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JULES OLDER is a writer, broadcaster, speaker, consultant, and the editor-in-chief of Ski Press Canada and Ski Press USA. Until he and Effin moved to San Francisco, Jules was a regular commentator on Vermont Public Radio; he is still the products columnist for Vermont Business Magazine, and, until its demise, humor columnist for TWA. His academic articles have appeared in leading medical and social-science journals in five countries; his topical and travel articles in U.S., British, Canadian, and New Zealand newspapers and magazines. These include the London, New York, Los Angeles and Washington Times, the Guardian (London), GEO (Germany), Hemispheres, USAir Magazine, New Choices, SKIING, Powder and Cross Country Skier; and a single short story in ELF. Jules has written regionally as well: Boston, San Francisco, Vermont, Yankee, AAA and other magazines. |
Jules has been a college counselor, psychology professor, medical educator, disc jockey, ski instructor, and for one brief month of intense pleasure, a villain on television. For adults, Jules wrote Touching Is Healing, Ski Vermont!, Cross-Country Skiing for Everyone, Backroad & Offroad Biking and The Pakeha Papers. |
The
video, Tales from the Mountain, for which he and Effin Older wrote
the screenplay, co-won the Grand Prize at the International Ski Film
Festival in Crested Butte, Colorado and won the Vermont Travel and
Tourism Recognition of Excellence for Film and Video.
At
the University of Vermont, he won the Kroepsch-Maurice Award for
Excellence in Teaching for his "Writing for Real" course. His
children’s book, COW, (Charlesbridge
Publishing) was named a “Pick of the Lists” by the American
Booksellers Association. Jules is director of
rivetingtalks.com, consulting for individuals and firms who want to make
their presentations more... riveting.
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