I have been so busy over the past year. Work has just kept on coming, and I have welcomed it with open arms. In the past few months, though, I’ve been excited because the deadlines began to ease [...]
When I was in sixth grade, my paternal grandmother passed away and left me her typewriter. I’d already been writing little stories in the notebook she’d given me when I was six—about my brothers, [...]
Leslie Lawrence was the founder of a marketing and advertising agency in Western Mass before she retired to volunteer and help others in her community in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. A colleague [...]
Several years ago, I worked with Gerry Hass on his book about the South End Community Health Center. The pandemic prevented him from doing a public reading when his book was published, but he was [...]
I started my career as a journalist in 1985 at what was then called the Springfield Union-News. I was a part-time correspondent, covering two small towns in Western Massachusetts. We got paid by [...]
I help clients promote news and events to help raise awareness and attract notice. I wrote a press release for neuro-artist Laura Bundersen to promote an art pop-up shop she hosted in [...]
Note: This week’s blog was written by Shannon Grossman, who was a student intern with my PR business, Beetle Press, six years ago and has been working with me on a regular basis since. Shannon is [...]
Kiki Keating and I arrived in the Shepherds Bush section of London on May 7, a few days before the MakiNetwork Business Media Conference was to begin. A world traveler, Kiki has been to London [...]
A year ago, I began working with Kiki Keating, the founder of KikiNetwork, a global PR company based in New Hampshire. I wanted to learn how to swim in a much bigger pond, and I have not been [...]
