Renegade Writer Makeover Expert - Donna Smallin
Meet our Renegade Writer makeover expert Donna Smallin, who’ll be working with our makeover candidate, Jennifer Applin. You saw Jennifer’s desk — she needs Donna’s organizing expertise pronto!
Organizing expert Donna Smallin has written six books on cleaning, uncluttering, organizing and simplifying life that have sold nearly 600,000 copies in multiple languages.
Her books include Unclutter Your Mind (2006), Cleaning Plain and Simple
(2006), The One-Minute Organizer Plain & Simple
(2004), Organizing Plain & Simple
(2002), 7 Simple Steps to Unclutter Your Life
(2000) and Unclutter Your Home
(1999).
An Amazon.com reviewer refers to Donna as “the Suze Orman of organizing.†Often quoted by the media, her tips appear frequently in Woman’s Day and Real Simple magazines as well as past issues of Reader’s Digest, Redbook, Seventeen, and Woman’s World.
Her Web site (www.unclutter.com) attracts 40,000 visitors each year. Through the Web site, Donna has gained an extremely loyal and steadily growing database of subscribers to her monthly organizing tips, which often include product reviews.
A member of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) and winner of the NAPO 2006 Founders Award, Donna Smallin is one of the organizing industry’s most recognized and respected experts. A native Upstate New Yorker, she is now enjoying life in the greater Phoenix, Arizona, area.

