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Melanie Jennings

Effective technical communication helps you sell more and support less. Lighthouse Communications is dedicated to quality writing, on-time delivery, and reasonable rates.

With over ten years of corporate writing experience, I offer technical and marketing writing geared to the high-tech end-user, engineering specialist, or technician. I have additional core knowledge in research, academia, hospitality, and nonprofit.

I can create or update your:

• API Reference Guides
• User's Guides
• Quick Reference Cards
• Technical Papers
• Proposals
• Brochures & Web Content
• White Papers
• Data/Product Sheets

My core tools include FrameMaker, Word, Illustrator, Photoshop, Visio, Acrobat, HTML, and UNIX/vi.

Elizabeth Baldwin

Elizabeth Baldwin operates Word Count Editorial Services, which offers a wide variety of options for your editorial needs, working with both fiction and non-fiction materials.

Services offered
Copyediting | Proof Reading | Substantive Editing | Manuscript Evaluation | Read/Critique Groups | Writing Coach

For details on services and rates, email: elizabeth@wordcount.net

WordCount Editorial Services
Make every word count!
P.O. Box 151598
San Diego, CA 92175
619-741-1036

Elizabeth's website www.wordcount.net
is coming soon

Terrie Relf


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Terrie Relf is the Poetry Editor for writersmonthly.com and writes the Poet's Workshop column. She also writes the Mistress of Rhetoric column for The Espresso, San Diego’s Magazine of Coffee and Café Culture.

An internationally published and award winning poet, Relf also writes fiction and non-fiction and is an English Instructor at San Diego City College.

Terrie Leigh Relf has over ten years experience as a local editor, columnist, writer, teacher, and writing coach.


Services offered
Editing | Copywriting | Content Provider | Writing Coach


Rates: Vary depending upon the nature of the project.

Email: Terrie@writersmonthly.com

The Muse Is In

Jill Badonsky
Website: www.themuseisin.com
Email: JillBadonsky@WritersMonthly.com

Services offered
Classes | Mentoring | Consultation Regarding the Creative Process

Got a project, dream or idea that does not seem to move to the next step? Perhaps a little structure, inspiration and accountability will move you forward.

The only way to find out is to try it with a free 30-minute phone call that describes the process and how it relates to your needs and wishes.

Creativity often becomes blocked or creative people sometimes become resistant in the face of linear goals so find out how: play, goofing off, audacity, pampering, uniquely described activities, dressing in black on Saturday mornings can help you reach your creative intentions.

Creative Mentoring includes:
• Techniques and Structure to Overcome Overwhelm, Procrastination and get Productively Focused on Creativity’s non-linear path of discovery and progress

• Ideas, inspiration, game plans and feedback in a specific area of creativity

• Working through fears and resistances related to creative progress

• Overcoming perfectionism, time issues, and feelings of inadequacy around the creative process.

• Increasing intuition, insight, imagination and innovation.