• Summary of Experience
–Most recently more focused on digital design and copy—and, most especially, copy for optimal health directed businesses. I want to share the knowledge I’ve gained through research, living it, and being the customer of major (non-GMO) supplement companies and other health product vendors. Who better to write for you than someone who lives it?
–Written articles for clients, designed almost every type of project one can think of, and written copy for brochures, newsprint ads; over 1500 full page newsprint ads both for graphic design and copy to date and still counting; over 200 radio and television scripts written and produced. Commissioned, award-winning portrait artist and published writer.
–California: self-employed as a writer/copywriter/ghostwriter, editor, graphic designer, artist, and advertising consultant. I have edited for fiction and non-fiction writers, for many screenwriters; acted as desktop publisher before the Internet for companies as diverse as the FBI Agents Retired Association to the National Astrologer’s Association. Texas: media buyer, graphic artist, and vp of marketing.
• Copywriting
–American Writers & Artists Inc. (AWAI) Email Copy Made Easy, Creating Email Newsletters, Email List Building, Web Copywriting, Social Media Marketing, Creating Email Newsletters (B2B(, Money-Making Websites, Key Message Copy Platforms, SEO Copywriting, Health Program, Accelerated Copywriting, and more.
–Independent study from varied sources for writing book blurbs, advertising copy for newprint, brochures, television, radio, flyers and mailers, SEO and website copy.
• Writing (and related courses to enhance skills)
–ProSeries Screenwriting comprehensive and other individual special emphasis classes (ScreenwritingU); Acting for the Camera (UCLA), Short Story Writing, Non-Fiction writing (Santa Monica College, CA), Screenwriting 
with Robert McKee and online with John Truby, Editing from a professional editing course, Journalism at University of Houston, Writer’s Digest classes; really too many to list. Plus the many editing and writing books or my shelves.
• Graphic Design (and related courses to enhance skills)
–Interactive multi-media design before it was online, Website Design (including a dash of coding) at Monterey Peninsula College, Advertising Design and Fine Arts at University of Houston. Tutorials, design publications, and research keeping up with changing design themes. Lifetime of painting instruction.
• Computer Program Proficiency
I’ve used Apple Macintosh since the week they came out, and added programs as needed, especially Adobe products.
–Love Photoshop! Everyday use for photos going in ads, book design, painting prep, simple animations (examples on this site), website design, and just plain fun.
–InDesign, wouldn’’t want to do without it for any layout project. Daily use for ad layouts, brochures, cards and book formatting.
–InCopy plays well with InDesign, and I have used it, but prefer to work straight into InDesign.
–Primarily Dreamweaver for site coding.
–Less experience but some use of: Illustrator, After Effects, here and there with other Adobe programs.
–Final Draft.
–Scrivener.
–Most Mac programs. I use Pages or Scrivener for general writing. Both open and save out to MS Word and other formats as needed. I don’t use MicroSoft Word. I used it in the past, but found it to be antiquated and inefficient, also inserting invisible code that will ruin certain projects when using copy and paste.