“The Sidebar” newsletter
Named it, launched it, and wrote the first issues.
Read it →Brand voice and voice-and-tone, campaigns, messaging, newsletters, web, long-form. Below is selected work — the stuff that did its job and looked good doing it.
Senior copywriter based in Nashville, working remote with brands everywhere. Full-time, contract, or freelance.
Netflix · eBay · Condé Nast · Esquire · Time Out New York · Mozilla — plus a good many more who'd rather I not put them on a website. Two decades, no filler.
The core of the job. I'm a senior brand voice writer: I build voice-and-tone guidelines, then write the copy that proves them. I rewrote a 130-year-old company's entire global voice. I got a cybersecurity startup's traffic up 1,300% by finally explaining what it does. Brand copywriter for consumer brands, tech copywriter for software and security. Open to Head of Voice and brand voice lead roles.
A soft spot, and a specialty. Newsletters are the one place a brand gets to sound like a person every week, and people actually open them. I'm a freelance newsletter writer for brand newsletters and B2B newsletters, especially in tech. Two favorites below: “The Sidebar” for Mozilla and “Byte Size” for Experts Exchange.
Named it, launched it, and wrote the first issues.
Read it →Selected writing across three years, 2014–2017.
Read it →Writing and game content for the election-year app.
Read it →Editorial commerce that read like a magazine — one hit 53K views.
See the collections →Two years of jokes nobody asked for and everybody quoted.
Year one → Year two →Concept, art direction, script, and voiceover for the spot.
Watch it →Naming, brand story, and voice for a boutique Helsinki agency.
Read it →Concept and copy for the studios’ spring media event.
Read it →Rebrand story and voice for the agency's new chapter.
Read it →Product blog that reads like a human wrote it.
Read it →Named the thing, wrote the first ten issues.
Read it →The whole voice, and the words across the site.
Read it →Where a lot of it started — features, 2011–2012.
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