About eReleases Press Release Service

eReleases launched in 1998 after founder Mickie Kennedy realized that small businesses desperately need a press release service they could actually afford. Beforehand, he’d been working at a PR company when a small business owner called, saying to Mickie “We won an award and I want to send out one press release. I’ve called all the PR firms in the yellow pages and they all have a minimum starting price of $20,000! Can you help me?” Mickie had to confess that the big PR company had the same minimum spend, but he saw an opportunity to help — and eReleases was born.

Mickie created eReleases to give small businesses access to the media and to a national newswire – all with a personal touch. eReleases has grown since then and even works with big names now, but the spirit of Mickie’s original intent has not changed. eReleases delivers personal service and exceptional value to every customer, with every press release, at every price point.

Mickie lives in Baltimore County with his family and two feuding cats. He enjoys British science fiction and acknowledges an unhealthy addiction to diet soda. Mickie holds an MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Poetry from George Mason University. He still writes poetry most Monday nights (virtually) with a group of fellow misfits in Brunswick, Maryland. Mickie loves podcast interviews, having appeared as a podcast guest on several shows.

Allison has always loved to read and knew from an early age she wanted to be a writer. It should’ve been clear that editing was also in her future when, at age 11, she would take a red pen to her cousin’s letters, mark all the spelling and grammatical errors, and then mail them back. (Sorry, Patti.)

Allison began her career writing for various websites before landing a gig as a reporter for a weekly newspaper. She quickly moved up the ranks and spent several years as the newspaper’s editor before making the move to join the team of editors at eReleases, where she looks forward to being on the other side of the press release.

When not wielding her trusty red pen, Allison enjoys hanging out with her amazing husband and daughter and indulging her sense of wanderlust, especially if the travel destination involves sun, sand and sea.

Samantha found she had a love of reading at a very young age, but it wasn’t until she was 10 years old that she discovered a love for writing as well, mainly through poetry. Since then, most of Samantha’s free time has gone to filling notebooks with poems, short stories, and random character ideas.

It wasn’t until college that Samantha found a love of editing while reviewing essays written by her peers. In between studies, Samantha spent time interning as a copyeditor with a celebrity magazine, and also assisted as Design Editor on her school’s literary magazine. Samantha graduated from the University of Baltimore with a Bachelor’s in Professional Writing.

Now Samantha spends much of her free time attempting to make a dent in her never-ending Netflix queue and scouring “The Book Thing of Baltimore” for new books to fill the limited spaces in her bookshelf.

Megan discovered her love of reading and writing pretty early in life. As a child she was constantly filling notebooks with story after story, and reading anything and everything she could get her hands on. Her favorite books of all-time: the Harry Potter series, obviously.

Megan carried her love of writing into college at Stevenson University, where she wrote for their school paper, The Villager. Megan graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Communications in 2017. She dreams of ultimately getting a Master’s degree in creative writing, hoping to fill the racks of Barnes & Noble with her own novels for fellow book lovers.

Megan is a dog lover who recently adopted her first fur-baby Storm, who is equal parts rotten and cute. When she’s not taking Storm for walks in the park she can be found strolling through Barnes & Noble spending entire paychecks on books for her at home library.

Shannon has always had a healthy love of books. She loves to find mistakes in publications and will even fix them in her personal copies. Regularly, she can be heard shouting about how you should always read the source material before seeing the movie (even if she sometimes doesn’t take her own advice).

She took a step towards the dream of editing as a profession by going to Stevenson University and earning a degree in English Language and Literature. She helped produce content for the literary magazine, THIS: A Literary and Media Journal. While at Stevenson, Shannon found that she loved writing short stories and prose poems. She continues to have bursts of inspiration.

In her spare time, she enjoys driving to nowhere with the radio blasting anything from country to showtunes, hiking, sewing, and swing dancing. When not dreaming of seeing a Broadway show in New York City, she spends time with friends. She also enjoys evenings with her cat, who thinks that she’s the Queen of the Underworld and acts accordingly.

Lydia learned how to read so she could narrate bedtime stories for her younger sister, who always asked their mother to do it instead. Out of spite, she narrated books to herself by flashlight when she should’ve been asleep. It was under her covers at night that she discovered her love of storytelling. As a preteen, she fell asleep with her favorite novels still open, dreaming of being the girl in her book who breathed life to characters when she read aloud. Eventually, she found the best way to bring a character to life was to create her own.

Over the years, she discovered ways to tell stories through various art mediums including writing, darkroom photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking. On this journey she earned a BFA from Towson University, then traveled to Scotland to take part in a residency and start living her own story. After completing the initial draft of her first novel, she joined a group of passionate writers to exchange work and developed a knack for editing.

Outside of creating stories, you can find her cuddling her girlfriend, playing games with her friends, watching movies with her sister, or experimenting in the kitchen.

Capresha discovered her love for writing at the young age of 7. She would write stories of princesses and adventures on any piece of paper she could get her hands on. In high school, Capresha enjoyed helping her friends with spelling errors and grammatic issues in the research papers and essays. Even when no one asked.

She went on to study English at Morgan State University, specializing in creative writing. She graduated with her B.A. in 2019. In college, she became fully immersed in the world of writing. Her writing style and content both shocked and intrigued her professors and classmates. She was known for her taboo storytelling.

In her downtime, Capresha likes to write short stories and collaborate with other writers, brainstorming ideas.

Randolph is a self-proclaimed tech nerd. He enjoys toying with and exploring technology, especially cell phones. Randolph is a budding graphic designer and likes doodling, Photoshop, Illustrator, painting, and drawing. He prides himself on his eccentric art. He believes fashion is art and yet another way to express yourself.

Randolph has many varied interests, including museums. “They always teach you new things no matter how many times you visit.” He also likes the intersection of commerce and urban planning. “There’s something to be said about the ways in which builders and cities come together to create interesting places to shop, connect, and explore. I’m really fond of the post-mall movement towards open air shopping markets.”

In his spare time, Randolph enjoys music, working out and comedy. Randolph also has a great appreciation for Italian food. Buon appetito!

Dave met Mickie in 2008 at a marketing meeting, found many common interests, and began working together in 2010. Dave’s known as Project Wrangler since he works on a wide variety of projects with Mickie, from managing developers, designers, and other geeks, to helping with advertising management, doing some light programming, and working with staff and customers on many operational details.

Dave graduated High School before most of you reading this were born, and quit college after a year or so, deciding it just wasn’t for him.

At 70+, this old man of the group spends most of his time working from his home base in Arlington, Texas, where he lives with his wife, Debbie. If he’s not watching something streaming on TV or listening to No Agenda (best podcast in the universe), you might find Debbie and Dave hiking to a waterfall. Kind of a weird guy (but who isn’t?) …

Janelle discovered she had a knack for writing in fifth grade, when a poem she wrote about her dog was published in a book compiled of students’ writings. She carried her love for writing through high school and then to Stevenson University, where she wrote for their school paper, The Villager. Janelle graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Communications.

During college, Janelle completed a marketing internship with Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a non-profit organization with whom she has been volunteering for more than eight years. While interning, Janelle decided on a whim to write a press release from the perspective of a dog, and it resulted in a feature story in the Frederick News Post, an appearance on a local news channel, and a handful of smaller articles in various newspapers.

In her free time, Janelle enjoys spending time with her menagerie of animals, including a Lionhead bunny and a sugar glider. She and her husband are car aficionados, frequenting local car events throughout the spring and fall.