RICK MCKINNEY
Contact: duke@jigglebox.com
OBJECTIVE
Challenge me. There's nothing I can't write.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Extremely strong and versatile writing talent developed over 20 years of diverse writing experience. Highly skilled in all facets of writing: web content, persuasive, hard news objective, technical, & literary. Writing samples include proposals, treatments, ad copy, features & profiles, hard news, ghost authorship, PR, poetry and fiction. Skilled in page layout & design. Typing 75 wpm.
EDUCATION
Humboldt State University, 1991, B.A. in Journalism
RECENT HISTORY
March 20 – October 8, 2004: End-to-end "Thruhike" of the Appalachian Trail, over 2000 miles from Georgia to Maine, completed on foot.
August 2005: Launched successful media campaign with 500-mile "Suicide Prevention Hot Hike" of Colorado to Hunter S. Thompson's memorial.
January 2006: Published Dead Men Hike No Trails, a 400-page philosophical memoir addressing suicide, depression & long-distance hiking.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Screenwriting: feature film lengthWeb & PR content writing
Disney Online, N. Hollywood, November, 1999 to present; children's trivia
Yack.com, Emeryville, CA, June 1999 to present; web content & e-commerce articles
Cameravan.com, Berkeley, May, 1999; web copy & design
PCSNetworks, Emeryville, April, 1999; web content
Lee Industries Inc., 1998-9; text for large circulation visitor guides
Various clients on freelance basis, 1995-present; proposals, ad copy, letters
Hard news reporting
The New York Daily News, 1998-99; stringer work (e.g.: 1998 Springfield, OR high school shooting spree, four bylines, one front page story)
Bisbee Daily Review, Bisbee AZ, 1997; full-time daily news reporter
Freelance journalistic
The Gazette-Times, Corvallis OR, 1997-8; features, travel & personality profiles
The Press-Enterprise, Riverside CA, 1995-6; various news & feature stories
The North County Times, Escondido CA, 1992-4; travel & features
Print media creation & management
The Brewery Gulch Gazette, Bisbee AZ, 1996; editor, established weekly
The BBC, Bisbee AZ, 1996-7; publisher, small ad-funded poetry & arts monthly
The Idyllwild Word, Idyllwild CA, 1993-5; publisher, ad- funded poetry monthly
Mental Floss, Leucadia CA, 1992-3; publisher, 10,000 circ. arts monthly w/ads
Novels & poetry collections
Dead Men Hike No Trails - 2006; memoir; Booklocker Online
A Well-Upholstered Hell - 2004; collected works; unpublished
Ranting Into The Fire - 2003; collected works; unpublished
Serious Green Haired Wizard - 2003; poetry collection; hand-published
Glued to the Road - 1999; highway memoir; unpublished
Dog Bowls & Ashtrays - 1998; poetry collection; hand-published
Jigglebox - 1997; rail-riding memoir; unpublished
Remember Watermelon? - 1997; poetry collection; hand-published
The Road To Anytown, America - 1996; highway memoir; hand-published
Catcher In The Sky - 1995; novel; Northwest Publishing, Inc.
Starfish Halls - 1992; wilderness memoir; unpublished
Lectures
Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild CA, 1995; lecture to students on novel writing
Macalester College, St. Paul MN, 1998; public lecture on automotive art