CAROLYN PATTEN

Santa Fe, NM USA
19 Years Experience

Professional Experience

FROM INSPIRATION TO EXECUTION -- Versatile, well-published freelance writer and editor. Travel writing, personalities, home and garden, lifestyles, and health: life in Mexico, fine architecture, food and wine, antiques, acupuncture and celebrities. Editing from concept to final proof, factchecking and copyediting.

Expertise

Copy Editor 10 YearsEditor 8 YearsWriter 15 Years

Specialty

Lifestyle 15 YearsHome & Garden 15 YearsTravel 15 Years

Industries

Magazine - Local/Regional magazines 5 YearsNewspaper - Local/Regional 10 YearsPR (in-house) - Small to mid-sized corp. clients 14 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

  • Palm Springs Life Magazine (10+)
  • The Oregonian daily newspaper (10+)
  • The Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper (6-10)
  • Thrive Magazine, Palm Springs, CA (6-10)
  • DK Eyewitness Travel Guides (6-10)

Awards

Mazatlan Hotel Association Golden Deer for best international travel feature

Other Work History

Palm Springs Life Magazine/Senior Editor Marylhurst University, Adjunct Prof. in online PR certificate program City of Palm Springs, Tourism PR Director Ritz-Carlton, Rancho Mirage, PR Director

Foreign Language Skills

Spanish

Computer Skills

Office Suite applications, OS 10.9.5

Equipment

Macbook laptop, Canon digital camera, audio recorder

General

Recent published writing is all accessible here.