A good freelance writer brings two key talents to every job: the ability to illustrate the heart of any given story, and the skill to create copy that fits seamlessly into the client publication.
 
I write on many subjects, in many voices.
 
For The Economist, I have written essays on issues ranging from racist angst to Southern politics. I have covered hurricanes and polite children and life-and-death dilemmas for Time. I have written market analyses for Dow Jones News, tales of entrepreneurial seniors for The New York Times, and section cover features for The Wall Street Journal. I have interviewed CEOs and factory workers both on camera and off, and I have told their stories in a variety of formats.

  
This site is designed to provide a feel for the work I have done and a sense of the kinds of stories I can make possible. 
 

“Selling Slow Boats to a Faster Crowd”
From The New York Times, by Dee Gill
 
Almost since its introduction more than a century ago, the electric pleasure boat has been known as the golf cart of the sea, loved mainly by the oldest of the retiree set. With an old-fashioned canvas canopy and a top speed of about eight miles per hour, it is a notoriously unhip craft, holding little appeal among the sail-and-power crowd that has made recreational boating an $11 billion-a-year industry. But a two-year-old company owned by Learjet heiress Sanda Lear-Baylor. . . continue>>>

“Mississippi Politics: . . . and the dog you came in with”
From The Economist magazine, by Dee Gill
 
It is well known in Mississippi that the governor, Kirk Fordice, has a penchant for offensive bombast. This is the man who routinely calls the state attorney-general “Flashbulb” because of his media popularity, and who refers to the killing of inmates on death row as “reducing the inventory.” As for the media, that bastion of lying leftists has inspired numerous tirades from the governor over the past eight years. continue >>>