about ann
experience
I bring more than twenty years of experience as a full-time ghostwriter for executives and others, primarily at one of the largest university systems in the U.S. and its flagship university. Today, I write in the voice of leaders across the nation and around the world.
awards
I was only the second graduate student to receive both the Dissertation of the Year Award and T.M. Stinnett Award for Research Excellence. In addition, my career has included participation in Leadership Texas (now Leadership Women), an Administrative Fulbright Grant to Japan, and honors for both my fiction and my professional work.
education
I earned a B.A. in English from Hendrix College (Conway, Arkansas) and an M.Ed. and Ph.D. in higher education administration from Texas A&M University.
WORK SAMPLES
Three articles in Benefactor, the magazine for donors to Mays Business School.
Eight articles in CVM Today, from Texas A&M's School of Veterinary Medicine.
A Freelancer's Guide to Difficult Clients, published the Editorial Freelancers Association, breaks down the different categories of difficult clients that emerged from my survey of other freelancers and gives practical tips for correcting the situation.
Using the Five Senses to Improve Your Writing helps writers strategically use the five senses so that readers will be fully engaged with the characters as they move through this fictional world.
I provided heavy-duty editing and rewriting for Di Wang's Street Culture in Chengdu, published by Stanford University Press in 2005. The Urban History Association gave it the Best Book in Non-North American History Award in 2005, and Chinese Readers' Weekly ranked it as one of the 10 best books published in China in 2006.
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I had so much fun conducting interviews for my qualitative dissertation that I wrote Interviewing Relatives for Your Family History to help people get interesting and important information from their living relatives for their family histories.