~ "If you are at all connected digitally — e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, etc. — you know Dean Lofton. ..." click to read the article by Out and About blogger and social columnist Michael Barnes, of the Austin American-Statesman.

~ I'm honored to be included in the Austin American-Statesman's 2009 Fortunate 500: Music list along with my client and husband, jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton.

WELCOME

Welcome and thanks for visiting! I'm a writer and publicist based in Austin, Texas. Using my 15 years of experience in advertising and marketing, I promote businesses, non-profits and artists making the world a better place - and I have fun doing it. I've written for daily papers, alternative weeklies, magazines and websites.

NEWS:

~ Writing Your Life as a Woman is a 4-week community writing workshop I've led for thirteen years where women put pen to paper and ponder their lives. **March: Wednesday class is full. Tuesday 7 - 9pm class just added. Click here for details or email me to register.

~ I survived the 50 rapid-fire questions for a profile in the Austin Business Journal

 

~ My client (and husband)
Jeff Lofton (right) was featured in a cover story
in the Austin Chronicle.

~ Check out the profile Forrest Preece wrote about my work in the West Austin News.

 

 

 

~ My client, jazz pianist
Marc Devine,
was featured in a
New York Magazine article
"New Arrivals."

 

 

 

~ Jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton's Jazz to the People ranked in the Austin Chronicle's Top 9 Austin Albums of 2009, and KUT's Top 10 Albums of 2009: DJ PIcks. Listen to some tracks at JeffLofton.com and see why the Austin American-Statesman said in his 1/15/09 interview:

"An aside for his musical peers: Lofton's site — jefflofton.com —
is one of the cleanest, most informative Web presences I've ever seen for a local musician; his example is to be followed."

 

 

 

Thanks to the talented team I work with - web designer/graphic designer Toni Turbeville, graphic designer Stephen Brogdon, and photographer Dwayne Hills.

 

BIOGRAPHY
Personal
I relocated to Austin, Texas, in 2007 from Columbia, South Carolina, with my husband, jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton, and I’m the lucky step-mother to 8-year-old Shana.