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May 2004
Erik Sherman's book, Geocaching: Hike and Seek with your GPS (Apress) is officially out
Wally Wood's new book (written with author Jerry Acuff) The Relationship Edge in Business: Connecting with Customers and Colleagues When It Counts has just been published by John Wiley & Sons
Travel writer Judy Waytiuk has been awarded a Canadian Tourism Commission 2003 Northern Lights Award for travel journalism (independent journalist, magazines), for her piece "Stalwart Sentinels of the Prairies" in Americas Magazine. Waytiuk recently also won the Tourism Industry Association of Canada's inaugural annual Travel Media award
Megan McMorris spent the bulk of last year hiking and camping with her trusty canine companion to research her first book, Oregon Hiking (Avalon Travel). It hit bookshelves in April
Carole Jacobs has left Shape magazine after 18 years to freelance fulltime from her new home in California's High Sierra. She is now the fitness travel editor with travelgirl magazine and is working on her fourth book, The Boomer Babe's Bible, to be published in January 2005
Trish Riley's story on toxic mold in schools won South Florida Parenting magazine a national 2004 Gold Award for Investigative Reporting from Parenting Publications of America. She has also received a book contract from Countryman Press to write a guide to Florida's Gold Coast, thanks to a proposal she submitted to Berkshire House Publisher Jean Rousseau after meeting him at the ASJA Conference in 2002 ... Marvin J. Wolf was recently hired by USA Network to write Ladies Night, a screenplay based on a chapter in Platinum Crime, a nonfiction book co-written with private investigator Armand Grant and published in 1988. The production was greenlighted in March and will be filmed in Canada this month
The revised edition of Elyse Zorn Karlin's book, Jewelry and Metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Tradition (Schiffer Publishing) was just published. The book has been in print for ten years ... John Hanc was named to the 2004 edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Hanc is an associate professor at the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury and a regular contributor to Newsday. His fifth book, The FORCE Program: The Proven Way to Fight Cancer Through Physical Activity and Exercise—co-authored with FORCE program founder Jeff Berman and Fran Fleegler, M.D.—was released in paperback by Ballantine in January
Jan Arrigo's new book Explore Jean Lafitte National Historical Park & Preserve, a guidebook that combines historical stories with present-day activities for the six national park and cultural sites within Louisiana's Mississippi River Delta in and around New Orleans, was published last month
At the 2004 New York Book Show, the Bookbinders Guild honored Henry Billings with a first place award for his elementary textbook History of Our World: People, Places, and Ideas, published in 2003 by Steck-Vaughn, a subsidiary of Harcourt
Pat McNees's New Formulas for America's Workforce: Girls in Science and Engineering (National Science Foundation) went through its entire first printing in five weeks (plus 102,000 downloads of the book, most of them in PDF format); a second printing was issued in late Februrary. She also will receive a Blue Pencil Award (the most prestigious award offered by government communicators) for Building Ten at Fifty, a history of the NIH Clinical Center
One of Shirley Camper Soman's books is just out from ASJA Press, iUNIVERSE. The original book, Let's Stop Destroying Our Children, was widely publicized when it came out with endorsements and reviews (The Library Journal called it "a must" and Soman was on the Today Show and the national news, for instance). The new release includes a 100-page update, titled Then And Now
