About Me
My stand on marginalized groups: I offer writing, book coaching, and editing services to a variety of business professionals and small business owners.
People of color, as well as people of all racial groups, gender preferences, sexual orientations and degrees of physical, mental, and emotional capacity are welcome and encouraged to inquire about my services. Whoever you are, I would love to work with you.
I am proud to offer my skills and expertise because your stories, your writing, and your books are important. I value the relationships I form with my clients and don’t want you to be in any way diminished because of who you are, but instead treated with the respect you deserve.
Hi, I’m Paula Diaco. My writing career started in a microbiology lab.
It was an experiment of sorts: Me in a lab coat–a Bunsen burner on the bench top–thinking about adding professional writing to my budding career as a scientist.
Why not? Many scientists were published authors . . . Could I be one, too?
I had to try because I was feeling a familiar tapping on my shoulder. It was my inner creativity calling me to engage with the written word, again.
This was not its first invitation. When I spend too much time away from writing, reading, and talking about language, I become restless, long for creative time to write, and turn my life upside down so I can.
I began my career writing magazine articles–lots of them for periodicals that scientists read and a variety of other people, too–quilters, equestrians, and craftspeople of all sorts.
Collecting bylines was fun. I learned how to determine if a topic was right for the magazine, how to interview subject-matter experts (the people in my article!), and write to an audience who would read it.
Science yielded to the humanities– and I moved out of the lab and into corporate communications where I was charged with publishing a variety of technical and business documents that supported the company’s chemists.
I was paid to work there, of course, but the job acted as an internship into the workings of editing, proofreading, and project management of long and short reports, user manuals, and support material.
I learned how graphic artists work in conjunction with writers and how to spec. documents for offset printing.
Eventually, I moved on to full-time freelance writing–more magazine articles published, more corporate writing–and then I spent a few years at an educational publisher (eventually purchased by Pearson Publishing) and honed my editing skills and even pitched them a book for middle-grade students, which they published.
No surprise that I wrote the content for a few science educational aids, too.
My husband and I opened up a brick and mortar business, and I took over the marketing activities, which included blogging and copy writing.
I now have more than 25 years of business experience, and have never seen writing be anything less than important. Think about it–words are all over the internet, on social media, in online publications.
So, I recommend you do this: When words, language, and writing tap you on the shoulder, listen.
Then, look me up. I offer a mashup of business with the creativity of writing, and if ever needed, a dash of science. Throughout my work life, it’s always come down to writing.
You may feel an urgent call to write. A longing you can no longer ignore, but you don’t know where to begin or what to publish.
Let’s figure it out together.