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The American Society of Journalists and Authors, the professional association of independent nonfiction writers, helps freelance writers advance their careers. Members share candid data on writing rates, publishing contracts, editors, agents and more. Non-members benefit from our Contracts Watch newsletter, annual writers conference and writing resources. Editors and others can search our membership to hire experienced authors and journalists. Learn more.

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June Member News

Alan Caruba, editor of http://www.bookviews.com , a popular monthly Internet report on new nonfiction and fiction, reports that the publication also now appears on http://www.ReaditNews.com , a Prescott, Arizona website. Alan is a charter member of the National Book Critics Circle.

Pat Thomson, a film and wine writer, has recently gained membership in the Wine Media Guild of New York. She also moderated a cinematography panel at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this May.

In May, Joan Rattner Heilman began writing "Senior Traveler," a monthly column for the travel section of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Rena Dictor LeBlanc's science fiction short story, "The Rules Of Raffle," won honorable mention in the Science Fiction/Fantasy category of the fourth annual Writer's Digest Popular Fiction Awards. According to Writer's Digest editor Jessica Strawser "...Your success in the face of such formidable competition speaks highly of your writing talent..."



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ASJA Exclusives: June 2009
From the President's Desk: Toward a Stainless Future

Member Web Sites ASJA members promote their careers online in a wide variety web sites.

Writing Life: Rereading Twain on Travel by Peter Rose

Tech Talk: Kindling a New Passion for Reading by Robert Bittner

Voices on Writing: Fearless: Sue Williams Silverman by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

What's In Store: Books that Help You Make More Money by Kelly James-Enger

Wise Advice with Andrea King Collier, Sam Greengard, Florence Isaacs, and Minda Zetlin


ASJA Exclusives: May 2009
Hauling by ASJA President Russ Wild

Member Web Sites ASJA members promote their careers online in a wide variety web sites.

What's In Store: The Best of Inspirational Writing Books by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Remembering Murray Teigh Bloom: 1917 - 2009 with Norman Lobsenz, Katharine D. Fishman, Tania Grossinger, Bonnie Remsberg, and George Devine

Writers' Health: Protect Thy Hands by Martin Zucker

Voices on Writing: YA Author Nora Baskin by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett


ASJA Exclusives: April 2009
Hard Times by ASJA President Russ Wild

Member Web Sites ASJA members promote their careers online in a wide variety web sites.

Welcome to New York! by Tony Robbins

How to Succeed with ASJA's Annual Conference by Sally Stich, ASJA Conference Co-Chair

Take Your Writing Career to the Next Level with Social Media by Kathy Sena

Voices on Writing: Conference Keynote Speaker Molly O'Neill by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett


ASJA Exclusives: March 2009
Broadening Our Horizons

Member Web Sites ASJA members promote their careers online in a wide variety web sites.

Adventures of a Pen-Pushing Parent by Melanie Lasoff Levs

Career GPS: 2009 Writers Conference Details by Sherry Beck Paprocki

Voices on Writing: Bonnie Nadell by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Wise Advice by Andrea King Collier, Sam Greengard, Florence Isaacs and Minda Zetlin


ASJA Exclusives: February 2009
To Tell The Truth

Member Web Sites ASJA members promote their careers online in a wide variety web sites.

Meltdown! ASJA Members Respond to the Financial Crisis by Julie Catalano, Sandra Dark, Bruce W. Fraser, Mary Beth Klatt, Andrea Warren

Money Matters: Stitching Together a Portfolio by Brad Zigler

Voices on Writing: T. Jefferson Parker by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

What Ails You by Kate Hanley

What's In Store: Find Your Future In A Market Guide by Randy Dotinga

Wise Advice by Andrea King Collier, Sam Greengard and Minda Zetlin


ASJA Exclusives: January 2009
From the President's Desk: Our Evolving Profession, Our Evolving Careers

Member Web Sites ASJA members promote their careers online in a wide variety web sites.

Writing Life: When Words Really Matter by Kelly James-Enger

Wise Advice by Andrea King Collier, Sam Greengard, Florence Isaacs and Minda Zetlin

Career GPS: 2009 Writers Conference Details by Sherry Beck Paprocki

Conference Recording Reviews by Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Writers Health: Acupressure for Writers by Kate Hanley

What's In Store: Give Yourself a Good Reference by Randy Dotinga

Money Matters: Spreading the Wealth by Brad Zigler

Voices on Writing: Darren Rowse by Daylle Deanna Schwartz





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President's Letter
Toward a Stainless Future

By Russell Wild

My dad belongs to a group of 20 or so men, mostly in their 80s, with two in their 90s, long-retired lawyers, engineers and bankers. They call their club Cerebration. Once a week, on Monday mornings, the old Floridians meet to sip decaf coffee and discuss anything and everything, sometimes as a free-for-all, other times following a designated speaker. On the particular day that my son and I were invited as guests, Gabe, a retired physicist and chemist, delivered a slide-show presentation (real celluloid, not PowerPoint) on the production of steel.

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