Subjects
General
Education
Fitness & Nutrition
Food & Drink
Health & Medicine
Lifestyle
Nature & Environment
Pets
Science
Technology
Travel
Wellness
Specialties
I also do all types of business topics, except for finance. Specialties include personality profiles, in-depth coverage of complex subjects as well as content marketing and newsletters. I also manage a web page for a hospital for a medical center at a Big 10 university (Ohio State Wexner Medical Center) and have been a contract worker with them for 20 years.
Skills
- Advertorials
- Annual reports
- Articles
- Blog posts
- Books
- Brochures
- Case studies
- Conference/meeting coverage
- Content marketing
- Copywriting
- Editing
- Feature writing
- Event production
- Ghostwriting
- Ideation
- News
- News releases
- Photography
- Profiles
- Project management
- Publication management
- Publicity
- Q&A
- Social media
- Speechwriting
- Technical writing
- Web copy
- White papers
Writing Credits
People, Coast-to-Coast, Spirit, Currents, Selling Power, ASRT Scanner, Optical Technology, Creativity, NextAvenue, Writer’s Digest. Also: The World & I, Plant Sites & Parks, Long Weekends, Columbus Monthly and related specialty publications, Birmingham News, Chicago Tribune Magazine, USA Weekend, Fiction Writer, Discover Ohio, Woman’s World, others.
Corporate/association/governmental clients:
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Palm Beach media, Ohio State University College of Nursing, OhioHealth, USAID Advancing Nutrition, Merrill Lynch, Quantum, Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), Emergency Nurses Association, Worth.com, Homestore.com, ABC-CLIO, Siemens, many others
Book Credits
Books, Nonfiction: THREE RINGLING CIRCUS: THE CIRCUS, THE RINGLING BROTHERS AND SARASOTA (Pineapple/Rowman, 2024) DAY TRIPS FROM COLUMBUS (Globe Pequot, 2002, rev. ed. 2004, 3rd ed, 2009, 4th ed., 2025 [forthcoming]) 111 PLACES IN COLUMBUS THAT YOU MUST NOT MISS (Emons, 2019) MYTHS AND MYSTERIES OF OHIO (Globe Pequot, 2014) CONFESSIONS OF A CRAZY CAT LADY (Essays)(Loconeal,2014) OHIO CURIOSITIES (Globe Pequot, 2007, 2nd ed., 2011) PARIS HILTON: A BIOGRAPHY (Greenwood, 2011) (Translated into Chinese, China Publishing, 2015) MANAGING THE TELECOMMUTING EMPLOYEE, with Michael Amigoni (Adams, 2009) MANAGEMENT BASICS (Adams, 2007) WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWER CHILDREN GONE? (University Press of Mississippi, 2006) THE WELL-TRAVELED DOG (TFH, 2001) CAREERS FOR NONCONFORMISTS (Marlowe, 2000), Quality Paperback Book Club selection AMERICA’S STRANGEST MUSEUMS (Carol/Citadel, 1996, 1998 2nd ed) 30 GREAT CITIES TO START OUT IN (Macmillan, 1997) WAY STATIONS TO HEAVEN (Macmillan, 1996) THE OFF-THE-BEATEN PATH JOB BOOK (Citadel, 1995)
Novels: DOING HARD TIME IN GEEZERVILLE (in progress, first of a planned three series of books set in The Villages, FL) COUNTRY CLUB WIVES (Loconeal, 2012) (Optioned for TV, Insight Productions, 2014) THE PIPE DREAMERS (Olmstead, 2001, Reissued by Hydra, 2019)
Ghostwriting/Contributing Writer: THE 21ST CENTURY WORKFORCE: A HANDBOOK FOR MANAGING TELEWORKERS with Don Philpott (Government Training, Inc.) STRESS EATER DIET (Linx) by Robert Posner, MD & Linda Hlivka BOOMER CONSUMER (Linx) by Matt Thornhill & John Martin THE GRAPEFRUIT SOLUTION (Linx) by Daryl Thompson and M. Joseph Ahrens, PhD., many others
Awards, Honors, Appointments
Awards, recognitions, residencies: Ohio Optometric Association Media Award Quality Paperback Book Club (CAREERS FOR NONCONFORMISTS) Travel & Leisure Pick (AMERICA’S STRANGEST MUSEUMS) Research Grant, LBJ Library, Austin, TX (WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWER CHILDREN GONE?) Residency, Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) Residency and Fellowship, Mary Anderson Center (Mt. St. Francis, IN) National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) (Topic: “Gender Identity and Mental Health: What’s the Cost?”)
Additional education/certification: Medical Writing Certification in Editing/Writing Biomedical Research Design Elements of Medical Terminology Statistics for Medical Writers and Editors Writing and Designing Materials for Patient Education Essentials of Copyediting Ethics of Authorship and Editorship Medical Writing, Advanced Course Reporting Randomized Trials in Science Journals
Graduate Work, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Public Administration B.A.
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Sociology and Psychology