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April 2006
Society Page
University of Wisconsin Press finally ships long-awaited updates of Franklynn Peterson and Judi K(esselman)-Turkel's Author's Handbook and Magazine Writer's Handbook in early March. Of Author's Handbook, ASJA member Mary Higgins Clark says, "Terrific! Vital for both professional and beginning writer." Of Magazine Writer's Handbook, Lisa Collier Cool says, "An essential resource."
The second edition of Joshua Berman's Moon Handbooks Nicaragua (co-author Randy Wood, Avalon Travel Publishing) recently hit the shelves. Joshua's reports from his ongoing 15-month, round-the-world service-learning honeymoon, "The Tranquilo Traveler" (www.blog.stonegrooves.net), was praised in Transitions Abroad magazine and has been featured in several online travel writing publications, including WorldHum.com, Gadling.com, and PerceptiveTravel.com
Anne Hart's 1,700 Ways to Earn Free Book Publicity, How to Open a Business Writing and Publishing Memoirs, Gift Books, or Success Stories and How to Turn Poems, Lyrics, & Folklore into Salable Children's Books: Using Humor or Proverbs have just been published by iUniverse/ASJA Press
Maxine Rock has made the masthead of Atlanta Woman Magazine as a contributing writer. Maxine writes a monthly column, "Balancing Act," and also does features for the glossy monthly. The magazine's audience is the growing population of women in Atlanta who are top executives or who own their own businesses
Ruth Winter's 34th book is So What Can I Eat?!: How to Make Sense of the New Dietary Guidelines for Americans and Make Them Your Own (April 2006, Wiley, co-authored with Elisa Zied, M.S, R.D., C.D.N. Publishers Weekly said, "For befuddled readers wanting to clarify the often conflicting information you hear every day about food and nutrition, this book will serve as a usable resource in the pursuit of better health."
Lisa Iannucci, author of Healthy Travel: Don't Leave Home Without It, presented a seminar at January's Adventures in Travel Expo at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. Her Website, www.youngwidowsandwidowerscom was mentioned in a Wall Street Journal article by Jeff Zaslow on widows and dating, and in a www.Match.com article written by ASJA member Randy Hecht
An updated third edition of High Visibility: Transforming Your Personal and Professional Brand (McGraw-Hill) landed in bookstores in January. ASJA member Michael Hamlin along with Irving Rein, Philip Kotler and Martin Stoller, explain how to build a personal brand in the digital age and how to keep a strong brand strong as professionals live and work longer
It's the New York Times Best Seller List for Shine, a book Sherry Suib Cohen wrote with Star Jones Reynolds, hot shot attorney and co-host of The View. Cohen's next book project: co-authoring a memoir with Paula Deen, famed Savannah restaurateur and cooking show host
John Rosengren's collaboration with Esera Tuaolo, Alone in the Trenches: My Life as a Gay Man in the NFL, (Sourcebooks) came out in March. Rosie O'Donnell said of it, "This beautiful book is not only about football, but freedom and family. A must read for all."
Forensic Detective: How I Cracked the World's Toughest Cases is Miryam EhrlichWilliamson's ninth book, this one co-authored with forensic anthropologist Robert Mann. From Random House in March, it is both macabre and informative, blending casebook and memoir, with a forensics lesson tucked into each of its chapters
Joan Price is thrilled by the media and reader response to her new book, Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty (Seal Press, 2006). Kirkus called the book, "empowering and straightforward fun and frank." The New York Times quoted Price saying, "We are having hot, fabulous sex after sixty. Society's view of aging women as sexless is wrong, wrong, wrong."
