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Allan Maurer:
writer, editor, media consultant
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Available for freelance, independent contractor, part-time and fulltime positions.
919-667-1733
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Painting of me used for column in Charlotte's Best Magazine in the mid-1990s.
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Much published in national, regional and local media, including magazines from Playboy to Modern Maturity, four books, long-running columns, and literally thousands of articles for newspapers and Web sites. Twelve years as Senior Writer for OMNI's Continuum.
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LINKS TO SOME OF MY ARTICLES ONLINE:
Cofounder, columnist, reporter for Localtechwire.com
My work appears monthly in Triangletechjournal.com
Co-founder, writer, editor, Web designer, CarolinaConnoisseur.com (Carolina'sBest).
My Web BLOGS
I've been experimenting with blogs. These are quirky. Check'em out.
Links to some of my articles online and for regional media such as CarolinaConnoisseur.com, Charlotte's Best Magazine, Charlotte Magazine, Metro Magazine, Triangle Tech Journal, Localbusiness.com, and Creative Loafing.
The Biotech Future is Now at Duke University
From Metro Magazine
Gene Hunters in the Research Triangle
Romancing the Clone
From LocalTechWire
Fighting Memory Loss with Soy Foods
Forest Biotechnology Institute Finds Some Green
Jazz song writer and pianist, the late Loonis McGhohon
talks about Billy Holiday, Elvis, and being a white guy playing jazz.
From Charlotte's Best Magazine
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MY BOOKS
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Senior writer for OMNI magazine's Continuum department and book, covering wide-range of science and technology stories from 1980-1992. Created first OMNI Antimatter column on contract, and wrote for other Guccioni published magazines including Longevity and Penthouse.
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Lasers, Lightwave of the Future, Arco, 1982, sold out two editions, still widely available in many libraries in 2003.
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Writers' Complete Fantasy Reference: Co-wrote two chapters, book from my proposal to Writer's Digest Books. Published in 1997 hardcover, sold extremely well, as did paperback edition.
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Publications/Professional Experience Resume
Allan Dale Maurer
Durham, NC
919-667-1733
SUMMARY:
Seasoned writer, editor, and reporter with 30 years experience covering multiple beats for magazines, newspapers, radio/TV, in books, and online. Extensive teaching experience, including adjunct lecturer at University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Currently:
Founder, Senior writer, Localtechwire.com; feature article writer, Metro Magazine; columnist, reporter, Triangle Tech Journal (www.triangletechjournal.com); teach news writing at University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communciation. Freelance for various clients.
Co-founder, editor, publisher, CarolinasBest.com
A general interest magazine about the Carolinas, the Southeast, and a number of editorial E-Thusiasms. History, arts, film, travel, event, and much more.
From May 1999 until April 2001:
Senior Correspondent for the online publication LocalBusiness.com in the Research Triangle, NC. -- wrote more than 2500 online stories in that time, including news, features, columns, analysis and profiles covering business, media, technology.
Sold to National, Regional, Local Media
Sold literally thousands of articles and stories to national, regional, and local media since 1978. Authored one nonfiction book and have work in three others. Helped start five publications as founding editor. Served as editor of five different city magazines (four in Charlotte and one in Beaufort, SC). Can teach what I know. Take professional quality 35mm photographs and I can use graphics and professional publishing software.
My extensive work for periodicals ranges from a decade long retainer contract with OMNI (1980-92) to produce monthly Continuum items and other stories long and short, to repeated features in top circulation magazines from Modern Maturity ("Torch of 1,000 Suns," 1987, "It Came From Space," 1988) to Playboy.
Wrote extensively about business, media, art, music, festivals, dance, and food for a succession of Charlotte publications, beginning in the early 1980s and fulltime during most of the 1990s. Wrote a monthly arts/events previews and reviews column for Charlotte's Best Magazine from 1993-8 ("About Town"), along with interviews of major city figures in government, banking, retail and entertainment, as Editor at Large.
Wide-ranging Magazine Experience
My work has been published in men's magazines (Playboy, Penthouse),
family magazines (Families, Reader's Digest),
regionals (Charlotte, Beaufort (SC), Charlotte' Best, Creative Loafing),
general interest magazines (Modern Maturity, Impact),
science magazines (Science Digest, OMNI, Longevity, Next, Future) and business publications (NEPA Business Journal, Carolina Business & Finance, and The Business Journal (Charlotte), North Carolina Business magazine, digital south magazine.
Wrote arts and Events column for Charlotte Uptown ("Around Town") and Charlotte Magazine, 1991-3, covered radio, tv, advertising for business section.
Covered arts and events for Charlotte Entertainment Magazine, 1987-90.
SCRIPTS
One-act play, "Professor Tar" produced by the Charlotte Grand Guignol Theater in 1987, a TV script of my
SF tale, "Battleground" produced by GA Public TV.
COLUMNS
Co-wrote a seafood cooking column from 1985-92 in the national magapaper, Underwater USA.
Wrote Media column for a variety of Charlotte publications, starting with Charlotte Magazine in the 1980s which resulted in months of daily talk radio debate.
