SERVICES

My professional background provided the opportunity to work across a range of subject areas: education, business, architecture, engineering, interior design, travel, gardening, food, health, marketing, humanities, art, fiction, nonfiction, self-help, memoir, humor, and essay. However, I primarily focus on the following areas:

• Bios and online profiles
• Resumes
• Professional cover letters
• Student essays (college applications)
• Manuscript critique (nonfiction)
• Writing coach (nonfiction)
• Social media (depends on the topic)
• Articles (depends on the topic)

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

• CCA and B, LLC (senior copywriter)
• College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Delaware (communications director)
• Victoria (managing editor)
• Better Homes and Gardens (health editor)
• Meredith Books (copy chief/associate managing editor)
• Southern Accents (art and antiques editor)
• Cooking Light (copy chief)
• Southern Living Advertising Services (copywriter/trade magazine editor)
• AmSouth Bank (technical writer)

FREELANCE CLIENTS

Contributing Writer/Magazines and Journals

• Better Homes and Gardens
• Beautiful Baths
• Beautiful Homes
• Beautiful Kitchens
• Cooking Light
• Country French Style
• Decorating
• Epilepsy Advocate
• First Draft: The Alabama Writers’ Forum (literary)
• Lily Literary Review (poetry)
• Millsaps College Magazine
• Mississippi Magazine
• Orlando Homebuyer
• Roads and Bridges Magazine
• Southern Living
• Southern Accents
• StorySouth (poetry)
• Tuscan Style
•  UAB Magazine (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
• Victoria

Contributing Writer/Books:

• Bath Design and Planning (The Home Depot)
• Collector’s Style (Better Homes and Gardens)
• The Complete Guide to Roses (Ortho)
• Decorating Kids’ Rooms (Better Homes and Gardens)
• Emyl Jenkins’ Book of American Traditions (Crown)
• Kitchen Design and Planning (The Home Depot)
• Michaels Book of Needlecrafts (Lark Publishing)
• Singing on Canvas (Preface)
• Southern Journal (Southern Living)

Copyeditor/Books and Journals:

• All about Perennials (Ortho)
• Angels at the Gate (award-winning historical fiction/Cappuccino Books)
• Business Startup 101 (Blue Point Publishers)
• Business Plan Template (Blue Point Publishers)
• The Complete Perennials Book (Ortho)
• Creating Japanese Gardens (Ortho)
• Great Dads Shape Great Kids (The Great Dads Project)
• Law Firm Marketing (Blue Point Publishers)
• Low-Fat Ways to Cook/book series (Oxmoor House)
• Made in Alabama: A State Legacy (Birmingham Museum of Art)
• Marketing Plan Template (Blue Point Publishers)
• Southern Cultures (startup, University of North Carolina Press)
• Spirit of Steel (Alabama Center for Traditional Culture)
• Authors (editor, ghostwriter, and book proposals/confidential by request)

Business and Nonprofit Organizations (sampling)

• Alabama Humanities Foundation (program manager)
• Chalice Imports (marketing consultant)
• Ebsco Media (copywriter/direct mail)
• Harris Corporation (technical editor/business proposals)
• Heritage Promotions (publicist/Shenandoah Antiques Expo)
• Hoar Construction (copywriter)
• IMU Social Media (ghost blogging)
• Interactive Communications & Training (orthodontic training products/marketing)
• Judy Ford Fabric Art (copywriter)
• McCraney Communications (copywriter)
• Nektar Therapeutics (communications trainer/American business English for international scientists)
• Shenandoah Antiques Expo (marketing consultant)
• Southern Accents Advertising Sections (copywriter)
• The Alabama Center for Traditional Culture (proofreader)
• The Alabama Arts Council (copywriter and proofreader)
• The Southern Coterie (C-Team member and editorial contributor)
• University of Alabama at Birmingham Marketing Department (copywriter and editor)
• ZellComp Inc. (engineering/marketing consultant and patent translation)