Michael H. Sedge is an American journalist, author, marketing specialist, and entrepreneur. He founded the marketing company Strawberry Media 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 non-fiction book, The Lost Ships of Pisa, won the President of the Italian Republic's Book of the Year Award for a Foreign Author and the “Rusticcello di Pisa” International Journalism Award from the city of Pisa.
Sedge was born in Flint, Michigan, and graduated with a Bachelor of History and Government from University of La Verne in La Verne, California. 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. He was assigned to diverse locales in Europe until 1977. Eventually Sedge, who also speaks Italian, took up permanent residence in Naples, Italy to pursue writing, journalism, and ultimately as an international businessman.
Worldwide, Sedge is credited in more than 4,000 articles, several audio tape scripts, children's plays, some 30 books (combined collaborations as well as solely authored), and four television documentaries. His topics often cover expatriate affairs, United States and NATO military, archaeology, the London theater beat, the business of freelance writing, and Italy. 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. 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.
Publications
As foreign correspondent
• The Associated Press (military correspondent for Mediterranean, Middle
East, Northern Africa)
• Newsweek (military correspondent)
• Armed Forces Journal International
• Scientific American - Discovering Archaeology (Mediterranean/Africa
editor)
• Family Magazine (travel editor)
• R&R Magazine (travel writer)
• International Living
• Internetnews.com
• Diplomat (UK)
• Off Duty Publications (Mediterranean editor)
• Cardiology World News
• International Travel World
Other contributions
• Los Angeles Times
• New York Times
• Robb Report
• International Daily News[5]
• Club International
• Earthwatch
• Time-Life
• Writer's Digest[17]
• Newsweek International[2]
• Compass (regular contributor to Mobil Oil's corporate magazine)[13]
Books
• Commercialization of the Oceans (1987)
• Adventure Guide to Italy, 1988 (1988)
• Selling Books to the Military Market
• Double Your Income through Foreign Sales[7]
• The Writer's and Photographer's Guide to Global Markets (1998)
• Marketing Strategies for Writers (1999)
• Successful Syndication: A Guide for Writers and Cartoonists (Allworth
Press, 2000)
• The Mediterranean Diet, Origins and Myths (2000)
• The Photojournalist's Guide to Making Money (2000)
• Successful Syndication (2000)
• The Lost Ships of Pisa (2002)
• The Oracle (2014)
He authored the screenplay "The Vatican Diary", several non-fiction books including Ascent to Failure, and his latest novel, The Oracle. His next work, co-authored with former Navy Chief Journalist Joel Jacobs, Death Watch was being considered by four major film production companies. He also founded the "Dolce Vita Writer's Holiday" workshop in Italy
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. The “Rusticchello di Pisa” award from the City of Pisa and the Italian Transportation and History Price for Literature.
Affiliations
• Association of Publishers for Special Sales
• American Society of Journalists and Authors – (former Director-at-Large)
• International Food, Wine & Travel Writers Association (former Regional President)
• Society of American Military Engineers (Naples Chapter President)
• American Chamber of Commerce in Italy (former President at Large)
• American Business Councel of Djibouti (Founder and President)
