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Writing for executives
- Speeches
- Op-eds
- Blog posts
- Correspondence
- And more
$125 per hour
Other writing
- Funding proposals
- Feature stories
- Reports
- Manuals
- Web content
- And more
$90 per hour
Rewriting/editing
- Personal statements
- Award nominations
- Proposal narratives
- Job applications
- Book manuscripts
- And more
$60 per hour
Brainstorming
Stuck? Let's talk about it!
$60 per hour with a $60 minimum
I help you get your message across.
The goal? To answer two questions on the part of your readers or listeners:
Why should I care? What's in it for me?
That is what I did for 38 years in various strategic communications positions at one of the nation's largest university systems and its flagship campus, and in my own business.
This includes writing full-time for three system chancellors and three university presidents.Today, I write for executives and others across the United States and around the world. It's as thrilling to me now as it was back when I started.
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Ann Kellett, Ph.D.
About Ann
- I earned a B.A. in English from Hendrix College (Conway, Arkansas), named the nation's top up-and-coming liberal arts college by U.S. News & World Report in recent years.
- I earned an M.Ed. and Ph.D. in higher education administration (both with a public relations focus) from Texas A&M.
- I was only the second person to receive both the Dissertation of the Year Award and T.M. Stinnett Award for Research Excellence.
- I was in Leadership Texas (now Leadership Women), a year-long program for 100 women leaders.
- I was awarded an Administrative Fulbright Grant to Japan.
- My work has received awards from IABC, CASE, and other organizations.
- My mystery/suspense fiction also has received several awards, including this and this.
Feature writing
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Three articles in the 2019 issue of Benefactor, the magazine for donors to Mays Business School.
Eight articles in the Fall 2019 issue of CVM Today, from Texas A&M's College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences.
Books
A Legacy of Service: The Texas Fire School, 1930-2000
A Legacy of Service is an award-winning coffee table book for donors and clients that chronicles the first 70 years of the world-renowned Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service firefighter training program.
I did all the archival research, interviews, writing, and copy editing.
Street Culture in Chengdu: Public Space, Urban Commoners, and Local Politics, 1870-1930
I provided heavy-duty developmental editing/rewriting for Di Wang's Street Culture in Chengdu, published by Stanford University Press in 2005.
The Urban History Association gave it the Best Book in Non-North American History Award in 2005, and Chinese Readers' Weekly ranked it as one of the 10 best books published in China in 2006.
Over There in the Air: The Fightin' Texas Aggies in World War I, 1917-1918
I provided initial developmental editing and copy editing for Over There in the Air (Texas A&M University Press, 2019), by John A. Adams, Jr., which chronicles the emergence of aerial warfare during World War I and the contributions of Texas A&M aviators.
News writing
Reworking technical information for a general audience
I have extensive experience in reframing technical information for diverse audiences, including helping university faculty pitch story ideas and stories to The Conversation, an international platform that promotes academic research findings.
For example, Marco Palma published "Self Control: Knowledge or Perishable Resource?" in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
We reworked it for The Conversation as "Research on How Self-Control Works Could Help You Stick With New Year's Resolutions." To date, more than 83,000 people have read it in news outlets worldwide.