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The vast majority of my work now involves turning
technical financial and market data into informative and
entertaining articles for equities investors. I spend a lot of time
studying financial charts and corporate regulatory documents for
clues about the long-term prospects of a particular company's stock.
Most of this works appears on YCharts or on
Forbes.com, although many of those columns also are
syndicated to The Motley Fool, Seeking Alpha, and other
investment sites and newsletters.
I have collected a few samples of this work on the Portfolio page
of this site. To read more, go to YCharts for a
long list of columns I and my colleagues there wrote.
Forbes.com has published my work in several sections of its
website, but the longer pieces on equities can be found at at this Forbes link. Search
"Gill" as a keyword.
Some of my past work is detailed below in an archive from
an earlier website.
I write feature and news stories on just about any topic.
My work includes articles about business and social issues, politics
and personalities. I often write about entrepreneurs and their
unusual ideas, as in this piece for Inc.
magazine, "Get
healthy...or else." Some of my feature stories appear as
cover pieces for special sections, as "Rolling
Into Trouble" did in a Wall Street Journal special
report on small business.
Sometimes I
write entire sections of copy for publications. For
Crain's Chicago Business' Focus section on
franchising, I wrote a collection of six articles. Among them
were stories that detailed the pros and cons of owning a
franchise, as well as numerous examples of success
and failure. I have written special sections on a variety of topics,
including food and wine, e-commerce and family
business.
Occasionally, publications call for a more
reflective, essay style of writing about the news. I write news
analyses and commentaries that bring perspective to events. I
wrote “Alabama
Politics: Praying and Fighting,” to give the international
readers of The Economist magazine a feel for the
unique personalities involved in an Alabama governor’s race.
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National publications occasionally need extra reporters to
work on stories their staffers write. Oftentimes, I report
news for stories that are written by other writers, such
as for this Time magazine piece, "The
Twilight Zone of Consciousness." Similarly, I also work
as a team reporter, gathering quotes, anecdotes and
statistics for articles that include information from several
journalists. In this Time magazine piece, "Hot
Towns," for example, I provided the lead example and other
Florida anecdotes and quotes that appear in the story.
I write advice articles that use examples
as well as experts to illustrate how to make businesses run
better. "Do
Your Employees Qualify for Overtime,"
written for Inc.
magazine, explains how business owners should interpret
tricky wage laws. "Staring
down change" in Crain’s Chicago Business,
offers tips to second-generation family business owners who
want to make major changes in their
companies.
In addition to correcting
punctuation and grammar, a strong editor can turn a diverse
collection of articles into a compelling publication.
I edit articles, websites, magazines and
books with an eye toward developing or maintaining a
cohesive, appropriate voice for each publication. I have
edited numerous editions of Florida Trend’s Research
Florida magazine, which include articles written
by dozens of professionals.
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