Everything I've Ever Written

This is an ongoing list of all the official writing I've done. If you like my writing, contact me via Google+ for rates.

BluePromoCode offers handpicked, editor-tested promo codes for over 12,000 stores. The blog provides advice on how to get the best deals at your favorite stores. While writing for this site, I've gathered a lot of material on how to save money online. The best tip: scroll to the bottom of the site (the footer), to see if there's a secret link and/or a specific promotions/coupon page.

OfferBuys is a site that was working on providing the consumer with the power to determine the price of their purchases. I contributed material for their blog, and provided commentary about the state of the online retail market, and current fashion trends. It is now defunct.


I worked at WonderHowTo for a few years, and I thoroughly enjoyed my time there. I created and wrote for the Google+ Insider's Guide, a world that I started immediately after the launch of Google+. It is syndicated on Business Insider. The majority of the content is researched and created by me. I continue to post and contribute articles as time permits.


I contributed to WonderHowTo's blog, in order to foster a better understanding of how WonderHowTo's system, and its worlds work. Note: The information in the articles below are now out-of-date, and they should not be used as a guide for WonderHowTo's site.


Friday Fresh was a weekly series I wrote to highlight some of the most interesting and creative contributions to WonderHowTo's how-to video archive.


I'm going to be honest here: I wasn't really qualified to write for Hack A Day. I am not a hacker, nor a programmer, and I am not especially nerdy or geeky, although I do love all those things. From a distance. Nevertheless, I'm surprised at how long I was able to pull it off, and I only quit in order to take on a full-time job. It was also my first experience writing underneath a strict editor, and while Eliot Phillips drove me crazy occasionally, he was really good for my writing.


I contributed to Emily Chang's eHub website as one of my first forays into online writing and editing. I wasn't compensated, but I am deeply grateful for the experience and everything that I've learned, and the people I met through the project. Emily herself is gracious and friendly, and smart as a whip. I don't know how she has all the energy for all her different projects, but she's one to look up to.

I learned about TDmonthly Magazine from a friend who worked there. For a while, I contributed articles about rising trends in the toy industry. Through this gig, I learned a lot about writing for and knowing your audience, and about how to research trend pieces. I spent a lot of time on the phone, interviewing people. One of the best perks was the fact that I get to check out sample toys first!

It's also amusing how prescient some of my trend pieces were. At the time, I was focused on my own interests and obsessions, so I wrote about those. Now, many of them are mainstream - anime and manga have their own bookshelves in major bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders, vinyl toys are now collected by everyone from my young cousins to my oldest friends, and they craft their own friendship bracelets for fun.


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