Curriculum Vitae
Bev Sninchak
writing as Bev Walton~Porter (nonfiction) & Star
Ferris (fiction)
Colorado Springs, CO 80909
E-mail: scribequill@gmail.com
http://www.bevwaltonporter.com
or http://editrix.homestead.com
EDUCATION
High School Widefield High School, Colorado Springs, CO - *Honors Graduate
Mannheim American High School Mannheim, Germany
FOREIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS
Three years of formal education in French; lived in Germany (Mainz,
Mannheim) for three years and learned to write/speak conversational German
language. Some Spanish, though not fluent
TRAVEL/CULTURAL EXPERIENCES
Raised a military dependent; lived in Germany for several years and has
also traveled to France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, Austria, England and
Scotland.
CURRENT POSITION May 1997
to present
Independent author, freelancer, editor and writing coach - May 1997 to
present
Editor/Publisher Scribe & Quill May 1997 to present
AGENT REPRESENTATION
Book-length nonfiction Meredith Bernstein Literary Agency, 2095 Broadway, Rm. 505, New York City, NY 10023
Book-length fiction MPL Creative Services, 2733 East
Battlefield #309, Springfield,
MO
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
- Award-winning professional author/editor - May 1997 to present
- Editor/Publisher of Scribe & Quill - May 1997 to present
- Writing Instructor, Scribe & Quill - May 1997 to present
- Contract editor for EB - October 2008 to present
- Contract freelance writer for Bridges Initiatives
- Contract editor for NBC Internet (Snap.com)
- Contract editor for CyberTipfortheDay.com
- Review editor for Eye on the Web
- Managing editor for Freelance
topic at Suite101
- Contract book editor for various manuscripts - 1997 to present
- Writing coach -1997 to present
- Proficient on both PCs and Macs (computer experience since mid-1980s)
- Online since 1991 (initially through *Prodigy)
- Assisted with video production and photography projects - 2006 to present
- Produced live internet radio broadcasts and podcasts - 2006 to present
- Developed Elemental Musings radio show for writers & creatives - 2007 to present
- Developed/hosted Unknown, Unthinkable, and Undead for Intl Order of Horror Professionals 2006 to 2008
- Developed Inside Paranormal Colorado Springs radio show - July 2009 to present
- Maintained various websites since May 1997
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS - (Past and present)
+The Authors Guild
+International Order of Horror Professionals Co-founder
+Colorado Springs Paranormal Association (Founder and Co-team Lead)
+EPIC
+Romance Writers of America (RWA)
+ Military Writers Society of
America (MWSA)
+Mid-America Romance Authors (MARA)
+Sooner Area Romance Authors (SARA)
+Erotic Readers & Writers
Association (ERWA)
+Sisters of the Scribe (SotS)
+Pikes Peak Writers
+Enid Writers Club (Past president and PR manager)
+Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc. (OWFI)
+National Writers Union (At-Large Delegate & Grievance Officer)
+National Association of Women
Writers (NAWW)
+Student Allies for Equality
+Sigma Alpha Lambda (Academic Society nomination)
+American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
+American Federation of Astrologers
+Association Transcommunication (ATransC)
SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS
+ WINNER NaNoWriMo 2007 Fiction
novel, Fire in the Belly
+ Presidents Academic List
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
+
+ 1st Place Hennessey
Writers Club contest poem: Metamorphosis published in The Hennessey Clipper
newspaper - 1997
+ Certificate of Recognition by the
State of Oklahoma for poetry
+ 1995 Mid-America Romance
Conference Honorable Mention Hidden Fire (contemporary romance
novel)
+ Recipient of Academic and
Talent/Service scholarships to Phillips University, Enid, OK
+ 1983 Recipient of $500 Academic
Recognition Scholarship - Ft.
+ 1983 Outstanding Gladiator Scholarship
Widefield High School, Security, CO
+ 1983 Honors Graduate top 10
percent silver cord Widefield High School
+ Inducted into National Honor
Society
+ French Club President, Widefield
H.S.
