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May 2003
For a presentation sponsored by the Hudson Valley Technology & Commerce Group, a region-wide nonprofit group that meets in her hometown of Woodstock, N.Y., Minda Zetlin donned a silk robe and pajamas to give a presentation on her book Telecommuting for Dummies. "The idea of the sleepwear was that so many of our meetings involve someone standing at a podium and just talking to the audience," Minda says. "I wanted to liven it up a little. Since we were talking about working at home, I thought people should be able to ‘dress down.'"
Dianne Partie Lange's third book, a collaboration with Los Angeles dermatologist Howard Murad, MD, entitled The Murad Method: Wrinkle-Proof, Repair, and Renew Your Skin with the Proven 5-Week Program was published in April by St. Martin's Press
David Drucker announces the publication of his newsletter, Virtual Office News, a spinoff of his 2002 book, Virtual Office Tools for a High-Margin Practice (Bloomberg Press). His February 2003 issue can be sampled at www.daviddrucker. com
Carole Terwilliger Meyers's new book, FamilyFun Vacation Guide: California & Hawaii (Disney Editions, 2003), was just released. Her first annotated map, Bay Area Family Fun (Via, 2003), has also just been published
A.B. "Bud" Feuer was awarded the club's Special Achievement Award by The Virginia Writers Club for his 11 books and hundreds of articles that chronicle the U.S.'s military history
Published in December, Wilbur Cross's epic, Encyclopedia of American Submarines (Facts on File, 2002), covers the entire history of Navy submarines since the first one in 1900
Linda Lawrence Hunt's book Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk across Victorian America (University of Idaho Press, 2003) recreates the 1896 true adventures of a spirited immigrant mother and daughter lured
by a $10,000 wager needed to save
their homestead. See www.boldspirit acrossamerica.com
Gene and Katie Hamilton's latest book, Internet Connections for Marketing Success was released in January (BuilderBooks)
Alan Caruba, the author of Warning Signs (Merril Press, 2003), a collection of his weekly columns, was profiled in Insight on the News magazine (www.insightmag.com), in late March. The founder of The National Anxiety Center, Caruba's column is posted weekly on www.anxietycenter.com and widely excerpted on more than thirty other Internet news and opinion sites
Susan Newman, Ph.D. looks at the relationship most adult children take for granted in Nobody's Baby Now: Reinventing Your Adult Relationship with Your Mother and Father, published in hardcover this month by Walker & Company
In February, John Wiley & Sons issued the 2nd edition of Kurt Repanshek's book, America's National Parks for Dummies. Also, Ulysses Press is scheduled to release the 2nd edition of his book, Hidden Utah, this month
Tom Price is the author of the Frommer's tourist guide, Washington, D.C. for Dummies (2nd Edition, Wiley, 2003)
The New York Times praised the 2003 edition of Julian Block's Year Round Savings as "readable...a good choice...and a thorough and clear explanation of how the tax law affects individuals in seemingly every facet of financial life."
An international publisher has pulled Death Watch, a 400-page novel by authors Michael Sedge and Joel Jacobs, from its release schedule because, as one pre-publication reviewer put it, "The work reads like a manual for a terrorist." Sedge, author of 20 books says, "We worked on this project for 10 years. Our research and military consultants—including some also used by novelist Tom Clancy—is impeccable. We even went as far as consulting the Department of the Navy and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to ensure every aspect was correct." Death Watch was scheduled to be released simultaneously in the United States and Europe, however, because of a rise in terrorist activities, the publisher decided not to launch the military thriller
Susan K. Perry will appear on dozens of radio stations to discuss Loving In Flow, and was quoted last month in US Weekly on celebrity marital breakups.
