Freelance
See also, my LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottemfreeman
Online Articles about Food and Food Politics:
Bookslut.com, CookBookSlut Column
- After Julie/Julia: The New Generation of Food Blog-to-Books
- On Eating Alone
- ‘Tis the Season: Christmas Cookbooks for All
- When the Wolf is at the Door, One Turns to the Experts…
- Charlotte and Julia
- The Art of Ratios
- My Inner Child: A Christmas to Remember, Making a Croquembouche
- Rethinking our Food Priorities: Let’s Hear It For Egg Ladies
- The Walking Cure: Hunting for Mushrooms, Finding Herself
- Buying the Farm: Planting the Seeds of Agricultural Bliss
- Alice Waters and Montana’s Ameya Preserve: Slow Food Uber Alles?
- Strange bedfellows: Why is Alice Waters involved with the Ameya Preserve in Montana?
- LivingSmall in Montana: What’s in your freezer?
- plus contributed to many garden updates, and smaller pieces.
Corporate Writing:
Client: Gale Cengage Learning
Study guides for the following:
- Volume 36: “An Hymn to the Evening” by Phillis Wheatley, and “Birdfoot’s Grampa” by Joseph Bruchac
- Volume 35: Wicked by Gregory Maguire, and Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Volume 34: The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
- Volume 30: “The Thrill of the Grass” by W. P. Kinsella
- Volume 29: “Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy” by Tim O’Brien
Contemporary Musicians
Biographical entries on the following:
- Volume 68: Air, Aqualung, Belle & Sebastian, Celtic Woman, Rodney Crowell, Dandy Warhols, Rósin Murphy, New Kids on the Block, OK Go, Sugarcult
- Volume 67: Rodney Atkins, Zac Brown Band, Carolina Liar, Graham Colton, The Cure, Demi Lovato, Mary Mary, Soulja Boy, Bobby Valentino
Client: The Chaffee Group, for Stewart Title of California’s Community Forward Initiative
“A Home of Our Own: A Kids’ Guide to Buying a House”
February, 2006: I wrote a 12,000 word story book for children about the home-buying process for Stewart Title. Client wanted a book that could be given as a gift to customers who might be unfamiliar with the process of buying real estate. The book features child characters of Mexican, Vietnamese, Philipino, Korean, American Indian, African American, Caucasian and Chinese backgrounds who navigate the milestones of buying a house with their families. Many of the children know one another from school or church and their stories intersect as they learn about real estate fundamentals like open houses, the role of realtors, fixed-rate and adjustable-rate mortgages, title insurance, making an offer and closing costs.
Client: The Corporation for the Northern Rockies
Contact: Lil Erickson
Rick Bayless: Sustainability Steward
Interviewed Rick Bayless about his use of sustainable, local provisions for his restaurants and prepared-food business. Since one of the goals of the Corporation of the Northern Rockies is to promote non-commodity food products, we focused on how Bayless has partnered with farmers of a similar size and market-niche in the Chicago area. Wrote a 2500 word profile for the Corporation of the Northern Rockies “Sustainability Steward” series.
Journalism:
“Dirtbag Climbers Head to the Andes,” Outside Online, 1998
“Terrible Twins No More: The Burgess Boys Grow Up,” Outside Online, 1998
Ghostwriting:
The Transcontinental Railroad (Silver-Burdett, 1986)
The D-Day Invasion (Silver-Burdett , 1986)
Book Reviews:
“Under the Banner of Heaven,” Ruminator Review, winter issue, 2004
“Navigating the Neglected Spots,” Ruminator Review, Summer 2003
“Traplines: Coming Home to Sawtooth Valley,” San Francisco Chronicle, Aug 3, 2003
“Children of Pithiviers,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 24, 2001
“Interview with Tobias Wolff,” Inkslinger, Kings English Bookstore, Feb. 1998
Capsule book reviews, Inkslinger, Salt Lake City, 1994-1999
“Rocky Mountain Women,” Summit Magazine, Fall 1990