However, in addition to ten years of actual freelance celebrity journalism experience, I was a regular non-union background actor with paparazzi roles for "Nashville" (ABC/CMT). I also played a soldier-of-war background actor in an independent William Shatner film and a Southern field hand in 'All Saints.'I have worked as a ghostwriter since 2006, collaborating on Jenny Eliscu's "Rolling Stone: Schools that Rock College Guide" and former Mayor Karl Dean's "Nashville: The South's New Metropolis." As a freelance journalist, my bylines have appeared in Rolling Stone Online, NPR.org, American Songwriter, The Advocate, the Nashville Scene and Y'all Magazine. Past jobs include a fact-checker for Us Weekly magazine, a copywriter for a Real Housewife of New York City, editor-in-chief of the New York Fringe Festival publication and grant writer for the Art Trope Artist Management company.