freelance writer and editor

Tracy Ecclesine Ivie is a freelance writer with more than 25 years of experience in magazines, newspapers and books. A member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, she is a team player who works well under pressure. Areas of concentration include: profiles, business, the arts, home and lifestyle.

Tracy is the author of “Why Count Sheep When You Can SLEEP?,” a bedtime survival guide for insomniacs. She is also co- author in the book series “Country Inns of America,” published by Architectural Digest and Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

She also wrote a 90-page e-book, "How to Get a Merchant Account and take Credit Cards Online and Offline" for CTC Publishing as well as “fun” histories of more than 150 New Jersey towns for a guidebook publisher. 

She served as editor of New Jersey Savvy Living magazine for two years, where she wrote articles and supervised freelance writers and production. Her other magazine credits include Working Woman, Popular Photography, River Towns, and Video, where she was a contributing editor. Tracy also wrote for several trade magazines and served as associate editor of an award-winning magazine in the insurance and computer leasing field for four years.

She worked for seven years at the Hunterdon County Democrat newspaper as a reporter, where she also served as the arts, education, health and county government editor. Tracy was also editor of the Hunterdon Observer and won several awards from the New Jersey Press Association. She also wrote articles for the Star-Ledger, the Home News Tribune, the Courier News and the (Easton) Express-Times. 

She has also written marketing collateral for selected clients, including blogs, e-books, brochures, scripts and SEO-optimized websites. 

1st place, New Jersey Press Association for article on libraries and the Internet

1st, 2nd and 3rd places, New Jersey Press Association as editor of a weekly news/feature page.

Gold JASPER (Jersey Shore Public Relations & Advertising Association) and Silver ASTRA (New Jersey Communications Advertising and Marketing Association), Excellence in Writing for an article she ghostwrote on marketing to baby boomers.