An Orlando, Florida resident, Edward Schmidt Jr. is a full-time, independent writer with more than 2,000 articles and columns published in international, national, regional and local publications, including the Robb Report, Travel & Leisure Golf, PGA Tour Partners Magazine, Golf Magazine, Golfweek, Golf for Women, Stratos Magazine, Private Clubs Magazine, Successful Meetings Magazine, Corporate Meetings & Incentives Magazine, The Meeting Professional Magazine, and Cvent.com, Travelmuse.com, Shark.com and PGA Tour Partners online.
Schmidt is the author of three books, Florida Golf Getaways, 52 Great Florida Golf Getaways and Central Florida Visions. Corporate clients include SeaWorld Orlando, Paradise Advertising, Walt Disney World et al.
In a twenty-three year career Schmidt has written about a wide range of travel adventures such as deep sea fishing in the North Sea, playing golf in Morocco and searching for emeralds in Colombia. His research treks for travel stories have taken him to exotic locales around the world like China, Kenya, Tunisia, the Canary Islands, Bermuda, Argentina and Yugoslavia.
Schmidt's specialties include, travel, golf, luxury topics, business, meeting and convention sites, corporate public relations writing, web-site content writing, blog posts and ghost writing.