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Write newsletter promoting new releases and highlighting vinyl stock from the back catalog for Tower Records. Began newsletter at brand relaunch and now it reaches 190,000 subscribers.

My freelance writing clients have included Maxim, FHM, Inked, American Photo, Complex.com, TheCredits.org, RegretfulMorning.com, TheRoosevelts.com, and Time Inc. Custom Publishing.

New York, NY

• I advised Heavy Metal magazine on digital strategy, including website content and social media. (Heavy Metal is the leading anthology periodical of science-fiction and fantasy comics—it's not about music).
• Built Heavy Metal's online and social presence in various ways, from tweaking the site structure to advising the staff on social practices.
• Ran the Instagram feed, which I took from zero to 400,000 followers. Growth was completely organic, based on expertise in sci-fi/fantasy culture, with no paid spend. Also ran and significantly grew Facebook, Twitter.
• Wrote features for the site as needed, including issue previews and creator interviews.
• Sent out a twice weekly e-mail newsletters announcing sales or features on the site.

Ideate, assign, and edit stories for Groovy History, a site focused on entertainment, pop culture and lifestyle of the '50s-'80s.

New York, NY

• I created content for brands looking to reach more people through social media.
• Develop roadmap for a given client using input from account leads, strategists and analytics team. Based on marching orders, qualitative insight and hard data, develop clear answers to three questions: Where does the.
• Brainstorm with animators, producers and art directors to create concepts for animations, videos and static content that meet the criteria. Oversee creation of comps and storyboards for presentation to client.
• Present concepts to client, clearly outlining proposed content and explaining how and why it will meet brand's goals. Provide content recommendations for specific platforms (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.
• Produce content, incorporating client feedback. Manage team of creatives and freelancers to ensure deliverables meet expectations, respect the client's budget, and arrive on schedule.
• Meet regularly with account leads, strategy and analytics team to review content performance and strategize for greater success.

New York, NY

• I edited and wrote stories for the Arts & Entertainment section of Indian Country Today Media Network.
• Joined the team as one of the founding editors and helped transition a tiny weekly newspaper into a massive portal of news and entertainment serving American Indians. By 2015, the site boasted 1.2MM monthly uniques.
• Responsible for four posts a day about Native culture, arts, and issues of representation, most of which I wrote.
• Managed over 30 freelance writers scattered throughout the country.

Greater New York City Area

• I wrote the Girlwatcher blog, first for playboy.com and then for Playboy's Maxim-style site TheSmokingJacket.com, where it was the main driver of website traffic.
• Monitored entertainment news and social media to spot rising stars, breaking news or trends likely to entice users to the site.
• Posted daily using Wordpress and started Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook pages to drive traffic.
• Strategized with editorial staff and contacts at other Playboy properties to leverage editorial synergies and cross-promotion.
• At its peak, the Girlwatcher Twitter feed had 80,000 followers (about 5X the main Smoking Jacket feed).

Greater New York City Area

• I wrote and edited articles for the front-of-book section ("After Hours") of Playboy, focused on entertainment, lifestyle, fashion and humor, first as a fulltime freelancer and then as a staffer.
• Process included brainstorming, fielding pitches from freelance writers, devising a lineup to be approved by the editorial director, collaborating with the art director, delivering the copy, and cutting it to fit.
• My responsibilities expanded from After Hours to include pictorial copy (the words alongside the photos), Grapevine (celebrity candids, with jokes), and Elsewhere at Playboy (advertorial for Playboy's other media and.
• Wrote and edited features for the well, specializing in pop culture, humor and celebrity interviews.

• I wrote and edited content for the pioneering tech/culture magazine Yahoo! Internet Life (published by Ziff Davis, different from yahoo.com).
• Joined the staff as online editor, writing and editing daily content for the website and promoting it through daily and weekly e-mail newsletters. I also formatted magazine features and posted them to the site, first.
• Transitioned to the staff of the print magazine, where I wrote and edited the front of book while continuing to run the magazine's website.

• I spearheaded the preparation of hundreds of biographies, taken from the archives of this ubiquitous reference publication, for the company's embryonic digital product.
• As assistant editor, I handled the line-editing of the magazine-like monthly publication, in addition to writing several biographies myself per month.
• As a staff writer I wrote at least 7 biographies per month.

Bachelor Of Arts, English Literature With A Gold Asterisk In Creative Writing

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