Professional/Personal Overview
Let me help you write your memoir, nonfiction narrative, how-to or self-help book. I am a New York Times Bestselling ghostwriter. One author took the book we wrote onto Oprah. If you don't need full-on ghostwriting, I can consult with you through your book project for an hourly rate. I'm also a versatile freelance wordsmith: journalist, feature writer, copywriter, essayist. I taught journalism at SUNY Albany, too. I cover a lot of ground for various publications - arts, lifestyle, relationships, healthy, fitness, beauty, travel, fashion. Articles and essays published in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Marie Claire, Cookie, W, Good Housekeeping, Women's Wear Daily, the Daily News, the New York Post, Billboard, Newsday and more. I hold a Web Award for my copy on the maybelline.com site.
Work Info
Expertise
Book Author
14 Years
Editor
15 Years
Writer
23 Years
Specialty
Beauty
10 Years
Arts & Humanities
20 Years
Fashion
15 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
23 Years
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
Conde Nast Publications (6-10), New York Magazine (6-10), New York Times (3-5), Hearst Publications - Harper's Bazaar (3-5)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Aquilent (11+), Zentropy (1-2)
Other Work History
I was a regular freelancer for Rush & Molloy at the Daily News, and was the Eye editor at Women's Wear Daily and W and held various other jobs at Fairchild Publications in the 80s and 90s.
Unions
The Author's Guild
References
Janet Ozzard, New York Magazine; Christina Persico, AOL; Dana Wood, W Magazine
Awards
Webby Award 2004
Associations
MediaBistro, the Author's Guild, The Association of Ghostwriters, SheWrites
Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time. I live near New York, NY. I am willing to travel regionally. I have a driver's license. I have access to a car.
Work Samples
Articles
(The New York Times , 5/24/2010)
Artists and hipsters from downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn are moving north - to Rosendale.
(More magazine , 10/1/2009)
An essay about ups and downs of reconnecting on Facebook.
(New York Magazine , 12/3/2007)
A fun, service-y personal essay on my experience shopping for bras at 7 stores in NYC.
(Harper's Bazaar , 10/1/2007)
You snooze, you lose - really.
(New York Times , 9/23/2007)
An article about opposition to AOL founder Stephen M. Case's company's plans for a so-called "green" development upstate.
(Harper's Bazaar , 9/1/2007)
Women need to partner with their doctors and ask for the tests they need to detect reproductive cancers early.
(NY Times , 7/8/2007)
A Modern Love essay about breaking all "The Rules" and winning.
(New York Times , 6/17/2007)
A personal essay about eloping, even though my father is a well-known New York City cantor.
(New York Magazine , 12/5/2006)
Travel piece about an off-the-beaten-path area of the Hudson Valley.
(Cookie Magazine/Conde Nast , 8/1/2006)
Article on about some parents opting out of some or all vaccinations for their kids.
(Time Out NY , 1/1/2004)
This is a personal essay/article about going through a divorce ceremony.
books
(by Shonda Schilling (William Morrow) , 4/1/2010)
I was the ghostwriter for this memoir by the wife of a well-known baseball player, about her family's experience with one son's Asperger's syndrome.
(by Cara Muhlhahn, (Kaplan) , 1/1/2009)
I ghostwrote this memoir by the midwife featured in Ricki Lake's documentary, "The Business of Being Born."
(Da Capo Press , 3/1/2006)
This memoir, which I ghostwrote, was recently featured on Oprah. It's about how this mother and her daughter coped with the daughter's severe learning disabilities.
Copywriting
(Zentropy/Maybelline , 12/1/2004)
We won an award for this site, for which I was a copywriter.
(USPS.com via Aquilent , 1/1/2003)
I wrote much of the copy on this website.
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June 4, 2013 | San Francisco
