Writer/Marketing Strategist
Jeremy is a writer. Having spent years studying writing theory (from syntax to genre) and having practiced that theory, he’s able to make words work in any context and for any purpose. On top of that, he spent years in seminary, where he sorta’ learned Greek and Hebrew while focusing on cultural apologetics. So what does all this mean for MarketPlace?
It means that Jeremy has an acute ability to measure a client’s interest and motivations; to listen well and translate what he hears into words; to say what a company or business wants to say but hadn’t known how; to make a company’s products, services, and identity sing to the marketplace.
Jeremy spent years writing literary nonfiction (personal, lyric, and meditative essays) and teaching writing before deciding to apply his talents as a freelance copywriter. After only a few months in the business, firms began recognizing his talent with words and entrusted him with projects for major brands, including AT&T, Merck, and the University of Oregon. In his first year of copywriting, he conceived and executed, for many clients, a versatile range of projects: website copy, billboards, print ads, commercial scripts for television and radio, viral video scripts for the web, brochures, press releases, business naming, branding and re-branding, and, for some reason, a lot of chef bios.
- Jeremy holds a Master of Fine Arts in Literary Nonfiction (Eastern Washington University) and a Master of Divinity (Covenant Theological Seminary). He has mastered neither, especially divinity.
- Author of over 50 published essays and articles on subjects including food, popular music, film, Pentecostal Holiness preachers, and middle school gym class.
- Jeremy taught composition/rhetoric and creative writing courses for over 10 years and at various universities before turning his attention to copywriting proper.
- He grew up in the South, but he has no twang. Rather, he has the psychological scars of having managed a fireworks tent and driven an ice cream truck in Memphis.
Do not try to convince Jeremy that he can find BBQ he loves anywhere outside of Memphis. Do not throw away furniture that you don’t want him making off with in the middle of the night and storing in his wood shop for future reclamation.
Do not attempt to convince him that commas, especially the serial ones, don’t matter. Do not ask him to discuss or explain or defend literary nonfiction unless you’re prepared for a lecture on some of his favorite writers: John McPhee, Thomas Lynch, Alain de Botton, Aaron Belz.
Do not, at any point during the work day, place in front of him any of the following: Scrabble set, New York Times crossword, frisbee, matinee movie tickets.
