**Blathering for Coin**

**Blathering for Coin**

Things I have done for income.

Editing and Ghostwriting

Developmental and Content Editing :

Scope of Work:

-Fiction, developmental editor for “The 259th American” by Eric Kayihura, a novel set in the time of the Rwandan Genocide (publishing date TBD)

-Juvenile fiction (developmental editing)

-essays (content editing)

-articles and op-ed

Ghostwriting:

-Worked as ghostwriter for parts of a series of JV chapter books in progress. First in the series published 2022.

-Current project: non-fiction book length manuscript, to be published early 2024

University-Level Teaching

-Composition and Creative Writing

-Theater (Performance, Writing, and Theory)

-Publishing (Franklin Pierce University Literary Magazine)

Managing Editor

-Northern New England Review (Literary Magazine for Franklin Pierce University)

-Assignment Magazine (Literary Magazine for Mountainview MFA)

Academic Writing Support

I have super smart friends. Over the past two decades, many of them have enlisted me to help them with their academic writing:

  • editing and proofreading

  • front-end support exploring concept and modes of research

  • writing coaching (craft, voice, technical)

  • thesis development

  • understanding instructor expectations

Municipal, Legislative, Public Relations, and Communications

-media relations including press releases and acting as spokesperson

-legal writing (working with counsel)

-Public Statements

-Crisis Communications

-Informational presentations and resources.

-Human Resources and Policy writing

-Vision and Mission Statement

-Equity and Inclusion Declaration

Grant Narrative Writing

**Wrote grant narrative for multiple state, federal, and privately funded grants amounting approximately 500k over a period of three years for a rural Vermont town (pop. 3500):

  • building a skatepark

  • public park infrastructure

  • outdoor recreation development and way-making

  • communications infrastructure during Covid

  • digitization of land records