About ContentField

ContentField is a content distribution firm owned and managed by Michael Bailey.

Michael has been writing business and creative content for over 15 years.  Michael's experience  included technical writing, advertising copy, screenplay consulting, and social media content.  While working in the business world by day, Michael was developing his creative ideas and writing in the evenings.  When he felt it was time to attempt to publish his work, instead of seeking a traditional publisher, Michael decided to attempt to self-publish using the skills in technology he had developed over the years.  Thus, ContentField was born.

To find out more about Michael's experience becoming a successful self-publisher, contact us today!

About Michael Bailey

Michael was born in Minneapolis, but spent his early childhood in Stuart, Florida.  Mike acquired a love of reading from his parents Milton and Colleen, and enjoyed swimming, bike riding and watching lots of classic sitcom’s on TV.  He developed a fascination with cars, boats, airplanes and rockets from an early age, and can clearly remember watching the last of the Apollo rockets launch from his front yard. 

Then, Star Wars came out and captured his imagination, and Mike began a life-long interest in science fiction.

Later, he spent his early teens on a hobby farm in southern Minnesota.  Here he learned to love the outdoors hiking and exploring the woods in the river valley near home.  He spent the last three years of high school in Naperville, IL, near Chicago.  Never a great student, he barely graduated.  But the lasting legacy of those years was his conversion to Christianity and the laying of a firm foundation in Christ.

In his twenties, Michael returned to the Minneapolis area and worked at various jobs and attended Northwestern College for three years.  He also gained management experience at Best Buy as a supervisor and manager and Wells Fargo Home Mortgage.

After the events of 2011, and the loss of a friend in a car accident, Michael decided to pursue his dream of becoming a professional writer and moved to Los Angeles.  After several years of struggling to make ends meet, Mike landed a job as a technical writer with a company developing software for the Air Force.  Mike’s focus changed from becoming a screenwriter to writing novels, while at the same time getting married and starting a family. 

In July of 2010, over a weekend, Mike began to develop weakness in his arms and legs, and even his face began showing signs of paralysis.  After three trips to the ER, and finally seeing a neurologist, Mike was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome.  After a week long treatment in the hospital, Mike began a long recovery which could take up to 3 years.  The circumstances of his illness caused Mike to deeply evaluate his life and deepen his gratitude to God for the many blessings of family, friends, and life itself.

In 2011, Michael accepted a position and transfer to Huntsville, AL to work as a business analyst supporting a government customer.  As he and his family settled into a new life, the reality of the financial pressures they faced forced him to think creatively and take some risks he had not attempted before. 

Using bedtime stories he would make up for his daughter Ella as the foundation of his idea, he rapidly wrote out a 'seaseon' of short stories.  Self-publishing on Amazon and other ebook sites, he used ContentFieldas name for this publisher.  Not content just to post his work and hope for the best, Michal developed and aggressive and comprehensive marketing plan for his work that would form the basis for all we do at ContentField.

The rest, as they say, is history...

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