About Me
I’ve actually been much more than a writer all these years, which has helped me to become a better writer.
I’ve worked as a modeling and talent agent, marketing manager, media buyer, and account executive, among other pursuits. All along the way, I wrote professionally.
I’ve learned all about the business world from the inside out: in corporate meetings and water cooler conversations; I’ve overheard resentful grumblings and attended birthday lunches at TGIF’s in the mall. My ass has graced the swivel chairs of cubicles and booking tables all over suburban Philadelphia, Jersey and Manhattan. I’ve watched technology go from typewriter to typesetter to Mac Pro to iphone.
I’ve worked alongside every type of employee and manager and director and CEO, not to mention both commercial and fashion models and the colorful characters who sashay along behind them. I’ve survived huge egos, office politics, layoffs, control freaks, eccentrics, disgruntled employees and regime changes. I’ve punched time cards, dialed hundreds of cold calls, and endured performance reviews, silent treatments and major attitudes.
It wasn’t all a nightmare, though. I’ve gotten great satisfaction from closing huge sales, meeting and exceeding monthly quotas, finding (and keeping) great new clients, bonding and networking with life-long friends, booking amazing (and not-so-amazing-but-still-kinda-cool) jobs for models, organizing special projects and receiving the very occasional pat on the back, which made it all worth it. Also worth it: office pizza lunches paid for by management.
In my earlier years, working-class-me minimum-waged my way through high school and college. I put time in as a retail clerk and fast-food worker. I’ve folded shirts, flipped burgers, fitted shoes on drunken housewives (ask me about this), and rang cash registers (real NCR cash registers, not these easy scanning machines that the kids today get to use! I had to calculate the tax myself!).
I served as a DJ’s assistant (lugging crates of records, then eventually CDs) and as a bartender for a yuppie restaurant (I watched Masters of the Universe swish wine in their smart-ass mouths to impress their girlfriends). I handed out flyers, counted inventory by hand, telemarketed, and rented apartments.
Although I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, I was born with a talent for writing and communicating with words. It has always been my passion. My long resume and real-world life experience will be to your benefit.
See me about writing for you. Ask me about the following areas (and more):
- Blog or website copy
- Advertising copy (brochures, flyers, catalogs, print ads, direct mail and e-commerce)
- Business writing (resumes, cover letters, sales letters, annual reports)
- Business-to-business writing (trade show collateral material, teleprompter speeches and more)
- Ghostwriting (I don’t sign my name to your project – you do!)
- Technical writing (schematics or user manuals for medical, electronics, and more)
- Editing/Proofreading
- Critiques (need a second opinion of your work? Ask me!)
