I recently met a new colleague, Phil Martin, who runs Great Lakes Literary. He's done a good deal of work as an editor both professionally (i.e. - for a company) as a freelance and small business owner. He's a good contact, and he knows what he's doing. He's also joined - or tentatively joined, as he works both here in Milwaukee and in Madison - The Milwaukee Writers Workshop, which is a great addition to our members.

I've also recently begun the job search again (having found a sense of renewed purpose with a proposed idea for a writers workshop/group for high school students interested in continuing on to college for degrees in journalism, english, communications, or other related fields) and hope to find something in the non-profit field that will allow me to shop this idea out to locals schools who might be willing to sponsor or fund the group.

Right now my first candidate for sending out my resume is Our Next Generation Kids, which is a great local mentoring group for kids.

In other news, The JB Dryden Company will be updating its website to incorporate all of its divisions and move over some of the current information to a dedicated site for its editing services and its consulting services. Our hope is to better focus each site to its intended client base. I'm eager to hear everyones' opinions once those sites go live.