Heather Seggel

Santa Rosa, CA USA
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Professional Experience

My work has been praised as “unfailingly professional, admirably open-minded, and always on time.” I built that reputation over twenty years of writing and copy editing. Work has included business and investigative reporting, feature articles and reviews, with credits in UTNE, San Francisco, BookPage,The Toast, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, at Elle.com and in several anthologies. I write fast, clean, green copy. I turn assignments around quickly, the work is polished and generally needs little to no editing, and it's all done with an ever-lightening eco-footprint. I'm currently expanding services to include sales materials, including white papers, for green businesses and editing/marketing advice for self-published authors.

Expertise

Copy Editor
7 Years
Reporter
15 Years
Writer
20 Years

Specialty

Entertainment
17 Years
Books & Literature
20 Years
Women's Issues
17 Years

Industries


Newsletter - Consumer
5 Years
Online/new media
3 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
8 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

20 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

BookPage (10+), BlueInk Review (10+), The Toast (6-10)

Technical Skills

I'm more wordy than techy, but willing and happy to learn as needed.

Foreign Language Skills

n/a

Unions

Freelancer's Union

Computer Skills

OpenOffice, MS Office, Horizon, Wordstock, IBID

Equipment

Dell laptop, digital recorder, digital camera (currently in storage, but accessible).

Work Permits & Visas

n/a

Associations

National Book Critics Circle, Freelancer's Union

Showcase

General

PR Sampler
(Ukiah Main Street Program 5/5/2009)
Radio spots entice shoppers to revisit their hometown, which has more to offer than you'd think.
Through the Cracks
(North Bay Bohemian 8/20/2014)
A personal look at the housing crunch in Sonoma County.
Ariel Schrag Interview
(Slate.com 8/3/2014)
This interview with graphic novelist, TV writer and novelist Schrag, which originally appeared in Lambda Literary Review, delves into trans* identity, the written word versus scripted or visual storytelling, and a tiny smidge of L Word chat.
Book Review
(The Progressive Populist 8/1/2014)
"Rednecks, Queers & Country Music:" Not only are these concepts interrelated, they speak volumes about our class awareness (or grievous lack of same).
Class Navigation
(The Toast 12/1/2013)
My first essay to appear on The Toast deals with issues of class, and the false promises of the Law of Attraction.