Robert Lee Brewer's April Platform Challenge for writers is up and running! The first challenge (I knew this was coming) is to define myself.
Name (byline): Elizabeth A. Saunders
Position: Bookseller; freelance writer; Assistant Archivist at Friends Historical Collection; blogger; Board Member for North Carolina Yearly Meeting Publications Board.
Skills: Nit-picky proofreader, editor, writer (historical fiction and journalism), genealogist and historian (Quakers, Ireland and the Carolinas), constant learner (eg. self-taught Spanish and blogging).
Social Media Platforms: Blogger, Twitter, Facebook
URLs: http://elizabethsaunders.blogspot.com/
http://www.biblio.com/bookstore/tannery-books-archdale
https://www.facebook.com/TanneryBooks
Archdale Friends Meeting book (really long link)
https://twitter.com/bibliotraveler
Accomplishments: First place awards in community journalism from North Carolina Press Association; Heritage Award from Archdale-Trinity Chamber of Commerce; wrote a genealogy book on Archdale Friends Meeting; edited Deep River Friends book (revision) and manuscript of Quaker biographies; National Novel Writing Month local volunteer and three-year winner; completed Writer's Digest course in Nonfiction Writing; B.S. and M.S. in aerospace engineering; former private pilot; wrote more than a dozen published technical reports for the Department of Defense.
Interests: Genealogy, extended family, reading, faith, and travel.
Who am I? (one sentence):
Elizabeth A. Saunders is a Quaker historian, genealogist, writer and editor who loves to travel, and who owns a used and antiquarian bookshop in a small town in North Carolina.
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