Cricket divides her time between the August Agency's corprate offices in Florida and creative offices on the West Coast.
A fan of the intricate story operating on multiple levels, Cricket enjoys untangling literary Gordian knots, whether historical crime thrillers, narrative memoirs, contemporary creative nonfiction, or anything in between.
After years as a business owner engaged in sales and marketing, Cricket redirected her creativity toward the writing business, freelancing for magazines (more adventure than money) and business clients (more money than adventure). For too long a time she slaved as the editor-in-chief of a national, full-color, glossy trade magazine, overseeing design, ad sales, editorial, and staff - and still writing 1100 damn fine words a day, day after day. As a result, she tends to measure her writing credits by the pound.
Along the way Cricket intertwined her art education, business experience, and writing skills to establish Possibilities Press to support small book publishers with writing, editing, design, and production services. Ever the entrepreneur, a decade later she shifted her focus exclusively to literary representation and founded The Christina Pechstein Agency. In 2004 she saw another fine opportunity to expand her business and her horizons and joined forces with Jeffery McGraw to launch The August Agency LLC.
Cricket is a popular speaker and instructor at writers conferences because of her straightforward style. Writers appreciate that she's been closely involved in every phase of a book's life in the past three decades: from its conception as a tug in the back of a writer's brain; through the explosive creative writing of it; to the painful editing, exacting design, and printing; then down to the distribution and marketing. With more than twenty years as a writing instructor, she makes sure everyone enjoys a unique learning experience and leaves with their questions answered.
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Visit Cricket at www.CricketFreeman.com.
Read some of her work on Salon.com.
Read "Top 10 Ways Not to Blow a Sale," an interview with Cricket which appeared in the Victoria Times Colonist, British Columbia.
Cricket is available to speak at writers conferences, writers groups, libraries, book clubs, and literary societies. Visit www.CricketFreeman.com for a complete list of dozens of available talks and to invite Cricket to speak to your group.
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