Freelance writer's resume, current summer, 2009
Resume:
Peg Robinson
Goleta, CA 93117
FAX: 805-***-****
******@***.***
Summary
Professional level writing and editorial.
Layout, graphics, design, computer aided graphics and design.
Communication. Phone skills, email, IM, and face-to-face customer service.
Experience in print, print magazine, online magazine, and online content provision.
Experience writing SEO keyworded material, researching SEO keywords.
Self-starter, self-supervised, managerial.
Extensive computer fluency.
Experience in recruiting, training, and education.
Client List
Heritage Web Solutions
Purscell Communications
Compass Knowledge
David Bloom
materials produced for Native Remedies
Internet Brands/Carsdirect.com
slicedicemarketing.com
Demand Studios
Textbroker.com
KBA International LLC
Constant Content
PUBLICATION History
The First
Strange New Worlds I
Editor: Dean Wesley Smith
Pocket Books, 1999
Just Rule
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Science Fiction Magazine
Editor: Marion Zimmer Bradley, 2001
The Hero of Her Own Life
Strange New Worlds II
Editor: Dean Wesley Smith
Pocket Books, 2000
The Spinster and the Clever Man
Cicada Magazine
Spring, 2005
Given an honorable mention in the Writers of the Future Contest, 2001
A Lady of Xenex
New Frontiers
Editor: Peter David; Assistant Editor: Keith De Candido
Pocket Books, 2005
Tonino and the Incubus
<< helixsf.com>> also just known as Helix. Online magazine.
Editor: William Sanders.
Fall quarter, 2005. Archived.
Qualified for 2008 Nebula awards, category: novelette.
As Darwin Decreed
Wise Women and Warriors
Editor: Roby James
Norilana Publishing
Due out late 2008
Assorted creative nonfiction, in Award winning 2003 publication of Allan Hancock Community College’s literary magazine, The Harvest.
Highlights
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· Contact and recruit individuals for events and projects. Research available individuals with appropriate skills.
Planning, executing, and developing projects and plans for events. Strong ability to structure the steps involved in upcoming projects, divide and delegate work load. Group sensitive team player, but with strong ability to self-start, self-supervise, and self-pace
· Highly developed writing skills: PR, news and advertising copy, customer relations.
· Training and development in graphic and fine arts, computer aided design. Training for PR work, and advertising. Experience in self-promotion and query work.
· Communication and training: long experience as professional tutor, amateur church officer, pastoral care head and care provider. Good people skills.
· Computer fluency: Microsoft Word, Excel, Quicken, Microsoft Office, MS Outlook, Adobe Paintbrush and other Adobe graphics programs, Mac systems and graphics software, databases, some Pascal and BASIC programming training.
Selected Achievements
1998-2008, Freelance writing.
· Short Story “Tonino and the Incubus” (helixsf.com , Fall issue, 2007) qualified for 2008 Nebula award competition.
· 2007, “Tonino and the Incubus” received honorable mention from Washington DC Science Fiction Association, is listed as year’s recommended reading by Gardener Dozois and Locus.
· Winner, Strange New Worlds II (Pocket Books), 1999
· Winner, Strange New Worlds I,(Pocket Books) 1998
· Honorable mention 2000, Writers of the Future competition, “The Spinster and the Clever Man.”
2008, Educational honors, achievements.
· Graduating with Honors, UCSB Religious Studies program.
· Invited to enter the Religious Studies honorary society, Alpha Kappa Theta.
· Tutor, professional: Allan Hancock College, Americorps.
Education
Current: MA/PhD program, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Myth and Depth Psychology, expected graduation 2011
BA: UCSB, Department of Religious Studies
Goleta, CA.
Honors
Golden Key
Alpha Kappa Theta (Religious Studies honors society: invitational only)
Previous Regents Scholar, NYS, 1975
Community Service:
OPUS Archives, docent.
Golden Key, chapter vice president 2006.
Vestry member, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 2003-2005. Accounting, budgeting, program planning, leadership.
Tutor, teacher’s aid, Allan Hancock Community College, 1989-1992
Tutor, Americorps in affiliation with People’s Self-Help Housing, Carpinteria
PEO (charity organization working to support women’s education) 2003 – present.
Various amateur and professional theater groups. 1973 – present. Served as director, assistant director, assistant to the director, stage manager, costume designer, costume mistress, props mistress, makeup mistress. In this capacity I have presented budgets, researched production options, assembled work crews and departments, supervised overall scheduling of production, been responsible for the smooth running of a show in production, served as casting director, ensured manufacture of essential products (costumes, including extensive period costuming, props), worked PR, interfaced with newspapers.
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