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Tom Gillispie 6950 Blenheim Court, Rural Hall, N.C. 27045 Web site: www.tgwriter.com; blog: http://tg-editor-proofreader.blogspot.com/ E-mail: tgilli@copydesk.org or nc3022@yahoo.com
SKILLS
- Familar
with Macintosh and PC systems and applications such as InDesign, QuarkXPress, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Word, plus basic
HTML.
- Have worked on various newspaper systems ranging from
Atex, SII, InCopy and more.
- Comfortable with telecommuting
and deadlines.
- Self-starter; need little supervision.
- Type more than 50 words a minute.
EXPERIENCE - Have worked at nine newspapers as
a writer, copy editor and page designer.
- Currently work as
freelance copy editor and writer; have edited fiction and non-fiction books, articles, business writing, lawyer’s work,
even an ebook on hand, feet and nail care.
- Usually work remotely;
my clients have included, among others, a lawyer from Virginia and an Australian businessman. I’ve also worked for two
Canadian businesses, a magazine and a comic-book company. And when I worked full-time at a newspaper 30 miles from here, I
occasionally worked from home (writing stories, editing and laying out pages), using the Internet to connect with their computer
system.
- Have freelanced for the Winston-Salem Journal's
Metro, Sports, Features, Zones and Marketing Services departments. Among my stories: a man who survived the Battle of the
Bulge; Olympic gymnasts/professional speakers Bart Conner and Nadia Comaneci; the best wine lists in Winston-Salem; a 19-year-old
proposing to his girlfriend during a carriage ride at Tanglewood Park, and features on Olympic speedskaters Joey Cheek and
Dan Jansen.
- Have written three books and several comic-book scripts
on auto racing. Most recent book was Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt, Sr. (Cumberland House, 2008).
- From February to May of 2008, was the editor of The Racing Journal, covering short-track racing in the Piedmont
of North Carolina and southern Virginia. Handled the writing, editing and photography.
- From
September to late October of 2008, wrote, edited, took photos and designed pages for the Surry Messenger (Mount Airy,
N.C.). From late October 2008 to Jan. 2, 2009, was the sports editor.
- In
2006, wrote captions for MBI Publishing's book on Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
- In 1999, wrote chapters for Beckett Publishing books on Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
- Have written freelance stories for various magazines, among them NASCAR Scene,
The Sporting News' 1999 and 2000 preseason auto-racing editions, Performance Racing News, Sports
Illustrated and Stock Car Racing magazine.
- Have written
freelance stories for the Miami Herald (basketball), the Washington Post (auto racing), The
Baltimore Sun (college football) and many other daily newspapers.<!--[endif]-->
- Wrote stories for the Ultimate College Football Annual each year from 2003 to 2008.
- Freelanced for the Charleston (S.C.) Regional Business Journal
and The Business Journal of the Triad.
- Wrote
for the iRace, SpeedNet, Worth.com, Boaters.com and other web sites.
COLLEGE - BA degree in journalism (3.2 GPA),
Radford (Va.) University.
- News writer for the college newspaper,
junior and senior years.
- Writer, Radford (Va.) University
Office of Information and Publications.
- Intern,
Christiansburg-Blacksburg News-Messenger.
CURRENT AFFILIATION - Member of the American Copy Editors Society
(ACES).
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