Terry Ledyard

"America's Game" placed in the top 25% of all entries in the 2012 Page Screenwriting Awards-- beating out over 5,000 other scripts for the honor!

Terry Ledyard is a seasoned writer and editor. Her full-time experience includes four years as an associate editor for New Readers Press, a small, educational publisher based in Central New York, where she wrote and edited materials geared to low-literacy adults. Upon the birth of her twins in 2002, Ledyard began freelancing for New Readers Press, which she did almost exclusively for nearly a decade. Ledyard's most recent writing adventures have taken her online, as a blog contributor for Lerndit, an up-and-coming outlet for tips on raising healthy kids.
​Ledyard has an impressive history in radio broadcasting, as an on-air personality for local radio stations in Central New York and in the Hudson Valley. She has also worked in corporate communications and in public relations, where her natural talent as a public speaker really shined through!
Ledyard's completed screenplay, "America's Game," has made the rounds of screenwriting contests to some notable results. Most prestigiously, it placed in the top 25% of all entries received in the 2012 Page International Screenwriting Awards, beating out over 5,000 other scripts!
Ledyard has a gift for writing poetry and is an award-winning songwriter. In 2008 she took second place in the pop category in the Upstate New York Songwriting Competition. Ledyard currently has more than a dozen songs written and ready for takeoff, plus a variety of other completed projects, including a set of three children’s board books, a book on practical spirituality, and dozens of poems.
​Ledyard has a bachelor’s degree in Communications with a background in Psychology. She graduated from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, in 1993. She is currently persuing an advanced degree online, in a combined Masters/PhD program at The University of Metaphysical Sciences.
​Ledyard can handle herself in front of a camera, behind a microphone, and before a large crowd—and enjoys doing all three. She is available and willing to travel for promotional or other purposes. Ledyard has a bubbly personality, is witty, charming, easy-to-work-with, cooperative—“a pleasure to have in class!”
​Ledyard can be contacted for further information at TLCEditing@aol.com.