Writing
Articles
Cool Canada: Winter adventures that won’t cost the earth, alive magazine, December 2007
Spice Up Your World: Conscious home colours, alive magazine, July 2007
Port Moody’s indie film event a night to remember (opens PDF) Review of community event, Coquitlam Now, August 2004
Reviews
Ja No Man (opens PDF) by Richard Poplak, issue 48, subTerrain, Spring 2008
Gerbil Mother (opens PDF) by D.M. Bryan, issue 50, subTerrain, Fall 2008
The Secret Lives of Saints (opens PDF) by Daphne Bramham, issue 51, subTerrain, Spring 2009
The Butcher of Penetang (opens PDF) by Betsy Trumpener, issue 52, subTerrain
Essays and Opinion
Donovan Life (opens PDF) An unpublished piece critiquing the absurdities of modern marketing, especially when it comes to real estate.
Communication for the Real World (opens PDF) Winning essay for the 2007 Julia Broderick Scholarship, Society for Technical Communication, Westcoast Chapter
Web Writing
Profiles of Vancouver-area businesses for VancouverPlus.ca
Web articles on Suite101
Reviews of local restaurants, stores and other businesses and attractions for Yelp.ca
E-mail newsletter for alive.com. Wrote short articles on assigned health topics such as food safety, breast cancer, and cough medicines, wrote link text, and researched relevant recipes and web links.
Copywriting and Business Writing
I have experience writing newsletters, instructions, proposals, media releases, bios, information sheets, reports, and many other business and technical documents. Most of these documents, due to confidentiality concerns, can’t be posted here, but may be available on request.
Here are a few samples:
reFresh Events Information Sheet (opens PDF), with brief bios
Author bio in the book Chef’s Salad (Whitecap) (opens PDF)
Jack’s New and Used Building Materials. Rewrote site’s home, salvage, rentals and delivery pages, and re-designed the information on the Contact Us pages, to help make site more user-friendly and targeted to customers.
Barbara-Jo’s Books to Cooks. Wrote several reviews of books for the store’s website to promote upcoming or little-known titles, such as At the Japanese Table.
Publishing/Document Design
AntiSocialite (opens PDF) Magazine created as a project for the Document Design class in Print Futures using PhotoShop and InDesign.
JETAABC Newsletter (opens PDF) Coordinated the planning, writing, design and publication of this newsletter, which was distributed quarterly to the membership of JETAABC. Created using PageMaker.
Hook, Line & Dinner (opens PDF) A flyer created for Whitecap Books in order to promote seafood cookbooks to seafood retailers, who could potentially sell the books in their shops. I wrote the copy and designed the two-page flyer in Quark XPress.
Editing
Samples of editing work are not posted here to protect client privacy, but may be available on request.
Recent and ongoing editing projects include:
subTerrain magazine (editorial board member)
Braidwood Commissions of Inquiry, Phase 1 Report (proofreader)
Davies Commission, Frank Paul Inquiry Interim Report (proofreader)
Boundary Historical Society, Schools of the Boundary (copy editor)
Teldon Publishing, alive and blush magazines (copy editor)
Print Futures Professional Writing, 2007 Portfolio Show program (copy editor)
