My Author’s Journey and Writing Credits
Here is the series of posts that tell the story of how I evolved into a writer. Below are writing and editing credits, followed by miscellaneous information, including that infamous chapter on Campylobacter.
The Posts:
The Post – WritingL Fear, Luck, or Burn the Ships?
The Post – Okay, So Now That You’ve Met My Fiddler Crabs, Who is This Deb Bailey Writer Person?
The Post – Stage I: Apprenticeship – The Early Part
The Post – Apprenticeship, Take 2: Getting a Grip – The Anal Retentive Takes Over
The Post – Finally, I Graduate to Stage Two – Focusing the Lens
The Post- A Sidetrip to Essays – But the Bus NEVER Came Up This Far on the Curb Before!
The Post – Stage Three: Coming Into My Own – Evolution TO a Novel
Writing and Editing:
Established my own company to do freelance writing, substantive, cultural, and copy-editing, as well as pharmaceutical work. 1995 – Present. Publications or clients include:
The Copernicus Group Independent Review Board: Member of a medical ethics board that protects human subjects by reviewing clinical research studies and editing consent forms to explain the research in simple language to subjects of all ages. 1996 – 2006.
Carolina Parent: “Letter to My Son: Workday Mornings,” September 1996. Reprinted in the Mahoning Valley Parent, February 1997.
Boys’ Life: “Call of the Wild,” July, 1999.
IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. Wrote: CliffsNotes-Shaara’s The Killer Angels; CliffsNotes-Dickens’ Great Expectations. Both – June 2000.
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. (UK), in conjunction with Microsoft and St. Martin’s Press: lexicographer/cultural editor for the Encarta World English Dictionary,1999, and the Microsoft Encarta College Thesaurus, 2002.
The Writer: “That siren Solitaire,” March 2002.
Boys’ Life: “In Harm’s Way,” April 2006.
Boys’ Life: “Project Heroes,” March 2008.
Miscellaneous information:
I have a B.S. degree in Medical Laboratory Technology from the University of Connecticut and am registered with the American Society of Clinical Pathologists.
I completed two courses with The Institute of Children’s Literature, as well as several continuing education classes at colleges in Connecticut and Duke University. These included courses on the business of freelance writing; feature writing; essay writing; and picture book writing.
I am a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, both the national organization and the local Carolinas chapter.
And last but not least, here’s that exciting chapter I mentioned for anyone interested in bacterial ancient history:
“Campylobacter and Spirillum,” Debra A. Phillip and Dr. Richard C. Tilton, CRC Handbook Series in Clinical Laboratory Science, Section E: Clinical Microbiology, Volume I. David Seligson, Editor-in-Chief, Alexander von Graevenitz, Section Editor. Cleveland: CRC Press, Inc., 1977.
