What Jules has done...

JULES OLDER is a writer, broadcaster, speaker, consultant, and editor.

For 12 years he was editor-in-chief of Ski Press Canada and Ski Press USA. Jules is now a commentator on KALW-FM in San Francisco; in Vermont, he was a regular commentator on Vermont Public Radio. He is still the products columnist for Vermont Business Magazine, and, until its demise, humor columnist for TWA.

His academic articles have appeared in leading medical and social-science journals in five countries; his topical and travel articles in U.S., British, Canadian, and New Zealand newspapers and magazines.

These include the London, New York, Los Angeles and Washington Times, the Guardian (London), GEO (Germany), Hemispheres, USAir Magazine and Norwest Airlines Magazine. He's written for SKIING, Powder, Ski Area Management and Cross Country Skier. In New Zealand, he writes for Destinations and North & South.

Photo by Effin Older

Jules writes for the YourLifeIsaTrip.com website and has written regionally as well for Boston, San Francisco, Vermont, Yankee, AAA and other magazines.

Jules has been a college counselor, psychology professor, medical educator, disc jockey, ski instructor, and for one brief month of intense pleasure, a villain on television.

For adults, Jules wrote Touching Is Healing, Ski Vermont!, Cross-Country Skiing for Everyone, Backroad & Offroad Biking and the Pakeha Papers.

Jules has written more than 20 children's books. His books and psychological work have won awards here and abroad; he is five-time winner of the Harold Hirsch Award "For Excellence in Snowsports Writing."

The video, Tales from the Mountain, for which he and Effin Older wrote the screenplay, co-won the Grand Prize at the International Ski Film Festival in Crested Butte, Colorado and won the Vermont Travel and Tourism Recognition of Excellence for Film and Video.

At the University of Vermont, he won the Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Excellence in Teaching for his "Writing for Real" course. His children's book, COW, (Charlesbridge Publishing) was named a "Pick of the Lists" by the American Booksellers Association.

Jules is director of rivetingtalks.com, consulting for individuals and firms who want to make their presentations more... riveting.

Jules and Effin divide their time between San Francisco, California, and Auckland, New Zealand. In California they have become known as restaurant reviewers since the 2009 publication of their San Francisco Restaurants, a popular iPhone app.
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