Editor, Writer, Project Mgr., Copy Editor
Greater New York City Area
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- writer/editor/blogger/book doctor/project manager at myself only
- Past
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- managing editor at Spirituality & Health magazine
- editor & promotional consultant at Ringing Rocks Press
- Religion & Spirituality columnist at United Press International
- publishing associate at Parabola
- Education
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- IM School of Healing Arts
- National Theater Institute
- Bennington College
- Leadership Forum
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Betsy Robinson’s Summary
For 6 1/2 years I was managing editor of Spirituality & Health magazine. I have a vast knowledge of spiritual seeking topics, alternative therapies (I graduated from a four-year healing school and have a minister's degree, although I'm not a practicing minister), and eclectic interests in self-change and healing. I also was an actor for 10+ years and still write fiction.
I would like to put my writing and editing skills to use to create books or other materials having to do with the arts or spiritual/mind-body/alternative therapies topics. I'm particularly interested in ethics in the burgeoning field of alternative therapies and have written extensively about such things.
I'm interested in change through the arts and also through therapeutic modalities that have been scrutinized, tested, and challenged for their efficacy.
I believe writing can contain an energy that can elicit change, and I would like to create work and edit other people's work that sings!
Betsy Robinson’s Specialties:
Excellent management and organizational skills. Large roladex of writers and other people to create projects.
Strong marketing background.
Contacts in the world of spiritual psychotherapy.
Sense of humor (I write funny). Excellent (and speedy) editor.
Write/edit books, articles, marketing, cover copy, jackets, catalog copy. The chops I developed as a playwright serve me in other areas of writing. I know structure and storytelling, as well as Chicago Manual of Style.
Betsy Robinson’s Experience
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writer/editor/blogger/book doctor/project manager
myself only
(Writing and Editing industry)
January 1986 — Present (23 years 7 months)
Visit my web site, www.BetsyRobinson-writer.com, for more information and my blog.
I have edited numerous articles and books in the area of spiritual psychology, including "Chasing Elephants: Healing Psychologically With Buddhist Wisdom" by Diane Shainberg, Ph.D. (Asti-Rahman Books, 2000) and articles for "Energy & Consciousness, International Journal of Core Energetics" (Jacqueline Carleton, Ph.D., Editor). Many of the pieces were by non-English speakers, and I “scalpel edited” to retain their voices and energy while revising the work into well-written text. I've written tons of promotion (press releases, catalog copy, etc.) for an array of businesses from the arts and psychological practices to a manufacturer of police training gear. -
managing editor
Spirituality & Health magazine
(Publishing industry)
August 2002 — December 2008 (6 years 5 months)
Managed editorial production, wrote many features and other articles, edited the magazine. It was fun!
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editor & promotional consultant
Ringing Rocks Press
(Publishing industry)
May 2002 — December 2006 (4 years 8 months)
Copy edited and promoted Profiles of Healing book and digital recording series about the world's traditional shamans and medicine people.
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Religion & Spirituality columnist
United Press International
(Privately Held; Writing and Editing industry)
January 2006 — April 2006 (4 months)
I wrote a weekly blog on spiritual topics. I stopped because of time conflicts with a full-time job. Returning to this kind of writing is my fantasy job! I write funny.
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publishing associate
Parabola
(Publishing industry)
1998 — 2002 (4 years)
Was responsible for promotion of books — getting them reviewed, listed, author interviews. Wrote jacket copy, promotion and press materials, and invented a popular monthly e-newsletter. Wrote, edited and proofed catalog copy, and some book editing and proofreading. Assisted executive publisher in fundraising, contracts, event planning. Was known as "the hard drive" for my ability to retain information.
Associate Producer of Parabola Film and Video Festival: Cinema of the Spirit.
Betsy Robinson’s Education
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IM School of Healing Arts
Minister , energy healing, Wilhelm Reich characterology, process work , 1997 — 2000
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National Theater Institute
drama 1971 — 1971
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Bennington College
BA , Drama
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Leadership Forum
Additional Information
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Betsy Robinson’s Interests:
Spirituality, ethics in the burgeoning alternative health-care system, alternative healing news for both the lay person and the practitioner (giving both points of view), spiritual psychology, personal ecological lifestyles, animals, pets, psychospiritual work, art and culture, humor
Betsy Robinson’s Honors:
Novel, Plan Z by Leslie Kove, published July 2001 by Mid-List Press as winner of their First Novel Award (called "One of the funniest books I've ever read" by Sixth Sense radio). Several playwriting awards, Writers Guild East Foundation Fellowship
Betsy Robinson’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
