In my very first interview with my author and former Thunderbird pilot Michelle MACE Curran, she told me about climbing into a box for confined space training, worried she'd be claustrophobic. Instead, she fell asleep. When I asked her if there was anything she was scared of, she said, "spiders."

That exchange early in our working relationship led to writing this sentence: "I can fly an F-16 fighter jet upside down, but I'm afraid of spiders."

The sentence led her book proposal, which netted a high-level literary agent and a Big Five publisher, and it's the first sentence of her book, "The Flipside." Gayle King raved about it on live TV.

This is what I do. I help people who have something to teach and share get their ideas and stories onto the page so that readers want to keep reading. 

"A blistering exposé" -Publishers Weekly review of "We the Patients"

I'm an accomplished ghostwriter and developmental editor with a unique set of skills that have been honed throughout my decades-long writing career. Take the entrepreneurial insights and humor of one of the "OG" mom bloggers and parenting authors, mix it with the research skills of a medical writer for some of New York City's most prestigious hospitals, add in a decade of coaching and ghostwriting for keynote and TEDx speakers and authors, and you get me.

WHAT MY CLIENTS SAY:

• "I've never seen anyone process information as quickly as you do." I suppose I'm like AI, only with real empathy and a sense of humor. 
• "I tell you things no one else knows." My Zoom interviews are a cross between a Hollywood writers' room and a therapy session.* 
• I've been called "The Storytelling Queen" and “Machete Jen." I slice and dice until each paragraph practically sings.

I've written the stories of extraordinary people in their voices.

I base all of my work on my certified training in Focusing, a mind-body modality for accessing your inner wisdom. No, we won’t light incense and chant together. It’s just a form of deep listening that creates safety. And when you feel safe, you can share your stories, your feelings, and your hopes and dreams. It’s where the best storytelling starts.

I have worked with a wide range of clients, including:

I "get" it. I'm an author, too.

Everything I know about writing your book comes from writing my own and much more. I blogged for a decade-and-a-half, including a column at GoodHousekeeping.com, developing a dogged writing and editing discipline that went above and beyond the usual "10,000 hours." I have published five of my own books through traditional publishing houses and four through self-publishing.

My work has appeared in numerous publications, including: The New York Times, The Hill, the Wall Street Journal, Parents, Woman’s Day, MarketWatch, McSweeney’s, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. I have appeared on numerous podcasts and quite a few TV new programs, including the CBS Evening News, the Today Show, and Fox & Friends. Once, I even made The Weather Channel's Sam Champion laugh out loud on air--and he wasn't even in the segment.** I served as a spokesperson for companies and brands like Microsoft, Hershey, and Pull-Ups.

For years, I provided my services as a writing coach, ghostwriter, and editor for Heroic Public Speaking, and I was a writing coach for TEDxCambridge, one of the largest and longest running TED events in the world.

I have worked as a medical writer for top New York City hospitals, including NYU Langone Health, Northwell Health, Hospital for Special Surgery, and Weill Cornell Medicine. A cancer, (2020) Covid, and heart failure survivor, I am the author of a series of books for new patients: "The Just Diagnosed Guides: What You Need to Know Now (without Googling it)."

I am a member of the Association of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and the Association of Ghostwriters. A co-founder of Fight for Freelancers, I live at the Jersey Shore. (The place, not the TV show.)

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*I am not a therapist.

**I said that when it comes to family picnics, teenagers are like cats. Put out some food and they'll show up.