Madeleine Melcher

How to Create a Successful Adoption Portfolio: Easy Steps to Help You Produce the Best Adoption Profile and Prospective Birthparent Letter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Full of simple and effective design ideas and tips for writing adoption portfolios, this is a step-by-step guide to creating a portfolio that will present you in the best possible light and help the right birth-family to find and choose you.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 281mm x 216mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9781849059466
• ISBN-10: 1849059462
• Artikelnr.: 39543956

Autorenporträt

Madeleine Melcher is an adoptee, mother of three blessings of adoption, as well as the owner of Our Journey to You, a company dedicated to designing adoption portfolios and adoption profiles. She has helped countless prospective adoptive parents create their adoption portfolios, her designs have led some of her clients to be chosen within mere days of their portfolio submission. She lives with her husband and children in the Midwest.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - "I understand...". 2. What is an Adoption Portfolio? 3.
Before You do Anything Else... 4. What Prospective Birthmothers are Looking
for. 5. Get Your Camera Out Now! - Pictures ARE Important! 6. Writing Your
Text and Preparing for Layout: Insight and Samples by Page. 7. Speciality
Text Issues. 8. What Will Your Design Say about You? 9. Ways to Create Your
Portfolio. 10. Your Final Review - Getting a Fresh Set of Eyes. 11.
Printing Choices Make a Difference. 12. Marketing Yourself Making Use of
Your Portfolio. 13. Letting Go. 14. Your Dream CAN Come True. 15. Workbook
Questions for Core Pages.