Sue J. Clark is a professional writer with a wealth of experience, which she is proud to utilize through her position as the owner of the renowned SJ Clark Literary Agency, and President/CEO of SJClark Literary Specialties, LLC. She provides for her clientele expert editing, poetry writing, management skills and instruction services. Ms. Clark specializes in editing, instructing, and writing poetry, works of fiction and nonfiction; in addition, she speaks at public events, critiques manuscripts, and edits and rewrites materials for businesses and corporations. She is an award-winning writer who has collected extensive accolades throughout her career for her work.

 At the SJ Clark Literary Agency, Ms. Clark conducts workshops and teaches management skills to aspiring and current writers and professionals. With a background in teaching, ghostwriting, editing and consultancy, Ms. Clark offers a plethora of services that will help provide the quality that you are seeking in a writing service.

With nearly four decades of experience as a writer, Ms. Clark is available to work with you and offer her expertise in the area. Her finely-tuned eye can help bring your work to the attention of those in the publishing arena, and help you garner the reputation that your book deserves. She is available to edit and revise fiction and non-fiction manuscripts, poetry, and business journals, letters, flyers, reports and brochures. Ms. Clark teaches the individuals with whom she works to become the best poets and writers that they can possibly be, and brings out their best qualities. Ms. Clark’s dedication to writing, editing, public speaking and most importantly, helping others has allowed her to utilize her skill set and background through creative means.

Ms. Clark teaches weekly poetry classes and fiction and non-fiction classes, as well as a monthly fiction writing workshop. She also teaches literature classes for a special program, called the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at Sierra College.

Ms. Clark has demonstrated continued support for the Sierra College OLLI program by teaching the following courses:

• America’s Women Authors of the 20th and 21st Centuries
• Discovering Masterpieces by Some of America’s Greatest Writers
• The Revival of the Short Story
• The Influence of Hammett, Steinbeck and Wolff on Today’s Literature
• Advanced “Creating Poetry”
• Beginning Poetry Writing
• Memoirs- The Latest Fad
• Today's Literature Surrounding World War II
  

Ms. Clark consults with writers on any type of writing or pre-writing that they might need assistance with, including the preparation of manuscripts for publication and advice on seeking publishers. She has been at the helm of the SJ Clark Literary Agency for over 36 years, and although she is not currently accepting new clients, she will advise and consult with writers.

Areas of Expertise – Services Offered  

MEMOIR WRITER- Ms. Clark specializes in writing memoir/biography/autobiography books. She has ghostwritten five memoir books, edited two memoir books, consulted for seven memoir books and been the literary agent for numerous other memoir books.

GHOSTWRITER – Ms. Clark has ghostwritten four books for noteworthy clients—including the latest published work of art “Is Anybody Listening: The True Story About the POW/MIAs in the Vietnam War” (2005)—and she continues to help her clients to reach optimal levels of success as a ghostwriter. She has also contributed her ghostwriting services to “Broken in II: A Soldier’s Story of Surviving WWII and PTSD,” which is set to be published in 2011.

EDITOR – Ms. Clark edits fiction and non-fiction manuscripts, poetry, business journals/letters/flyers/reports/brochures.

WRITING INSTRUCTOR – Ms. Clark teaches weekly poetry classes, fiction and non-fiction classes and a monthly fiction writing workshop, as well as literature classes for a special program at a two-year college. 

WRITING CONSULTANT – Ms. Clark consults with writers on any type of writing or pre-writing they might need assistance with, including preparation of manuscripts for publication and advice on seeking publishers. 

LITERARY AGENT – Ms. Clark has been at the helm of the SJ Clark Literary Agency for 36 years.  She is not currently accepting new clients as this time, but as a literary agent, she will advise and consult with writers (see Writing Consultant).

INSTRUCTOR - Ms. Clark is currently teaching a course on Memoir Writing in addition to her fiction, non-fiction and poetry classes.

HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT – Because of her background in hotels, restaurants, travel and real estate, Ms. Clark teaches eight-week management courses for hotels, motels, apartments, mobile home parks and self-storage facilities. 

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS – Ms. Clark particularly enjoys speaking to groups about writing, although she has been asked to discuss such things as the resident ghost who lived in her California Gold Country hotel, her experiences with UFO’s, how to organize a poetry Open Mic program, how a ghostwriter writes a book, and book readings and signings, to name a few.    

If you are interested in learning more about Sue J. Clark, experienced ghostwriter and critic of fiction and non-fiction manuscripts, please contact her.

Please visit http://is-anybody-listening.com.