We're looking for short articles or book reviews (~1000 words) on a wide variety of topics. Our target audience is very diverse, but our central focus is on educators, students, and people with enquiring minds. Their age range is broad, but an approximate reading level would be high school. Topics can be identified by browsing through EncycloZine and looking for areas you think could be strengthened. We are not interested in articles/reviews concerning sex, religion, or politics. We will pay $100 per article/review. Do not send us completed articles. Please start by sending us a couple of paragraphs outlining the topic and describing your qualifications for writing it. Please email us (kosmoi at ntlworld dot com) with proposals or for further information.
Born 1953 in Spokane, state of Washington (NOT Washington DC), NW USA. Twelve years primary education in Catholic parochial schools in Spokane. Bumming at college in Bellingham, Washington, 1971. US Army Signal Corps 1972:1975 (Fort Hood Texas & Heilbronn Germany). Electronics Tech degree from Spokane Community College, 1977. Worked for Tektronix in Wilsonville, Oregon, 1978. Electronics Engineer degree from Oregon State University, 1979:1981. Hewlett-Packard customer service in Oregon & Colorado, 1982:2000. Now writing full time in Colorado.
J. Michael Beasley is an editor, translator, and writer with interests in history (especially the social history of central Europe and Latin America), music, transformative education, Russian and Austrian literature, writing, and alternative medicine (among other things). He has lived in Vienna, Austria and Sao Paulo, Brazil, and now lives in Vermont, U.S.A.
Beverly Durfee an author and copyeditor interested in New Media and the ways in which the Internet enhances the relationship between writer and reader. Her publications vary from genre novels in the hard copy world to journalism online. She is currently employed as a copy editor for a Colorado newspaper and is the Colorado correspondent for States News Service. She also contracts as a freelance writer and editor online.
Helen Varley Jamieson is a freelance writer, playwright and web author from New Zealand. Her recent work includes teaching a four month course in HTML and web site maintenance, managing the development of an online database of arts resources for NZ's Ministry of Education, and writing her latest play, "Between", a one act play for Wellington's annual Young and Hungry Theatre season.
Betty Bridges is the founder of the Fragranced Products Information Network, a grass roots effort to educate on the chemicals used and the health effects of fragranced products.
Shelley McCoy is an active homeschooling parent in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. She has long been an outspoken advocate of homeschooling and is active in the homeschooling community, helping to found a local homeschool co-op as well as homeschool e-mail lists providing educational resources for other homeschooling parents. She is an accomplished speaker and offers lectures in beginning homeschooling and strives to educate the public about this alternative educational movement. Shelley is also a prominent figure in the charitable community by founding a non-profit organization specializing in caring for underprivileged children. When not homeschooling her two sons, she is actively working on community betterment in all aspects of life.
Tammy Scroggs is currently an Information Systems Technician and Manager of the Business Computer Lab at West Virginia University. She's been highly involved in online volunteer work through various organizations, such as the HTML Writer's Guild and Self-Help and Psychology Magazine, for several years now and has recently created her own web design studio where she offers her skills commercially.
Dr. Maheu is a Licensed Psychologist in San Diego, California (PSY#11921); and is the Editor-in-Chief and founder of Self-Help & Psychology Magazine, an award winning online electronic-zine. She serves on various committees of the American Psychological Association. She is the President of Pioneer Development Resources, Inc., a health-care related company that is dedicated to the development of healthcare electronic delivery systems. She is an author and offers consultation to individuals, groups, insurance companies, and other organizations interested in developing ethical and fiscally responsible telehealth services. Dr. Maheu is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and at national and state association meetings.
Lucy Richmond is one of the co-founders of EncycloZine. Educated in the USA, she holds a BA in English and a MBA in Management. She worked for many years as a scientific programmer before joining Alan on their entrepreneural adventure.
Alan Richmond is an expat Brit living on a small farm near Charlottesville, VA, USA, with American wife Lucy, & sons Neil and Mark. Most of his career has been as a scientific software engineer creating user interfaces, databases, and control and data acquisition systems for a fusion research device, a synchrotron radiation experiment, the Hubble Space Telescope, and NASA's high energy astrophysics satellites. He has published several papers on scientific software systems. In recent years he has become known as a teacher of web technologies such as XHTML. He founded the web's first commercial site (Web Developer's Virtual Library) for web developers in 1994.
We have adopted several articles from Wikipedia, a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate open content encyclopedia. Our appreciation and thanks go to the many authors.