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December 2004
Stephanie Stephens won two awards from American Horse Publications, with 300-plus members, for News Reporting and Instructional Single Article.
Jennifer Hull's first book, Beyond One: Growing a Family and Getting a Life has just been released by Seal Press. Part memoir, part surival guide, the book looks at how life changes after the second child.
Journalist and non-fiction author, Jo Kadlecek, has just signed a contract with WaterBrook/Random House for her chick-lit mystery series, The Lightfoot Trilogy, scheduled for Spring 2006. (Film/TV rights have also been sold.) Her first novel, The Sound of My Voice, (also by Waterbrook Press/Random House) is due spring 2005.
Joan Detz's How to Write and Give a Speech (St. Martin's Press, 3rd edition, 2002) now marks its 20th anniversary ("a how-to classic," The Washington Post).
ASJA members Bonnie Neeley and Pat Gallant are featured in the 2005 edition of Bylines Writer's Desk Calendar. The inspirational daytimer showcases one author each week sharing thoughts on the writing life.
Kristin Ohlson's book, Stalking the Divine -- which won ASJA's Best General Nonfiction Award for 2004 -- will be out this month in paperback with new cover art from Plume Books.
Travel and food writer Janet Groene served as a judge in the New Products Showcase at this year's Florida Restaurant Show. Two dozen new products were demonstrated; more than 500 exhibitors showed their wares to the trade and press. Groene's newest book is a second edition of her Cooking Aboard Your RV (Ragged Mountain Press/McGraw-Hill).
The Sixth Edition of Ruth Winter's A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives has just been published by Three Rivers Press/Crown. It includes many new entries, as well as statistics on the money spent each year -- $1.4 billion -- on just flavorings and flavor enhancers.
Steve Friess, Jennifer Lawler, Melanie Radzicki McManus, Jim Morrison, Trish Riley, Paul Rogers and Theresa Russell are among the writers who contributed to Mobil Travel Guide: NASCAR Travel Planner, a new guidebook created for NASCAR fans who plan vacations around the sport. Margaret Littman is publisher and executive editor of the new annual volume, which hits stores December 2005.
Long time member Antoinette Bosco's 14th book came out in October: Miracles Abound -- When We Open Our Hearts to God (Twenty-Third/Bayard Publications), which the publisher says "offers hope and faith to all who face difficulties, disappointments, suffering, and loss in their daily lives."
Australian member Wilson da Silva was elected president of the World Federation of Science Journalists at the 4th World Conference of Science Journalists in Montreal in October. He serves until the 2006 conference in Melbourne, Australia.
Erich Hoyt (2002 ASJA Outstanding Book Award for Creatures of the Deep) has released Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises (Earthscan, London), a 500-page grassroots conservation tool.
Candyce H. Stapen won the Caribbean Tourism Organization's North America Travel Writer of the Year award for a series of articles on family travel.
Gigi Berardi marks the fall release of Finding Balance: Fitness, Training, and Health for a Lifetime in Dance (Routledge) with Seattle signings. This second edition -- rewritten, and with all new graphics and references -- presents recent findings on health and fitness, and what it takes to pursue careers in the arts.
Kudos are due Andrea Warren, whose book, Surviving Hitler, was chosen by 55,000 readers to receive the prestigious William Allen White Award. Andie received her award in October in Emporia, Kansas, where White lived. She is also a Kansas resident who earned her J-school degree from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas.
