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)
