: About Me

I am a talented writer and editor who has 13 years of professional writing and editing experience. I have copy edited for a small, regional publication called "Up and Coming Weekly" and am the owner of a writing, inventing and editorial services firm called "Creative Services/The Breadwinner." I can write and edit small or large pieces depending on the need and I am familiar with all the major editing and grammatical styles (APA, AP, MLA). I am an aspiring screenwriter. I have completed three (3) short scripts called "Little Girl Gray," "The Wrong Relationship," and "Nineteen Ways Newspapers Neglect Those Needing Work," one longer script called "Flowers in Her Hair," and one adaptation from a treatment called "The High Life." I have just completed a feature film length comedy about handicapped people entitled "Crazy Cash." None of my scripts have been optioned. I am also the author of twenty-one (21) children's books and one dime novel for teenagers entitled, "Turtle Time for Toby," "Prideful Palermo Earns His Zebra Stripes,"  "Loyal Lion, Lucky Lamb," "There Once Was A Gorilla Named Gabe," "Once Leopard Lucy, Now Giraffe Goofy," "A Tiger's Tall Tails (Tales)," "How Allan Alligator Landed His Lake,"  "Allan Alligator's Awesome Australian Adventure," "The Sun's Bright, Burning Raise (Rays), "The Sun's Rays (Raise)," "Wiseguy Butterfly and His Speckley, Speckley Dusty Dots," "The Shark Magnet," "Two Holes in Henry's Socks," "Doggie Woggie Woke Up Foggy," "Dippy, Dippy Dolphin Divine, Anemone, and a Jealous Jellyfish, Too!," "Barnalien Blue," "Malarkey the Sharkey Trophey's the Whale Whopper-Teller, "Tripping Trotter's Sound, Round Divots," "The Miffed Gift: A Fun Lump of Coal as Night's Dark Mask," "Mayhem Monkey Debunks Life Spunky," "The Penny Saver," and "The Ramblings of Many" for which I am currently seeking a publisher.  I am working on one (1) other novelette for teenagers that will be available soon.  

My awards and credentials include:

2011: Second place winner in the Casa Esperanza Homeless in Winter Writing Contest

2007 Listed in the Oxford Who's Who of Poetry Online Directory

1994- Newberry Library Fellow 

1992-Dean's List, first semester of college

1992- AAUW Essay Contest semi-finalist
1991- AAUW Book Award Winner

My passion is ...

music, writing, movies, solving crime.

I know too much about ...

knowing too much.

My parents always told me ...

to be better than the best, to watch out for anyone who wants to see you after 10 p.m.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a singer, an actress and a teacher.

My favorite memory ...

strolling through Binney Park; pretzel trips to NYC with Mom

Why I write ...

because I am good at it.

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

Sci-Fi, Jodi Picoult, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, A. Morissette.

My first job ...

was at a graphic design firm.

My best moment ...

will be when someone "bills the nut" for me, my wedding-neither have happened yet.

My inspiration ...

my higher power, Mom, my intuitive senses

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Frustration

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This is a poem that I would like to have adapted into a song very shortly for placement on what hope will be my debut vocal album....of course, as far as I know, these plans are not in place yet-but I write everyday hoping that someday someone with magic record reeling power will do a double take a redub of me over a currently well-known artist. It sure would be good to get to the top someday! "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can..." :) Anyway, here's the poem. It is entitled Hold the Fire (Assess the Damage) Hold the Fire (Assess the Damage) Hold the fire right there and pull the ...

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