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A Novel Approach to the Challenges of Our Profession

Copywriter Collective

Having spent 16 years as an agency copywriter/creative director, 13 as a freelancer, and 10 as a copywriting professor, many of my personal experiences turn up in the career of the boomer character, Ted Canby. The ad pictured a woman, but with a typewriter placed where her head would be. Maybe the ACD had a point.

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People Round-Up, Mid-October 2022

Publishing Trends

Grace Rambo joins as Manager for Children’s Advertising and Paid Digital Media. At Avid Reader Press, David Kass joins as Senior Director of Publicity, beginning November 1; he was formerly VP, Executive Director of Publicity at Hilsinger-Mendelson. Melissa Croce becomes Senior Marketing Manager, Adult Library.

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People Round-Up, Early April 2023

Publishing Trends

Adam Philips , previously Director of Marketing at Dynamite Entertainment , joins AWA Studios as Director of Sales and Trade Marketing. Most recently she was Division Director of Curriculum, Digital Media, and Communications at the Smithsonian Science Education Center.