I try to leave out the parts that people skip. - Elmore Leonard

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Need to get your company's messages across in vibrant prose? Want your CEO or senior leader to sparkle at the podium? Partner with Greenbriar Services; let an award-winning speechwriter / ghostwriter write your next book or speech.

Greenbriar Services is a boutique editorial services company that provides outstanding publication-quality speeches and manuscripts to corporate clients. Jessica Hatchigan is the principal writer for Greenbriar Services. Jessica is the author of a business book published by McGrawHill, and a contributor to Contemporary Literary Criticism and to The Writer's Handbook. Her business book was named one of the "Top Ten Books for Entrepreneurs" by Business Week Online. Jessica has written speeches for some of the world's top CEOs and senior leaders; her speeches have regularly appeared in Vital Speeches of the Day.

Jessica's work has won numerous awards including the Magnum Opus Gold Award juried by the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She recently oversaw the writing, production and publication of a centennial history book for a Fortune 100 company that went on to win five awards. Jessica also has spoken and presented writing workshops across the U.S. at venues including the American Society of Journalists and Authors Annual Writers Conference in New York, the National Speechwriters Conference in Washington, DC, and the Indiana University School of Journalism.

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JOURNALISM

• American Journalism Review
• Columbia Journalism Review
• Committee of Concerned Journalists
• Cyberjournalist.net
• Meet the Press - Transcripts
• Online Journalism Review
• Poynter Online
• PressThink
• Readership Institute
• State of the News Media
• Tyndall Report
• Wall Street Journal
• The Week Daily

SCREENWRITING

• Austin Film Festival
• Box Office Mojo
• Done Deal
• Drew's Script-o-rama
• Hollywood Reporter
• IMDB (Internet Movie Database)
• Screenplay Readers (coverage)
• Script Magazine
• Script-Fix (coverage)
• ScriptforSale.com
• Terry Rossio's Wordplay
• Without a Box
• Writer's Guild of America, West

SPEECHWRITING

• American Rhetoric - online collection of outstanding English-language speeches
• Quintilian’s Institutes of Oratory
• Silva Rhetorica
• Six Minutes Public Speaking
• Speechwriter’s Newsletter
• Vital Speeches of the Day
• Washington Speechwriter’s Roundtable

'STARBUCKS' SITES FOR WRITERS

• The Colbert Report
• The Daily Show - Jon Stewart
• The Magpie Files
• (London) Times Archive
• The Urban Muse
• Vicky Bott Photos
• Writing Quote of the Day

ADDITIONAL WRITING RESOURCES / OTHER

• Alltop
• Book TV
• Boucheron
• California Authors
• Contentious
• Contrarian Consulting
• CNN Political Tracker
• Divided We Fail
• LA Observed
• Law & More
• Leadership!
• Malice Domestic
• Mystery Writers of America
• National Priorities
• Reddit
• Sisters in Crime
• Survey Monkey
• John Vautier, Executive Speech Coach
• Wikimedia Commons
• Write4Kids.com/CBI Clubhouse
• Write a Novel Fast

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