MY FOCUS

Communication with humanity.
Profiles, Features, Essays

Carnival workers marrying on a ferris wheel. A neuroscientist’s breakthrough on memory. Watching a father’s drifting canoe. Read about lives. From the inside.

Web, Interactive, Social

Landing pages that drive traffic. Engaging podcasts. Videos and slideshows that tell a story. Innovative blogs.

Marketing Content

Lively brochures and booklets. Audience-engaging eblasts. Award-winning college and school viewbooks.

About Selby

My writing evokes the soul of complex issues, be they social, environmental, technological or creative. I seek, always, to answer the fundamental question: Why should we care? We care because we can recognize parts of ourselves even in the unfamiliar. And because we seek to bridge the distances between things we don’t understand. It is in the telling of stories – familiar or newly unfolded – that our humanity expands.

I've been writing for many years in a variety of settings— nonprofits, newspapers, magazines, colleges, advertising agencies, trade associations. I've been a staff writer for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Bowdoin College, Hanley-Wood, Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram, and Kennebec Journal and have been a regular contributor to Country Home magazine and Maine Public Radio.

  • Higher Education
  • Nonprofits and Associations
  • Science and Environmental
  • The Arts
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Portfolio

Stories by Subject
Stories by Subject
It starts with a fascinating conversation.
Print Collateral
Print Collateral
Brochures, view books, member kits, print ads.
Booklets and E-zines
Booklets and E-zines
Platinum MarCom Award Winners
Websites
Websites
From homepage to landing page, profile to blog.
eMarketing
eMarketing
E-blasts, newsletters, B2B, banner and print ads.
Photography
Photography
Portraits and landscapes to accompany stories.
Proposals and Reports
Proposals and Reports
There’s no reason to be dry.
Multimedia
Multimedia
Podcasts, radio spots, video embeds, slideshows.

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