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Paul S. Fein, Agawam MA; tel. & fax (413) 786-2034; e-mail: lincjeff1@comcast.net. Writing Specialties: Sportswriting, with a special emphasis on tennis - its international players, events, issues, trends and history. Credits: My first book - Tennis Confidential: Today's Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies - was published by Brassey's, Inc. in April 2002; see www.tennisconfidential.com. It was recommended by Library Journal and Tennis Week, among other publications. My second book - You Can Quote Me on That: Greatest Tennis Quips, Insights, and Zingers with a foreword by Billie Jean King - was published by Potomac Books, Inc. (formerly Brassey's, Inc.) in March 2005; see more information and links to reviews at www.tennisquotes.com. My third book, Tennis Confidential II: More of Today's Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies, was published in May 2008 by Potomac Books, Inc.; see more information and links to reviews at www.tennisconfidential.com. Tennis Confidential II was named one of ForeWord magazine's finalists for the 2008 Book of the Year Award. My fourth book, The Fein Points of Tennis: Technique and Tactics to Unleash Your Talent, was released by Coaches Choice in July 2021. It provides an in-depth analysis of several underemphasized topics, such as playing in the wind, the half volley, match momentum, running speed, the subtleties of touch shots, and the arts of anticipation, lobbing, and wrong-footing. You can check it out on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3fcXyne or on the website https://feinpointsoftennis.com/. The Fein Points of Tennis: Technique and Tactics to Unleash Your Talent was named a Silver Winner in the Adventure, Sports, and Recreation category in the Foreword Reviews 2021 INDIES Book of the Year competition.See the Facebook page: https://facebook.com/FeinPointsOfTennis. My articles have appeared in publications in 25 foreign countries and in general interest, sports and tennis magazines and newspapers in the U.S. Awards: I have received more than 40 writing awards, including 13 (two 1st Places and two 2nd Places) in the Writers-Editors Network International Writing Compeition, three during the 1990s from the prestigious Tennis Week magazine, plus a first prize and a second prize in the 1999 United States Tennis Writers Association writing contest in the Column category, a first prize in the 2000 USTWA writing contest in the Feature category, a first prize in the 2001 USTWA writing contest in the Enterprise/Hard News category, a first prize in the 2004 and 2005 USTWA writing contests in the Feature category, and a first prize in the Service Story category and second prizes in the Hard News/Enterprise category and the Feature Story category in the 2007 USTWA writing contest. The 2005 winning Feature Story was "Who is the Greatest Tennis Player Ever?" In the 2008 USTWA contest, I won First Prize in the "Service Story" Category for my article, "Ten Reasons Why Topspin Is Essential on Clay." It was my seventh First Prize award in the annual USTWA writing contest in the past nine years. In the same category, I also won Second Prize for my article, "The Art of Anticipation." It was my fourth Second Prize award in the USTWA contest. My articles received 1st Place (for "The Importance of Momentum in Tennis" on TennisOne.com) and 2nd Place (for "Defend and Conquer" in Australian Tennis Magazine) awards in the Service Story category in the 2010 USTWA writing contest. My article,"The Escape Artist,"was awarded 8th Place in the Magazine Feature Article category of the 81st Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition (2012). I received 1st Place in the 2015 Writers-Editors Network International Writing Competition in the "Previously Published Nonfiction" category for his essay titled "Beauty of Federer." I also received 3rd Place in the 2015 Carteret Writers Writing Competition in the "Nonfiction" category for his essay titled "Will Serena and Novak Capture the Holy Grail of Tennis." In 2019, I received Honorable Mention recognition in the Print or Online Article category of the 88th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition for my articles, "How Should Female Athletes Be Portrayed," and "25 Great Things about Tennis." Kinds of articles: I write human interest features, interviews, event coverage, straight reportage, book and web site reviews, sports history, essays, "Juicy Quotes" and "Tennis Index" features, event previews and annual retrospectives, instruction, humor and cartoons. Memberships: AIPS, NSSA, NSMTA, USTWA, USPTA, NSWTA, LTA, SST, ITHF, USTA. Comments: Besides doing freelance writing assignments, I am available for press releases, proofreading, editing and newsletters. Writing samples are available upon request. I welcome your inquiries.
