Hello Again.
You might already be familiar with my work if you’re from the Hudson Valley. My columns, articles and editing work appeared in the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, NY, for 26 years, until the newspaper and I parted company in 2008.
For those of you unfamiliar with my work, let me fill you in. For most of my years at the Record, I wrote a weekly opinion column and served as the paper’s health editor.
I also created the newspaper’s stylebook and became the paper’s go-to person on matters of grammar and usage. Such things as the correct use of the apostrophe are important to me, but alas … not everyone agrees that punctuation and spelling count. I continue the good fight.
My work at the Record earned 39 state and national writing awards, in categories that include commentary, health reporting, depth reporting, business reporting, editorial writing and features. My work has also appeared in publications ranging from the Chicken Soup for the Soul books and Reader’s Digest to the Sporting News and Dog Fancy.
My columns have been published in two books of collected work – The Best of Beth and Unleashed, the Dog Columns. You can find a sampling of the columns in the Blog section of this website.
I’m also an adjunct associate professor of English at SUNY Orange where I teach a writing course or two each semester. Hence, my obsession with proper English usage.
Mostly, though, helping other writers is what I do now. I created Beth Quinn Writing Services a few years ago and began editing work written by others. We all have a story to tell. Sometimes we just need someone to say, “Let me help.” Helping others write is what I do, whether in a classroom or at my computer.
A lifelong Orange County resident, I live in Goshen with my husband, Bob Quinn, an editor with Straus Newspapers. We have two sons, a dog (of course!) and four grandchildren.
I have been telling their stories and mine most of my life. Now I’d like to help you tell yours.
“Helping other writers is what I do”