Angela Bonavoglia's latest book, Good Catholic Girls: How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church, is coming out in paperback on March 1 (Harper Collins/Regan Books)

Kathleen Vyn is a finalist for the Illinois Artist's Fellowship grant for 2006 in fiction and has received a grant of $700 for her novel-in-progress

Hope Feinglass Egan, author of Holy Cow! Does God Care About What We Eat? (FFOZ, 2005), has just signed a contract to write a weekly column for Syndicated Writers of America. Dubbed "Cooking with Hope," her column provides readers with simple and tasty recipes for cooking with God's ingredients

Eve LaPlante has an essay in a new collection, just out for Valentine's Day, Why I'm Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out on Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does the Dishes (Hudson Street Press). LaPlante, whose previous books are Seized and American Jezebel, is writing for HarperSanFrancisco a biography of her ancestor, the Salem witch judge who repented

Jean Fain, a Harvard Medical School psychotherapist and O the Oprah Magazine contributor, has published her effective weight-loss strategies on an audio CD series, "Eat to Live & Lose Weight." The first CD features an introduction to hypnosis and healthy eating and the same trance that Fain teaches her clients. Available at www.jeanfain.com

Elyse Zorn Karlin had an article on antique Georgian eye jewelry published in Unravel the Gavel. She has just celebrated the fifth year of publication of her journal "Adornment," by running a contest for people to write in about their favorite piece of jewelry

Andrea Campbell is featured in the new Bylines 2006 Writer's Desk Calendar. Look for her entry and photo on the December 10 page

Carol Krucoff will be a contributing editor to Yoga Journal and writes the magazine's Basics Column, beginning with the March issue

St. Martin's Press will publish Susan Shapiro Barash's new book, Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women and Rivalry, on March 13. Barash is the author of eight previous nonfiction women's issue books and teaches Critical Thinking/Gender Studies at Marymount Manhattan College

Tom Bedell's lead feature in the summer 2005 Acura Style magazine, "The Other New York," took a silver medal for travel writing in the 2005 International Automotive Media Awards

Randy Dotinga, a correspondent with The Christian Science Monitor, has begun writing book reviews for the newspaper. In recent months, he has reviewed books by Barbara Ehrenreich, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Peter Ackroyd. Dotinga also writes book-related feature stories for the Monitor

Nancy Rubin Stuart's The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox (Harcourt, 2005) was published in paperback in February. The Boston Globe praised it as a "richly sympathetic portrait of a fascinating and tragic woman." The Washington Post observed that the book's "great strength" was Stuart's portrayal of her character's deception "against a climate of willing belief."

John Hanc's sixth book, Racing for Recovery: Addict to Ironman, will be published in March by Breakaway Books. It's the story of Todd Crandell who, after 13 years of horrific drug and alcohol addiction, turned his life around and became an Ironman triathlete and founder of a nationwide foundation dedicated to substance abuse prevention

Paula Spencer's four-year-old Woman's Day column, "The Mom Next Door," is being re-titled "MOMfidence." Her book of the same name, MOMfidence: An Oreo Never Killed Anybody and Other Happy Truths From a So-Called Expert Mom, will be published in September by Crown

Robbie Miller Kaplan's book, How to Say It When You Don't Know What to Say: The Right Words for Difficult Times (Prentice Hall Press) was selected by Paul Houston, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators, as one of his favorite books. It was also recommended by Amy Dickinson in her "Ask Amy" column "for information and inspiration."

Kelly James-Enger's Six-Figure Freelancing: The Writer's Guide to Making More Money (Random House, 2005) is in its second printing and her first "chick lit" novel, Did you Get the Vibe?, originally a trade paperback, will be re-released as a mass market paperback by Kensington this month

Brazil-based Bill Hinchberger has launched several new revenue-generating features on his independently owned and operated, for-profit travel Web site, including online hotel reservations, friends/dating and music downloads. Speaking of music, BrazilMax Radio, featuring interviews and indie music, has gone live. All that and more can be seen and heard at www.brazilmax.com

Claire Walter, author of two books on snowshoeing, was interviewed for and quoted in the December 22 edition of The New York Times. Asked why snowshoeing is America's fastest-growing winter sport, she said to the reporter, "Because it's easy. If you can walk, you can snowshoe. The joke is that it's a 12-step program: Take 12 steps, and you're a snowshoer."

Joan Price's new book, Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty (Seal Press), received an enthusiastic review from Kirkus Reports, which called the book an "empowering and straightforward guide to sex for the older woman" written with "upbeat tempo and infectious energy."

Judith Kelman's fourteenth novel, The Session, is a new hardcover release from Berkley Books. Linda Fairstein calls the book "haunting psychological suspense, skillfully crafted and engaging." Kelman also co-wrote Dr. Peter Scardino's Prostate Book (Avery, 2005) recently named by the Economist as a best medical book of the year.