About Me

My name is Angela Atkinson, and I’m a writer and editor. I love my work, and I feel very fortunate to be able to do what I love for a living.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer. From the moment I began to scribble in my first diary at the age of 6, I was hooked. The nineties found me writing for my high school and college newspapers and yearbooks, and later a small regional magazine.

These days, I’m the managing editor for a healthcare news website called Scrubs & Suits. I am also a reporter and social media miner for 12 St. Louis area editions of Patch.com.

I occasionally take on short-term projects, such as copywriting, web writing and social media marketing projects.

My first non-fiction book, The Practical Freelance Writer’s Guide to Author Websites, was released in September 2010.

I spent several years working in the corporate world before becoming a full-time writer. During that time, I wrote and edited corporate publications, forms, brochures and articles. I also developed and implemented training programs.

I’m the creator and author of an award-winning personal development blog called In Pursuit of Fulfillment, which focuses on living well and personal development. I released a free companion ebook in 2011 called On Creating Personal Change.

Along with fellow freelance writer Alyssa Ast, I founded The WM Network. The WM Network currently includes The WM Freelance Connection, The WM Parenting Connection, The WM Pet Connection and The WM Review Connection.

I’m a little bit of a cheapskate, so I learned to build my own websites. I’ve built all of the WM Network sites and the In Pursuit of Fulfillment site, as well as this one and several others. Some of them are listed here.

I studied journalism at Eastern Illinois University and have been a full-time freelance writer and editor since 2005.  I live in St. Louis, Missouri with my husband and three children.

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