Portfolio
Below are selected publications from my archives.
Note: Most projects required NDAs, so I’m not able to share them, yet give me a shout to find out if I’ve worked on something similar to your needs. I likely have.
WRITING
Media news: Dolly Parton expands her kitchen empire
Axios
September 2024
Health news: VUMC logs record year for transplants
Axios
July 2024
Music news: Maren Morris feels "very distanced" from country music
Axios
September 2023
Event writeup: How to celebrate Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in Nashville
Axios
May 2023
Restaurant review: Dessert saves an overhyped meal at Locust
Axios
October 2022
Case study and blog post: Simplifying Group Hotel Booking for Conferences
Groups360 (ghostwritten)
July 2022
Ebook: Owning the customer experience from order capture through last mile
enVista + Radaro (ghostwritten)
June 2022
Blog post: 10 Signs You Have “Friction” in Your Customer Experience, Part One
Blog post: 10 Signs You Have “Friction” in Your Customer Experience, Part Two
Deck Commerce (ghostwritten)
June 2022
Blog post: In-person meetings and events are back—with some changes
Groups360 (ghostwritten)
May 2022
Blog post: Returns management 101
Deck Commerce (ghostwritten)
April 2022
Blog post: Why brands need a messaging-first approach to customer service
Freshdesk/Freshworks (ghostwritten)
February 2022
Blog post: What is Buy Online Pickup In Store (BOPIS)? A guide for retailers
Deck Commerce (ghostwritten)
February 2022
Blog post: 5 footwear brands crushing omnichannel fulfillment
Deck Commerce (ghostwritten)
January 2022
Blog post: 11 ways to overcome sales call reluctance & build iron confidence
Close (ghostwritten)
September 2021
Blog post: How to solve creative differences with your client when you’re seemingly at an impasse
Gain
April 2016
Website copy overhaul
Summit Christian Academy
March 2016
Marketing brochure copy
Summit Christian Academy
March 2016
EDITING
Developmental edit
The Rising: Book One in the Trigenus Series, by L.F. Seitz
2021
Copyedit and content development
Destined for Greatness: Living an inspired life, from head to Tippi Toes, by Sarah Nuse
2020
Developmental and copyedit
The Cousins Three, Amy Laura Leisten
2019
Copyedit of 500+ page book for a mid-level practitioner of a technical product
Alteryx
July 2019
Book edit
The Business of Starting: Uncover the Courage, Tools, and Techniques to Launch Your Business, by Eddy Hood
March 2017
Book edit
What Mommy and Daddy Do: Oil & Gas, by Wexford Books
October 2016
Book edit
What Mommy Does: Nursing, by Wexford Books
June 2016
Book edit
What Daddy Does: Trucking, by Wexford Books
May 2016
Book edit
MacCarrig, by Victoria Devine
January 2016
Book edit
Santa's Bully Elf, by Victoria Devine
November 2015
NON-FICTION
Blog post: Why Writer's Block is More Painful Than Stepping on a Lego (And What to Do About It)
The Writer's Cookbook
December 2021
Blog post: A character prompt that turned into a book
Story is a State of Mind
September 2017
Blog post: 24 hours in Nashville, Tennessee
College Wanderlust
July 2016
Blog post: 8 steps to master goal setting (aiming to quit your day job?)
Ivorymix
June 2016
Magazine article: Forced mindset: Lose a job. Gain a writing life.
The Writer
May 2016
Blog post: When to go to bed (and when not to)
Headspace
April 2016
Blog post: Tourette's in the newsroom
Headspace
March 2016
Newspaper article: Loss of sight doesn't cloud his vision
The Tennessean
November 2012
FICTION
Short story collection
Cheers, Somebody, published by Vine Leaves Press
September 2017
Short story
Showcase, written under the pseudonym Marissa Rue
2015
Poetry
"How I wrapped the present"
"I can't find my boyfriend"
"Here at Profile"
"I wanted to tell his grandmother that I loved her"
All published by QuarterReads
2014
Short story
Harold's Tab
Tethered by Letters, Fall Short Story Contest Winner
2013
Short story
Cicadas
Regime 03 Magazine
2013
Poetry
"Geography"
Nashville Poetry in Motion Contest through the Metro Arts Commission in which 11 finalists' poems were scrawled on the sides of Metro Transit Authority buses to be read by MTA’s 800,000 riders during April, National Poetry Month.
2013
BOOK REVIEWS
Be Frank With Me, by Julia Clairborne Johnson
BookPage
February 2016
The Elephant Keepers' Children, by Peter H∅eg
BookPage
November 2012
In Zanesville, by Jo Ann Beard
BookPage
May 2011
My Name is Mary Sutter, by Robin Oliveira
BookPage
June 2010
The Informers, by Juan Gabriel Vazquez
BookPage
August 2009
Before I Die, by Jenny Downham
BookPage
November 2007