CAROL CHILD Communications

WRITING / EDITING / CONSULTING

Everybody has a story to tell, whether he or she be the immigrant farm worker sitting in the field in the hot sun all day picking beans or the philanthropist whose chauffeur polishes only the side of the car facing the house. I am a storyteller. I love learning about people and telling their stories. Here I tell you a bit of my story, and I give you links to the stories I have written and published about others.

I am interested in everything and everybody. I love finding out about things, unearthing the buried treasure. I find nothing more stimulating than a good conversation, a dialog, the exchange of information and ideas.

I am a Freelance Writer, Editor, Essayist, Best-Selling Greeting Card Verse Writer and Photographer. My feature stories, profiles, essays, award-winning poetry and landscape photography have appeared in magazines, newspapers, books, corporate and nonprofit promotional materials, art and humanities exhibits.

I have been a Magazine Staff Writer, an Editor for a Community Newspaper, and a Staff Member of a United States Congressman on Capitol Hill where I Analyzed and Wrote Summarization of Federal Legislation for Constituents.

Additionally, I have many years experience copywriting and editing Sales Letters, Brochures, Newsletters, Press Releases, and other Marketing Promotional Materials and Business Communications, as well as creating basic graphic design.

As an Airline Corporate Staff Member, I Researched, Wrote and Produced Tour Packages, Tour-Guide Scripts, Tour Descriptions, and Itineraries.

I am a citrus and fresh produce expert and ran a catering company.

I've been Consultant and Editor for Systems Analysts' Government Proposals, Post-Graduate Dissertations, and Educational and Instructive Materials.

I have served as a Consultant to Non-Native English Speakers.

I was a Peer Writing Tutor in my University Peer Tutor Honors Program.

My Landscape Photography was selected for slide show presentation by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

If you are interested in my writing your story, want to publish my stories, or simply have questions or comments, please email me at CAROL CHILD Communications. I look forward to hearing from you.

In the meantime, here are a few links to clips of my published work:

http://www.middletownlifemagazine.com

· Witney’s Lights: Quincy Lucas (who rode the 2009 Inauguration Day train with president-elect Barack Obama and vice-president-elect Joe Biden) brings the issue of domestic violence from darkness to light, p. 36.

· Fathoming Melons: Inside Cantaloupe and Honeydew, p. 60.

· The Quest for Human Equality and Dignity: The Appoquinimink Friends Meeting House Placed on the Network to Freedom, p. 6.

· What If Mr. Darcy Came to Dinner?: An 18th-Century Christmas in Historic Odessa, Delaware, p. 18.

· A Love Story: They Met at the Senior Center, p. 52.

· You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet: Bill Carter, Historic Everett Theatre (Featured in Dead Poets Society) Organist & 3-D Photographer, p. 66.

· Winterthur's Catherine Matsen, Chemistry History Detective: Discovers Original Corbit-Sharp House (1774, Historic Odessa, Del.) Paint Colors, p.72.

· Cover Photo – Noxontown Pond, July 2008 Middletown Life

· Her Hours Upon the Stage – A Lady in Distress: The Everett Theatre, p. 22.

· Fathoming Melons: Seeds of Knowledge About Watermelons, p. 42.

· The Blackbird: The View from Taylor’s Bridge, p. 82.

· Historic Odessa: Living Time Capsule, p. 74.

· Food for Thought: A Conversation with Michael McGrath, p. 54.

· Dancing to a New Tune: The Everett Theatre (Featured in Dead Poets Society), p. 7.

· MOT Jean Birch Senior Center: A Place to Meet Wonderful People, p. 27.

· On Noxontown Pond, p. 93.

· Cover Photo – July 2007 Middletown Life

· Dan O’Connell: Teacher, Scientist, Lawyer, Activist, p. 16.

· Wendy Gentry: Gibraltar Garden Manager, p. 40.

· St. Andrew’s School: A Precarious Outlier, p. 64.

Clips

There’s Something About Smyrna (An Essay)

Everglades City (An Essay)

The Deforestation of Smyrna (An Essay)

At the Shore (A Poem)

F. Scott Fitzgerald — Only the Memories Remain

Robin Preiss Glasser — Award-winning children's book illustrator and former principal dancer with the Pennsylvania Ballet

Maggie S. Myers, Schooner Under Sail

Maggie S. Myers— Historic Delaware Bay Oyster Schooner

Glenn Gauvry Speaks for Horseshoe Crabs — Gauvry is founder and president of Ecological Research and Development Group, horseshoecrab.org.

Everglades City — Essay

Smyrna by Candlelight — Historic Downtown Smyrna, Del.

Jackie Vinyard — The Gathering Place

Sari Staggs — Watercolorist

A Sunny University of Delaware Graduate at Age 88

Preserving Historic Brandywine Springs Amusement Park

Fire Company Honors 87-Year-Old Volunteer

College Honors Teacher's Life Service

Irene & Michael — Fated to Meet

U.D. Grad Student Attends Nobel Laureates' Meeting

Sanctuary of Learning

Priest Saves Historic Church

Companion Pieces:   Artistic Training — Ballet

Artistic Training — Martial Arts

Dance Review

The Last Word — Thought Piece

The Survivalists

Please do visit my network of extraordinary and uplifting human beings and groups:

http://www.kathleenlong.com (My sister, the award-winning romantic fiction writer.)

http://www.horseshoecrab.org (Learn more about this 450 million year old venerable creature and efforts to preserve it: the Ecological Research & Development Group (ERDG).)

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/education/are/ges.html (Green Eggs & Sand - An award-winning curriculum.)

http://www.delfolk.org (Delaware Friends of Folk)

http://www.timeology.net/ (James Coleman, spiritual astrologer.)

http://studio1443.com/ (Professional cutting-edge graphic and photography that will meet or exceed your expectations.  Really – check him out.)

http://www.302stories.com (Michael Oates, award-winning independent video documentarian.) (coming soon)

http://www.downtownsmyrna.org/ (Come visit historic downtown Smyrna, a former grain shipping port, and nearby Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge on the Delaware Bay.)

http://www.southbayballet.org/ (Performance.)

http://www.southbayballet.org/lauridsen/ (Where we took ballet classes – Diane Lauridsen, master teacher with American Ballet Theatre.)

http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/au-glasser-robin-preiss.asp (Principal dancer with the Pennsylvania for 11 years; student and teacher at Lauridsen Ballet Centre; now New York Times best-selling children’s book illustrator.)

http://www.seetheflames.com/mem.html (The Music: forever yours)

Copyright 2009 – Carol Child (except where noted)