Bring Your Community Stories to Life!
Your community has stories hiding in plain sight. You will discover them in your people, businesses, traditions, and places. Let’s bring them together in a magazine that celebrates what makes your destination or organization distinctive.
Create It Yourself
Create your magazine at your own pace with a video course and workbook guiding you from gathering stories to planning your publication.
Create It With Guidance
Get hands-on support through workshops and consulting to develop your stories, organize your content and plan each step of the way to your finished magazine.
Have It Made For You!
Let me manage your magazine project from interviews and storytelling to coordinating the design and printing.
A place to discover. Stories to take home.
See What Is Possible
Imagine giving your visitors and residents stories that connect them to your community!
Choose Your Path To Your Magazine
Create It Yourself
Follow practical video lessons and exercises to plan your content, gather stories & build your magazine
Create It With Guidance
Bring your team together for a hands-on workshop or get virtual individual guidance on your magazine
Have It Made For You
Have It Made For You
I help develop the concept, gather stories, conduct interviews, write features, and coordinate design and printing. Together, we will define the scope, schedule and distribution plan for your publication.
What could your magazine include?
- Local People and their experiences
- History, cultural traditions and community memories
- Places to explore & things to do
- Businesses & their stories
- Anniversary celebrations & milestones
- Helpful visitor information & local resources
Your Purpose & Audience Guide What Belongs in Your Magazine!
From Your First Idea to a Finished Magazine: How It Begins
1. Define Your Purpose
2. Choose Your Approach
Who is the magazine for? What do you want readers to discover or do?
2. Choose Your Approach
2. Choose Your Approach
Decide whether a course, guided support or custom production fits your team, timeline and budget.
3. Build Your Plan
3. Build Your Plan
Identify the stories, people, photographs, funding and distribution opportunities that will bring your magazine together.
Award winning journalist, historian and memoir coach
Why Work With Jackie?
My work begins with listening and asking the questions that uncover a bigger story. I bring experience in reporting, historical research, interviewing and community magazine production to help you create a publication with substance and a sense of place.
I have a journalist's curiosity and a historian's perspective.