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December 2002
Lisa Collier Cool was profiled in the October 2002 issue of Freelance Success.
Timothy Harper's Atlantic Monthly story, "Shoot to Kill," a 2001 ASJA magazine story-of-the-year, has been reprinted in the third edition of McGraw-Hill's Patterns For A Purpose: A Rhetorical Reader.
Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., chose Russell Wild as winner in its Consumer Publications category for his article, "The ABCs of Money," Modern Maturity, July-August 2002. Russ will receive $1,000.
Jill Amadio's latest book, Gunther Rall: Luftwaffe Ace and NATO General (Tangmere Productions, 2002), was published in July and a second printing is in the works
More foreign imprints for Tina Tessina, Ph.D. The Ten Smartest Decisions a Woman Can Make After Forty is now published in German as Wenn nicht jetzt, wann dann? (If not now, when?)
Karen Dustman is happy to report that she passed the Nevada Bar exam. She is also licensed in California
Judith Mandelbaum-Schmid, who moved to Switzerland last year, has been appointed Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Maryland University College. She teaches magazine writing for the university's distance education program
Claire Walter received Colorado Ski Country USA's 2001-2002 Lowell Thomas Award for Print Journalism for her article, "Colorado's Quiet Slopes," Sunset Magazine, February 2002, and Mitch Kaplan scored the Lowell Thomas Award in the Electronic Journalism category for his story, "Steamboat? Why Not?" featured on www.kidznsnow.com in March of 2002
Robert Bruce Woodcox, author of the best selling The Golf Gods Are Laughing (Seven Locks Press) has a new novel, The Prodigy (Literary Press, Inc.), a story about life and golf
Bruce Shenitz has edited The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write About Their Fathers (Marlowe & Company), the first anthology on the subject. He is currently executive editor of Out magazine, where he oversees coverage of social, cultural and political issues
The second and third Dia Michels' series of photographed children's books have just been released by Platypus Media: Look What I See! Where Can I Be? At Home, and Look What I See! Where Can I Be? With My Animal Friends
Marie B. Maher recently published Gifts from Shane (iUniverse) about her son's 18-month battle with severe aplastic anemia. The book's foreword was written by Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump
Michael Frome's new book, Greenspeak—Fifty Years Of Environmental Muckraking And Advocacy, was just published by the U of Tennessee Press
Psychoanalyst Alma Bond's tenth book, Tales of Psychology: Short Stories to Make You Wise, has just been published by Paragon House
Sue Russell's new true crime book, Lethal Intent, (Kensington Book Publishing/Pinnacle Books), about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, was published in November. Just weeks earlier, on October 9th, Wuornos was executed in Florida for the murders of six men. The timing certainly wasn't on agent and ASJA member Linda Konner's mind when she sold the book back in the summer of 2001.
