About

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Broadside grows daily, now with 23,461 followers worldwide, an audience I really appreciate — and we have great, civil conversations in the comments!

I’m Caitlin Kelly, a National Magazine Award winner, a writer and speaker whose career includes work as a reporter and feature writer for three major daily newspapers.

I’ve also produced 100+ freelance stories for The New York Times; here’s one of them, third-most-emailed of that day’s paper.

Please follow me on Twitter and Instagram at @CaitlinKellyNYC.

Everything on this site is copyright; links are fine, anything else requires my explicit permission!

I offer 90-minute, one-on-one webinars, (offered in person, here in New York, by phone or Skype), to help fellow writers and bloggers improve their skills; details here.

I also coach individually by phone, email or Skype, with many satisfied clients from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the U.S. and Europe.

Lots of testimonials on my site from happy clients!

Please email me at learntowritebetter@gmail.com; $250/hour with a one-hour minimum, paid in advance.

Six of my posts have been Freshly Pressed; here’s the most recent, about why we need to say thank you.

I’ve published two books of detailed national reporting on complex issues, on American women and gun use, and retail work; for the first, I interviewed 104 men, women and teens from 29 states.

My newest book, a memoir, is about working in an upscale suburban mall for The North Face.  It’s an honest and highly-detailed look into the nation’s third largest industry.

You can read a sample of it here, and buy it here. Of course, it’s also available as an e-book.

It was published in China in July 2013 by these publishers, and was nominated for the 2012 Hillman Prize, given annually to a work of journalism “in the service of the common good.”

The New York Times: “a clear-eyed account”

Entertainment Weekly: “an excellent memoir”

“Kelly’s powerful descriptions of retail…highlight so much of what is wrong with our economy” said David Madland, Director of the American Worker Project at the Center for American Progress.

It’s also been featured in Marie-Claire, USA Today, People, Time.com, Fortune.com and Forbes.com, and many others.