+ Editor, The
Gladitorial, Widefield H.S. newspaper
+ Advertising Editor, The Gladitorial, Widefield H.S. newspaper
+ Staff writer, The Gladitorial, Widefield H.S. newspaper
+ Staff writer, The Haymaker,
Phillips University newspaper
+ Columnist, Tempo Page, Colorado
Springs Sun newspaper
PUBLICATIONS
(Note* - My work was first published in 1982 in the
SELECTED PUBLISHED ARTICLES, COLUMNS & INTERVIEWS
+ Numerous articles
Tempo Page Colorado Springs
Sun Editor: Mary Mashburn 1982-1983
+ 1991 Confessions
of a Housewife-Romance Writer Housewife-Writers Forum, Print
publication - Wyoming
+ Blogger for Elemental Musings 2005 to present
+ March 18, 2009 Making Creativity Click! Fear of Writing Blog
http://millithornton.blogspot.com/2009/03/making-creativity-click.html
+ April 2, 2008 Success Story: Overcoming Obstacles through the Power of the Pen
Writers Weekly http://writersweekly.com/success_stories/004614_04022008.html
*
INscribe columnist for Inkwell Newswatch (FWOINTL.com)
from July 2007-2008 (site on hiatus until further notice):
+ July 2007 -
Inkwell Newswatch - Remember the Reader*
Target:
effective balance of details http://www.fwointl.com/artman/publish/cat_index_28.shtml
+ August 2007 Inkwell Newswatch INscribe column
Essential Ingredients Cookin up success
http://www.fwointl.com/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=23&num=1010
+ September 2007 Inkwell Newswatch INscribe column
Seven Virtues Embrace them
http://www.fwointl.com/artman/publish/article_1037.shtml
+ October 2007 Inkwell Newswatch INscribe column
Seven Deadly Sins Avoid them
http://www.fwointl.com/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=23&num=1059
+ November 2007 Inkwell Newswatch INscribe column
Rejected! Now What?
http://www.fwointl.com/artman/publish/article_1082.shtml
+ December 2007 Inkwell Newswatch INscribe column
+ January 2008 Inkwell Newswatch INscribe column
Essential Ingredients Cookin up success
http://www.fwointl.com/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=23&num=1010
Written for Inkwell Newswatch,
but not yet published due to the site being on hiatus:
+ How to Please an Editor
+ Head Games: Taming
the Wild Mind
+ Writing is a
Journey NEVER Give Up!
+ October 2006
Writing Right Newsletter (Australia) Diane Beer, Editor
http://www.dream-craft.com/writingright/oct06news.pdf
* Ongoing column for
Mike Geffners writing newsletter - January 2007-2009.
This subscribers-only newsletter was published by award-winning
writer/journalist Michael P. Geffner. For information, e-mail mgeffner@earthlink.net
* September 2008
Spirit One/ Lughnasadh 2008 - reprints of Eight Great
Ways to Jump-Start Your Writing and an interview with Kerr Cuhulain
http://spiritone.earthspiritemporium.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/spiritone104-lugh08.pdf
* Contract researcher/writer and
book reviewer for Bridges Initiatives
(British Columbia, Canada) 99-00 wrote numerous 2,500- to 3,000-word
profiles on various careers/professions, including:
-Professional baseball
player, profession bowler, venture capitalist, doula, helicopter pilot,
arborist, storm chaser and many others. In addition, wrote career-oriented book
reviews and interviewed well known business subjects/mentors, such as Nelson Bolles and Marsha Sinetar.
+ Career Pro News
(Bridges Initiatives) - Soaring to
Success With Richard Bolles
http://careerpronews.bridges.com/explorer/browse/qna/soaring/main.htm
+ February 1998 - Simple Life Corporation
- Employed at Home - With Kids!
