Hi, I’m Steve Holt … the Boston Writer.
With the media world changing so quickly, the industry’s best prophets can’t even say what the future holds. With newspapers closing their doors, content moving to Web 2.0 formats, and an ever-increasing litany of confusing and complex job titles, flexible and multi-tooled wordsmiths have never been more important. Having written everything from award-winning feature stories to travel marketing copy, I am meeting the changes of the 21st century head-on. Whether it’s putting the perfect words to your brand or campaign, composing a press release for your event, or producing engaging copy for a company blog, I am ready to work hard and creatively for you.
A writer from early on
I like to say my writing career began against my will. Though I was generally a compliant child, when I did stray from the straight and narrow my parents’ preferred punishment was — drum-roll, please — the essay. (They should have known that to a born writer, I was getting off easy) I wrote essays on everything from the morality of truth-telling to the importance of saving my money to a brief treatise on being nice to my little brother. These weren’t terribly long essays, but in order for my dad to sign off on them, they needed to:
- be grammatically clean and
- have a clear and compelling point.
I’ve carried those standards into my writing today.
The difference now is that I don’t have to be bad to get practice.
Following my dream
My writing tool bag is full of nuggets of wisdom and experience from my time in the journalism department at Abilene Christian University. Truly one of the best small-school journalism programs in the country, ACU was and is thinking seriously about the implications of a post-print mass communication world. (for instance, they were the first school to redesign the student newspaper formatted for the Apple iPad) I worked on the student newspaper and yearbook in almost every capacity possible for my six years on campus. (I completed a master’s in theology after earning my B.S.) My work as a reporter, feature writer, editor, and columnist earned numerous state and national awards.
After moving to Boston in 2006, I cut my teeth for a year as a copywriter for a multi-million dollar travel company. But my itch to get out of the office, write more long-form pieces and diversify my repertoire of projects got the best of me. So in the fall of 2007, I jumped ship and started freelancing full-time. My writing has appeared in The Boston Globe Magazine, Edible Boston and Drum! Magazine. I have reported on news and contemporary issues for The Boston Globe, CreditCards.com, and Christianity Today. I edited marketing content for PUMA and wrote audio tour scripts for Audissey Media. (click here to view my portfolio) Finding somewhat of a niche in food writing came as a surprise even to me; I am a regular contributor to Edible Boston and Culinate.com, and a piece of mine was even selected for Best Food Writing 2011. Even amid the toughest economic climate most of us have ever seen, I can truly say I’m living the dream — meeting fascinating people, developing as an individual and as a writer, and experiencing the thrill of seeing my name in print.
Enough about me. What about you?
How can I meet your writing and editing needs?
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