Steve Horton

Current

• Owner at Smashout

Past

• Community Support/QA at Sony Online Entertainment Denver (formerly Worlds Apart Productions)
• Paginator at Kokomo Tribune
• Copy Editor at Watertown Daily Times

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Education

• Purdue University
• Benson Polytechnic High School

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

• My Website

Steve Horton’s Summary

Professional writer since 1999 with years of experience writing for high-circulation national magazines, newspapers and websites. I've had articles published in POKER PRO, WPT MAGAZINE, ALL IN, BLUFF, POKER PLAYER NEWSPAPER, POKERBIZ, CAESAR'S PLAYER, POKERNEWS.COM, PC TODAY, LAPTOP, MOBILE, TECHLIVING, PCWORLD.COM, SCRYE, INQUEST GAMER, KNUCKLEBONES and ANIME INSIDER.

I've done live blogging and photography for several major poker tournaments. My clients have included TropicalPoker.com, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, and PokerNews.com. For the second time, I was part of the official Live Update Team for the World Series of Poker in the summer of 2008. For the fourth time, I covered a major Borgata poker event in January 2009.

Co-creator and writer of Image Comics limited series STRONGARM.

Writer of two books: WEBCOMICS 2.0 from Course PTR, and PROFESSIONAL MANGA from Focal Press.

Writer of iPhone comic GAMBLING SOULS, available on www.clickwheel.net.

Writer of CAPTAIN BATTLE, a short story in Image Comics' NEXT ISSUE PROJECT anthology.

Steve Horton’s Specialties:

AP style; HTML; Microsoft Office; writing for tone, audience and demographic; writing for script format; print to web publishing

Steve Horton’s Experience

• Owner

  Smashout

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  November 1999 — Present (9 years 9 months)

  Magazine writing
  Have written for such national high-circulation publications as LAPTOP, MOBILE, TECHLIVING, BLUFF, ALL IN, POKER PRO, CEASAR'S PLAYER, POKER PLAYER NEWSPAPER, SCRYE, COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE, and INQUEST GAMER.
  
  Live poker blogging
  I've reported live from the biggest poker tournaments in the United States, including the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker.
  
  Comic books
  Have written two how-to books on comics, WEBCOMICS 2.0 and PROFESSIONAL MANGA. Wrote and co-created the Image Comics limited series, STRONGARM, the Clickwheel comic GAMBLING SOULS, designed for iPods and mobile phones, and the Captain Battle segment of Image's Next Issue Project anthology.

• Community Support/QA

  Sony Online Entertainment Denver (formerly Worlds Apart Productions)

  (Public Company; Computer Games industry)

  January 2006 — September 2006 (9 months)

  * Community Support for all Worlds Apart Productions games and Gamers Round Table, our organized play system, including forum and support mail management.
  * QA Lead for all Worlds Apart Productions products, including testing and bug reporting.
  * Organized Play Coordinator. Responsible for planning and organizing tournaments and high-level special events.

• Paginator

  Kokomo Tribune

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  May 2003 — January 2004 (9 months)

  Laid out and designed section fronts and inside pages for the Tribune and sister paper, the Logansport Pharos-Tribune, in QuarkXPress for Macintosh; edited copy in NewsEdit Pro, and updated the website daily.

• Copy Editor

  Watertown Daily Times

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  July 2002 — April 2003 (10 months)

  Wrote headlines; edited articles for grammar, clarity and accuracy, and proofed finished pages for a 31,780-circulation daily newspaper.

Steve Horton’s Education

• Purdue University

  BA , Professional Writing , 1995 — 2002

• Benson Polytechnic High School

Additional Information

Steve Horton’s Websites:

• My Website

Steve Horton’s Interests:

Mobile technology, gadgets, video games, movies, television

Steve Horton’s Contact Settings

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