hawley roddick

writer, co-author, ghostwriter, editor, book doctor

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"I don’t think we could have been as successful as we were at Cosmo without your serious contribution."
— Helen Gurley Brown
Editor-in-Chief, Cosmopolitan International Editions

"After five years of semiannual sessions, you have elevated the writing savvy of more than 600 professional marketing communicators. That’s an accomplishment as well as a contribution to the professional development of colleagues in our industry. Thanks very much for all the effort you put into preparing and delivering spectacularly productive [writing] seminars."
— Della van Heyst, Director
Stanford Publishing Ventures Group
Palo Alto, CA

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Press Coverage Articles about my work have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Jose TimesTribune, Christian Science Monitor, Stanford Magazine, and elsewhere.Luxury Memoirs

As an independent personal historian, I accept commissions from private clients to create their memoirs as heirloom books for their families. From 2002 through 2006, I was co-founder in Santa Barbara of BoehmGroup, specializing in personal and organizational histories histories.
Nonfiction YOUR MEMOIRS: Saving the Stories of Your Life and Work; Lulu Press.
BUSINESS WRITING MAKEOVERS: Shortcut Solutions to Improve Your Letters, E-Mails, and Faxes; 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; Macmillan, National Book Store (Manila); nonfiction. To be republished in mid-2010 through the Author's Guild Back-in-Print program.
YOUNG FILMAKERS, written with Rodger Larson; Dutton, Avon, Lidador (Rio de Janero); won a New York Public Library prize.
Novels
SECRET CHOICES (earlier version: Holding Patterns); Authors Guild Backinprint Edition/iUniverse.com.
TOGETHER; St. Martin's Press, Pocket Books, Sphere (London), Martinez Roca (Barcelona). To be republished in mid-2010 through the Author's Guild Back-in-Print program.
HOLDING PATTERNS; St. Martin's Press, Elishar Publishers (Jerusalem).
Magazines I was a monthly columnist for Cosmopolitan for six years and also have written numerous articles on business and on lifestyles for various magazines.

My Mini Memoir I grew up in suburbs of Manhattan and Chicago. At Wellesley College, I majored in English literature with a minor in art history. During college summers I studied art in Italy and acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan.
Since then, I've been lucky enough to live in such wonderful places as Manhattan (for many years), Rome (for a year), Bainbridge Island, Bodega Bay, Santa Fe, and Santa Barbara. I recently left the Napa Valley for Monterey in order to be near my son and his family.
Volunteer work has included parent fundraising for the United Nations International School in Manhattan and for Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. I was a co-founder of Seal Watch in Jenner, California, and of PEN New Mexico.

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hawley@hawleyroddick.com

831-674-1466

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