Martha H. Fitzgerald offers the benefit of her 27 years as a journalist. She is an award-winning editor, columnist and editorial writer with 20 years in management coaxing the best from dozens of writers. Her first edited manuscript has won two international awards.


Manager and co-owner of Little Dove Press LLC, founded in 2004. www.littledovepress.com

Editor and publisher of  “Letters to Luke” by first-time novelist
Joe E. Holoubek M.D. www.letterstoluke.com  
            Winner: Independent Publishers Award for religious fiction
            Winner: Writers Digest Award for inspirational literature


Author of Hurricane Chronicles 2005, a 50-page company history for Morris & Dickson Co., Shreveport. 

Excerpt: 4 Weeks, 2 Hurricanes Nov. 23, 2005

Former Associate Editorial Page Editor at The Times, Shreveport. www.shreveporttimes.com
Other positions: Assistant Managing Editor, Business Editor, Features Editor, Sunday Magazine Editor and Writer, Social Issues Reporter.

Columns
Book talk healthy for Shreveport, entire nation July 2005
We have the will, the wits, the people to be world class April 2003
And so we bid a cheerful goodbye to Summer 2000 September 2000

Special assignments for The Times/Gannett Co.
. On loan to USA TODAY
. Post-hurricane relief work in U.S. Virgin Islands
  The human spirit is alive and very well in St. Thomas September 1995
. News 2000 Project Manager
. Assistant Managing Editor for Community Projects

Professional Honors
•  Winner of state and national awards for editorial writing, column writing,
    feature writing, page design, editing, special sections and photography.
•  Past president and Communicator of Achievement, Louisiana Press Women.