Vacation Fun Florida is brought to you by the travel writing team of Adele Woodyard and Stephen Morrill

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Adele Woodyard:
Adele Woodyard's bio

Adele Woodyard has been an award-winning writer/photographer since she began freelancing as a generalist in 1988. A member of ASJA, her several hundred articles have appeared in over 75 magazines, newspapers, inflights, and online, to date. They include such national publications as Delta SKY, Backpacker, Truck Trend, Sailing, WildBird, and Civil War Times Illustrated, among others.

She wrote a column on Florida travel that ran from Jan. 1992—May, 1995 in a senior magazine. Her feature articles are published in several RV magazines and such newspapers as St.Petersburg Times, the Miami Herald, Providence Sunday Journal, and Chicago Sun-Times, to name a few. Adele wrote the manual and held classes for adults on travel writing for several years. Subjects for her articles include gardens, education, volunteers and wildlife, as well as Tampa Bay small businesses and law enforcement, for national and local consumer and trade publications. Creating advertising and sales copy, and writing instruction manuals in layman's language for a manufacturing company, are part of her journalistic background.

Stephen Morrill
Stephen Morrill's bio

Stephen Morrill is a generalist writer who has been freelancing full-time since 1984. During that time he has written more than 1000 articles for national and local magazines and for newspapers. Nationally, his work has appeared in such magazines as Horizon, World Wide Shipper, The Robb Report, Vista, The New York Times Magazine, and Business Age. In Florida his work has appeared in Changing Homes, Florida Business, Southern Homes, and in a variety of city magazines and local newspapers.

For ten years he wrote a biweekly column about maritime trade for Florida Shipper magazine and he has written about maritime shipping for other trade publications. As a Reuters News Agency correspondent for the west coast of Florida, his writing has been used by newspapers, radio and television around the world.

In addition to general-interest articles, Steve has written extensively about wine, humor, international shipping and trade, business and finance, architecture and the outdoors, and military affairs. He was the founding editor of Know Tampa Bay, a 25,000-circulation quarterly relocation guide to the Tampa Bay area. Steve has been honored by the Florida Magazine Association for his short humor and by the Florida Association of the American Institute of Architects for his writing about architecture. Steve is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA).

Steve is webmaster to a variety of sites, most that he designed himself, and is adept at web site design and content.

In addition to his ongoing magazine assignments and the occasional brochure or other non-magazine work, Steve wrote St. Petersburg: City in the Sun, a history of St. Petersburg, Florida and a ghost written history of Pan American-Grace Airways, Flying the Andes. He's working on two more books: a mystery (almost finished) and a handbook of businesslike freelance writing practices. He most recently updated & revised Fun With the Family FLORIDA, 6th ed. with fellow BAPWG member Adele Woodyard.