Kay Harwell Fernandez, Ormond Beach FL; kayharwellfernandez@gmail.com. Writing Specialties: Travel, art & culture, retail, health/medical, dogs, profiles, food & wine, business, mature and upscale markets. Media Experience: Newspaper, magazine, newsletter, audio, corporate, brochures, ad agency, PR firm, Internet. Books: Contributor to National Geographic tabletop book "Sacred Places of a Lifetime"; contributor to "100 Years of Moving Pictures," published in both Europe and the US. Periodical Credits: AAA Living, Upscale Living, The Tennessean, Porthole, Gayot, Holiday Villas (UK), Elegant Wedding, Wine Enthusiast, Vacation Agent, Seabourn Club Herald, Cunard Passages, Holland America Compass, and The Travel Editor. Clients: Agencies; businesses. Awards: Writing awards from WEN/FFWA Annual Writing Competition; American Business Publishers Jesse Neal Award; and editor of two publications that received Florida Magazine Association awards. Comments: Journalism degree (graduated with high honors); more than 20 years' experience, including magazine editor for both trade and consumer publications; strengths - professional, ethical, flexible, can-do attitude; traveled throughout the US and to 44 countries. Memberships: FFWA, ASJA, IFWTWA, SATW.
Carol Fichtelman, St. Louis, Missouri
Phone: 314-814-3681
E-mail: cafichtelman@hotmail.com
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Non-Fiction Skills: Legal Editing, Legal Writing, Website Writing, University and Law School Consultant, Copy Editing, Proofreading
Non-Fiction Credits: ElderLaw Portfolio Series: Portfolios ##10, 12, 13,14, 20 (Update Contributor), #17 (Co-Contributor), #27 (Original Author), Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Publisher
Fiction Skills: Short Story Writer (Mainstream and Speculative/SciFi)
Fiction Writing Credits: "Grasmere Avenue," Dream Fantasy International, Volume 34, 2006/2007; "Dogtown, USA," Wisconsin Review, v. 43, #2 (Spring, 2009); "My Alpha and Omega," Liternational, Volume 1, Issue 2, Aug. 17, 2012, www.liternational.com/my-alpha-and-omega/; "It Never Rains in Dogtown," Center for Writing Excellence (C4WE), Sept. 2012 and published in Third Annual Fiction Anthology, (p.45) Center for Writing Excellence, 2013; "Girl in the Fast Lane," WritersType.com September 2012 Short Story Winner, www.writerstype.com/winners/2012/september/shortstory.asp or www.writerstype.com/winners.asp; "It Never Rains in Dogtown," Third Annual Fiction Anthology, Editor: Janie Sullivan, Director, C4WE; Center for Writing Excellence, Summer 2013 (ISBN: 978-1491091043) (Also available on Kindle)
Fiction Awards: Black Mountain Press Asheville Award Finalist, May 2013 Contest, "Girl in the Fast Lane: A Collection of Short Stories": http://theblackmountainpress.com/contests.html (Top Finalist out of Four Awardees, including the Winner); The 2012 Kristen Iversen & David Anthony Durham Award, Liternational: Literary Review International, www.liternational.com/finalists/, Honorable Mention for "My Alpha and Omega"; September 2012 Short Story Contest, WritersType.com, First Place for "Girl in the Fast Lane"; September 2012 Crime Fiction Contest, Center for Writing Excellence, Third Place for "It Never Rains in Dogtown"; 2012 Liternational Short Fiction Contest, Top Five Short Story, "My Alpha and Omega"; 2011 Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Contest, Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts; Short Story Finalist (20 finalist from pool of 450) for "Vicious Killer Poodles"; 2011 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition Short Story Semi-Finalist for "Danger City" (story not published).
