for both couples &
families.
- Conducted Writers Workshops as part of the Just Write Writing
Team.
- Book reviews.
Employment History:
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1993 - Present -
Freelance, both
past & present publications:
- Webster-Kirkwood
Times, Missouri Life, St. Louis Construction News & Review, RCGA’s
Commerce Magazine, St. Louis Bride, St. Louis Family, Today's Home,
Ladue News, St. Louis Post Dispatch, and Patch.com.
- Conducted writing
seminars as part of the "Just Write" Writing Team.
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Writing and editing newsletters. Clients, past and present, include:
West Overland EMS & Fire Protection District; Metro West Fire
Protection District; Creve Coeur Fire Protection District; Monarch
Fire Protection District; Mid- County Fire Protection District;
First Integrity Mortgage Services.
- Other Employment::
- Wrote text for a St. Louis relocation magazine
published by Claudia Brown & Company, Portland, OR. This
publication targets people moving to St. Louis & includes a
calendar of events, attractions, recreational activities,
sports, destinations and cultural events.
- Wrote copy on "Hotels and B&B’s" for the
St. Louis edition of citysearch.com.
- Co-authored a travel book titled Quick Escapes From St.
Louis for Globe
Pequot Press.
- Wrote medical articles for
CBSnews.com HealthWatch .
- Contributed to
Pink Prayer Book, LIguori Publications.
- Contributed to
Storm County:An Anthology, Mozark Press
Education:
- University of Missouri;
St. Louis, MO.
Graduated magna
cum laude B.S - Bachelor of General Studies with emphasis in
writing.
- St. Louis Community College;
St. Louis, MO.
Creative Writing.
Special Courses:
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Creative Writing Seminar - University of Missouri-St. Louis.
- Introduction to Data Processing - St. Louis Community College.
- Certificate in Writing - University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Organizations:
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Missouri
Professional Communicators
- Missouri Writers
Guild
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