Publications

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Nonfiction 

How to Self-Edit Your Submissions

Boning up on Bone Broth

Is Hormone Therapy Right for You?

The Skinny on Platelet-Rich Plasma

Three Shades of Menopause

Online Dating: Ways to Help Keep It Safe

Age 66, Looking to Hook Up

Celebrating Senior Romance

Article in Progress:

"Can Artificial Intelligence Replace Human Writers?"

Fiction Shorts and Flashes

Oyster River Pages:

Mama

Short Fiction Break:

Honey, I’m Home

Every Writer's Resource:

The Delivery 

Night Talk

Heart of the Matter

Honorable Mentions 

The Birthmark (WOW Spring 2021 and

Fall 2022 flash fiction contests)

Guest blogger: "How I Started Writing Cozy Mini Mysteries for

Woman's World (and Published a Book)"

Woman's World "Solve-It-Yourself Mystery" picks:

Mother’s Day Caper

As Luck Would Have It

Halloween Heist

(reprinted in Two-Minute Mini Mysteries, Holiday Edition)

Deadly Misstep (reprinted in Two-Minute Mini Mysteries, 2d edition

as "The Most Deadly Misstep")

Slow Burn (reprinted in Two-Minute Mini Mysteries, 2d edition

as "A Slow and Steady Burn")

A Sly Saboteur (reprinted in Two-Minute Mini Mysteries

as "A Slick Saboteur")

Bittersweet Treat

(reprinted in Two-Minute Mini Mysteries, 2d edition)

Halloween Heist

 (reprinted in Two-Minute Mini Mysteries, Holiday Edition)

Case of the Vandalized Van

The Clearly Departed

Super Bowl Foul

Memorial Day Burnout

Candy-Coated Halloween

Snow Day Murder

Book:

Five-Minute Cozy Mini Mysteries (with Solutions), 2020

Editing, Copyediting, Proofreading Projects:

Suburban Woman magazine

Chicago magazine

Contemporary Books

Ovation Press (proofreading music scores)

Open Court (textbooks) 

American Hospital Association Journal

JCAHO

Activities & Interests:

former board member of 501(c)3

social justice organization

(publicity/media liaison)

Conversational French 

Voiceover training, demo here: 

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