Penny is a writer, author, consultant, and resume specialist. A Penny’s Worth is a blog about words and communication in many forms. Words describe, inform, label, and preserve parts of our lives, business and personal. Therefore, many topics may appear in the blog entries, but they all have one thing in common. That is the impact of the words that are used.
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Writing, photography, gardening, and animals are very important parts of Penny’s life and work. She’s discovered that behind the most successful work and play lies the art of communication. It’s one of the key ways we share our experience and knowledge. Words are a wonderful form of art and offer limitless opportunities for individual expression.
Penny successfully survived fifteen years of corporate experience and business ownership, before she became an independent writer and communications consultant. Experience in corporate marketing, advertising, human resources, training, IT, business administration, writing, and small business consulting, backs Penny’s work. You receive professional service with a commitment to detail and deadlines.
Articles, photos, feature stories, and creative nonfiction written by Penny appear in newspapers, magazines, books, and online. Penny is also a Star Reviewer for the Story Circle Book Review website. She continually maintains current business and technical skills.
Her writing career includes ad copy and web copy for Embracing Hue Ltd., logo design for Au Pair for Pets, writing/photography workshops for WriteCraft, Inspired2Write, and the City of Tempe, Arizona, parenting material for Garden and Hearth, user manuals for Walsh America, product reviews for various publications, travel features for Camping & RV Magazine, a year of family activities columns for Camping & RV Magazine and Warner Wrangler newspaper, plus monthly pet care articles and photos for Loving Pets Magazine and Florida Pet Book. She was also a member of the editorial team for the Story Circle Network cookbook, Kitchen Table Stories.
Twenty years of rescue work makes Penny something of a pet expert too. Her passion for helping animals and educating people about their care works well with her writing talent because her experience with animals is hands-on. She knows the pet industry as a provider and a consumer. She has been a guest on Animal Talk Naturally radio, at the Virtual Dog Expo, and on DogCastRadio in the UK.
Two anthologies published by Adams Media also contain her stories. Like A Rock appears in Cup of Comfort for Mothers & Sons and Honey, appears in The Healing Touch of Horses.
Her minor artistic passions are photography and poetry. Poetry and photography offer places to grow and explore new ideas. Although she doesn’t consider herself a skilled poet, Penny won first place for Adult Rhyming Poetry in the Prairie Hill Writing Contest. She also won a Bronze WWW Award for website content and design of her former business site, Penny’s Pens & Pics.
Penny and her husband live in Austin, Texas. She shares her assignments with a staff of office assistants that include six grandchildren and several four-legged editorial consultants. In her leisure time, she cultivates antique roses.
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