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All
Music Guide
Bellingham Herald
Better Homes & Gardens
Birmingham Black & White
Boog City
Corwin Press
E-Reads
Essential Design
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Gale Group/St. James Press
International Engineering Consortium
Log Home Living
McGraw-Hill Companies
Northwest Life & Times
Pickford Cinema
The Pieces
Random House
Seattle Writergrrls
Time Warner Books/iPublish
Toolhouse Design Company
Western Washington University
Whatcom
Magazine
USA Today

Juliana
Hatfield
Some
Girls
Blake
Babies
Creative
Networks, Inc.
Dr. Kathleen
Kinney
Women’s
Resource and Action Center
Time
Warner Books/iPublish
(e-book proofreading)
Nonfiction
Fire in
the Soul
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
American
Schools: The $100 Billion Challenge
Bill Cosby, Ed.D and Dwight Allen, Ed.D
The
Protein Power LifePlan
Michael R. Eades, M.D. & Mary Dan Eades, M.D.
How to
Love a Black Man
Reverend Ronn Elmore
Faster:
The Acceleration of Just About Everything
James Gleick
Leading
with the Heart: Coach K’s Successful Strategies for
Basketball, Business, and Life
Mike Krzyzewski
Ten
Things I Wish I'd Known—Before I Went Out Into the Real
World
Maria Shriver
Do What
You Are
Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger
Fiction
Death of
a Dentist
M.C. Beaton
A Heart
for the Taking
Shirlee Busbee
Gypsy
Lady
Shirlee Busbee
The
Glitter and the Gold
Marion Chesney
Vor: The
Maelstrom
Loren L. Coleman
Into the
Thinking Kingdoms: Journeys of the Catechist Book 2
Alan Dean Foster
With Hope
Dorothy Garlock
With Song
Dorothy Garlock
Nightrose
Dorothy Garlock
This
Loving Land
Dorothy Garlock
Yesteryear
Dorothy Garlock
The Naked
God, Part 2: Faith
Peter F. Hamilton
Two
Truths and a Lie
Katrina Kittle
Indiscreet
Kasey Michaels
Come Near
Me
Kasey Michaels
Burnt
Sienna
David Morrell
Alice at
Heart
Deborah Smith
Evening
News
Marly Swick
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International
Engineering Consortium
(technical editing)
DSL in
the Current Market Place
Philip Asmundson
The
Political Environment for DSL Services
Steven Augustino
The
Broadband Marathon: Access Technologies Jockey for
Subscribers
Ernie Bergstrom
Service
Quality in Large-Scale DSL Deployments
Didier Cop
Marrying
SLAs to Service Provider Business Applications
Joel Halpern
Proactive
Site Service Assurance
T.M. Ravi
Optimizing
the Networks
Joe Savage
The
Ethernet: From SONET to Resilient Packet Rings
Bob Schiff
Deploying
All-Optical Access Networks
Keith Shaneman
Innovations
in Long-Haul Fiber
Scott E. Sheffer
Guaranteeing
IP Quality of Service Through Optical Networks
Chuck Sullivan
FTTH
versus Small-Node HFC
John Thoma
Transport
Technology Selection in Metropolitan Networks
Gregory Treleven
Management
of DWDM Transport
Ian Turner
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Better
Homes & Gardens Special Interest Publications
(feature writing)
Novel Thoughts, Decorating magazine
Encore!,
Building Ideas magazine
Decorative
Painting, Home Ideas magazine
The
Legend of St. Patrick’s Day, Holiday Crafts
magazine
California
Cucina, Decorating magazine
Layered
with Love, Decorating magazine
Living
Large in a Small Space, Quick & Easy Decorating
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Northwest
Life & Times
(feature writing)
Skagit Valley Homes Spark the Imagination
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Essential
Design
(marketing writing)
I was hired to
create new marketing Web content for Essential
Web Design & Consulting, Inc., a leading Web
development firm in Bothell, Washington, whose clients
include Microsoft, the University of Washington, and
Paramount Pictures.
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All Music
Guide
(band biographies)
Julie Ruin
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Seattle
Writergrrls
(feature writing)
Dishing
the Dirt: The process of a Restaurant Critic
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Boog City
(feature writing)
Boog City reviews
Feel It
Working through the Mysteries of Life
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Farrar,
Straus and Giroux
(e-book proofreading)
Nonfiction
The
Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
Louis Menand
This title
went on to win the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History
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Gale
Group/St. James Press
I was hired
as a freelance writer for the Gale
Group and its imprint, St.
James Press, researching and writing detailed
reference book entries for their International
Directory of Company Histories title. The Gale
Group is a world leader in e-information publishing for
libraries, schools and businesses, best known for its
accurate and authoritative reference content as well as
its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and
newspaper articles.