http://members.aol.com/simplfe/employed.html
* Managing Editor at Suite101.com - over
100 interviews/columns published on writers and writing from 1998 till
mid-2000
+ Preparing the Foundation: Open the
Door to More Creativity in Your Writing
http://www.geocities.com/scrybr8/columns.htm
+ Creativity and the Writer
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8817/positive.htm
* Spiritual Writing
National Examiner for Examiner.com 2008
SELECTED SAMPLES OF
PUBLISHED POETRY
+
Gestalt (horror poem) - Fall
1996 - Preternatural Press - Rouge et Noir 7 - Les Poemes
des Vampyres - edited by Meg Thompson
+ Selective
Digression
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?AuthorID=11309
+ Vestige
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?AuthorID=11309&id=108728
+ Bent, Not Broken
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?AuthorID=11309&id=108729
+ Behind Shades of Darkness
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?AuthorID=11309&id=108727
+ goodgoshalmighty.com - poetry - Shadow Noir (horror poetry)
http://www.goodgoshalmighty.com/poetry.bwp.01.htm
BOOKS NONFICTION, FICTION, POETRY
+ Hidden Fire (Whiskey Creek Press, June 15, 2009)
Written under pen name Star Ferris
+ Sun Signs for Writers (Writer's Digest Books, August 2006)
http://fwbookstore.com/product/161/writing
+ Mending Fences (Whiskey Creek Press, September 2006)
Written under pen name Star Ferris
+ The Complete Writer: A Guide To Tapping Your Full Potential
(Red Engine Press, August 2005)
+ Poetry chapbook, Shadows of the Soul (Scribe &
Quill, October 2004)
+ Secrets of the Professional
Freelancer (Scribe & Quill, October 2004)
SELECTED WORK PUBLISHED/REFERENCED
IN OTHER BOOKS
+ April 2008 Excerpt published in
The Karma Sutra Sex, Love and Relationship Zen by Shelly Wu Final
Thoughts: Advice from the Sisterhood - pp.
222-223 (New Page Books http://www.newpagebooks.com)
+ February 2007 - Excerpt published
in How to Survive Your In-Laws,
edited by Andrea Syrtash (Hundreds of Heads Books)
http://www.hundredsofheads.com/inlaws/excerpts.asp
+ October 2004 - Excerpt in How to Survive Dating: By Hundreds of Singles Who Did and Some Things to Avoid from a Few Broken Hearts Who Didn't pg. 23
(Hundreds of Heads Books) edited by Mark W. Bernstein and Yadin Kaufmann
http://books.google.com/books?id=WuqomhmMFo8C&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=Bev+Walton-Porter&source=web&ots=OyiqKcnAH3&sig=2ldCZ9hu-xChi9QfpEOIfpFKrbM&hl=en
+ 2006 Excerpt in On Surviving Your Teenager - The Trials and Tribulations of Teens and High School - (Hundreds of Heads Books)
http://www.hundredsofheads.com/40-498-1.Article/The-Trials-and-Tribulations-of-Teens-and-High-School
INTERESTS
Writing, reading, music, movies, camping, online gaming (World of Warcraft), metaphysics, philosophy, eastern philosophy (particularly Taoism), quantum physics, paranormal investigation, thoughtful conversation
MISCELLANEOUS
SELECTED INTERVIEWS & AUTHOR EVENTS
* This is not an all-inclusive list of events/interviews in which Ive
participated.
+ Interview with Absolute Write
http://www.absolutewrite.com/freelance_writing/bev_walton-porter.htm
+ 2006 Gottawritenetwork.com interview
http://www.gottawritenetwork.com/bevwaltonporter.html
+ May 2006 Book Expo America Featured author for F + W Publications, Inc.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6324763.html
+ October 2006
interview with Writers On The Rise
http://www.writersontherise.com/october2006.htmlInterview
+ November 2006 interview with Midnight Moon Cafe
http://midnightmooncafe.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html
+ April 2007 Pikes Peak Library District Mountain of
Authors Event
+ June 2007 - The Romance Cafe - Featured author of
the week
http://groups.myspace.com/theromancecafe
+ August 2007 Four-day Featured Author Profile Word Weavers
http://www.myspace.com/weaversofwords
+ September 2007 - Author, Author Writing Workshop - 9 p.m. Eastern
Arts and Entertainment - Writing Workshop aol://2719:62-2-Writing
Workshop/
+ September 2007 - Yarnspinners & Wordweavers
- Author interview
http://www.redenginepress.com/y&w_september_2007.htm
+ October 2007 - Author Apprentices - Featured author
for October
http://webzoom.freewebs.com/authorapprentices/-%20New%20Folder/October2007%20%20issue.pdf
+ February 2008 Families.com - Conjuring Up Cats (Especially Black Ones):
An Interview with Author Bev Walton Porter
+ June 2008 Blogcritics Magazine Featured reviewer/review site
The Slippery Art of Book Reviewing by Mayra Calvani
http://blogcritics.org/archives/features/the_slippery_art_of_book_reviewing.php
+ April 2010 Pikes Peak Library District Mountain of Authors Event (scheduled)
SAMPLES OF PUBLISHED REVIEWS (BOOKS & SOFTWARE)
* This listing does not include
all the reviews I've had published, its just a sampling of what's out
there.
