Personal
Name: Linda Leestemaker
E-mail: leestemaker@gmail.com
Nationality: Netherlands
Drivers license: yes
Experience
2020 – present Content specialist & copywriter, Dustin
2011 – present Freelance journalist & media consultant
- Reports, reviews, interviews, blogs
- Consulting function: research on Dutch minorities by South African artist Tyson Ngubeni. Development marketing/pr-strategy for debute novel Accumulation. Marketing/pr-strategy for Novel Rebels publishing.
- Web design, maintenance, and copywriter Leest&Maakt ‘t, Revira Volta, Novel Rebels, KHL Advocatuur, Dok du Nord, Cold Case Diary (including background design), No Fear Productions, Leestemaker.nl, and facebook Claudy Jongstra and Afscheid.live
- Former social media manager and blogger Zwartopwitboekhandel.nl & Facebook (now offline).
- Participant National November Writing Month 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021
2019 – 2020 A Cold Case Diary: Anne Frank
- Media specialist & historical researcher.
- Online media manager (website, social media)
- Head of in house IT, archival work
- Support of author regarding fact checking and editorial work
2014 – 2020 Extra’s coördinator
- A Cold Case Diary (Thijs Bayens) – tevens data handling (producer: Endeavour)
- The Missing, season 3 – also production assistant (producer: BBC)
- Hollow – also 1st A.D. (producer: WeMakeVR)
- Get Lost – (director: Mirjam de With)
- Het leven is vurrukkulluk – (director: Frans Weisz)
- Celblok H, season 4 – also assistant production manager (producer: Fiction Valley)
- A Real Vermeer – (director: Rudolf van den Berg)
- Prey– also 3th A.D. (director: Dick Maas)
- Free State – also production assistant (director: Theu Boermans
2017 – 2019 PR & Marketing More Eyewear & Your Eyewear
2017 – 2019 Copywriter and consultant childrens fiction/YA Zwart op Wit Boekhandel
- Copywriter and resident blogger (website now offline)
- Consultant sales children’s fiction and Young Adult
2017 – 2018 Editor and text writer Castle de Haar
- Editor and text writer summer/fall exhibition 2018 Films & sterren op De Haar
2013– 2017 Bookseller and online media manager Zwart op Wit Bookstore
2014 – 2015 ARCHOL Leiden
- Washing of archaeological finds.
- Excavation A12VEG (Late Prehistory/Stone Age)
2013 – 2014 Publicity assistant Publishing house De Bezige Bij
- Publicity assistant Non-Fiction and Translated Literature
- Website, newsletter, public relations with authors and press.
2013 Online editor Quest Braintainment (internship)
- Online articles (interviews, reports, weekly item ‘Today in…’, HTML, and newsletter
2013 Amsterdam editor Metro Holland BV (internship)
- Interviews, reports, news, weekly page on nightlife in Amsterdam
2011 – 2013 CLEEFT.nl
- Reporter on film, art, travel, music, and books.
- Reporter National Arts Festival South Africa
2010 Betram&Brood bakery
2010 Online marketing employee Leylines
- Writing marketingblogs, keeping up PR-lists (Twitter, internetpages and Facebook), making final reports for costumers
2009 – 2010 TNT courier (Diemen)
Education
2017: PADI Open Water Diver
2014 – 2016: University Leiden. Master Archaeology
- Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology + Museum Studies
- Neolithisation in the Near East + Maritime archaeology
- Thesis: The viewshed of Samnium in the 2nd century BC: did visibility play a role in building Samnitic sanctuaries
- 08/2015: Excavation/survey LERC – Molise, Italy
- Cleaning human skeletons for PhD-students
- In Situ Magazine 2015-2016. Journalist, art director, deputy editor in chief.
08-05-2015: Emergeny Response Officer
15-04-2015: Basic safety VCA
2009 – 2013: University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Faculty of Journalism
- Specialisation: Magazine, Cultural Journalism
- Electives: South-Africa, Radio Reports
2012: Rhodes University South-Africa (minor)
- Courses: Journalism, Classics, Afrikaans
- Inkwenkwezi Volunteers (Helping young Xhosa-children learn English)
2004 – 2009: HAVO Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam
- 2009 MSA writing contest (fiction) – 3th place
Knowledge of computarisation
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Acrobat Pro
ArcGIS 9.3
Dalet
Final Draft
Final Cut Pro
HTML
MM Scheduling
Microsoft Office
Netlogo 6.0.1
Twine
Languages
Dutch: native speaker
English: fluent in speech and writing
German: moderate in understanding and reading
French: basic in understanding and reading