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Freelance Writer

I was an editor at Surfer  Magazine from 1989 to 1998 - masterminding, writing and editing 130 issues of Surfer - when print mattered.

Since 2000 I have been traveling and writing freelance. 

I have  had 24+ books published,  launched two magazines and  have written scores of articles  for magazines and newspapers  around the world. 

I also had a screenplay stolen that was made into a movie - Chasing Mavericks - but that's Hollywood.

After working at Surfer Magazine for 10 years and 130 issues, I hit the road as a freelance writer - working and traveling as best I could.

My website is my best resume:

www.benmarcusrules.com

In that time I have been involved in over two dozen book projects - some of them successful, some of them not.

http://www.benmarcusrules.com/books/

I have written dozens of articles for online and print: LA Weekly, Malibu Magazine, Malibu Times, The Local, LA Times, Fly Fish Journal, Surfer's Journal and many others.

I have been involved in Hollywood projects - editing big projects for my friend Gregg Brilliant who is a former VP at Paramount and is now a freelance unit publicist.

In 2006 I wrote a screenplay called Live Like Jay that was stolen and made into Chasing Mavericks with Gerard Butler. I tried to sue but the movie lost tens of millions of dollars and no lawyer would take the case.

Long story.

I have done branding for M Nii, Wave House and others, in and out of the surf world.

As an editor at Surfer Magazine for 10 years, I masterminded, wrote, edited and proofed 130 issues of The Bible of the Sport.

I learned how to write at Surfer and the two things I am proudest of were the first article on Mavericks in 1992, and inventing the Surfer Magazine Surf Video Awards in 1996 - an institution that is still going.

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Benjamin Marcus: Freelance Writer in Malibu, CA

Benjamin Marcus

Nothing is Written Publishing

Surfer Magazine

UC Berkeley