Jennifer Marino Walters – Ghostwriter

I am the author of 14 fiction and nonfiction books for children in preschool through grade 2. Topics include seasons, nature, ABCs, and beginner biographies.

I have written hundreds of news and feature articles, blog posts, nonfiction children's books, teacher's guides, newsletters, and video scripts for a wide variety of magazines, websites, educational publishers, universities, and non-profit organizations. Topics include:

• Science and technology
• Health
• Geography
• History
• Pop culture
• Current events

Clients are as follows:

CHILDREN'S BOOK PUBLISHERS: Age of Learning, Red Chair Press

CLASSROOM MAGAZINES:

• Scholastic Choices (grades 7-12)
• Scholastic DynaMath (grades 3-6)
• Scholastic Geography Spin (grades 3-6)
• Scholastic MATH (grades 6-9)
• Scholastic News (grades 3-6)
• Scholastic Science World (grades 7- 8)
• Scholastic Super Science (grades 3-6)
• TIME For Kids (grades 3-6)

• Copy edit and proofread all book manuscripts before they go to print
• Write teacher's guides and discussion guides to supplement books
• Served as lead editor for an upcoming novel from the company's middle-grade imprint, One Elm Books
• Maintain the company's social media presence via daily Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter posts
• Work with review outlets such as Kirkus, Foreword Reviews, and Publishers Weekly to secure book reviews
• Build and maintain relationships with book bloggers and reviewers to facilitate book reviews

• Wrote cover stories for most issues of this magazine targeting 5th- and 6th-graders, including news items and features about science, politics, sports, culture, and more
• Edited news stories and quizzes written by the associate editor and interns
• Edited the magazine’s teacher’s edition and trafficked it to its final version
• Moderated and published blog comments written by readers on
• Wrote reading comprehension tests to help prepare students for standardized tests

• Conceived, researched, reported, and wrote cover stories and secondary news and feature stories for most issues of the magazine
• Researched and wrote graphs and skills pages related to stories
• Wrote a feature on kids and money that was turned into a regular series

• Wrote, reported, researched, and copy fit news and feature stories for this weekly children’s newsmagazine and its Web site
• Managed the Kid Reporter news team: Assigned and edited Kid Reporters’ stories, accompanied them on assignments, and supervised their reporting and writing
• Coordinated the annual TIME For Kids National Student Publishing Awards and Kid Reporter Contest: Organized entries, facilitated the judging process, and obtained and distributed prizes