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These
days...
I’m a Contributing Editor at Parenting Magazine, where I write
humor and service on a wide variety of parenting topics.
Books:
Mommy
Yoga: The 50 Stretches of Motherhood : (October
2005, Ten Speed Press)
Attack of the Toddlers: (2001, McGraw-Hill)
* Optioned by Paramount Pictures,
2003
Planet Parenthood: (1999, McGraw-Hill) * Optioned by CastleRock
Entertainment, 1999
29 & Counting: A Chick’s Guide to Turning 30: (1998, Contemporary
Books) * Optioned by screenwriter Beth
Rigazzio (Raising Helen), 2004
TV
appearances:
Guest
mom expert (kids’ parties) on LuLu’s House, Home and Garden
Channel, 2004Guest
author and “mom expert” on the Cybil Shepard Show, 2000
Magazines:
Publications I’ve written for include: American
Baby, Parenting, Business Week, Working Woman, Christian Science
Monitor, New York Times (op/ed), San Francisco Chronicle Sunday
Magazine, Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, others.
Online:
Yes,
in the mid-to-late ‘90s I sucked at the dot.com teet with the
rest of my overworked, under-appreciated ilk. I was paying those
dot.com rents, after all. I penned a column for the late, great
Riotgrrl.com, followed by a stint as an editor and writer for SignalsMag.com,
a site covering the biotech industry. Then I went mainstream and
got a gig with Babycenter.com pre-IPO! What fun that was.
Jobs
I had to wear pantyhose to:
1992-95
Business Week Magazine, New York City – Assistant
editor.
I wrote and edited business features and sections, including UpFront
and Top of the News.
1996-97 – Fineman Associates Public Relations, San Francisco
– Account executive/writer.
I wrote press releases for various food manufacturers and wrote
the annual Fineman Associates Top Ten PR Blunders release, which
ran in hundreds of newspapers around the country. I don’t particularly
like it, but I will flack for food when I have to.
Various
Newspaper Fun:
Once upon a time I wanted to be a feature writer
and hurl invective across a smoky newsroom. Alas, I got into the
biz about 10 years too late for that. I had to make due with…
1988-91 – General Assignment Reporter – Palo Alto Weekly.
Covered school board and planning commission meetings and other
brain-cell killing events. Won a bevy of state and local feature
writing awards. I never did get that job at a major daily, though.
So I went to graduate school instead.
Education:
Where I learned why I’d need to drink 6 cups
of coffee a day…
Columbia University – Graduate School of Journalism. 1992.
A fun year of bar-hopping and snogging boys who weren’t
my boyfriend. Got to eat black beans and yellow rice with an egg
on top washed down with a cup of café con leche at La Rosita’s
every single day! That, my friends, is living.
San Jose State – BA/BA journalism and Art History. 1987.
I could have written that damn DaVinci Code book…
Questions?
Comments? Got a gig?
Remember,
I’ll write for food.
Julie@julietilsner.com
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