Companies
profiled:
Anglo
American plc
ASML Holding N.V.
Baseball Club of Seattle, L.P. (Seattle Mariners)
Digital River, Inc.
Invensys plc
PowerGen plc
Rio Tinto plc
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Birmingham
Black & White
(feature writing)
John Strohm interview
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E-Reads
Inc.
(e-book proofreading)
Nonfiction
Silent
Voices: The Southern Negro Woman Today
Josephine Carson
Who Made
the Lamb
Charlotte Painter
Fiction
Working
Murder
Eleanor Boylan
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Pickford
Cinema
I wrote film descriptions and blurbs for the monthly
calendar for this non-profit, independent art house. Film
titles I synopsized include:
Atanarjuat
(The Fast Runner)
The Believer
The Business of Fancy Dancing
The Business of Strangers
C.Q.
Human Nature
Monster's Ball
Storytelling
The Triumph of Love
Y Tu Mamá
También
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McGraw-Hill
Companies
I was a ghostwriter for McGraw-Hill, the largest
educational materials provider in the United States.
Projects I worked on include:
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Wrote supplementary materials (21,000 words) for the Teacher
Wraparound Edition of Mathematics with Business
Applications, published in March 2003.
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Wrote 23 ancillary "Internet Resources" chapters
for Mathematics with Business Applications, published in 2003.
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Bellingham
Herald
For two years I wrote a weekly restaurant review column
(listed below) and
continue to produce feature pieces for
this award-winning Gannett newspaper.
Features: Preparing for Retirement series from June 2004
There's
still time to save up
Mental
preparation important
Features:
Hot Homebuyers Market Series from June 2004
Is this the right time to sell?
Selling
for the 34–50 crowd
Pros
and cons of using your home's equity
Features: First-Time Homebuyer Series from June 2003
Local neighborhoods have it all
Finding
a family-friendly neighborhood
Before
looking, define needs
Get
the most for your money
Features: Garden Series from Summer 2002
Surf 'n turf: Cliffside Drive couple wins expert help for
garden makeover
Diamond
in the rough: Making the most of a view
Progress
not perfection: Plans bloom for building garden's design
Hoe
Down: Garden Makeover winners rake in soil suggestions
Superior
soil
Garden
Makeover winners putter with potted items
Restaurant review columns 2001-2003 (all columns written
available here)
Calumet
rarely fails to please
Game for variety? Sports fans
fill up at The Safe
Pastázza takes pride in
fresh, local ingredients
It's hard to beat Seattle's
Osteria La Spiga
Temple Bar fills artsy niche
Surly won't cut it: Reviewer
shares her pet peeves
Wild about Zoë
Check, please: Reviewer takes
her leave with fond memories
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USA Today
This
international newspaper ran an excerpt from one of my Bellingham
Herald restaurant review columns.
Local Tastes: Bellingham,
Wash.
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Toolhouse
Design Company
As Chief Content
Developer for this multimedia design powerhouse, it was my
responsibility to write narrative scripts for each
project, as well as Toolhouse marketing collateral.
Interactive Trials
QuickBooks
2003
Quicken 2003
QuickBooks 2004
Quicken 2004
Track-It
Intuit Payroll
Marketing Collateral
Media
Inc.
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Log Home
Living
I have written many design articles for Log Home Living,
a national monthly magazine, including a home feature for
their 2006 Annual Buyer's Guide.
Furnishing
Your Home, Room By Room
Cultivating
Eden: 10 Ways To Beautify Your Outdoor Space
Light
Bright
Baths With Splash
Secrets of Success
The Place To Be
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The
Pieces
I was asked to write a band bio for this Bloomington,
Indiana, trio, which was used for marketing purposes in a
national campaign advertising the release of their 2004 EP
Blow Your Mind.
Band
biography
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Corwin Press
I was a freelance developmental editor for Corwin Press,
an affiliate of SAGE Publications that publishes
research-based books targeted at K-12 principals,
administrators, specialists, and teachers. Projects I've worked on include:

Whatcom Magazine
This bi-monthly lifestyle magazine showcases Pacific
Northwest living. It is published by the Bellingham
Herald, a McClatchy Company newspaper.
A room of their own
Something in the air
Lighting up the
neighborhood
'A bit of everything'
Simply sensational
With an
ocean at your door...
The great outdoors
Suite Dreams
Mad for Media
The Stuff of Life
Spirit and Splendor
It's A Wonderful, New Life
A New Take on Tradition
W List
Living with a Legacy
Small Scale, Big Impact
Mix Masters
Rapid Repasts
Place Settings
Outdoor Spaces
Far-flung feasts: Dining
that's worth the drive
Hit the Heights
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