Tracy Marie Levine,
Professional Writer

Available for all your writing and marketing needs

Magazine Writing

• Fiction-Adults and children

• Non-Fiction-Adults and children
  (I have a stock of stories already completed to choose from, or you may commission me to write anything you have a need for, i.e. to fit a particular issue’s theme)

• Book Reviews (I’ll review the book and interview the author)

• Web writing - I have written on virtually every subject: education, parenting, health, medicine, sports, business, women’s issues…
  I am available as a columnist in education and parenting.

Corporate Writing

• Marketing plans (also available as a marketing consultant)

• Press releases and event plans

• Collaterals (identity kits, brochures, etc.)

• Direct mail and sales letters

• Newsletters Ads

Professional Fees: Vary, based on the project and potential for future work. Detailed estimates will be prepared for the client.  Projects are turned around according to a fair and agreed upon timetable.

Tracy Levine reserves the right to turn down work that she deems to be in any way unethical, or immoral. She does not associate herself with nudity, pornography, racism, gambling, anti-government or anti-religious material, or any business or organization that is or is likely to be involved in controversy that could adversely affect her reputation.

Education - - Health - - Family - - About the Author - - Email

EDUCATION

• What Can Be Done to Improve Our Public School System? - Some contributing factors were the huge size of the nation's school districts today, the reduced influence of PTAs, and the fact most parents do not know where their child's school district stands in SAT scores compared to that of other states or international test series results compared to other nations.
• The Schools We need - and why we don't have them - Professor E. Hirsch says, 'we have somehow placed more importance on self-esteem and freedom of expression, rather than hard work, learning the "basics," and academic achievement. These are some of the reasons why American students lag far behind almost every other developed nation.' - Tracy Levine's review of a powerful book.
• "Back to Basics" Curriculum for Schools and Home Schools - review of successfull core education principals of Hillsdale Academy.
• Why is so much Wrong with our Schools? - Many parents believe they have less and less to say about the knowledge and values being imparted to their children. Others are concerned with alleged anti-God attitudes they say prevail in the government schools.
• Montessori Education - a Good Choice - a review.
• For another source with a full presentation of education quality and cost trends, in picture form, see the Grandfather Education Report at http://mwhodges.home.att.net/education.htm , the International Education Report , and the International Test Series Report

HEALTH

• A Great Health Guide for Your Family - Prescription for Nutritional Healing by James F. Balch, M.D. and Phyllis Balch is an excellent reference book for families. . I just discovered it and was amazed.
• 10 Natural Remedies That Can Save Your Life - the most basic health advice is really the best, just like your mother always told you. - A book by James F. Balch, M.D. - - Reviewed by Tracy Levine - October 1999
• Are You Living Defensively Against Cancer-And Have You Been Screened For Colon Cancer? - If there is any chance that we can reduce our family's and our own risks, by having regular screens and tests, eating right, taking antioxidants and exercising, then why not try it? - by Tracy Levine, March 2000.
• Children's Drinking Water - Excessive fluoride? - Excessive fluoride has even been linked to increased lead absorption. This means that if a child is exposed to lead and has fluoride, she can suffer severe lead poisoning.
• M-E-N-O-Pause. Something to Dread or Just Another Life-Stage? - I just turned 40, and now it seems that everywhere I turn, there are articles that start off like this: "At 40, you look in the mirror and wonder when you grew that paunchy middle. Extra pounds have attached themselves to your hips, thighs and waist…"
• Attention Deficit Disorder - Anna always felt as if she could never catch up. She was always behind.
• Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder - Does your daughter…daydream in school? -have a hard time keeping friends? -make careless mistakes on schoolwork? -often lose things? -become easily distracted? -appear forgetful in daily activities? -not seem to listen when spoken to? -avoid tasks that require sustained mental effort? -not follow through on instructions?
• For a source regarding Life-Expectancy trends, see the Heatlth Report at http://mwhodges.home.att.net/healthcare.htm

FAMILY

• Pokémon Paranoia - Have your children become victims of the Pokémon Plague that is sweeping the world?
• Moving is Hell - Relocating a family of small children to a new area. A great check list to success, from a mother of many moves.
• Families Are Not Filling Their "Piggy Banks" - Families are under more financial pressure instead of less, despite dual income earning families.
• Most parents of teenagers have that dazed look, sort of similar to parents of newborns. The difference is that while the infants' parents are losing sleep, the teens' parents fear they are losing their minds
• Are You Sure Your Child Is Too Old for a Car Seat? - the need to keep children in booster seats until they are eighty pounds, taller than fifty-eight inches and nine years old.
• Help Your Kids Earn Self-Esteem - We Can't Give it to Them - instead of helping our children to be better people, are we are creating self-absorbed individuals who have no sense of responsibility?
• Running a Silkworm factory and "Other" Motherly Duties - I'm continually amazed by the range of duties that fall under "other" on a mother's job description.

Tracy Levine has twenty years of writing experience and has sold over eighty-five articles. Most recently, she was Business and Health Editor and Writer for Profit, a national financial and lifestyle magazine that was published in Palm Springs, California.

Levine also wrote a weekly column on two woman-oriented websites that focused on women’s and family issues. 

Prior to her four years with the publisher, she worked in marketing management for fourteen years. Her positions included serving as Director of Marketing for Arnold Palmer Golf Management Company and Director of Marketing for The Travelers, working as Public Relations Manager for a high tech firm, and as a Copywriter and Public Relations Executive at an Orlando Advertising Agency.

She has also maintained her own marketing business throughout and taken on a diversity of marketing, public relations and copywriting projects for a multitude of clients.

As a hiatus from the corporate world, she worked as a Montessori teacher for five years, which inspired her to turn her writing skills to children. She is currently working on several fiction projects, including a woman’s novel and three children’s series, one for preschoolers, one for tweens and one for teens. She is hoping to find a publisher for these very soon. Becoming a published fiction author has been a lifelong dream.

Levine is a member of the DFW Writers Workshop, a large and influential writing/critique group and belongs to the Flower Mound Writers Group. 

She has attended many worthwhile writing seminars in the past year, including the Glorietta (National) Christian Writers Conference in October. 

She resides in the Dallas area with her husband and two children.

Email Tracy at Tracy.Marie@verizon.net
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/tracy/tracy.htm

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