Professional Services Available from SLWG Members
SLWG is not an agency. We don't charge you for connecting with our talent pool or get involved in the process. We simply provide you with a "snapshot" listing of our members so that you can shop their qualifications and contact them if they suit your particular project. You deal directly with the professionals to discuss your needs, develop concepts, set deadlines, negotiate fees, etc. In short, St. Louis Writers Guild is a conduit to help you identify available professional services from our membership. Please note that our freelancers give a 10% discount or more to other SLWG members.
For additional information, including fees, references, and/or samples of work,
please contact our members directly
Elaine Sandra Abramson
Elaine Abramson is the first woman to become a state artist of Texas. Her children's cartoon characters were on the Pixelon Network, on TV, used in Texas tourism, and her artwork and writing were licensed and merchandised by Viacom Entertainment. She writes and illustrates children's storybooks, designs plush toys and T-shirts, and other products to go with her books. Elaine is also an author of mysteries, narrative nonfiction, and short story collections. She created the "Creative Entrepreneur" business series for artists and authors for Richland College. Her greatest asset is she loves her work.
Phone: 314.579.0215
Email: AAArtWork@aol.com
Betty Burnett, Ph.D.
As editorial director of the Patrice Press and as an editor with Corinthian Books, Betty Burnett developed more than two dozen books from rough manuscripts to finished editions. Her own twenty-odd published nonfiction books all required a depth of research and an ability to organize material into a coherent and engaging whole. Her specialties are American culture and history (especially St. Louis and Missouri history) and biography, with a nod to theater and religion. She has a strong background in writing institutional history and in working as an editor with academic authors. Her skills include the ability to organize complex material and to write clearly and succinctly.
Phone: 314.781.4611
Email: bettyburnett@msn.com
Jeannine Dahlberg
Jeannine Dahlberg’s professional career has honed her writing and editing skills from business correspondence to political speeches, invocations, proclamations, declarations, raps and poetry to being the editor, writer and photographer for the bi-monthly, eight-page newsletter for the City of Town and Country. Her most recent accomplishments are the publishing and marketing of her two mystery novels, Riding the Tail of the Dragon and Candle in the Window. Jeannine also speaks at retirement centers, book and social clubs, and gives motivational talks to schools. She was educated at Missouri University at Columbia and Washington University in St. Louis.
Phone: 314.821.8228
E-mail: neenjd@att.net
Doreen Hulsey
Doreen Hulsey has more than 20 years’ experience providing software engineering services for businesses and individuals. She has an engineering degree in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University and has worked on such projects as Star Wars technology, stealth fighter avionics, office automation software, and websites. Through her company, Hulsey Software, she designs and maintains websites, using HTML, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Flash. She has worked with large entities such as LTV, Boeing, the U.S. Army, as well as non-profits – such as St. Louis Writers Guild, where she is the webmaster – and individuals. Work samples and references are available.
E-mail: dlhulsey@hulseysoftware.com
Website:www.hulseysoftware.com.
Bobbi Linkemer
Owner of Bobbi Linkemer & Co./ Business Communications, Bobbi is a ghostwriter, editor, writing coach, and the author of 12 books under her own name. She has been a professional writer for 40 years, a magazine editor and journalist, and a writing teacher. Throughout her career, she has been actively involved in mentoring young writers, as they hone their professional skills. Bobbi is the nonfiction editor for Scribe & Quill, an award-winning Internet e-zine. Her articles have been published in local and national general interest, trade, and business magazines and newspapers. Her expert pieces on all aspects of writing appear on more than 25 article sites on the Web. Bobbi’s clients range from Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurs who want to enhance their credibility and build their businesses through books and other written materials.
Phone: 314.968.8661 Cell phone: 314.495.8580
E-Mail: bobbi@writeanonfictionbook.com
Website: http://www.WriteANonfictionBook.com
Snail mail: PO Box 6835, St. Louis, MO 63144
Gerry Mandel
Gerry Mandel is a freelance writer with 30 years’ experience in advertising. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis with a B.S. in Business Administration, Gerry worked in local television for four years as a writer/director. He then turned to advertising, as a writer, producer, and creative director with national advertising agencies, including D’Arcy (DMB&B). He won numerous national and international awards for his work on Budweiser, Southwestern Bell, Busch Gardens, and Anheuser-Busch International. His freelance work includes a wide range of products and services. He has written, produced and directed corporate videos and documentaries, one of which won an international award in 2007. Freelance writing includes short stories, humorous commentary, and memoirs. He won second place in the St. Louis Writers Guild Annual Short Story contest in 2005. His writing has been published in Palo Alto Review, Hot Psychology, and Bird Talk. He taught Writing for Advertising at Webster University.
E-mail: spidermandel@charter.net
Jeff May
Jeff May has published short stories, poems, and articles, winning several short fiction awards, including one from Writer's Digest. His work has appeared in the US, UK, and Canada, and his novel Where the River Splits is scheduled for release in 2008. Jeff was a consultant for a St. Louis theatre company and he wrote and performed a short story for Washington University Radio. As a technical data engineer, he wrote corporate procedure and writing guides and, as an educator, he published feature articles and appeared in radio and television spotlights. Jeff's keen sense of adventure helps him understand writers who embrace "different" approaches to fiction; however, with degrees in English, psychology, education, and writing, and thirty years experience, he is also well-grounded in traditional techniques. He enjoys working one-on-one with aspiring and experienced authors. Jeff also offers services as content editor, speaker, workshop leader, and consultant.
