Biography
Emily Starbuck Crone (formerly Gerson) lives in Austin, Texas, and holds a communications degree from the University of Texas. In college she interned at Texas Monthly and TRIBEZA magazines and was the editor-in-chief of a weekly newspaper that served five colleges, The Austin Student.
After graduating, she became the editorial assistant at CreditCards.com. She left her full-time job there in September 2008, but she continues to freelance for them weekly.
In 2008, Emily became a web copywriter in the travel industry. She was promoted to be the Marketing & Communication Manager, a position she currently holds. While she enjoys her day job, Emily maintains a successful freelance writing and editing career. She also runs a travel blog, Maiden Voyage.
Emily has written for BootsnAll.com, USAToday.com, About.com (owned by The New York Times Company), TravelIntelligence.com, Soundcheck magazine, Catalogs.com, and a variety of other websites and publications. Emily has been quoted by MSN, The Indianapolis Star, CheapOair.com, FareCompare.com, and more. She is the author of a travel guide about Austin for the small publisher Aberdeen Bay. Emily has edited everything from a doctorate dissertation to a community newsletter to a career blog. She has a perfectionist streak when it comes to punctuation, spelling, and grammar, and she loves editing anything and everything!
Throughout her career, Emily has been heavily trained in writing for both journalism and marketing purposes, in addition to SEO best practices. She also has a large amount of experience with social media. In 2010, she was nominated for the Texas Social Media Awards.
In the rare moments she’s not writing, Emily enjoys photography, world travel, reading, playing with her Min Pin, and watching documentaries with her husband.
