I contribute frequently to online publications like Match.com’s Happen magazine, and the SecondAct web magazine, which is an offshoot of Entrepreneur.com. I have also written pieces for HuffingtonPost, VanityFair.com, Women on the Web, Harper’s Bazaar, RollingStone.com, Salon.com, Ladies Home Journal, SF Magazine, 7x7, Harp and more.

Among my recent or favorite pieces:

For Vanity Fair online: a piece from the Sundance Film Festival about the making of the movie “Howl,” with James Franco.

I was honored to be asked by the Bay Citizen to write the appreciation of Warren Hellman following his death. It got more than 3,000 'recommends' and almost 400 tweets.

I have contributed both profiles and first-person essays to SecondAct.com, where I recently became their columnist specializing on issues facing unmarried people. This one got a lot of tweets:

As did this profile about a former lady DJ whose “second act” involved her becoming a green mortician!

From Happen magazine: a reported column on why people marry – pretty fascinating stuff.

Also from Happen: a piece on how hard it is for some powerful single women to find love with the proper suitor.

My archives from HuffingtonPost can be found here. I particularly like the one I wrote in advance of Litquake 2010.

I was lucky enough to write two screenplays, the first in partnership with Ellen Sussman”: “Walking with the Emperor,” a fictionalized take on the merry mayhem wrought by San Francisco’s Gold Rush hero, Emperor Norton; and “The Checklist,” which is a spin on my memoir “Naked on the Page.” Both are, as they say, “making the rounds.”

As is a book proposal I ghostwrote for a client in California with a devastating story to tell and the desire to pen a memoir. This is something I really enjoyed doing and hope to do more of. Here is an endorsement from my client:

"Jane is an excellent ghost writer. I found her easy to work with, capable of integrating my ideas in to the project, and timely with deadlines. I definitely give her 5 stars!" - Angela B.

As a public speaker, I have done speeches and moderated panels at numerous conferences – from SF Writers Conference to the Commonwealth Club to Book Expo America to a J Walter Thompson summit on Baby Boomers – and also have a regular gig doing onstage interviews at the Throckmorton Theater in Mill Valley.

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