Vickie Bates
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Writer, editor and communications consultant |
| Location | Hollywood, CA, United States |
| Introduction | I credit Mark Twain. Reading his books when I was a child gave me a lifelong love of great writing. My career as a writer has taken me all over the globe and from east coast to west. I’ve been a journalist, then crossed over to media relations and on to employee communications. These days, I help clients in a variety of industries (health care, apparel, consumer products) by developing messaging and content that resonates with their target audiences. When not reading or writing, you'll find me on a hiking trail somewhere in the world, at a Foster the People concert, or laughing out loud at the latest imported Britcom. |
| Interests | Currently obsessed with: Banksy, "The IT Crowd" |
| Favorite movies | "Bringing Up Baby," "The Apartment," "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid," "Shaun of the Dead," "Exit through the Gift Shop" |
| Favorite music | Too many to mention, so I'll just list all-time favorites chronologically by decade: Beatles (60s), Clash (70s), REM (80s), Liz Phair (90s), Aimee Mann (00s), Foster the People (10s) |
| Favorite books | "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell, "Not the End of the World" by Kate Atkinson, "Arcadia" by Tom Stoppard, "Enduring Love" by Ian McEwan, "The Swimming-Pool Library" by Alan Hollinghurst, anything by Mark Twain, Dickens and Shakespeare |