Carmela
orsini
Writer/Screenwriter - Entrepreneur - Small Business Owner - Wanderlusting Moseyer - Recovering Attorney - Marketer
WHO I AM
I'm an entrepreneur through and through. In addition to freelance writing and screenwriting, I founded and co-own Park Pets, a unique, holistic pet supply store in the developing neighborhood of Park Circle in North Charleston, SC.
I was an angel employee for voice-tech startup Novel Effect, an app that syncs theme music and sound effects to children's books as they are read aloud.
I have a BA in English and a JD, with a current license to practice law in Georgia (though I don't.)
In the past, I served as a training research attorney for an online legal research database and taught paralegal classes at a community college. I'm 3 classes shy of my Masters in Library Science and will one day take those three classes. I've also clerked for a judge, waited tables, bar tended, and sold fabric in a fabric store.
I've spent most of my career doing some level of marketing and have experience with content creation, copywriting and editing, paid ad campaigns, landing pages, and SEO.
Based in Seattle, Washington and from both Savannah and Charleston (I claim both as my hometowns!), I'm a pet owner, National Park lover, and very amateur gardener. I'm on the hunt for a really cool cheap house in Italy and hope to make a short film in the next year or so. I also travel, love movies, and promise to one day finish writing a novel.
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Park Pets (All Content by Me)
Short Film: Next Stop (Hosted on Coverfly)
https://writers.coverfly.com/projects/share/view/Next_Stop-146350_c92d11da3eef24a
Samples of My Writing:
"Summer Song" on Novel Effect
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Coming Soon: Orsini & Associates CPA Website (All Content by Me)
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Park Pets is my baby - a pet supply store looking to open in Park Circle in Historic North Charleston. We carry high quality foods, treats, and toys for fur babies, as well as unique pet items you won't find anywhere else. Opened in 2017, the store is profitable, weird, and wonderful! Now co-owned with friends, it's one of the only black-owned pet supply stores in the country.
SOME STUFF I'M PROUD OF:
I've been published. I was published on a law journal while in law school and had several pieces published in literary magazines while I was in college. I have had a piece published in the Opinion section of my hometown newspaper, and a personal essay published in an online magazine. You can also check out a children's poem on Novel Effect.
There's never been a penny I spent on a trip that I regretted. I've had some exciting adventures, like tackling Worm's Head in Wales, and amazing moments of calm, like meditating on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, on my journey to 36 countries, 36 states, and 12 National Parks. My hope is to see them all and experience all the things.
I played college softball for a DII team. I only started a handful of games and was probably a below-average player, but it was a goal I set for myself when I was six. I took some side turns and almost didn't get there, but in the end, I'm really proud that I played and of the memories I made. I hit a walk-off game winning home run once and briefly led the team in triples.
A Foul Accretion
I woke up shortly after starting, nauseous. I tried to ignore it, go back to sleep, breathe through it. One breath, two breaths. It was too late.
On Our Terms: Using Environmental Justice to Formulate a Peace Agreement to End the Tri-State Water Wars
Framing the question through the lens of environmental justice would allow the states to recognize the underlying racism.
Select Titles in Calliope
Breathe - Pg. 568
"Just once/Take a breath, now."
Irrational - Pg. 585
"I'm so self-destructive, it seems."
Camelot - Pg. 638
"The third shift's unenthusiastic."
Fever - Pg. 664
"A compromise then. Half a dose of each.
Opinion Piece in Savannah Morning News
"The story behind a front page photo"
As COVID-19 coverage in Savannah began, the Savannah Morning News ran a story on the cover with a headline of “Hundreds died as the 1918 Pandemic stayed in Savannah for months” and the image with that headline was a tombstone, my great grandmother’s tombstone, with my name on it.