Ghostwriter, Consultant, Speaker
Fifteen years experience teaching various writing courses, business writing, fiction, and research skills at the university and community college level. Coached thousands of students in organizing, writing, editing, and researching writing projects. Served as consultant for textbooks, theses, dissertations, articles, journal papers, and conference presentations. Written web content, flyers, brochures, booklets, articles, and fiction. Edited an anthology. Edits and contributes to a monthly newsletter.
Career Highlights
- Published: short stores, poetry, non-fiction essays
- Business Writing: all promotional and marketing writing for family business
- Teacher &Lecturer: 15 years classroom, conference and workshop experience
- Consulted: textbooks, articles, conference presentations, theses, dissertations, and other academic writing
- Web: articles, web content, and designed, wrote, and maintained two web sites, five and three years respectively
- Editor & Contributor: Orange Ink, monthly newsletter for California Writers Club Orange County
Computer Skills: Word, WordPerfect, Indesign, Excel, PowerPoint, Dreamweaver, and Internet
Professional Skills
- Strong Written & Oral Communication Skills
- Ghostwriting Certificate: Claudia Suzanne: Wambtac Communications
- 15 Years Experience Helping Writers Develop Their Ideas, Concepts, and Projects to Completion
- Proven System for Non-fiction Mapping, Fiction Plotting, Story/Character Development
Education:
| MA English | California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
| BA English | California State Polytechnic University, Pomona |
| Affiliations: | |
- Vice President of California Writers Club, Orange County
- Toastmasters International
- National Association of Women Writers
- Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
- International Association of Writers