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Marlene Y. Satter
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With over 30 years of experience in writing, editing, and proofreading, Marlene Y. Satter offers professional quality work to meet the most exacting standards. A writer of RFPs, technical manuals, newsletters, and technical articles for financial professionals, Satter offers her talents on a consulting basis.

As Lee Barwood, she is an award-winning published author of fantasy, horror, and mystery fiction and poetry; as Marlene Y. Satter, she's former senior editor of Investment Advisor Magazine, with numerous articles in print and Web publications. She can help you polish your manuscript so that it's ready for publication, either through POD services or conventional channels.

She is available for magazine articles, book copy, promotional materials, marketing text, brochures, ghostwriting, or polishing a fiction or nonfiction manuscript. She can help you produce the results you want.

Editorial and writing services are available for technical, financial, and trade writing -- fiction and nonfiction. With extensive experience in these areas, Marlene Satter can offer professional quality and service.

Financial Nonfiction
As a journalist, many of Marlene Satter's stories cover financial issues. Here are links to some of them. For links to other nonfiction articles, scroll down.

Reality Check
You’ve just discovered that a client is being abused. How much can you do? How much should you do?

Women’s Work
Editor’s note: This is the final part of a series on women’s unique planning needs. The first article focused on spouse abuse; the second on meeting the planning needs of widows.

Money 101
If your young female clients are in need of an education when it comes to the world of finance, you can send them to the stacks for these books

How Can We Treat People This Way?
People need long-term care insurance because Americans have stopped taking care of their elderly and infirm. Here's what has to change

Doing It Right
Fostering clients’ charitable impulses is good. Directing those impulses to the right places at the right time is even better

Separation Anxiety
More than ever, planners need to be an advocate for their clients when a marriage founders

Social Studies
KLD and Nasdaq join forces to produce an SRI index

Don't Wait
There's no time like the present to do estate planning

A Dog's Life
In estate planning, pets can be left with the short end of the leash

I'm From the Government
The Feds launch a long-term care insurance program

Reading Up on Downsizing

Trading Down
When a client is downsizing his life, here's how you can help

Earthly Rewards
Book reviews about bringing your principles to work

A new 529 college funding plan offers flexibility and a choice of private schools

Starting Over -- Part One of a series on financial planning for elderly clients

Retirement, old age, and the investing environment have changed. Your plans should reflect those changes

Raising the Bar: Part Two in a series on financial planning for elderly clients

Selected Works

Horror

Some Cost a Passing Bell
Love can survive death -- but so can hate. The two collide in this haunted Ozarks tale of betrayal and heroism -- on both sides of the grave.

Folklore/Juvenile

Klassic Koalas: A Coloring Book of more than 80 Koalas and Uniquely Australian Creatures
Australian wildlife images to stimulate creativity in children and adults alike

Klassic Koalas: A Summer Party in Koalaland
Vintage wildlife photos illustrate a children's story about koalas

Klassic Koalas: Ancient Aboriginal Tales in New Retellings
Retellings of eight Australian Aboriginal tales, mostly focusing on the koala -- a powerful figure in Aboriginal lore

Fantasy

A Dream of Drowned Hollow
Gryphon Award-winning ecological fantasy novel, now available from Double Dragon Publishing (February 2006)

The Siege for Westmarch
Volume I of The Ribbons of Power, this was Honor Book Award winner in Andre Norton's Gryphon Award competition

The Rise of Champions
Volume II of The Ribbons of Power

Mystery

By the Book
A professor is murdered. Can the plot be unraveled?