Editing Services

• Two-4-One Kid Critiques, co-founded with Gloria Adams, June 2016, www.two4onekidcritiques.com

Writing Experience

• Author of children and freelance non-fiction and fiction writing
• Faculty, 2023 Ohio North SCBWI annual conference (upcoming September)
• Presenter, Ohio Library Council Expo and Convention, September 2022
• Co-presenter, Northwest Ohio Teen Book Festival, April 23, 2022
• Co-presenter, Kidlit Distancing Social #46, How to Get Your Manuscript Submission-Ready, March 24, 2021
• Co-presenter, South Euclid-Lyndhurst Library, May 15, 2018
• Co-presenter, Twinsburg Library, May 23, 2017
• Faculty, 2017 Northern Ohio SCBWI annual conference, September 15-16, 2017
• Presenter, Stanton Middle School Career Day, Kent, OH, May 2008-2013, 2016
• Featured guest, A Kind Voice on Books, online radio blog, August 18, 2015
• Moderator, Northern Ohio SCBWI critique meeting, April 5, 2014
• Co-moderator, Hudson Library Children’s Authors’ Panel, April 14, 2012
• Guest panelist, Regina Brett, WKSU radio, September 21, 2011
• Workshop moderator, Northern Ohio SCBWI annual conference, 2011-13
• Guest panelist, Leon Bibb, Cleveland News Channel 5, Kaleidoscope
• Presenter, Young Author’s Conference, St. Patrick School, Kent, OH, April 2001

Publishing credits

• Featured columnist, Children’s Book Insider, Genre Spotlight, quarterly, August 2016-present
• Published, Ellis Island and Immigration for Kids: A History with 21 Activities, January 2022
• Published, Code Cracking for Kids: Secret Communications throughout History with 21 Codes and Ciphers, Chicago Review Press, October 2019
• Published, 2018 Children’s Writer’s and Illustrator’s Market, Dandi Daley Mackall: An interview with an award-winning author of more than 500 books. September 2017.

• Published, Highlights magazine, Gallant Kid: Rachel Prior, June 2015
• Sold, Highlights magazine, What a Pro Knows, Digging the Past: Ted Daeschler, Paleontologist, November 2014
• Published, Highlights magazine, What a Pro Knows, Prepared to Save Lives: Eric Davis, Firefighter, October 2014
• Sold, Highlights magazine, What a Pro Knows, Studying Our Feathered Friends: Jed Brett, Ornithologist, August 2014
• Sold, Highlights magazine, What a Pro Knows, Bringing Clay to Life: Paul Rhymer, Sculptor, October 2013

• Published, Healthy News, freelance commissioned articles, April 2010-2014.
• Published, 2012 Children’s Writer’s and Illustrator’s Market, freelance article titled Supplement Your Writing Income: Know Your Options
• Published, Highlights Magazine, poem titled Socked Away, November 2010
• Published, Highlights Magazine, puzzle titled Math Direction Connection, October 2010.
• Published, 2010 Guide to Literary Agents, freelance article titled How Not to Get an Agent: 10 Things You Should Never Do

• Sold, American Greetings, greeting card text, November 2006 to June 2007
• Sold, Andrews-McMeel, greeting card text, August 2006, September 2007
• Published, Fun for Kidz magazine, non-fiction manuscript titled Create an Outdoor Feeding Tree, September-October 2006
• Published, 3 personal essays, Once Upon a Time Magazine, 2006.
• Published, supplemental (appendix) piece in Nurturing the Peacemakers in Our Students.  A Guide to Writing & Speaking Out About Issues of War & of Peace, Chris Weber, author, published by Heinemann, 2006.  I also did extensive copy editing for this book.  
• Published, My Friend Magazine, non-fiction manuscript titled Christ’s Love Across the Miles, February 2005
• Published, Gryphon House, 3 activities in The Giant Book of Kindergarten Activities, 2004
• Published, Kent/Ravenna Record Courier, non-fiction article titled Teen Creates Balance between Imagination and Reality, February 2003.
• Sold, CTB/McGraw-Hill, educational testing material titled Spiders: Hunters and Trappers, September 2002.
• Published, Focus on the Family Clubhouse magazine, non-fiction article titled Nice Surprises, December 2002.

Awards

• Awarded, 2020 Ohioana Book Award finalist, Code Cracking for Kids
• Awarded, 2008 SCBWI Barbara Karlin Award honorable mention, Tice Davids’ Underground Road

Professional experience

• Co-founder, Two-4-One Kid Critiques, June 2016, critique services.
• Committee member, Northern Ohio SCBWI Conference Committee, 2019-2023.

• Active Past Regional Advisor, Northern Ohio SCBWI Executive Board, Jan 2009-2019.
• Assistant Regional Advisor, Northern Ohio SCBWI, 2007
• Regional Advisor, Northern Ohio SCBWI, 2004-06, May-Dec. 2008
• Assistant Regional Advisor, Northern Ohio SCBWI, 2003
• Member, Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, March 2000 to present.

Other work experience

• June 2005-August 2017. St. Patrick School, Kent, OH, Tuition administrator, part-time.

• September 1999-June 2017. St. Patrick School, Kent, OH, Library aide, part-time.
• September 1996-June 2017. St. Patrick School, Kent, OH, Latchkey program coordinator and supervisor, part-time.
• 1992-2005. National Center for Evaluation of Residency Programs, Kent, OH, clerical work, part-time.