A working writer since 1992, Estelle currently works as a book editor, Issue Media Group series editor solutions journalist, poet, and children’s book author.
Estelle has contributed to newspapers, magazines, books for both children and adults, greeting cards, and other publications from a wide range of sectors including health care, wellness, environmental justice, the arts, and nonprofits.
Clients have included The Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids Magazine, front row entertainment magazine, Forbes/Advantage Books, Dr. Hassan Tetteh, Lacks Industries, Burgler-Trussel Advertising, Old Orchard Foods, MVP Sports Illustrated, Our Kitchen Table, Baudville, and others.
My children’s book!
Now on the shelves at Michigan’s Kent District Libraries, Schuler Books Grand Rapids, Newaygo Bookstore, and other local booksellers.
READ! Rapid Growth Media: Journalist’s whimsical children’s book celebrates collaboration, community roots
LOOK! Grand Rapids Magazine Author goes hyperlocal for children’s book
LISTEN! PBS WGVU Radio Morning Show: Local author Estelle Slootmaker and book designer Karen McDiarmid join in to share their work.
WATCH! Fox 17 Local News Morning Mix: Wyoming author pens lighthearted children’s book “Places Where the Sun Don’t Shine.”
Order your copy below!
Book Editing
Do you have a book manuscript that needs editing? I have decades of experience. Do you need your book designed and readied for print? I work with Karen McDiarmid Design, an award winning book designer who can transform your text and images into a beautiful volume.
- Smarter Healthcare with AI
- The Art of Human Care series
- Life Is Not What You Think
- Mary’s Blue Butterfly Heart
- Count to Ten & Be Healthy
- The Joy of Recognition
- Priceless Motivation
- Grandma & Grandpa’s Darlings
- Do This & Live Healthy
- 30 Quick Tips for Better Health Today
- Your Waistline Is Your Lifeline
Solutions Journalism
Writer and editor, Issue Media Group, Common Ground & Michigan publications.
Series Editor and Contributor:
- MI Mental Health
- Yours, Mine, & Ours Public Health
- Early Education Matters
- Autism Alliance of Michigan
- Michigan Municipal League
- Michigan Health Council
Author, State of Health series, 2019-24. Development News Editor, Rapid Growth Media, 2016 – 22
Poetry
Estelle has enjoyed knitting words together in verse since childhood.
In The River: Listen to the very tops of the trees. Eddie Killowatts Music performed
Minimum and The Story Need Tell. Her poem “Totentanz” appeared in Grand Rapids Grassroots: An Anthology. She is currently working on an anthology of her poems from the past decades.
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