A freelance feature writer for 23 years, I have had more than 5,000 articles published in a wide variety of local, regional and national consumer and trade publications. I also have contributed to more than a dozen hardcover pictorial books about small- to mid-sized cities, written corporate and organizational histories and worked with companies of all sizes to help them craft internal and external marketing messages.My magazine credits include (but are not limited to): 17th South Magazine; American Builders Quarterly; Amoena Life Magazine; Arthritis Today; Atlanta Magazine; The AutoPilot Magazine; Best Self Atlanta Magazine; Cobb in Focus Magazine; Create Magazine; Diversity in Action Magazine; GaBiz Magazine, Georgia Travel Guide; Get Married Magazine; Home Improvement Magazines (in markets throughout the nation); I Do for Brides; KNOWAtlanta Magazine; Little Black Dress/Little Red Wagon; Luxury Home Quarterly; MARCH Magazine; My Alpharetta Magazine; My Buckhead Magazine; North Georgia Living Magazine; Points North Magazine; Real Estate Executive Magazine; Simply Buckhead Magazine; and Southbound Magazine. My pictorial book publishing credits include titles written about Huntsville, AL; Knoxville, TN; Columbus, GA; Gainesville, FL; Tulsa, OK; Richmond, VA; Fayetteville, NC; Omaha, NE; Asheville, NC; Black Hills, SD; Loudoun County, VA. My first children's book, Emma's American Chinese New Year, was published in June of 2012. It received a 2012 Moonbeam Children's Book Award and a 2013 Independent Publisher Book Award.My organizational history books include For the Record: The Unique Success Story of the GSCCCA (Georgia Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority); EMJ Corporation: The First Fifty Years; The Reach of Our Vision: The American Waterways Operators at 75; and The Quality of a Life: 50 Years of National Healthcare Corporation. I recently was commissioned to write three additional histories for the New York State Land Title Association, Battery Council International and Hemophilia of Georgia. In 2017, I contributed a chapter to Jeff Kagan's "Stroke Recovery Stories: Humorous and Inspiring Stories Told by Stroke Survivors and the People Who Love Them." The chapter recounted our family's experience with my father's 2012 stroke and the recovery process we all endured as he healed. Specialties: Feature writing, profiles, corporate literature, corporate/organizational histories, children's literature