Writer, Author, Mother, Friend, Nurse, and Other Roles Yet to Be Discovered
MediKate Health Communications
Whidbey Island, WA
Fiction
The story of my novel is a great tale all by itself. Once upon a time, I was approached by an agent to turn a personal blog into a memoir. I called this"My Dirty Little OS Secret" because it happened through my blog on Open Salon.
But the memoir, we discovered, was hard to sell, so my agents suggested I fictionalize it and give it a different spin. When I sat to write the new version, my narrator ran off with the story and typed fast to keep up with her. She took me on a whirlwind trip through love and tragedy, and I think you'll agree she ended up with a regular page-turner. Check it out for yourself at the right.
MediKate Health Communications is my freelance medical writing business. Using my background in nursing and in English education, I have developed a specialty service of bringing health and medical information to readers at all levels of understanding.
Medical writing is a field that can include many types of work and documents. I particularly like to translate medical information into easy-to-understand language that a general audience can relate to. (I know -- I ended that with a preposition. I did that on purpose.)
I also like to write scholarly articles in the nursing or medical field. I enjoy taking your study (or program, or medical innovation) and helping you present it to your colleagues in a journal article. In the interest of full disclosure, I am not a statistician or bench scientist, so the numbers are not the part I can supply.
What I can supply is clear, readable prose to communicate with your audience in a way that won't have them snoozing halfway through. (Everyone with a college degree thinks they can write clear, readable prose, but many of these people are wrong. Pick up any medical journal. I rest my case.) I do not do ghost writing or ghost authoring, but I am happy to collaborate on bringing your work to a specific audience.
I have experience with, and enjoy working on:
My typical fee for freelance medical writing is $90.00/hour. Usually I estimate the project as a total cost, based on this rate.
If you have a project in mind, and you would like to contact me, click HERE.
I am also available for teaching and public speaking. I have done numerous classes and presentations on topics such as:
My newest essays are available on my blog.
The Everything Health Guide to Menopause is a friendly, accessible guide through the mine field of the menopausal years. It is, above all, an invitation to being healthy and emotionally well, even when the hormones wreak havoc.
For a review of this book by the North American Menopause Society, go HERE.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sexual Health and Fitness is a guide for staying sexually healthy, and as fit as you want to be to fully enjoy your sexual side.
It's full of good, sensible advice for making the most of a very good thing! Bottom line: Have fun, be safe.
HERE'S the review from the Fit Bottomed Girls website.
Copyright Kate Bracy. All rights reserved.
MediKate Health Communications
Whidbey Island, WA