Istarted working on the school paper my sophomore year in high school and by my senior year I was winning regional journalism competitions. Nevertheless, I didn’t study journalism in college and had no intention of writing as a career. A few years later I circled back to it when hunting down a second job in a small town with limited opportunities. A buddy showed me an ad in the weekly newspaper that said “If you like talking to people and have at least basic writing skills, you could be a reporter for the Sequim Gazette.” That’s how I started freelancing in 2004, and I’ve since written over 700 published articles about everything from shipwrecks to black-eyed peas, wedding trends to serial killers, Madagascar to Medicaid Part D. My established niches are personal profiles, travel, well-being, and outdoor adventure. "Michele is my No. 1 writer. She has been a freelancer with me for nearly 16 years. Her work is high quality writing and requires very few edits. She is a writer you can give an assignment to and know it will be done well and on time. I hope Michele will always keep some time in her schedule for Pink Magazine!" "Michele is a fantastic writer, the best of a stable of writers we use to publish our monthly lifestyle magazine, LOCAL Life. Her knowledge of our area and her ability to perfectly capture the mood of a location makes her a reader favorite as well. You can almost hear and smell the locations she writes about. Her writing style is interesting to read. " ARTICLES |