Cynthia Boris
cynthia@cynthiaboris.com

Web Producer / Community Manager / Online Content

Webquest / DDC

Web Producer / Writer

Responsibilities include writing content for client websites with emphasis on SEO and driving traffic. Hiring and managing freelance writers, maintaining a board (forums) presence in the area of Domaining and website management, managing web content (uploading, photo placement, affiliate deals, content rotation) for a variety of client sites.

Take180.com

Writer

Take180 (Formerly Fanlib.com) is a social site for teens that asks for community participation to produce three weekly webseries. Duties include writing news blurbs and interviews for the site, social outreach, online marketing.

SheKnows.com (Television)

http://sheknows.com/television

Currently writing a daily column for this women’s portal. The column features a small review of my previous night’s TV viewing, a listing of tonight’s TV, and quick news blurbs. Celebrity interviews about once a month with an emphasis on programs of interest to young moms.

SFUniverse.com (Sci-Fi)

http://www.sfuniverse.com

Covering Sc-Fi TV for B5Media. Daily news posts, interviews with stars and reviews of SCI FI / Horror shows on TV.

DVD Verdict

http://www.dvdverdict.com/dossiers/cboris.php

Staff writer for DVD review website with more than a half million readers per month. Predominately responsible for weekly reviews of TV box sets.

Previous Positions

Fanlib

http://www.fanlib.com/

http://www.harperteenfanlit.com/index.htm

Staff writer for FanLib online events for Harper Teen, Harper Collins Romance, and Showtime’s The L-Word. Responsible for writing semi-weekly newsletters, winner bios and website updates. Moderating FanLib.com, writing up weekly fan fiction summaries, chatting on forums, email correspondence and fan outreach. Head writer for No Hiatus, the FanLib blog covering media as it relates to fandom.

CollectingChannel.com

Associate producer for the TV/Movie Collectibles channel. Produced and wrote three news articles a day plus feature article on some aspect of licensed tie-in collectibles.

BOOKS

The Official Pokémon Ultimate Quiz Master – Sybex Books, Oct. 2000

The Official Buffy the Vampire Slayer Pop Quiz Book – Pocket Books, Dec. 1999

TV Toys and the Shows That Inspired Them – Krause Publications, June 1996

MAGAZINES

Official Buffy Magazine – Staff writer for US and UK editions

Toy Shop – Sci-Fi and TV toy monthly column for three years

Inside Kung Fu – interviews with actors and stunt men involved in martial arts movies and TV series.

Over 150 published articles in magazines such as Delicious!, Young Rider, Collector’s Mart, Star Trek Magazine, Cult Times, Western Times, Games, Fine Scale Modeler, Film Score Monthly, and more.