Comments: B.A. History; J.D.; Available to do editing, website work, freelancing from my home office
Penny Fletcher takes both new and experienced authors for editing and coaching through her business website, www.writeyourheartout.biz, named after a class she gives twice a year to retirees at The Center 4 Lifelong Learning in Sun City Center, Florida. She can edit in American or British English, and Associated Press. All edits are done in Word Track Changes, so authors can see additions, deletions, comments and questions, before anything is permanently changed. Check out her feedback on the Testimonials page of her business website. If you hover over Testimonials, you will also find the best of the 30 Florida Community Press and Florida Press awards she has gleaned between the 1980s and 2007 when she quit to freelance again. Her flat fee and hourly rates are all available on her websites; flat manuscript editing fees are .03 cents a word and are explained in full on the business website. Interviewing and writing in the Tampa Bay area (with photos) and/or other areas for a specific subject with interviews done by phone are also accepted as time allows.
As an author, she has a new book contract with Sunbury Press for True Stories Of Help From The Other Side (Fall 2020). True Stories will have a New Age metaphysical/spiritual Blog and Podcast in 2020, also sponsored by the publisher. Sunbury Press, located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, has ten imprints, and has been in business since 2004.
Fletcher has been a journalist and editor for more than thirty-five years and edited more than 400 books, some for Amazon's first publishing division BookSurge, but most from private clients, many she has found on www.guru.com where there is feedback for her work back to 2003. You will find her method and pricing thoroughly described on her editing and coaching website (above).
As an author, she has written for five national magazines, and both traditionally and self-published four books. Her first book, If I Should Die Before I Wake, published by Rainbow in 1992, concerned domestic abuse and was sold to colleges for women's studies before the publisher went out of business. Only used copies are available on line. An Editor's Guide to Perfect Press Releases (written to give to new Chamber members in her area in the early 2000s) is also out of print but she has author's copies that can be direct mailed. Two books are available on her author website www.pennyfletcher.com and on Amazon, The Sumerian Secret (romantic suspense) and Where The Wild Rose Grows (contemporary suspense along with Native American spirituality and lore.)
You may reach her online at penny@pennyfletcher.com
Or on her phone at eaglenet9@gmail.com
Suzann Bresler Goldstein is a memoirist, a freelance writer and a poet. She posts essays and poems to her blog www.unexpectedlives.com and has finished her memoir, WHY US? One Mother's Story (working title). She will soon be working on a book about children with cancer and blood disorders and their parents with her husband, Edwin Goldstein, and Dr. Peri Kamalakar, the director of three of THE VALERIE FUND Centers for Children with Cancer and Blood Disorders.
Suzann was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut and attended Bridgeport's public schools and the University of Connecticut. She dropped out of the academic world at the end of her sophomore year and returned home, her scholarly interests overcome by the university's very active social life.
Six months later, Suzann moved to New York City with friends from college. While there she met, and following a brief dating period, married Ed, the love of her life. They soon became a full-fledged family by adding two children to their lives, Stacy in 1964 and Valerie in 1966.
In 1969, three-year-old Valerie was diagnosed with bone cancer. She died six years later in January 1976. One month later, in February 1976, Suzann and Ed established THE VALERIE FUND, www.thevaleriefund.org, in their daughter's memory. THE VALERIE FUND is an organization that supports comprehensive health care for children with cancer and blood disorders. Today there are seven THE VALERIE FUND Children's Centers located in major hospitals in New Jersey, New York City and the Philadelphia area. These Centers together form the largest network of hospital-based outpatient healthcare facilities for children with cancer and blood disorders in New Jersey and one of the largest in the nation. THE VALERIE FUND also supports Camp Happy Times, afree week-long summer camp for children with cancer.
