Michael Sedge

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Michael Sedge
Born Flint, Michigan
OccupationNovelist
Journalist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationBachelor of Arts
Alma mater University of La Verne
Genre Non-fiction
Notable worksThe Lost Ships of Pisa
The Oracle
Notable awards President of the Italian Republic's Book of the Year Award
Paris Book Festival Best Fiction Award
SpouseGabriella Giugliano
ChildrenAmanda and Daniele
Website
www.thesedgegroup.com

Michael H. Sedge is an American journalist, author, marketing specialist, lecturer, film-TV producer and entrepreneur. He founded the marketing company Strawberry Media, the publishing firm The Sedge Group, and co-founded the U.S. small business, Michael-Bruno, LLC, which offers architectural design, engineering services, and construction management to the U.S. government in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. His latest non-fiction work The Lost Ships of Pisa won the President of the Italian Republic's Book of the Year Award for a Foreign Author. [1]

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Early life

Sedge was born in Flint, Michigan, [2] [3] and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from University of La Verne in La Verne, California. [2] In 1973 Sedge started his service in the United States Navy, and was soon assigned to Southern Italy for what was meant to be a 48-month stay. [3] [4] [5] He was assigned to diverse locales in Europe until 1977. [6] [7] Eventually Sedge, who also speaks Italian, [2] took up permanent residence in Naples, Italy to pursue writing and journalism. [8]

Marketing career

In 1988, Sedge founded Strawberry Media Agency, a Naples-based media/marketing agency. [2] [5] In 1989 , MCI Communications hired Sedge to establish and direct their global military marketing. He did so until 1995, and in his last four years running the project, the company's international calling card revenues from the military market increased by $3 million annually. [1] [9]

After 1995, Arrowhead Global Solutions contracted Sedge to manage the logistical, operational, and financial activities of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) contract for AT&T Call Home services in the then war-ridden country of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After one year, he was assigned as in-country project manager for Arrowhead Global Solutions’ contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for the design and construction of satellite communications systems in Italy. Other clients under Sedge and his Strawberry Media agency included Bank of America, Holiday Inn International, Mobil Oil, Rapid Link Telecommunications, Deep Bridge, and Planet Euro. [2] [5] [10] He was VP of Marketing for the Israeli-based Megagiga, the 7th largest hosting agency in the world. [2] [10] Sedge's firm also produced editorial packages (articles, photos, illustrations) for more than forty publications around the world and syndicated in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. [3] Strawberry Media also had a photography division specializing in stock databases, many of which were images taken by Sedge himself. [2]

In 2003 he co-founded Michael-Bruno, LLC, an American architectural design, engineering service and construction management firm. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, with operational offices in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Michael-Bruno, LLC has won multiple contracts with NATO, the U.S. military, as well as Italian restorative projects. [8] [11] [12]

The Sedge Group

In an Entrepreneur profile, Sedge was dubbed the "wizard of marketing." [9] [13] The publishing guru Sol Stein sought Sedge when looking to market his own books in Europe. [13] Sedge is also owner of The Sedge Group, a publishing/marketing firm based in Wilmington, Delaware. [8] The Sedge Group acts as a publishing/media firm to get companies exposure in high-tech/finance media. [10]

Publishing history

Worldwide, Sedge is credited in more than 4,000 articles, [5] [13] several audio tape scripts, children's plays, [9] some 30 books, [8] and four television documentaries. [5] His topics often cover expatriate affairs, United States and NATO military, archaeology, the London theater beat, the business of freelance writing, and Italy. [4] [9] In June 1998, Sedge was hired as the special assignment writer for the Alexandria, Egypt production of the Discovery Channel's Cleopatra's Palace . The project entailed a book and a documentary about the rediscovery of her palace on the island of Antirhodos. [2] [13] [14] In 2003, Sedge was a contributing editor to the "Armed Forces Journal International," publishing such features as "Not-So-Friendly Fire War in Iraq Shows Fratricide Remains an Enduring Problem". It was a report on casualties of friendly fire during the U.S. led war in Iraq, including causes of friendly fire incidents and technical solutions to the problem. [15]

Publications

As foreign correspondent
Other contributions

Books

He authored the screenplay "The Vatican Diary", several non-fiction books including Ascent to Failure, [3] and the novel Death Watch. Co-authored with Joel Jacobs, Death Watch at one point was being considered by four major film production companies. [9] He also publishes the quarterly Market Abroad newsletter [3] and founded the "Dolce Vita Writer's Holiday" workshop in Italy. [18]

Awards

His non-fiction work The Lost Ships of Pisa won the President of the Italian Republic's Book of the Year Award for a Foreign Author. [1]

In 2014, his novel, The Oracle, won the Paris Book Festival Best Fiction Award. [19]

Films and Television Productions

Affiliations

Personal life

Two years after becoming a legal resident of southern Italy, Sedge married Gabriella Giugliano in 1976. Together they have two children, Amanda and Daniele Sedge. He also has four grandchildren, Luca, Matteo, Giada, Esmé, and Rowan. Sedge retains his U.S. citizenship. [3]

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  15. ↑ Sedge, Michael H. (May 2003). "Not-So-Friendly Fire War in Iraq Shows Fratricide Remains and Enduring Problem". Armed Forces Journal International. Retrieved July 3, 2010.
  16. ↑ Sedge, Michael H. (1999). "Writing for the Global Marketplace". Writing World. Retrieved July 3, 2010.
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