 The Author Sightings & Signings ************************ Meet me on the Asbury Park Boardwalk this comming Saturday! 4-6 p.m. in front of the Third Avenue Pavilion. I'll be doing a book signing for the Asbury Galleria. ********************** New England Tour honoring the writings of my late father and the logging history in the Upper Connecticut River Valley. August 15: Gorham (NH) Public Library; sponsored by Wonderland Books and Waterford Historical Society's monthly History Reception; 3 p.m. Sunday, August 17; Davies Memorial Library, Lower Waterford, VT. ************************ Words Collide: Women Capture Vignettes of the Past Author Helen Pike and fellow memorists Ann Sheridan, Carolyn Ford, Evangeline Coppola and Teresa Montenegro take you on a wild ride of self-revelation in Jersey City, Newark, Long Branch, Mantoloking, Santandar, Spain, Paris, France and, of course, Asbury Park. Sunday at 7 p.m. October 5. Part of annual Women's Festival produced by the Black Box of Asbury Park. Stephen Crane House Museum; Fourth Avenue, Asbury Park. $10 donation. ********************* See Helen on YouTube! helencpike ********************* Or, listen: www.myspace.com/ *************************** Need a: writing coach? script doctor? fine eye for line edits? Check out Pike's Professional Services on the Projects page. |
BioIn 1976 Helen Pike followed in her father's footsteps as a writer and photographer, starting with a newspaper job for the Asbury Park (NJ) Press. In the years that followed she received a master's degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, New York; lived among the remaining potato farmers and bay men on Long Island's North Fork, and covered the dazzling highs and lows of the technology industry from Route 128 in Boston. In 1991 she started a freelance career, becoming an international travel writer and photographer, principally for The Boston Herald. Her work has since appeared in a wide variety of publications from the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor and Washington Post to such magazines as Vermont Life, Northern Woodlands and New Jersey Monthly. She is currently writing a monthly column on architecture for The triCity News in Monmouth County, New Jersey. In the mid-1990s Helen's keen interest in history and photography led her to produce four illustrated books about the north shore of her home state of New Jersey. For more about her newest volume, please go to Projects. When the 21st century began, Helen expanded her career by taking 46 travel essays and 400 postcards culled from a now 6,000-plus personal collection to write Greetings From New Jersey, her first book for Rutgers University Press. Published in the fall of 2001, a second printing took place in the spring of 2005. In 2006 she produced a companion volume for children growing up in the Garden State subtitled A Workbook for Young Adventurers. Her next book for Rutgers Press returned her to the start of her career in Asbury Park to examine the changing fortunes of a once-popular residential resort. With 200 rare images identified publicly for the first time and 60 time-capsule memories from those who lived, worked, worshipped, and were educated in this coastal city, Asbury Park's Glory Days bowed April 29, 2005. The paperback edition arrived in April 2007. Her newest book project is a business history of her home state,New Jersey: Crossroads of Commerce. The overview looks at how key industries from the Dutch trading companies to the dot.coms evolved over 300 years. Publication is set for October of 2008. She continues to mull the possibilities of turning her not-for-attribution interviews and on-going research on Asbury Park into a mystery series. Until then, she has begun work on a memoir about the Jersey Shore and the discoveries she made while taking care of her aging father. In 2005, Helen began lecturing in media studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She also teaches writing and edits the manuscripts of those who aspire to get published. A graduate of both public and private schools, she received a B.A. degree in English and French from Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, and a language certificate from La Sorbonne in Paris. In the tug-of-war between her French mother and Yankee father to name her, a hyphenated first name resulted: Helen-Chantal. ***************************************************************** Helen is a member of the Author's Guild, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Monmouth County Arts Council, and an associate member of the Mystery Writers of America. |
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