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Feburary 2003
Sondra Forsyth continues to contribute to "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" in Ladies' Home Journal, where she served as executive editor. She is also writing for the new spin-off, "Was This Marriage Saved?"
W. Thomas Smith Jr. recently lectured to a group of combat correspondents at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C.
Mary L. Peachin's book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sharks (Alpha), is now in stores
Jane Brooks, author of Midlife Orphan: Facing Life's Changes Now that Your Parents are Gone (Berkley, 1999), was the keynote speaker for the 17th Annual Geriatric Forum on Current Concepts in Health and Aging held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Helene Vorce-Tish's novel, Challenging the Forces of Hate, was published in December by PublishAmerica
Jan Friedman won a Lowell Thomas award for excellence in travel journalism by the Society of American Travel Writers. Her book, Eccentric America, was voted "Best Guidebook of 2002"
Jen Singer has launched a new Web site, www.mommasaid.net
Martha Barnette's third book on word origins, Dog Days and Dandelions: A Lively Guide to the Animal Meanings Behind Everyday Words, was just published by St. Martin's Press
Gordon and Janet Groene's Camping Digest has just been published by Krause Publications. Their Day Trips From Orlando also came out this month from Globe-Pequot
Mary Harmon won First Place in the Regional Print: Science/Medical Category of the 2001 MS Public Education Award contest. Mary's article, "When The Doctor Suspects MS," ran in Women's Health Advisor, a newsletter at Cornell University
Norman Schreiber's short story, "Call Me Wiggins," appears this month in the anthology Our Sherlock Holmes (St. Martin's Press, edited by Michael Kurland)
In December, Elaine Fantle Shimberg was awarded an honorary doctorate of humanities by the University of South Florida
Leslie Laurence is now a contributing editor at Ladies' Home Journal. This past summer she received a Knight/CDC Foundation fellowship called "Boot Camp in Public Health," a 10-day crash course for journalists held at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention's campus in Atlanta
Richard C. Levy was profiled on CBS' The Saturday Early Show, and interviewed again for CBS News Sunday Morning, both triggered by his Complete Idiot's Guide To Cashing In On Your Inventions (Alpha). Richard also created two new board games in 2002: Family Reunion (USAopoly) and Route 66 (Endless Games)
Sophia Dembling's book, The Yankee Chick's Survival Guide to Texas, (Republic of Texas Press) went into a second printing in October, less than a year after its release
Charles Harrison's ninth non-fiction book, Growing a Global Village, is out this month. He also has written and co-produced a 35-minute documentary titled Seabrook Farms Remembered
Kelly James-Enger's book, Ready, Aim, Specialize! Create Your Own Writing Specialty and Make More Money (The Writer Books, 2003), was just released. Kelly also recently sold her first novel, Did You Get the Vibe?, to Kensington Books, to be published November, 2003
Carol Weston spoke about her book, For Teens Only, (HarperCollins, 2003) on "The Caroline Rhea Show" (ABC, New York City). Carol's first novel, The Diary of Melanie Martin (HarperCollins, 2000) has been published by Mondadori as Vacanze Italiane (or Italian Vacation)
In the wake of the Lord of the Rings movies, people are rediscovering Daniel Grotta's biography J.R.R. Tolkien; Architect of Middle Earth, originally published as a trade paperback by Running Press in 1976 and in continuous publication ever since
A Polish edition of Lisa and Jonathan Price's book, Hot Text: Web Writing that Works, has just been issued by Helion Publishers under the Polish title Profesjonalny serwis WWW (Professional Web Sites)
Linden Gross continues to write her "Women Doing It Their Way" national bi-monthly column for Woman's Own magazine and is also partnering with Oakland, California's Sexual Assault Response Team to develop interactive seminars—an extension of the non-profit organization she founded and still heads, the Stalking Survivors' Sanctuary & Solutions (www. stalkingvictims.com)
Forbes ASAP ranked Roger Cox's interactive guide, Tennis Resorts Online (www.tennisresortsonline. com), among its "Best of the Web" for Sports Travel, and more recently. Newsweek lauded its coverage
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?) and It Ends With You, Grow Up and Out of Dysfunction will be released by New Page Books this month
Michael Bowker's expose, Fatal Deception: Why Asbestos is Still Legal and Still Killing Us (Rodale Press hardback, Simon & Schuster audio book and softback rights) was released in January
Gene and Katie Hamilton's new book, Internet Connections for Marketing Success was published by BuilderBooks in January
Pat Shapiro's sixth book, Always My Child: A Parent's Guide to Understanding Your Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered or Questioning Son or Daughter, (with Kevin Jennings, exec. dir. of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) was published in January by Fireside/Simon & Schuster
Cathy Crimmins' Where Is the Mango Princess, the 2001 winner of the ASJA Outstanding Book Award (General Nonfiction), will be made into a TNT original movie. Cathy will get an executive producer credit. Shooting wil begin sometime in the late spring.
