RESUME

 CARSON AISLING BUCKINGHAM
WRITER/EDITOR/PROOFREADER

CBuckinghamAuthor@gmail.com

carsonbuckingham.blogspot.com
You can also reach me on Facebook

EDUCATION

College:  Southern Connecticut State University, Hamden, CT-- Double major/B.S. degree in English and Journalism.  GPA:  4.0

College:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA—MA & Ph.D in Biology---GPA: 4.0

EXPERIENCE

Proofreading

       

Allied Printing Services—Manchester, CT(very large sheet-fed printing house) Proofreader—proofread galleys, blues (van dykes), press sheets and plates.

New England Typesetting Services—Bloomfield, CT (textbook publishers)—proofread blues (van dykes), galleys

(Note:  All of the following writing jobs include editing and proofreading.)

Comedy Writing

I was a stand-up comic for three years in the 80s and wrote all my own material, which helped put me though college.  After I left the stage, I wrote comedy for Rodney Dangerfield, Phyllis Diller, Yakov Smirnoff, and many other comedians, and I have a comedy novel in the works at the moment. 

Journalism

The Hartford Courant—reporter—2 years

Customer Support Management Magazine—began as a proofreader, ended as Assistant Editor—3 years

Shroud Magazine (online pub)—write reviews of horror novels

Blog Writer--my blog is about my writing, but it is also comprised of a humorous column, humorous horoscopes, and a humorous captioned photo of the day. You can look it over at:            carsonbuckingham.blogspot.com.  I designed the blog, too.

Technical writing

Ashton-Tate in West Hartford, CT (personal computer software)

Gloucester Engineering, Gloucester, MA (plastics)

                                               

Advertising Copywriting

Coleco Inc.—West Hartford, CT (toys) I wrote collateral (catalog) copy.

Decker, Geurtin, Cheyne-- (ad agency in Hartford, CT)—copywriter

Cronin & Company-- (ad agency in Glastonbury, CT)--copywriter

MAST Advertising—(ad agency on Madison Avenue in NYC)—copywriter

I owned and operated Words--an agency which offered all types of writing/editing/proofreading services, which I ran successfully for twenty-one years. 

Marketing Communications

KCR Technologies, East Hartford, CT(copiers)—I was the Marketing Communications Manager.  Wrote all advertising, collateral and PR, with some tech writing           

Steinbrecker, Burlington, MA(electronics)—I was the Marketing Communications Director

ThreadSeek, LLC, Norwalk, CT(financial)—I was the Marketing Communications Director

Publishing History

HOME:       A traditionally-published, single author dark fiction novella published by Triskaideka Books

GOTHIC REVIVAL:  A traditionally-published single author paranormal suspense novel published by Sirens Call Publications

"Red Squares, Black Squares":  a dark fiction piece in the Satan’s Toybox: Toy Soldiers anthology published by Angelic Knight Press

"Skin Deep" :  A dark fiction short story appearing in the Damned If You Don’t anthology published by Triskaideka Books

"Lemminaid" :  A dark fiction short story appearing in The Spectrum Collection published by Dark Continents Publishing

"The Quillen Curse" :  A dark fiction short story in the M is for Monster anthology published by John Prescott

"Skin Deep" :  A dark fiction short story reprint appearing in Zippered Flesh 2, a horror anthology published by Smart Rhino Publications

"Glendale After Dark" :  A dark fiction short story appearing in Voices From the Gloom, Vol. 2. a horror anthology published by Sirens Call Publications

"Letter for You" ; A dark fiction short story appearing in Insidious Assassins, a horror anthology published by Smart Rhino Publications

"Smokes" : a dark flash fiction piece appearing in Dark Bits, a horror anthology published by Apokrupha

"The Plotnik Curse" : a blackly humorous short story appearing in Someone Wicked, a horror anthology published by Smart Rhino Publications

"Lemminaid": A dark fiction short story reprint appearing in The Best of the Horror Society 2013, a horror anthology which I also compiled and edited.  Published by The Horror Society Press

"Into the Woods": A dark fiction short story appearing in Luna's Children--Full Moon Mayhem, a horror anthology published by Dark Oak Press

"Oil King" : A dark fiction short story appearing in NAM3LESS Magazine, and published by Cycatrix Press

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References available upon request.