- Name: Donna Marie
- Surname: Langlais-Conn
- Location: Phoenix, AZ
- About Me: Hello. I am a disabled, Army Veteran who has loved to write and wanted to be a writer as far back as I can remember.
An odd thing, to call one's self a "writer" without having accomplished the "great American novel" just yet, but I have had some successful pieces published in print media editorials. I have also served as contributor and editor of my college literary magazine, as well as our bi-annual poetry supplement for the school news paper.
I have worked a great many years in the "dot com" industry both as a content editor and writer; each of which included writing tutorials for new in-house internet products. The two most recognizable were Monster.com and GoDaddy.com. I also wrote extensively for a start-up called The Black Tie Funding Group, Inc. That was a wonderful experience on so many levels! With a start-up, it is a clean slate. While our President taught me the Small Business / banking sector, I taught him how to create our brand, write for his new web site, our business plan and keep the office running like a (cliché) "well oiled machine!" All totaled, I've worked in some writing or editing capacity for an internet company for over eighteen years.
Forgive the resume here, but I take my writing very seriously and whether it's technical, fluff poetry, prose or my daily journal entries (yes I still use ink & paper,) I am constantly writing. In the great words of Billy Crystal in "Throw Momma from a Train" "A writer writes, always!"
That is my, not so, brief synopsis of my writing career. Currently, I'm attempting to pool a group of true crime writers, psychoanalysts, F.B.I. Profilers and notable detectives for the purpose of a book idea I want to complete. At this point, I am at the research stage; sending out invitations to writers I'd like to join me in my project and on my journey to writing a really great book. So far, I've received two responses from well known writer's in said genre. Therefore I am hopeful that there is a book there just waiting for me to write. It will be my first full length project, with the exception of a chap-book of poems, prose and short stories I wrote fifteen years ago, entitled "Necessities." You won't find it on any shelves right now however, for I am so broke that I can't afford the ink to print new copies to sell.
These are the challenges that separate the armatures from the pros. "How do you get to Fenway Park? Practice, practice, practice!"
