“New Media is all about building an audience online, which makes these tools perfect for writers,” said Rick Grant, principal with RGA. “I plan to introduce these folks to blogging, if they are not already there, and talk about how Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other Social Media sites can help them draw traffic back to what they write.”

Grant has been a writer and journalist for over 25 years. Prior to launching RGA, he founded Texell Interactive Media, a production company delivering electronic audio and video content for Web-based marketing. Before that, he spent more than a decade as one of the nation’s leading financial industry-focused journalists. He writes features for Mortgage Banking magazine and is a columnist for HousingWire magazine and Scotsman Guide. He is also a correspondent for the Times News, Lehighton, Pennsylvnia.

The Black Diamond Writers Group can be found on Facebook.com at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49363452843.