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September 2003
Julie Weingarden Dubin offers her been-there-done-that advice to second-time brides and grooms in her book, How to Plan an Elegant Second Wedding—Achieving the Wedding You Want with Grace and Style (Prima Publishing/Three Rivers Press). Dubin was recently interviewed on Fox 2 News (Detroit) about her book
Patricia and Robert Foulke have just published Adventure Guide to the Champlain and Hudson River Valleys (Hunter Publishing)
Karen O'Connor's book Help, Lord! I'm Having a Senior Moment (Servant Publications) has been picked up by the Starcrest Catalogue Company. After a successful test marketing campaign the book has been selling at a rate of 1,000 copies a day--49,000 so far in a couple of weeks. In Step With Your Stepchildren: Building a Strong One-on-One Relationship was released from Beacon Hill Press at the recent Christian Booksellers Convention in Orlando
Hal Hellman will be featured in a four-part "History of Medicine" television series airing on the History Channel, September 16-19 at 8 PM. Hal is the author of Great Feuds in Medicine (John Wiley, 2001) and Great Feuds in Science (1998)
Colorado-based author/designer Cam Burns recently won an Apex "Award of Excellence" for his design and layout of last year's NATJA book of the year, The Shoes of Kilimanjaro & Other Oddventure Travel Stories. The Apex awards are given for both design and literary achievement
Louise Zobel's Travel Writer`s Handbook: How to Write and Sell Your Own Travel Experiences was recently published in its Fifth Edition by Surrey Books. This new edition includes the latest information about online, as well as print, requirements, exposure and pay scale
Chicken Soup for the Romantic Soul (2003) included in its selection an article called "Golden Wedding" by Nena O'Neill from her book, The Marriage Premise (M. Evans, 1977)
Herbert Hadad was named winner of the CASE Silver Medal for magazine writing by the Washington-based Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. Hadad's 3,000-word essay recounts his often comic battle to overcome the fear of public speaking. The piece appeared in the January 2003 issue of Northeastern University Magazine and was selected from among several thousand nominations
Marian Calabro's latest corporate history, Making Things Work: PSEG's First Century (Greenwich Publishing), has been chosen for the Idea Exchange, an international databank of exemplary corporate communications
Bruce Shenitz received the 2002 Lambda Literary Award in the Nonfiction Anthology category for editing The Man I Might Become: Gay Men Write about Their Fathers (Marlowe & Company, 2002). He is currently executive editor of Out magazine, where he oversees coverage of social, cultural and political issues
Land of Morning Calm: Korean Culture Then and Now (Shen's Books), a picture book for ages 7-12, was published this summer. It is co-written by John Stickler and his wife Soma Han, who also created the 50 watercolor illustrations. John was the CBS News correspondent in Seoul from 1967-76
The Catholic Press Association recently named John Rosengren's syndicated monthly column on contemporary issues Best Regular Column in the General Commentary category
Jodie Gould won the first annual MADD Media Award given by Mothers Against Drunk Driving for her March 2003 Family Circle magazine article on high school spring breaks
Sondra Forsyth is slated to give seminars (9/16 and 10/22) for the Learning Annex in New York City. Her topic is "How to Make $100,000 as a Freelance Writer." Sondra spoke recently at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as well as at the annual conference of the Writing Center of Marymount Manhattan College
Debbie Danowski, Ph.D. recently signed a contract to publish The Overeater's Journal: Exercises for the Heart, Mind, and Soul. Designed to complement her first two books, Why Can't I Stop Eating? (Hazelden 2000) and Locked Up for Eating Too Much (Hazelden 2002), the book will be published in April 2004 by Hazelden
Claire Walter's latest book, Culinary Colorado, has just been released by Fulcrum Publishing of Golden, Colorado. She has been honored with the Society of American Travel Writers Western Chapter's Frank Riley Award for articles researched during the chapter's 2001 meeting in Rapid City, South Dakota, and vicinity
Judith Kelman's 13th novel, Every Step You Take, is a September hardcover release from Putnam
Hedy Weinberg is the co-author of Living with Hemochromatosis: Expert Answers to Your Questions about Iron Overload, a Healthy Living Book published by Hatherleigh Press. Ms. Weinberg and Gregory T. Everson, M.D., F.A.C.P., previously collaborated on Living with Hepatitis C, Living with Hepatitis B, and My Mom Has Hepatitis C
Rebecca Skloot has sold her book The Immortal Cells Of Henrietta Lack to Crown books in a hotly contested multi-bidder auction. In June, Skloot left her position as life sciences editor at Popular Science magazine to become their life sciences contributing editor in order to focus on her book full time
P. Elizabeth Anderson co-authored Emotional Longevity (Viking Press) with husband Norman B. Anderson, Ph.D., CEO of the American Psychological Association
After Rob Goldberg's stint as a TV critic of the Wall Street Journal, three books, dozens of documentary films (PBS, National Geographic), there was only one place to go: a rock and roll band. His group, the Voltaires (www.thevoltaires.com), has a new CD, All About Her, coming out this October on Nine Lives Records
Andrea Campbell's article, "Writing Crime Fiction," is featured in the August issue of The Writer. She also made the Top 10 in the Writer's Digest Best Web Site competition
Carol Weston's Melanie Martin Goes Dutch came out in paperback in June (Dell Yearling). In May, Carol spoke at Yale with National Book Award winner Julia Glass on a panel called Book Writing 101
The new anthology, My Sherlock Holmes (St. Martin's Press), just made the San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller list and includes a contribution from Norman Schreiber.
