ABOUT MARCIA YUDKIN, PH.D.


              Marcia Yudkin has been a writer in the public eye since she
          published her first freelance piece in the New York Times Education
          Supplement in 1981.  Her seven books include FREELANCE WRITING: 
          BREAKING IN WITHOUT SELLING OUT (HarperCollins, Book of the Month
          Club), SMART SPEAKING (Henry Holt, excerpted in Ladies Home Journal
          and Cosmopolitan), HE AND SHE TALK (Plume), SIX STEPS TO FREE
          PUBLICITY (Plume 1994) and PERSUADING ON PAPER (Plume, September
          1995).  

              Through her press releases, she has received publicity in the
          Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and dozens of local newspapers
          from the Boston Globe to the Anchorage Times.  Hundreds of her
          articles have appeared in magazines from Yankee Magazine and the New
          York Times Magazine to TWA Ambassador and Computer Update.  Since
          1988 she has also served as a Boston-based seminar leader and
          writing consultant, helping writers and businesspeople sharpen their
          writing to achieve clarity, publication, publicity and acclaim.

          To get in touch:

          Marcia Yudkin, Ph.D.
          Creative Ways
          P.O. Box 1310
          Boston, MA 02117
          (617)266-1613
          Fax: (617)871-1728