Mr. Kolk is a sociopath, repeatedly hiring free lance writers, agreeing to a price, and then not paying for services rendered. The pieces are then published in his magazine "East Coast Home and Design". He has committed this fraud on a number of writers, not just myself. After he burns through someone, he just finds a new victim and it starts all over again. He should be shut down!

The only thing "fictitious" here is the person called "ms. traveleditor, " who is clearly none other than Kolk himself. M. Carroll is absolutely correct in what she writes, and is just one of an endless cadre of writers, designers, art directors, columnists, and photographers who have not gotten paid by Matt Kolk and his shifty organization. He hires people, has them do the work, publishes their work, and then does not pay them. Repeated requests for payment are simply ignored. Matt Kolk makes Bernie Madoff look like Saint Vincent de Paul. His magazine is a joke in the industry and the only people he has left to do the work are talentless cohorts of his who either don't mind not getting paid, or are thrilled to see their name in print (and probably misspelled.) The low quality of this work is readily apparent with even the most cursory glance of his ludicrous publication.