• Silver: 2007 Independent Publisher's Book Awards (IPPY's) - Computer/Internet
• Finalist: 2007 National Indie Excellence Book Awards
• Finalist: 2007 ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards (BOYTA)

Design Awards:
The Professional Bartender's Handbook:A Recipe for Every Drink Known - Including Tricks and Games to Impress Your Guests

• Silver ADDY: 2008 Silver ADDY from the Advertising Federation of Gainesville for Publication Design Cover

Work History:
November 2005 - Present        Atlantic Publishing Company        Ocala, FL
Managing Editor
Duties: Work on titles, hire authors, manage book projects, manage author deadlines and submissions, manage editors and proofreaders, editing, proofreading, small marketing, manage co-operative mailings, office manager, among other duties.

May 2005 - August 2005        Buckaroo Communications            Dayton, TN
Copyeditor
Duties: Responsible for three magazines, edited all content for the three magazines, did page layout blocking to figure ad and story spacing, proofed magazine, among other duties. 
Reason for Leaving: Moved out of state.

Education:
August 2002 - May 2005        Lee University                              Cleveland, TN
Bachelor of Arts in Communications, Emphasis in Media Writing
Minors: Religion, Christian Education
Courses in writing, journalism, design and layout of newspapers and magazines among others.
Languages: Four Semesters of Spanish
Activities: The Lee Clarion, college newspaper staff member for 2 semesters, News Editor for 2 semesters. As News Editor I assigned projects, wrote stories, edited my stories, laid out the News section of the paper.  
Internship: Cleveland Daily Banner intern for 8 weeks. Wrote stories for 100th issue and typed in stories received through mail for paper.