Email: jmay194@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.askwritefish.com
Colleen McKee, M.F.A.
Colleen has over ten years experience as a freelance writer and editor. She has critiqued a variety of creative manuscripts, helping writers of poetry, fiction, and memoir hone and polish their work. Additionally, she has edited and proofread many scholarly books. She has also written and edited for not-for-profit institutions, such as the Saint Louis Art Museum. With seven years' experience as a professor and tutor, she is a patient, meticulous editor. She has published her poetry in publications such as Poetry Daily, Bellevue Literary Review and Flyway. She is the author of a book of poetry, My Hot Little Tomato (Cherry Pie Press). She has also published her personal essays in anthologies such as Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class; and Under the Arch: St. Louis Stories.
Phone: 314.898.8289
Email: misscolleenmckee@yahoo.com
Mary Menke
Mary Menke has more than 25 years' experience providing writing and editing services for businesses and individuals. Through her company, WordAbilities LLC, she writes and edits booklets, brochures, company histories, direct mail campaigns, individual biographies, letters, marketing materials, press releases, proposals, reports, and speeches. Additional services include content editing, copy/line editing, proofreading and website content development. Mary has a bachelor's degree in Communications/Journalism from St. Louis University and a Master's in Business from Lindenwood University. Work samples and references are available.
Phone: 314.843.7708 Cell: 314.374.2531
E-mail: marymenke@wordabilities.com
Website: www.wordabilities.com.
Rick Skwiot
An award-winning novelist, journalist, feature writer and business writer, Rick brings a keen intellect, a creative spirit and a sensitivity to the issues and emotions involved in any project. For Fortune 500 companies and top institutions he’s penned annual reports, feature stories, executive speeches, website copy and more. He also works as a ghostwriter and book doctor and has taught fiction writing at Washington University and the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he served as the 2004 Distinguished Visiting Writer. Whatever your project, he’s likely done something similar and is comfortable with scientific, technical, political and highly complex and subtle subject matter. Most important, he delivers on-target, hard-hitting copy that exceeds customer expectations. .
Phone: 314.448.9339
Email: Rick@ScribbleScribble.com
Website (commercial work samples): www.ScribbleScribble.com
Website (creative work samples) www.RickSkwiot.com
Susan Spanel
Susan Spanel was editor-in-chief of St. Louis' High Performance People, a regional lifestyle magazine covering metropolitan-area issues and the people who made a positive impact on the region. Before that, she was managing editor for several years of the St. Louis Times magazine, dealing with longevity issues long before grumpy old men became vogue in Hollywood. She earned her early credentials as a local news correspondent, feature writer and columnist for the newspaper umbrella, Call Publications, and as a freelancer has been published in national and regional magazines. A recipient of numerous writing awards from the National Federation of Press Women and the National Mature Media Resource Center, she has interviewed such celebrities as American icon Dick Clark, Betty White, Lou Rawls, Jack Valenti, Mary Tyler Moore, Heloise, Dr. C. Everett Koop and Charles Kuralt. Susan's current writing emphasis is on feature stories, personality profiles, humorous essays and book reviews.
E-mail: suespanel@sbcglobal.net.
Mark W. Tiedemann
Mark Tiedemann, author of ten novels, fifty-plus short stories, numerous reviews and articles, has nearly twenty years' experience in wordcraft. He has used his extensive experience as a published professional in workshops, lectures, and personal counseling with individual writers. His reviews and interviews have appeared in Science Fiction Age, the New York Review of Science Fiction, Sauce Magazine, and the St. Louis Times. He is adept at writing to editorial requirement. He offers services as editor, ghostwriter, freelance contributor, motivational speaker, workshop conductor, especially in the areas of fiction and literary criticism, and consultant for web content development. He has more than three decades experience in photography and can complement his work with related visuals.
Phone: 314.351.3541, 9 A.M.- noon, Monday through Friday
E-mail: mwtiedemann@earthlink.net
Snail mail: P.O. Box 160160, St. Louis, MO 63116.
Erika Whittaker
Erika Whittaker has been in the professional writing field for the past 18 years. She worked for 10 years in various public relations agencies, both in St. Louis and Chicago, before starting a home-based business in 1998. Erika specializes in writing feature articles and press releases for trade and consumer publications, handling national trade and consumer media relations, and writing/editing newsletters and other publications. Areas of expertise include the building/construction and agricultural industries. In 1995, Erika won a first place “Golden ARC Award,” presented by the Agricultural Resource Council, for a three-part article series she wrote about farmers in Illinois and Iowa recovering from the devastation of the Great Flood of 1993. She also has written several booklets and pamphlets for Lutheran Hour Ministries on topics such as stress management and debt reduction. Erika holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Phone: 314.909.9448
E-mail: erika-w@prodigy.net