I write in a variety of styles to match your needs. Anything from in-depth investigative reporting, business and legal pieces, profiles, even humor. Check out some of my past published work to get a taste of the talents I can bring to your project.
Fortnightly magazine, Sept. 15, 2003
This article appeared in an energy trade magazine for utility company executives. I dug up sources who would talk about the vulnerability of the electricity grid to cyber attack, in an atmosphere that considered reporting on any kind of U.S. vulnerability as helping the terrorists. Although the story is nearly five years old, it remains relevant today--the Washington Post ran stories on the same subject in May 2008.
Fortnightly magazine, April 1, 2003
I wrote this article for an energy trade magazine with an audience of utility company executives. It identified an emerging trend that relatively few utilities had embraced by 2003. Well before the current hipness of things green, this article put the issue on the radar screen for executives, and gave them some peers in the industry they could contact about existing green building programs.
Sophisticated information packaged with humor
Fortnightly magazine, Oct. 1, 2002
This story is the backpage humor feature of a trade magazine for utility companies. The editor assigned me to write this story after the copy deadlines for the month, so it had to get done fast. Despite taking only one day from idea to completion, this story delivers solid information on a cutting-edge technology with humor, making it memorable for readers.
Workers Comp newsletters, 2007
Most professionals are inundated with information yet have little time to absorb it. Readers skip articles that don't immediately pull them in, and usually don't come back to read them later. This piece gave readers immediate human interest to hook them, along with ancedotes for human resources professionals and attorneys alike to use to discuss safety issues with management.
Simple and clear, but not dumbed down
dotcom.com website, 2001
I particularly enjoy taking complex concepts and presenting them with clarity, but without dumbing down the subject. This piece was for a large consumer/small business website, and took what was an intimidating concept, libel, and made it easy to understand.
I specialize in writing copy for sophisticated business audiences. This brochure was for a legal conference; several of the speakers made a point of telling me how much the brochure convinced them the conference was worth participating in.
This piece took an incident at a power plant and used it to take a stab at an industry known for its complacency about security issues. And there's a good bit about turkey hunting, too.
A purely fun year-end review of an industry that went through the wringer.