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

Fiction Shorts and Flashes

Oyster River Pages:

Mama

Short Fiction Break:

Honey, I’m Home

Every Writers Resource:

The Delivery 

Night Talk

Heart of the Matter 

The Birthmark (also earned honorable mention,

WOW Spring 2021 flash fiction contest)

WOW guest blogger: "How I Started Writing Cozy Mini Mysteries for

Woman's World (and Published a Book)"

Woman's World magazine 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)

Case of the Vandalized Van

The Clearly Departed

Super Bowl Foul

Memorial Day Burnout

Book:

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

Editing, Copyediting, Proofreading:

Suburban Woman magazine

Chicago magazine

Contemporary Books

Ovation Press (proofreading music scores)

Open Court 

American Hospital Association

JCAHO

Activities & Interests:

Pizza and Social Justice, 501(c)3 accredited nonprofit

(past board member; publicity/media liaison--newsletters, e-blasts,

press release, calendar events)

Conversational French 

Voiceover training, demo here: 

https://www.voices.com/profile/loretta_vspot#skill=voice-over