Marti Lawrence

Current

Author at Self Employed

Past

Citizen Squid at Squidoo
Writer at The Examiner Newspaper

Education

Central Missouri State University

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Connections

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Industry

Writing and Editing

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Marti Lawrence’s Summary

I grew up in Independence, Missouri, and was strongly influenced by Harry Truman’s straight talk and honest action. I have been a registered radiological technologist, pre-need counselor, webmaster, humor columnist, and blogger.

I am published in the Examiner newspaper, 2006 Writer’s Blog Anthology and as a featured columnist at USA Deep South and Southern Humorists. I live in rural Jackson County, Missouri.

Marti Lawrence’s Experience

Author

Self Employed

(Writing and Editing industry)

January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

I am the author of three books; a compilation of humor essays, “Queen Klutz: The Comical Misadventures of a Very Clumsy Woman,” a paranormal mystery novel, titled, "River of Possibilities" and a humorous self-help manual titled, "7 Ways You Screw Up Your Life (and how to unscrew it)" which has foreword by Chris Brogan. Contributors = Jeremiah Owyang, Becky McCray, Susan Reynolds, Terry Starbucker and Liz Strauss, which is available at Amazon.
Citizen Squid

Squidoo

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

September 2006 — April 2007 (8 months)

I worked as a Citizen Squid, building webpages for Squidoo. I built test and example webpages (lenses), helped promote the site, answer questions at the message board, interview other lensmasters (users) for the Squidoo newsletter, and recruit new users.
Writer

The Examiner Newspaper

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)

January 2004 — January 2006 (2 years 1 month)

I wrote freelance humor articles for the Examiner newspaper