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My first career was as a freelance camera assistant, in Los Angeles and then Baltimore, working on feature films, television, documentaries and commercials.

It was a great first career for a writer. I traveled a lot. From L.A. to Hawaii, from the Big Sky of Montana to the rural villages of Hong Kong, I saw the world and learned about the people in it. And six years on "Homicide: Life on the Street" gave me an insight into urban life that I never would have known by just reading about it in the newspaper.

At 40, I made a career change to writing. Now I write and report full-time for a weekly newspaper and also write freelance. When I'm not writing for someone else I write fiction.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Staff Writer/Reporter 1999-Present

Community Times, Landmark Community Newspapers of Maryland

Writing, researching, interviewing, photography for local news and features, covering NW Baltimore County.

Freelance Writer 1999-Present

American Profile, Chesapeake Family, CinematographyWorld, Maryland Life, Maryland Women, Montgomery Gazette, Smart Woman

Published ebook, "Dream Jobs To Go! Film Crew Camera Person," Publisher: Intellectua.com

Writing, interviewing, researching, for news, features and profiles for newspapers, magazines and Web sites.

Associate/Writer 1999

Catalyst Communications, Inc. Baltimore, Md

Grant writing, promotional and business writing for Baltimore area organizations, including: The Baltimore City Public School System; Safe and Sound Campaign; YWCA of the Greater Baltimore Area; and Empower Baltimore Management Corp.

Freelance Camera Assistant, 1982-Present

Motion Pictures/Television/Documentaries/Commercials

International Cinematographers Guild IATSE, twenty-two-year member as a camera assistant.

Production experience includes: Homicide: Life on the Street; Pecker; Return to Lonesome Dove; Serial Mom; Gettysburg; Overboard; Quantum Leap; Murder She Wrote; Nothing in Common; Stop Making Sense; Scarface and many others.

 

EDUCATION and TRAINING

Currently pursuing MA in Writing at Johns Hopkins University

HTML/Web Page Design Introduction - CCBC 2001

Writing Fiction Course - CCBC 1996

Camera Assistants Training Program, LA, Ca 1982

Graduate Studies - Film, UCLA 1981

Bachelor of Arts - Visual and Performing Arts, cum laude, UMBC 1980

 

FICTION

Dead X and Mobtown Marauders - Wisecracking female detective novels set in Baltimore 

Shadow Warrior - Medieval adventure novel
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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