JoAnne Alter

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Publishing Has Been Wonderful, So Far......
A Brief Biography

JoAnne Alter has enjoyed an extensive and successful career in publishing. Currently, she is Publisher and Editorial Director of Celebrate with Style, a Web site and soon-to-be print magazine for consumers that is subtitled "Create wonderful celebrations for family and friends."

Another business extension for Celebrate with Style is custom publishing/integrated marketing, which is currently in development.

Alter is also Publisher and Editorial Director of JBA Media Group, a custom publishing company. Prior to starting JBA Media Group, she was one of two principals of Vericom Custom Publishing, Inc.

Altogether, Alter has created and produced more than 70 single-sponsored magazines and newsletters, as well as Web and electronic programs. They have been designed for consumers and employers, as well as for physicians and a wide variety of other health care professionals and executives. Her companies' clients have included many of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

Alter also has developed the overall editorial concepts and all article ideas for several consumer magazines on behalf of one of the nation’s largest and most prominent integrated marketing and custom publishing companies.

Alter’s consumer publishing experience is equally extensive. For 13 years, Alter served as a contributing editor of Family Circle magazine. She created and edited single-subject magazines, special sections, and features on a wide range of subjects. Dozens of her articles have been published in diverse consumer and trade magazines, newspapers, and Sunday supplements. Among them: Better Homes & Gardens, Self, the Journal of Accountancy, and the New York Daily News Sunday Magazine.

In addition, Alter was the author of the first comprehensive guide to alternative work arrangements that was ever published in the United States.
A Part-time Career for a Full-time You, published by Houghton-Mifflin, was distributed in both hard cover and trade paperback editions. The book was critically acclaimed and prompted a book promotion tour that included appearances on a number of TV shows and more than 100 radio programs.

Alter, who graduated with honors from New York University, has taught magazine feature writing in the continuing education program of C.W. Post College of Long Island University. She previously served as Communications Chair of the Long Island chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). She lives on Long Island with her husband, Francis; they have one grown son, Jeffrey.