In 1981, when Stacy was seventeen, a fresh interest in academics urged Suzann to add non-traditional student to her New Jersey schedule. She enrolled in Somerset County Community College, received her Associate of Arts degree with honors, transferred to Douglass College and in 1984, while in her junior year, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. In 1985, she was awarded the Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors.
Continuing her education at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Suzann received her Master of Arts degree in sociology, then entered the Rutgers PhD program in medical sociology. In addition to the other busy parts of her life, Suzann worked in the sociology department as a research assistant and practiced as a medical sociologist outside the university.
Suzann left graduate school before completing the last of her doctoral course work in order to care for Stacy who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1989 at the age of twenty-five. Stacy died twelve years later in 2001.
The breast cancer center at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, in collaboration with Suzann and Ed, was renamed in memory of Stacy, and is now called the STACY GOLDSTEIN BREAST CANCER CENTER at RCINJ, www.cinj.org/treatment/breast_oncology.html. The Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey is the state's only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and is dedicated to cancer research and the clinical care of patients with cancer. It is one of only 45 such cancer centers in the nation.
-In May 2015, Suzann was the recipient of the Woman of Achievement Award from The State Federation of Women's Clubs.
-In October 2014, Suzann was inducted into The Douglass Society, an honor given by the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College to those whose life's work embodies exceptional accomplishments and leadership.
-In mid June 2013, Suzann and Ed were awarded The Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis Jefferson Award for Public Service.
-In early June 2013, Suzann and Ed received the New Jersey State Governor's Jefferson Award in Public Service In March 2012, Suzann was chosen as the Somerset County Woman of The Year for Public Service.
-In 2011, Suzann and Ed were awarded the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's University Medal of Excellence.
-In September 2010, Suzann was elected to the Foundation of The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
-In 2003, Suzann was appointed to the New Jersey State Child Placement Review Board.
-In 1992, Suzann was appointed to the New Jersey State Department of Health Parental and Child Health Advisory Committee.
-In 1991, The New Jersey State Department of Health chose Suzann as the recipient for the Albert Harrison Award for Extraordinary Commitment to Services for Children With Special Health Needs.
-In 1984, Suzann received the Douglass College Student Cooperative Bookstore Merit Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Major Field of Study.
William (Bill) A. Gralnick, Boca Raton FL; (561) 445-4338, (561) 488-3554; wagmom@aol.com. Writing Specialties: Opinion, lifestyle, humor, nostalgia, proofreading, editing. Media Experience: Newspaper, newsletter, speeches, white paper, research. Periodical Credits: Miami Herald, Palm Beach Post, St. Petersburg Times, Anniston (Ala.) Star, USA Today, Jewish Journal, Southern Israelite, Miami Today, Nashville Tennessean, Florida Catholic, International Police Chaplains Journal. Comments: My style is readable, pithy, peppered with humor and irony where appropriate. Book credits: Mirth, Wind and Ire - www.smashwords.com/books/view/692523 - and More Mirth, Wind and Ire - www.smashwords.com/books/view/758411 - Drawn from my over 900 published op eds and columns, these political science oriented books looks at community problems that have gone unresolved for as many as thirty years and offers suggestions for their solution. "More..." is exactly what it says, but it ends with a tutorial on how an individual one can produce social change. My third book is the first in a series of memoirs. Called The War of the Itchy Balls and Other Tales from Brooklyn, it is a Woody Allen-esque look at years 3-17. To know what itchy balls are and why they claim the book's title, you have to read the book (https://amzn.to/308kQ8o, BN.com). The sequel, George Washington Didn't Sleep Here (Barringer Publishin), covers my college and graduate school years at The George Washington University. Same style, different content. It's available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3lfTmqF or from my website. My weekly blog can be read at https://atleastfrommyperspectiveblog.wordpress.com/ and my website devoted to both my professional escapades and current and historical notes about Brooklyn, NY is to be found at www.williamgralnickauthor.com
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