Fresh Ink [Paperback]

In 2007, Chloe Lizotte, then a student in middle school, wrote an Historical Thoughtleader Profile on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the womens suffrage leader, which she then published on a website. A few days later, she received a request from a professional womens website called Women in Technology International (WITI) which wanted to re-publish it. That was the beginning of Chloe's journey into professional publishing which, over the ensuring years, included a series of columns on still more historical thoughtleaders for The Concord Journal as well as music and arts reviews in her high school newspaper The Voice (which she also served as editor-in-chief) and various op-ed pieces, reviews, news reports and reflective essays in prominent journals like Teen Ink, The Real Musician, Booklore, The Pulitzer Center, CEO Refresher and Op-Ed News. The next step logically implied a book, resulting in Fresh Ink: Published Writings, a compilation of all her published content. Each chapter in Fresh Ink is a previously published work specifically selected for publication by an editor. No chapter content in Fresh Ink has been included that does not meet that requirement. The essays in my book reflect where I've been, what I've seen, how I've reacted and what I've concluded, Chloe explains. They speak to my journey up to this stage in my life. Chapter topics in the book range from music reviews (The Suburbs and The King of Limbs ) to literary legends (Hemingway, J.D. Salinger) to political history (The 1920s youth culture, Martin Luther King) to Steve Carell's leaving The Office to profiles of historical eccentrics, movie reviews, a report on the 2011 summer London riots and a self-reflection titled The Thoreau Challenge. A comment online of the website that published Chloes essay on Martin Luther King remarked: (Chloe is) an amazingly cogent thinker, proving that age has nothing to do with intellect, discernment, wisdom, and that all-important passion for lãõ