Freelance Writing Résumé

• Freelance ghostwriter for Arbor Books (formerly The Floating Gallery). (2003-present)

Since February of 2003, I have written nine memoirs for Arbor.  I have also ghosted a successful branding book for a corporate motivational speaker.

Of the completed memoirs, Simon and Schuster has picked up one; another has an agent; a third has sold over 10,000 copies through self-publication. The branding book’s author has a contract with Wiley and Sons.

• Research for nationwide accreditation project conducted by Education Advisors, Inc.
• Exercise and test bank fact checking, and authoring of supplemental online materials for classic logic text by Prof. Irving M. Copi.  This work was contracted through nSightWorks for Pearson Publishing.
• Exercise and test bank fact checking, and authoring of supplemental online materials for a new logic text by Prof. Stan Baronett, published by Pearson.  Work performed and completed through contract with Pearson. 
  
• A video tutorial series for the Baronett text included writing and voicing concept and exercise tutorials, and editing each tutorial using Screenflow.
• Review, Philosophy Goes to the Movies, by Christopher Falzon, for Routledge Publishers.
• Review, Writing Philosophy Papers, by Zachary Seech, for Thomson-Wadsworth.

• Critical Thinking and Logic textbook written for a home schooling publisher.  This manuscript is currently in edits, and I may attempt to place the manuscript with another academic publisher for the home schooling market. (2003)
• Contributing writer, Buzzine Magazine, an arts and entertainment weekly. (2008-Present)
• Contributing columnist, Examiner.com.  My column focuses on the California community colleges. (2009-Present)

• Columnist for politicalstorm.com, focusing on philosophical analysis of social, cultural, and political issues.  This site is still online, but no longer publishing new material. (2005)

• Articles published in ACE Tutoring Magazine, a publication geared toward Asian-American parents and students. (2006)
• Essays and articles published in Advance Private Tutoring exam preparation manual. (2006)
• Essay published in January 2004 issue of "Family Issues" magazine. (2005)
• Various culture and issue essays written and published on the Internet, including unpopulartruths.com, thinkandask.com, firstcasualty.com, buzzle.com, hackwriters.com, dropline.biz, 90Ways.com, and elitestv.com. (2004-2007)
• Writer and reviewer: Valley Scene Magazine (2004); dropline.biz. (2004-present)
• Writer: start-up magazine, SPHERE.
• Online tutor and essay contest judge: BrainMass.com. (2002-present)
• All-purpose writer: BrainMassProfessional.com (speeches, letters, and white sheets) (2004).
• Researcher: the official and unofficial status of homosexuality in the Soviet Union from 1917-1991 (1997); the prayer words, significance and position in Yom Kippur ritual of Ashamnu (1997); the lyrics and background for the IWW song, "Joe Hill" and for the union song, "Union Maid" (1997). I researched stress therapy models and societal change for dissertation seeking connection between psychology and philosophy. (2000)
• Researcher/Writer: teacher's manual for preparatory school aesthetics class on the study of relations in art and architecture. (1992-1993)
• Script coverage: Intern for CPC Entertainment, Blake/Israel Entertainment, Feigen-Parrent Management. Wrote coverage at various times through the years listed for these production and management companies.
• Editing and Proofreading: I have edited and proofed hundreds of student papers for philosophy courses I have taught. I have also researched and proofread portions of a textbook for a professor published by McGraw-Hill. (2004)
• Various short stories and screenplays in progress.