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About Kathy Poole

                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MY MISSION:
To cure STARVING WRITER SYNDROME and help as many
writers as possible achieve the same level of success that
I have enjoyed for many years.

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MY PHILOSOPHY:
We already have all the answers, but we need other
people to ask us the right questions.

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WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF DECADES:

  • Became a full-time freelance writer in 1986

  • Incorporated my business in 1988 (my accountant said it would be a tax-wise move because I was making so much money)

  • Wrote a gazillion or so newsletters, brochures, ads, TV commercials, manuals, speeches, direct mail packages and you-name-it

  • Had clients ranging from an international hotel chain and the space program to ad agencies, small businesses and independent professionals

  • Indexed at least 250 books for big and small publishers (writing is such a left-brained thing; indexing lets me exercise my right brain, earn even more money and work with some great editors and authors)

  • Informally coached a lot of other freelance writers

  • Discovered coaching was actually a profession; took coaching classes, worked (and still do) with a coach on my own life and business, and started coaching professionally in 1998

  • Made more money as a freelance writer than I originally expected or imagined

  • Relished every minute of it all (well, almost)

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MY VIP CLIENTS:

  • Holiday Inn Worldwide

  • Kennedy Space Center

  • Institute of Internal Auditors

  • Junior Achievement

  • Better Homes and Gardens® books

  • John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

  • Crown Publishers

  • Simon & Schuster

  • Tribune Company

  • American Dental Association

  • Florida Society of Landscape Architects

  • More than 100 hospitals throughout the United States

  • ...and lots of others

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MY MAJOR PUBLISHING CREDITS:

  • Author of the books

    • Peterson’s Guide to Healthcare Careers without College

    • Wildlife at the Kennedy Space Center

    • Seven Steps to Health and Healing

    • How to Beat Your Arthritis Pain

  • Coauthor of the book, Windows to the World

  • Author of more than 280 magazine and newspaper articles so far

  • Ghostwriter for 46 books...and counting

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WHAT I WAS UP TO BEFORE I BECAME A PROSPEROUS WRITER:
In reverse order--

  • Served as marketing director for a psychiatric hospital, where I refined the fine art of selling to the mentally ill (and learned a whole lot about how to market services)

  • Worked as a registered nurse on surgical and psychiatric units

  • Instructed nurses as an inservice educator at a Miami hospital (one of my favorite classes was called “Dealing with the Difficult Patient”)

  • Wrote articles for international nursing journals on topics ranging from difficult patients (by then I was an expert) to urodynamic flow studies (trust me, you don’t want to know)

  • Taught nurses everything they needed to know about getting published in nursing journals, and helped many of them succeed

  • Was a certified CPR instructor

  • Took a lot of orders as an editorial assistant for a big defense contractor

  • Usually held at least two jobs at once just to make ends meet (some of those second jobs were taxi driver, bowling alley attendant and cocktail waitress)

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EDUCATIONAL STUFF:

  • Bachelor of science degree in nursing, cum laude, from the University of Florida (go Gators!)

  • Post-graduate courses in marketing, advertising, coaching, photography, poetry therapy and public speaking

  • Certified Poetry Therapist

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AWARDS, CREDENTIALS AND SUCH:

  • Several Excellence in Writing Awards from Healthcare Marketing Report

  • Community Service Award for coauthoring Windows to the World, a book for adults who are learning to read

  • Four Florida Dental Association Communications Awards

  • Who's Who in U.S. Writers and Editors, Who's Who in Advertising, Who's Who in the Media and Communications

  • President, Professional Freelance Writers of Orlando

  • Member, International Association of Business Communicators, Editorial Freelancers Association, American Medical Writers Association

  • Founding member, Coachville

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NAMES I’VE BEEN CALLED:

  • Word weaver

  • Long-distance swimmer in the sea of ideas

  • Avant-garde Bohemian

  • Quick wit who should try stand-up comedy

  • Savvy and successful businessperson

  • Happy camper

  • Intuitive big-picture person

  • Imaginative problem solver

  • Insightful listener

  • Unconventional entrepreneur

  • Marketing mastermind

  • Sensitive life of the party

  • Natural coach

  • Sole proprietor who will never, ever work for anyone else again

  • Courageous innovator and creator

  • Independent, outside-the-box thinker

  • Perpetual learner

  • Powerhouse

  • Accomplished writer

  • Responsible rebel

  • Free spirit

  • Energetic, enthusiastic optimist

  • Realistic idealist

  • Cheerleader for writers

  • Homeowner

  • Great caretaker of two peaceful Persian cats and one persistently perky cairn terrier

  • Faithful friend, daughter, sister

  • Prosperous Writer

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A FEW OF THE WILD (AND SOMETIMES CRAZY) THINGS I’VE DONE:

  • Climbed mountains, glaciers and icefalls in the Colorado and Canadian Rockies

  • Kayaked the whitewater rapids of a wicked river in Alberta, Canada

  • Trekked on cross-country skis and snowshoes during a Colorado blizzard

  • Helped the U.S. Forest Service build a trail between Canada and Mexico (about a mile of it, anyway)

  • Competed in the National Scrabble Tournament

  • Went whitewater rafting in North Carolina

  • Paddled a canoe through a swamp

  • Skinny-dipped

  • Saved a life with CPR

  • Was tear-gassed by army tanks (just a misunderstanding...really!)

  • Survived being swept out to sea by a ferocious riptide

  • Piloted a small plane with no training (and a real pilot by my side)

  • Took the mule ride to the bottom of the Grand Canyon

  • Lobbied the Florida Legislature

  • Had a shamanic “soul retrieval”

  • Was an Episcopalian nun (yes, Episcopalians have them, too)

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