Personal
Name:
Jack Ewing
Born:
Chicago, Illinois
Grew up in:
Walnut Creek, California, and Tallahassee, Florida
Also lived
in:
Ohio, Iowa, New York, Montana, Oregon
Current
residence:
Boise, Idaho
Work experience
1982-present
Freelance advertising consultant/copywriter,
Boise, ID
[D/b/a “The Wizard of Words,” 1982-1992, and
as “Jack Ewing Advertising Concepts & Copy,” since 1992]
1992-1995
Creative Director/copywriter, WRC Advertising,
Boise, ID & Spokane, WA
1986
Creative consultant/copywriter, WRC
Advertising,
Boise, ID
1980-1982
Creative Director/copywriter, BB&W
Advertising,
Boise, ID
1977-1980
Copy chief/copywriter, PJ&L Advertising,
Syracuse, NY
1974-1977
Freelance advertising consultant/copywriter,
Syracuse, NY
[D/b/a “Mr. E Enterprises.”]
1973-1974
Copywriter, Silverman & Mower Advertising,
Syracuse, NY
1970-1973
Copywriter, Public Service Director, on-air host, commercial producer,
WOLF-AM
Radio, Syracuse, NY
1967-1968
Teacher of English and remedial math, leader of
band and girls’ chorus, sponsor of school newspaper, Browning High School,
Browning, MT
1967
Teacher of English,
Sherburne High School, Sherburne, NY
1963-1966
Freelance
term paper writing service, many subjects, Parsons College, Fairfield, IA
1958-1970
Miscellaneous short-term, part-time or seasonal work, including:
*
Counselor/houseparent for emotionally disturbed children (NY & CA)
* Lift
operator, front desk clerk, reservations clerk, PBX operator and night
auditor at ski resort (OR)
* Head of
transcript department at university registrar’s office (FL)
* Art and
photography class figure model (FL, NY, CA)
* Book, record and real estate salesman (NY)
* Process server (NY)
* Folk singer (CA)
* Extensive hitchhiking experience across entire
North American continent.
Education
1968-1970
State
University of New York, Oswego, NY
M.A. program, English/creative writing
Dormitory resident assistant, literary journal,
college newspaper, activist
1963-1966
Parsons
College, Fairfield, IA
B.A., English/creative writing
Deans’
List, Music and academic scholarships, student senator, marching band,
orchestra, various dance bands, literary journal, college newspaper
1962-1963
College
of Wooster, Wooster, OH
Classical and modern languages, English and music
studies
Music and academic scholarships, marching band,
college choir
1960-1962
Florida
State University, Tallahassee, FL
Earned
college credits in Russian language and English while in accelerated high
school program
High
school marching band, orchestra, dance bands, solo and ensemble medal-winner
at state contests, school newspaper, language lab instructor, National
Forensic Society, Latin League, sixth-highest score in state on national
geometry exam; was slated to be an exchange student in Russia before the
Gary Powers U2 incident
Achievements/Awards/Career Highlights
2005-2006
Contributed more than 300 20th-Century author bios to new
Literary Reference Center, forthcoming from Salem Press.
2004-2005
Wrote
Spacey’s Brother: Split By Secrets, a 90,000-word, profusely
illustrated biography commissioned by the older brother of the Academy
Award-winning movie star, produced in print and CD versions.
2002
Short
story, “A Wet One,” published in British anthology, The Mammoth Book of
On the Road, edited by Maxim Jakubowski & M. Christian.
2000
Published
Kissing Asphalt, a mystery-adventure.
1999
Taught adult course in copy writing at Log Cabin
Literary Center, Boise, ID
1998
Published
Freak-Out, a private eye mystery.
1995
Edited
Wisconsin nutritionist Tom Iselin’s Lite’n Up! diet book series
1992
Second place, national caption-writing contest
1989
Selected
to write hardbound publication in celebration of the 50th Anniversary
of national chain, Albertson’s Supermarkets
1985
First
place, short story contest, Writer’s Chapbook
1984-1987
Director,
“Between the Lines” writing group, editor Thunder Egg Review
1983
Nominee,
Idaho State Writer-in-Residence
1972
First
place, essay contest sponsored by Syracuse, NY, newspapers, for
“Anti-thoughts on the Anti-Christ”
1970-present
Have won
more than 215 local, regional and national industry awards for copywriting
1970-present
Have
conceived and written thousands of ads, commercials, and marketing
communications materials for hundreds of products and services, for every
medium
1962—1963
Wrote
three pseudonymous porn novels for Nightstand Publishers, Cleveland, Ohio:
College Stud (as by Dirk Steele), A Freshman’s Confessions and
Soft, More (as by Penny A. Worder)
1960-present
• Some 200 poems and 550 short stories published in literary and mainstream publications and electronic magazines, including cold drill, Raconteur, Image, Writer’s Chapbook, Plots with Guns, Judas, The Alternative Freelancer, Orchard Press Mysteries, Bullet Magazine, et al.
• 400+ bylined articles in mainstream, regional, and trade magazines and online web sites, including Today’s Physician, Idaho CEO, Boise Magazine, M.D. News, Builder/Architect, TV Technology, Satellite ORBIT, Western New York, Syracuse New Times, Financial Times, et al.