“Whenever you find yourself laughing
at a situation or shaking your head
or saying to someone, ‘Listen to this,’
you’ve probably got a story.”

Getting Started: Newspaper Feature

Perfect for placement in a corporate newsletter, a local, regional, or trade newspaper, or a community organization publication, this feature-length story focuses on an achievement, event, or highlight of your career or outlook, offers insights into your personality and conveys your strategies for success.  

Your time commitment:   Two hours interview time, manuscript review as needed, one hour editing session.

Deliverable: Feature story suitable for newspaper publication. Includes one revision.

Fee: Billed hourly, invoiced monthly

Getting to Know You: Journal Profile

Ideal for submission to longer-format journals seeking substantive pieces, often focused on marketplace trends, industry leaders, and business personalities. These magazine-length pieces allow for a deeper dive into a market shift, or an in-depth personality profile that includes interviews with multiple sources. 

Your time commitment:   Four hours interview time, manuscript review as needed, two one-hour editing sessions.

Deliverable: Journal piece suitable for magazine publication. Includes interviews with two people of your choice, two revisions.

Fee: Billed hourly, invoiced monthly

Getting to Know All About You: Your Memoir

Producing a book generally takes 12 to 18 months. You can expect weekly meetings/interview sessions of 60 to 90 minutes in which we will begin to build a storyline. After about eight meetings, you will receive a draft table of contents and begin the intensive work of building out each chapter, both through detailed research and interviews with you and others, as needed. You will have the opportunity to review each draft chapter as it is completed, correcting, adding, and fine-tuning your story. We will continue the process of developing new material and revising existing material until the work is complete to your satisfaction.

Your time commitment:   60 to 90 minutes per week of interviews. After approx. eight weeks, up to two additional hours per week for chapter review and comment.

Photo/ephemera selection — later in the process

Deliverable: Book length manuscript suitable for submission to agent/publisher

Fee: Billed hourly, invoiced monthly