+ January 1998 - CompuNotes
Review of Day-Timer Organizer 2.1
(computer software)
http://www.nfbnet.org/files/newsletters/COMPNOTE.109
+ July 1998 - CompuNotes
Reviews of How to Grow Your Business
on the Internet - 3rd
Edition by Vince Emery
and Microsoft My Personal Tutor (computer software)
http://www.nfbnet.org/files/newsletters/COMPNOTE.123
http://www.emery.com/2e/reviews.htm
+ March 1999 - CompuNotes
Review of BullsEye Pro utility (computer software) http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/PastProjects/net-news/99-03/99-03-22/0007.html
+ July 1999 - CompuNotes
Review of The Complete Small Business
Internet Guide
http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/PastProjects/net-news/99-07/99-07-12/0002.html
SELECTED NEWS &
REVIEWS ABOUT MY WORK
+ Nov. 2006 - Midwest Book Review - review of Sun Signs for Writers
http://www.midwestbookreview.com/calbw/nov_06.htm
+ Write From Home featured book of the month- The
Complete Writer
http://www.writefromhome.com/featuredbooks.htm
+ Lighthouse Literary Reviews - review of The Complete Writer
http://www.lighthouseliteraryreviews.com/February2006Reviews.html
+ Fallen Angel review of The Complete
Writer (Fallen Angels Recommended Read)
+ Writer2Writer - review of Sun Signs for Writers
http://www.writer2writer.com/sunsigns.htm
+ March 2007 - The Astrology Page - review of Sun Signs for Writers
http://www.theastrologypage.com/blog.htm
+ June 2007 - Brianna's Favorite Books and Authors
Brianna chose Sun Signs for Writers as her favorite book for June 2007
http://www.briannamartini.com/page/page/3912676.htm
+ 2007 Romantic Observer.com
Review by Cougar of Mending Fences
http://www.romanticobserver.com/romancereviews/08/romance/review-of-mending-fences.html
SELECTED MISCELLANEOUS
+ April 2005 - Petition - Protest of Wal-Mart's Refusal to Fill
Contraceptive Prescriptions
http://www.petitiononline.com/042305/petition.html
+ Referred to in the article Inspire Yourself at Sex~Kitten.net
http://www.sex-kitten.net/index.php?articleid=2453429162725
WEBSITES, BLOGS & JOURNALS (past and present)
http://editrix.homestead.com
http://www.bevwaltonporter.com
http://www.astrologyforwriters.com
http://www.scribequill.net
http://www.paranormalcoloradosprings.org
AuthorsDen: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?authorid=11309
http://elementalmusing.blogspot.com
http://ghoulsonthego.wordpress.com/
http://elementalmuse.livejournal.com/
http://writersdominatrix.wordpress.com/
http://succulentscribe.blogspot.com
http://paranormalcoloradosprings.wordpress.com/
http://scribequill.wordpress.com/
My OLD website (no
longer active): http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8817/index.htm
WRITING COURSES & WORKSHOPS TAUGHT/DEVELOPED
+ Professional freelance workshop Bartlesville, OK - 1999
+ Professional Freelance course - taught through Coffeehouse for Writers, Inscriptions, Scribe &
Quill, IOHP and author site from 1997 -
present:
http://www.bevwaltonporter.com/freelance.html
+ Marketing/Promotion course for writers -
taught through IOHP, Inscriptions, Scribe & Quill and author site from 1997 - present:
http://www.bevwaltonporter.com/marketing.html
+ Creativity 101: Tapping the Muse Within - taught through Scribe
& Quill, IOHP and author site from 2004 - present:
http://www.bevwaltonporter.com/tappingmuse.html
+ Flash Freelance -
taught through Scribe & Quill and author site from 2005 - present:
http://www.bevwaltonporter.com/flash.html
+ How to Write,
Sell and Market Your Nonfiction Book from 2008 to present at IOHP and author
site: http://www.bevwaltonporter.com/nonfiction.html
+ E-commerce/Internet Marketing -
taught through the Academy of Web Specialists from 1999-2000 (both online and as a one-day seminar at the University
of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg, MS)
Personal and
professional references available upon request