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At home in the San Juan Islands, WA, Hawley works with clients coast to coast and is also writing her third novel. |
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Experience
Ellen Hawley Roddick has published under the names Ellen Roddick, Ellen Meade, and Hawley Roddick. Meade was her second husband's name. Luckily for anyone trying to keep track, she never published under her first married name, Ellen Haffenreffer.
Press Coverage
Articles about Hawley Roddick's work have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Jose TimesTribune, Christian Science Monitor, Stanford Magazine, and elsewhere.
Nonfiction
In addition to co-authoring clients' legacy memoirs, Hawley has written nonfiction books:
- Your Memoirs: Saving the Stories of Your Life and Work by Hawley Roddick; Lulu Press.
- Business Writing Makeovers: Shortcut Solutions to Improve Your Letters, E-Mails, and Faxes by Hawley Roddick; Adams Media Corp. Also in Russian and Chinese editions. To be republished in mid-2010 through the Author's Guild Back-in-Print program.
- Writing That Means Business: How to Get Your Message Across Simply and Effectively by Ellen Roddick; Macmillan, National Book Store (Manila); nonfiction. To be republished in mid-2010 through the Author's Guild Back-in-Print program.
- Young Filmmakers, by Rodger Larson and Ellen Meade); Dutton, Avon, Lidador (Rio de Janero); won an annual New York Public Library prize as one of fifteen best nonfiction books for young adults.
Novels
- Secret Choices by Hawley Roddick (earlier version: Holding Patterns by Ellen Roddick); Authors Guild Backinprint Edition/iUniverse.com.
- Together by Ellen Roddick; St. Martin's Press, Pocket Books, Sphere (London), Martinez Roca (Barcelona). To be republished in 2010 through the Author's Guild Back-in-Print program.
- Holding Patterns by Ellen Roddick; St. Martin's Press, Elishar Publishers (Jerusalem).
Magazines
Ellen Roddick was a monthly columnist for Cosmopolitan. She also has written numerous articles on business and on lifestyles for various magazines.
Mini Biography
Hawley grew up in suburbs of Manhattan and Chicago. At Wellesley College, she majored in English literature with a minor in art history. During college summers, she studied art in Italy and acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan.
Since then, she has been lucky to live in such wonderful places as Manhattan, Rome, Bodega Bay, Santa Fe, and Santa Barbara. Now she has settled in the scenic San Juan Islands, Washington, nestled between the mainland United States and Canada's Vancouver Island.
Volunteer work has included parent fund raising for the United Nations International School in Manhattan and for Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. She was a co-founder of Seal Watch in Jenner, California, and of PEN New Mexico.
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