Brad Cook's Personal Web Site

Brad Cook is a freelance writer and editor with a decade of experience crafting marketing and PR materials that help companies increase their sales, as well as composing news stories that inform and entertain. Through his business, Digital Inkwell, Inc., he currently writes for Apple, Inc., GarageGames, and Off the Record Research. In addition, he works for Thomson Financial, for whom he edits briefs that summarize corporate earnings calls, and he recently started his first project with a New York public relations firm, KCSA. Finally, he also writes DVD reviews for Film Threat and has conducted a couple movie-related interviews for that Web site. That last one has helped him increase his DVD collection to well over 200 movies.

If you’d like to hire him for a project, please drop him a line by email or call 530-894-8684.

You can learn more about his extensive work history by reading his online resumé. If you’d like to read some of the articles he’s published lately, and even view big lists of everything he’s ever published, you’ll find plenty of links there.

And if you’re interested in discovering how he wound up where he is today, please read the success story he wrote for Writers Weekly, a very fine free newsletter.

Brad lives in northern California with his wife Katie and his children, Cooper, Carter, and Declan. His daughter Carter was born on June 18, 2002 and Declan arrived on July 2, 2007. Cooper, his stepson, was born in 1992. He’s a graduate of Cherry Hill West High School, in Cherry Hill, NJ, and Rutgers University.

When he’s not busy writing and editing, he enjoys:

spending time with his family
working on a screenplay and a novel (not necessarily in that order; he has no idea when they'll be done)
playing video games (he writes about Mac and iPod games for Apple’s Games site)
reading all kinds of fiction and non-fiction (recent non-fiction: The Making of Star Wars; recent fiction: Terry Pratchett's The Light Fantastic)
watching movies (favorite directors: Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, and the Coen brothers; lately, he's also loving Wes Anderson)

Among the 5,000-plus songs loaded in iTunes and on his iPod are selections from Led Zeppelin, U2, Count Basie, The Replacements, Black Sabbath, The Beatles, Big Star, Camper Van Beethoven, Metallica, The Church, David Bowie, and many other bands from various genres.

Eclectic? Sure. He’d like to think he was eclectic before it was cool.