Work It, Girl!
The Black Woman's Guide to Professional Success
About the Authors
Lorraine Morris Cole
Lorraine is a seasoned writer and communications professional. Her work has appeared in Upscale and Military Spouse magazines. Her voice has been heard as a correspondent on National Public Radio (NPR). She writes promotional video scripts and has had poetry published by a national greeting card company. With over 100 articles published she continues to freelance for various publications. She also presents workshops and seminars around the country, including the popular “Effective Communication Skills in the Workplace.” Most recently she added columnist to her list of credentials. Her favorite professional pursuit is any project that empowers women.
Pamela M. McBride
Pamela has provided extensive individual career counseling and career management workshops for 14 years. She parlayed that experience into freelance writing and quickly racked up more than 100 nationally published articles. She has been a frequent contributor to Essence, Black Collegian, Upscale, and Army Times. Her work has appeared in Black Enterprise, Military Spouse magazine, and various online publications. She was also a columnist for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Pamela now manages multi-million dollar programs and contracts with a leading professional services firm. She has a B.A. in Business Management and Spanish, a Master’s Degree in Community Counseling, and is a member of both the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE) and the American Management Association.
The Partners
Lorraine and Pamela met in 2002 through a mutual friend who introduced them to each other because they had something in common: they were both freelance writers and military spouses. They hit it off immediately although Pamela was living in Hawaii and and Lorraine was living in Georgia. During their telephone conversations they began throwing around the idea of writing a book together. Before they knew it, they had developed the idea, divided the roles, and written a book proposal via e-mail and telephone. After initial efforts to "shop it around" both military spouses took a publishing break to relocate their families to new cities. The first time the ladies met in person was in 2003 when Lorraine coordinated a ladies spa day in Georgia, where Pamela lived. It was soon thereafter that they picked up where they left off and eventually landed a contract with Parker Publishing LLC. The second time the ladies met in person was in 2006 while Pamela was on a business trip to the DC area where Lorraine lived. The perfect combination of Pamela's career management experience, Lorraine's public relations experience and their shared writing and presenting skills makes them a superb partnership for empowering other women who want to work it. The rest, they say, is history.
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