PRESS PACKAGE WRITING: Two Balloons (2017)
Two adventurous lemurs navigate their dirigibles halfway around the world to a place where happenstance and fate threaten to disrupt their reunion.
Danielle Frandina
Leaving a fourteen-year teaching career in San Francisco, I followed my heart to Portland in 2012 to put my recently earned MFA in Writing to good use. While working on a collection of short stories and personal essays, I've seized professional writing opportunities that have pushed me beyond the literary realm. I revel in the challenge to write content that reflects the vision of a client by finding the narrative that will move the intended audience. Two decades' worth of assessing student writing has rendered my editing skills (from developmental editing to copyediting) razor sharp. My work as a writing coach has instilled a passionate belief in the necessity for constructive feedback and revision. I strive for distillation, precision, and vitality in my writing, whether it be a personal narrative, a flash fiction piece, a film synopsis or a brand story.
EDITING: No One Dies Alone | Robert Brian Mulder | Issue 530
I got the call around 2 AM. I’m surprised I even picked up. “Can you come in?” the voice said. I couldn’t say no. So here I am. Bedside. Hands folded. Lots of silence. Lots of time. Nothing to do but think.
The last time I sat in a hospital room was more than thirty years ago, when Claire died. I was just seventeen. She’d been my grandfather’s girlfriend and caretaker until he’d died of emphysema at his home in Florida, on Sanibel Island. Claire volunteered at the local used-book store, recited
COPYEDITING: Itasha Z: Anime Painted Car Collection Book
Copyediting Sample: "Gone Astray" by Satya Byock
I could get nothing into perspective.
—George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”
I was midway through my second trip to Sri Lanka when I passed an injured elephant wandering near the road. He was pacing back and forth, just at the edge of light forest and grassland, holding up a leg, in which a bullet was lodged. The wound, open and weeping, was wearing him down with each moment. He hung his head low and he moved his lethargic body as well as he could. His suffering was slow, protracted.
I reas
Book Jacket Synopsis for Adam Selzer's collection Leaving
A young artist wrestling with a growing sense of failure seeks comfort and validity from a checkout girl at a grocery store.
A man unwilling to confront the origins of his own unhappiness sets out to track down an old girlfriend, yet becomes distracted by a karaoke singer in a roadside bar along the way.
A couple shattered by the death of their soldier son seeks healing in ways so divergent, their relationship may not survive the process.
"ONE SHEET" PRESS PACKAGE WRITING for 1939 Ensemble's Black Diamond Pearl (Jealous Butcher Records)
What happens when percussionists José Medeles and David Coniglio prove that a drum and vibes record doesn't have to be a niche project only drum enthusiasts will love? They do it again. However 1939 Ensemble's second album, Black Diamond Pearl, is not a repeat performance. This time, with less to prove and a solid fan base eagerly awaiting more, the band is now comfortable in its own skin. And it shows. There is a tonal shift in Black Diamond Pearl that reflects the ease and confidence 1939 has
Ages and Ages Bio/"One Sheet"
This article served as both the bio and "One Sheet" for the Portland band Ages and Ages after the release of their 2016 record Something To Ruin. At the time, it was placed on the homepage of the band's website and their record label's (Partisan Records) band page. It has since been taken down as content on newer releases has taken its place.
