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EXPERIENCE AND CLIENT LIST:

My experience includes writing and editing books, composing and revising technical manuals, ghostwriting and editing articles, and developing news releases, articles, and web content.  In addition to the detail listed below, I am a published short story author and essayist. 

Gal In Sky Publishing Company

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Author and publisher, When a Grandchild Dies:  What to Do, What to Say, How to Cope, published October 1999.  When a Grandchild Dies is an approved selection of The Compassionate Friends and appears in the Centering Corporation bereavement resources catalog.  I have marketed When a Grandchild Dies through news releases and speeches to international organizations such as the Association for Death Education and Counseling.

Houston Area Women's Center

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Provided publicity materials for 2002 Volunteer Recruitment Project.  Items included news release, public service announcement, volunteer spotlight stories, and letter of appeal.

Tom Posey, J.D., AAMS - Financial Advisor

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Ghost write financial planning articles (current and ongoing).

Williams

Revised system training manual for a pipeline joint venture between Williams and Duke Energy.

bulletDeveloped additional materials, including a web-based system access form, site maps, and contact lists.
bulletEdited contracts and composed contract amendments for Williams Energy Services.
bulletDeveloped presentation materials, including organization charts. Wrote and edited correspondence.

Joy-Full Publishing Company

bulletEdited Joy-Full Holistic Remedies: How to Experience Your Natural Ability to Heal by Georgie Holbrook, published in October 1999 and described by Writer's Digest as "compelling."

Baylor College of Medicine

bulletEdited grant proposal for internationally known medical researcher with limited fluency in English.

Heidrick & Struggles

bulletPrepared candidate presentations and business development proposals for two partners.
bulletEdited presentations and major correspondence prepared by other assistants.

Coca-Cola Foods (now The Minute Maid Company)

bulletDeveloped a database to track trade dollars and wrote training manual.
bulletTyped and edited correspondence for the director of marketing and two product managers.