Heide Boyden's experience ranges from writing commercial copy, infomercials, educational/training/marketing DVDs and internet scripts for large corporations and ad agencies to writing children's books, articles, essays and short stories for the mass media.  She also ghostwrites, collaborates and coaches inspired individuals.

Heide's client list includes: Lifetime Movie Network, Columbia Tristar Home Video, Warner Brothers Marketing & Advertisng, KCBS Television-L.A., Disney Education, Sony International Television, Amgen, ARCO, Chevron USA, Hyundai, Princess Cruises, Health Valley Foods, Ready Pac, Amway, Lawry's, Shakey's and more.

Heide has proudly earned the following honors: The Golden Apple for educational programming, The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Emmy Award for local PSA, The Telly, Cindy and Promotional Marketing Executives in Electronic Media (PROMAX) International awards for corporate and commercial programming, Gold Medallion Award, Aurora Award for public service, and honorable mention from The Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators for picture book.

Recent Publishing Credits: The Jelly Boat Book, children's picture book (All About Kids Publishing); articles, essays and short stories in AIM (America's Intercultral Magazine), Writers' Journal, Byline, True Love, Cappers, GRIT, Bravehearts, Aoife's Kiss, Cenotaph, Parade and numerous regional newspapers.

Heide is fortunate to live in Ojai, California, which was the setting for the utopic Shangri-la in Frank Capra's 1937 movie classic Lost Horizon.  She has found harmony there raising two active children, tending an organic garden and writing, writing, writing.  Fortunately in Utopia, there is no lack of inspiration.