Writing Portfolio
In 2017, Melissa Uhles and Amber Roshay teamed up to create Pen and Parent. We offer freelance writing services for online and print magazines, blogs, ghost writing, and web content.
Not only are we professional writers, but we are reliable, easy to work with, and know how to connect to your readers. Send us an email at penandparent@gmail.com.
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Melissa's Bio & Portfolio
Melissa is the author of three novels , a children's picture book and co-author of How to Make a Living as a Writer. She’s co-founder and writer for Pen & Parent. In addition, she’s been published online at The Pennyhoarder, Today Parenting Community, Rage Against the Minivan, Momastery, Yahoo Voices, and Red Tricycle. Her print articles have appeared in Salient and You Need Not Walk Alone Magazine. She’s also written and produced short film scripts and plays.
She’s published content in the following subjects: parenting, relationships, food, travel, film/t.v. and frugal living. In addition, she’s worked with nonprofit and small business clients to create compelling blogs, web content and other collateral sales content.
Note: Some content writing has been ghost-written and she cannot share those clips. Here are a variety of clips to give you an idea of her style.
The Oregonian: You Can't Take it With You Press Release
Today Food: Easy Strawberry Shortcake
Pennyhoarder: Save 2K Per Year Visiting Your Library
Mom Life Collective: 3 Ways to Get Kids to Eat Greens
Today Parenting: Things I Wish I'd Enjoyed More Before Getting Pregnant
Red Tricycle: 6 Portland Fountains for Hot Summer Days
Rage Against the Minivan: Letter to a Pregnant Friend
Buzzfeed Community: 6 Tasty Breakfast Spots
Pen and Parent: SEO Tips for Bloggers
Pen and Parenting: Editing a Blog Post
Pen & Parent: How to Successfully Write and Produce a Short Film
Pen and Parent: 5 Playdate Tips for Introverts
Amber's Bio & Portfolio
Amber is a parent and writer living in San Diego. She is the author of two novels and co-author of How to Make a Living as a Writer. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Art in San Francisco. Her work has been published in Parent.co, The Write Life, You and Me Magazine, WOW! Women on Writing, and more. When she's not writing or parenting, she teaches English at the University of California San Diego.
Areas of expertise are: parenting, writing, education, health, and humor. In addition, she’s worked with nonprofits, colleges, and universities to create curriculum, newsletters, and other collateral sales content.
How Two Under Two At Age 40 Transformed My Life
Redefining Mom: Lack of Paid Family Leave Makes it Harder for Working Moms to Breastfeed
The Write Life: A “Novel” Idea: How to Write a Book With a Partner
WOW! The Muffin: Friday Speak Out!: Writing at 4 a.m. Will Change Your Life
Parent Co.: Cinderella Was Wrong About Stepmoms
Parent Co.: 8 Things You Need to Know Breastfeeding with a Tongue-Tied Baby
Parent Co.: Measuring the True Cost of Infertility
Pen and Parent: Are You Living with a Twonager?
Pen and Parent: 7 Lessons Moving from Bottle to Sippy
Pen and Parent: 18 Parenting Magazines, Blogs & Websites that Pay Freelance Writers
For examples of our fiction, check out our novels.
For examples of our nonfiction, check out How to Make a Living as a Writer.
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