For a list of upcoming book signings and events by ASJA members, click here.
March 2005
Washington insider Karen Feld has signed a contract to pen a three-times-a-week political/celebrity personality column for the new DC Examiner that launched in February. Feld has been recognized for her award-winning columns and broadcasts and was the Washington editor of the Delta Shuttle Sheet for the past half-dozen years
The 3rd edition of Kurt Repanshek's guidebook, National Parks of the West for Dummies, reached bookstores in mid-February
Award-winning fashion writer Michele Meyer has contributed to Carolina Herrera by Alexandra Kotur (Assouline, 2004), along with Vogue's Anna Wintour and Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter. An Art & Antiques contributor, she was a correspondent for Lucky for a year, Allure for eight years and Women's Wear Daily for 11 years
Barbara Sofer's book Ilan Ramon: Israel's Space Hero (Lerner Publications) has been named a 2004 Notable Children's Book by the Sydney Taylor Book Award committee of the Association of Jewish Libraries
Nancy Rubin Stuart's The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox, the authoritative biography of the world-famous medium and cofounder of the Spiritualist movement that swept America in the mid-1800s, is out from Harcourt
Angela Bonavoglia's new book, Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church (HarperCollins/Regan Books) will be published on March 15
Stacie Z. Berg won honorable mention in the National Print Science/Medical category of the most recent judging for the MS Public Education Award (PEA) contest for "UV Radiation, Autoimmunity and Questions Galore," which appeared in The Scientist. The contest was judged by independent print and broadcast journalists
Caroline Tiger's latest book, The Long Distance Relationship Guide: Advice for the Geographically Challenged, has just been released by Quirk Books. Her modern manners guide, How To Behave, also from Quirk, and has been translated into Finnish and Japanese
Charles Remsberg has been named lead columnist and senior contributor for PoliceOne.com, the pre-eminent law enforcement-related Web site. He's also editor and writer of Force Science News, a biweekly e-newsletter about police use of force, produced by the Force Science Research Center at Minnesota State U at Mankato
The paperback edition of Steve Kemper's Code Name Ginger, retitled Reinventing the Wheel, is out this month from HarperBusiness. The book won an honorable mention in ASJA's general nonfiction category last year
Eve LaPlante's book, American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans (Harper, 2004), is out in paperback. According to Publisher's Weekly "first-rate, fast-paced, elegant."
Sally Moore's Culinary New Mexico: the Ultimate Food Lover's Guide will be issued this month by Fulcrum Publishing. The book chronicles the best of the state's dining and the broad spectrum of restaurants and food products that make New Mexico special
Leslie Levine will be a featured author at the Illinois Authors Book Fair, March 4 and 5 (and will visit area schools the day before to speak about writing). The theme is "Celebrating Our Diverse Literary Heritage." The fair draws more than 3,500 patrons and will be held in Springfield, Illinois
Ruth Gruber is working on three books: Virginia Woolf: Her Will to Create as a Woman (Carroll and Graf, pub date: May); Witness, a book of Ruth's photos across the century (Schocken, pub date to be set); In Spite of Time: How To Live at 93 (Carroll and Graf, pub date to be set) is Volume 3 of her memoirs
Hope Feinglass Egan's new book Holy Cow! Does God Care About What We Eat? (First Fruits of Zion) is due out in April
"If you think you've read this same announcement before, you're right. Sixteen times, in fact," says Joan Rattner Heilman. Her perennial guidebook, Unbelievably Good Deals and Great Adventures That You Absolutely Can't Get Unless You're Over 50 (Contemporary Books), is just out in a new updated 16th edition ... In the spring, Cleo Paskal took first place in the Northern Lights awards for her National Post feature on curling in Winnipeg. Now, she's won a Grand Prize (best overall entry) in the North American Travel Journalists Association awards for her National Post series on odd Canadian animals. She dedicates the latest award to her new best friends, the lemmings.
