Ghostwriting and Professional Writing Services

Services

What is the best medium for your message to reach its intended audience?

How do you decide what information to include and what to leave out?

What are your desired outcomes – education, awareness, a specific action?

Do all of your materials support (or fight with) the others?

A communications professional with extensive experience in storytelling of all kinds will be able to help you answer all of these essential questions, and more. Whether you need a full-blown marketing plan, a white paper to augment your existing library, a series of ghost-written feature stories or something else, I will use my diverse background of writing, marketing, public relations and journalism to help you reach your audience. Below are some samples of the services I offer.

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Business Resources

Marketing/Public Relations

White paper

Program promotion

Press release

Event invitations

Law firm brochure

Copy Writing

Turn Your “To-Do List” into a “Ta-Da List”
Tourism radio spot promoting Cincinnati, Ohio as a tourist destination, April 2010

Orpheum Theater: The quintessential community arts center of the mid-south
Published in Tennessee Positively Mid-South, February 2010

Re-Claim, Re-Purpose, Re-Think: One local retailer take sustainability and going green in a creative direction
Published in Illinois Marketeer, August 2009

Building As Solid as a Bulldog: Bulldog Steel buildings are strong enough for Texas
Published in Texas Permian Basin Pulse, September 2008

A Passion for International Food: World Gourmet Foods invites friends and neighbors to enjoy the flavors of the world
Published in Illinois Bloomington Business Connection, September 2007

Electronic Copy

Eating for 1,243 blog

Clean Coal Myth blog

First Woman President (at UC) blog

Localization into U.S. Markets newsletter

Don’t Fail, Plan: Social Media Marketing is Only as Effective as the Preparations Behind It
Legal Finance Journal August 12, 2011

Delaware District Leads State in Cloud Conversion: Adopting Microsoft's Live@edu has eliminated the cyberspace-ate-my-homework excuse
T.H.E. Journal Cloud Computing Newsletter August 3, 2011

Examining Green Cloud Claims: Cloud computing is touted as a "green" technology, but this claim fails to take into consideration the full environmental impact of the scalable resource.
T.H.E. Journal Cloud Computing Newsletter September 6, 2011

Cloud Program Reduces Bullying: The Dallas Independent School District is using cloud technology to reduce aggressive behavior and bullying.
T.H.E. Journal Cloud Computing Newsletter September 31, 2011

Ghost Writing

Birthday Party Ideas: A Complete Guide to Help You Design Fun and Memorable Birthday Parties
By Gregory P. Smith

Women in Transition: Stories about women making significant career changes later in life
by Sunita Sayanae

Bank History
Wrote corporate history of a national bank for internal publication, documenting acquisitions and significant events across 170 years in addition to confirming the age of the bank
(Available upon request)

For samples of articles about business issues, see the Portfolio Page

Journalism

Award Winning Writing

First Place: Best News Article (2011)

North American Street Newspaper Association

Hate Wave: Attacking Homeless People

Published:

Streetvibes (July 1, 2010)

Spare Change News (July 2, 2010)

Real Change News (July 7, 2010)

StreetWise (July 7, 2010)

Megaphone Magazine (July 9, 2010)

Toledo Streets (July 2010)

Victoria Street Newz (August 2010

Street News Service article posting (July 2, 2010)

Finalist: Best Feature Article (2011)

North American Street Newspaper Association

Being Homeless is Against the Law: Economic profiling treats homeless people as criminals

Published:

Streetvibes (March 1, 2010)

Toledo Streets (March 15, 2010)

Street Sense (March 17, 2010)

Homeward Street Journal (March/April 2010)

Victoria Street Newz (April 1, 2010) – Canada

Street Zine (April 1, 2010)

The Contributor (April 1, 2010)

Denver Voice (April 1, 2010)

Megaphone Magazine (April 16, 2010) – Canada

Street News Service article posting (May 16, 2010)

Peter Jennings Fellow (2009)

Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution

Of Human Bondage: The plantation might be gone, but slavery lives on in the U.S.
Published: Cincinnati CityBeat, February 13, 2008

De-criminalizing Victims: Making a case for why human trafficking laws are needed in Ohio
Published: Cincinnati CityBeat November 18, 2008
Cleveland Scene November 19, 2008
Free Times November 27, 2008

First Place: Special Section - election coverage package (2007)
Society of Professional Journalists (shared award)
Mental Health Care for All: Tax levy helps with prevention and intervention

Second Place: News Feature (2007)
Society of Professional Journalists
Home is Where the Hurt Is: Domestic violence has unexpected victims

Feature Stories

The Real Green Acres: Moving from the city to the country and learning to love it

Katrina Lives: A year of devastation and stubborn hope

The Art of Happiness: Tibetan arts aren't just pretty things

Leaving the Lights On: Preparing Foster Kids for Life on Their Own

News Articles

A Buddha Way to Live: Dismantling zero tolerance and other wisdom

Quilting a Community: Price Hill center helps women serve each other

Touching Words: Clovernook offers a variety of services for the visually impaired

Columns

Typing in the Age of Tablets

Eight Minutes with a “Homeless” Millionaire: How a finance guy befriended the homeless and gave them a newspaper and hope

Eight Minutes with an unconventional Hausfrau: Serving up toothpaste, underwear, dignity and hope

All the News That Fits: Homeless Teens Turned Into Writers

All the News That Fits: Peace Talks, Non-violent communication

All the News That Fits: Liberty's Loss Lamented

Forget the Bootstraps: It Takes More than 'Suck It Up' to Deal with Being Bipolar

Magazines (Print)

Equal Measure: Shielding Students and Enabling Access
T.H.E. Journal January 2012

Social Networking: Not just for connecting old friends
Diversity Journal November/December 2011

Zen and the Art of Bathroom Design: Simplicity and functionality blend with warm colors and light to create an inviting space
Housetrends Cincinnati October 2010

Distinctive Sustainable Fashions: A New York duo is out to save the environment by challenging the established fashion industry
A Distinctive Style Spring 2010

Preparing Students for Success in the 21st Century
Cincinnati Public Schools magazine Making Progress Spring 2009

Random Acts of Lunch
Cincinnati Bar Association magazine Report June 2005

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