Wrote ongoing columns for Charlotte Uptown, Charlotte Entertainment, and Charlotte's Best Magazines on film, entertainment, arts, and business from 1984-1997.
Created OMNI Magazine's first "Antimatter," column on contract; created Penthouse Magazine column, "Hard News," on contract. Wrote for OMNI's Continuum column from 1980-92.
Movie and Video review columns for Charlotte Entertainment Magazine, Charlotte's Best Magazine, and other regional publications since 1972. Also wrote about film for The New York Village Voice, OMNI Magazine, Underwater USA, National Trucker, Triangle Tech Journal, Starlog Magazine, and other publications.
Science and Technology Writing
I have extensive experience covering business, science and technology for publications that include: OMNI, Longevity, Science Digest, Next, Future, Impact, books, a planetarium, general interest publications such as Modern Maturity, and for the several online technology news services such as National Journal's Tech Daily, Localtechwire.com, and LocalBusiness.com (dbusiness.com). The later, from 1999 to 2001 gave me extensive online writing and research skills.
Adjunct lecturer, news writing, for the University of North Carolina Journalism School at Chapel Hill, and UNCC English department in Charlotte, a "free university" called "Super U," in Charlotte, and privately, with considerable success helping students sell major media, including Redbook, OMNI, and the NYTimes Book Review.
WordSmithing:
A wide range of copy writing for Riparian (a Charlotte advertising agency, 1990-93), and various media companies and corporate clients, including copy for brochures, speeches, newspaper and magazine advertisements, direct mail letters, slogans, and captions.
Education
BS/English-Education, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA, 1972, Dean's list, Day Men's Academic Scholarship, student government representative, publications editorial board, editor, student handbook, calendar, literary magazine, newpaper feature page, Public Speaking Award, Service Key (highest University award);
Masters Writing Seminar, (Clarion East), Taught by Damon Knight, Kate Wilhelm, Harlan Ellison, Thomas Disch, Gordon Dickinson and Robin Scott Wilson, and one of the most successful of the midwest writing workshop programs.
Michigan State U niversity, 1974;
Also, graduate work in film criticism, art history, publication design, playwriting, fiction writing, and more.
Professional Positions:
Daily newspaper reporter, Press-Enterprise, 1969-72, Bloomsburg, PA
English teacher, Woodbridge Twp., NJ, 1972-76, tenured. Resignation accepted "with regret."
Daily newspaper reporter, editorial writer, Monroe Enquirer Journal, Monroe, NC, 1976-7.
Editor, King-Arthur Publications, 1976-78. Trade magazines.
Associate Editor, Charlotte Magazine, 1980-2.
Founding Editor, Carolina Business & Finance, Senior Editor, Charlotte Business Quarterly/ Charlotte Magazine, Fortune Media, 1982-4.
Founding Editor, Northeast PA Business Journal, Bloomsburg, PA, 1985-6.
Editorial consultant, Charlotte Magazine, NationsBank (now Bank of America), Charlotte, NC, 1987-8.
Editor, Charlotte Magazine, Riparian Media, 1990-93. Also, for same company, Founding editor of Beaufort, SC magazine, and Charlotte Uptown (a tabloid monthly done in magazine style).
Founding Editor, Charlotte's Best Magazine, 1993-8.
1999: Freelance writer/editor - wrote for four competing Charlotte publications regularly: Creative Loafing, Charlotte's Best, Charlotte Magazine, and The Business Journal.
Senior Correspondent, LocalBusiness.com, digital south magazine, May 1999-April 2001. Wrote daily news and feature stories about emerging companies, information technology and biotechnology in the Research Triangle and elsewhere in North Carolina; wrote monthly dispatches and occasional feature articles for digital south magazine.Professional
Skills
Excellent computer and internet skills, basic HTML, Quark, Pagemaker.
Skilled 35mm photography (published photos in a variety of publications since the early 1970s). Some work with digital photography.
Award-winning public speaker and editor. Acted professionally in repertory theater in commercials, and nonfiction voice-overs from 1980-85, Charlotte, NC.
Professional Affiliations
I've qualified for more professional organizations than I could pay dues to:
National Association of Science Writers (NASW, 1978-84),
Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA, 1977-80).
The NC Press Association.
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) 1999-2002.
New Jersey Council of Teachers of English (1972-76).
Books
Lasers, Lightwave of the Future, Arco, 1982. Paid back advance first year, paid royalties eight years.
OMNI's Continuum, Little Brown, 1982, Senior Writer. Reprints of many Omni Continuum stories.
OMNI's Catalog of the Bizarre, OMNI Books, 1984. Reprints of all my Antimatter items.
The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference, Writer's Digest Books, 1998. Co-wrote chapters on magic and witchcraft, which I don't practice, but I'm a wizard at research.
The Writer's Complete Fantasy Reference, Writer's Digest Books, 1998, hardcover, 2001, pb, from my book proposal. Co-wrote two long chapters with Renee Wright. Book sold extremely well in both hardcover and paperback.
AWARDS
Bloomsburg University Service Key
Day Men's Academic Scholarship (1969)
NC Technology Writer's Association: Best Columnist (2002)
Creative Loafing, for Most Improved Publication as Editor of Charlotte's Best Magazine, 1995
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