I serve as New Writer Outreach Manager for Helium, which gives me the opportunity to share Helium with prospective writers and welcome them into our unique writing community. Helium offers wide opportunities for writers - from professional writers looking for added revenue sources to new writers building up their writer's portfolio, and many more.

If you are a professional writer, dive into Helium's Marketplace, and check back daily for new titles submitted by our 100s of publishing partners, from niche magazines and websites to newspapers. Share your professional credentials for verification at experts@helium.com, and I will see if we have or can develop a badge to recognize your professionalism at Helium.

If you are a seasoned writer on the web with content to share, we pay upfront for informative articles plus ad revenue share. Bring over your previously published non-exclusive content too.

If you are a new writer looking to build your writer's portfolio, you've found a great place to start. Build up your writer bio, write high quality, network and get feedback within our supportive writing community, and build up your body of published work to showcase.

I come to Helium from - and in the midst - of the teaching world. I continue to teach some of my own, while offering online writing classes to a mostly homeschool crowd at http://writewell.lifewerks.com.

My path toward teaching and writing followed a long educational roadmap: I spent my first 25 years in schools, the next 8 teaching at a boarding school and these last 14 homeschooling.

My university studies began at a small liberal arts college, where I hoped to become a journalist, to a deeper search that led me to graduate studies in political philosophy at the University of Virginia.

At Helium I'm grateful to be part of a writer's revolution that is transforming the publishing world with open democratic processes that enable the best to rise. That's where my writing, teaching and political philosophy training converge - in the midst of the largest writing community in the world - at Helium.com.

My passion is ...

writing

I know too much about ...

working with words and people

My parents always told me ...

work hard and work with a commitment to high quality

My childhood ambition ...

to be a famous writer

My favorite memory ...

the births of my children

Why I write ...

I love crafting humor into my writing

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Madeleine L'Engle

My first job ...

MacDonald's cashier

My best moment ...

the births of my children

My inspiration ...

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Arts & Humanities > Internet Writing & Blogging Guidelines for choosing a website to publish your articles online

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The new age of freelance writing online puts the "free" back in freelance. Freelance writers focused on print publishing spend too much time composing and waiting on query letters instead of writing articles. Too many well-educated and talented writers don't get recognition because they haven't been published. Yet, the demand for information in an Information Age offers more open frontiers than traditional publishing fortresses. I'm on staff at Helium.com, and I'm writing to help writers as they discern where to publish their online articles.The Internet has been the platform for change, bu...

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