A writer and editor for over 40 years, Howard V Sann began his career in 1965 as a reporter on The Mercury in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, first writing feature stories and then covering the courts and the police. Within a year, he was on the rewrite bank at the afternoon daily, the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. But he was restless and took off for Spain in 1967, following the bulls in the Hemingway spirit.

When he came back to New York City, he decided to work for himself: he secured a corporate account ghostwriting an employee newsletter, worked as a researcher for writers of nonfiction books and magazine articles, edited novels, and wrote screenplays.

Moving to Connecticut in 1980, he co-authored a mail-order vision improvement course, started writing profiles of CEOs, and found his way into business writing: brochures, proposals, copywriting, and advertising.

In 1988, he founded Victory Ink (and his knack for letters of persuasion) after a two-paragraph note settled a family business dispute. When Sann discovered the Internet in 1996, he started editing websites, writing Web content, and building websites.

He writes long or short. If you can explain it to him, he will bring it to life.