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After
serving in the Federal government for 35 years in
Washington and Florida, she became a management
consultant with her own firm Great Scott Training. Her
federal clients included the U.S. Departments of
Defense, Agriculture and Interior. Other clients were
academia, state and county governments as well as
private individuals.
During her years with the Federal Government, Saalman
held administrative and management positions including
public affairs, long-range planning, management and
program analysis.
In
the early 1990s, she published Virginia Scott Speaks, a
self-help book that dealt with management issues. Before
moving to Southwest Florida she traveled throughout the
United States as a consultant and trainer on management
and workplace issues.
After moving to Southwest Florida in 1997, she continued
her writing as a student of author and film critic
Hollis Alpert. It was Alpert who encouraged Saalman to
concentrate on the short story.
During the ensuing years, she was a columnist for a
local newspaper and contributed many feature and news
articles to local newspapers and magazines. In 1998 she
became involved with the Collier County (Florida) Museum
system, first as a Museum Assistant and then as the
Manager of the County’s Museum of the Everglades. Her
experience in that position and living in Southwest
Florida provided much of the descriptive details that
are found in the four stories in Frog Poop and Other
Stories that are set in the Florida Everglades.
Saalman and her husband, Bill, live in Naples with their
yellow Lab, Star, their Maine Coon cat, Molly Malone.
Saalman has two sons, a daughter, a step-daughter and
four grandchildren. Besides writing, she and Bill play
golf and enjoy ballroom dancing.
Frog
Poop and Other Stories is published by ECity Publishing of
Everglades City, Florida. |
