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July/August 2006
Society Page
New and Noteworthy Member Happenings
Sally Wendkos Olds was given an Award of Honor "for her distinguished career as an Author, Educator and Humanitarian" at the 117th annual luncheon of the Alumnae Association of the Philadelphia High School for Girls, an all-academic public magnet school, where she was the featured speaker.
Alma Bond says her novel, Camille Claudel (PublishAmerica, 2005) is receiving rave reviews. Bookwire: "...an astonishing depth of historical research . . . fertile imagination ... great psychological insight." Armchair Review: "Her descent into madness...is fascinating, gripping... insight into the human brain."
Michael Schuman's new books, Halle Berry: Beauty Is Not Just Physical and Will Smith: I Like Blending a Message with Comedy were recently published by Enslow Publishers. They are his 29th and 30th books
Julian Block's The Home Seller's Guide To Tax Savings: Simple Ways for Any Seller to Lower Taxes to the Legal Minimum, was praised by Alan Caruba's Bookviews.com as "excellent advice on tax matters and filled with money-saving information."
Gina Shaw has received the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism. Along with her editors at WebMD.com, Shaw was honored in the category of online non-deadline reporting for her feature, "Anorexia: Crossing the Thin Line." The 2005 winners were chosen from more than 1,200 entries in 49 categories including print, radio, television and online
In May, Laura Vanderkam was awarded a year-long Phillips Foundation journalism fellowship for 2006-2007. This $50,000 award will enable her to research and write a series of magazine or newspaper pieces and potentially a book on the changing politics of the federal courts
Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt's activity book for children, Amazing World War II Projects You Can Build Yourself, has just been published by Nomad Press
Literary agent and author Sheree Bykofsky has signed a three-book deal with Lyle Stuart/Kensington. She and co-author Lou Krieger are writing three poker books: the just-released Secrets the Pros Won't Tell You About Winning Hold'Em Poker, the soon-to-be-released book, The Rules of Poker and The Portable Poker Pro, which is still in the works
A non-traditional writing workshop Pat McNees teaches for the Writer's Center in Bethesda, MD (Writing Your Ethical Will) has produced a spinoff course: Life Stories and Legacy Writing, described on her Web site (www.patmcnees.com)
Melanie in Manhattan, a novel for kids eight to 12, is coming out in paperback by Yearling in July. The Diary of Melanie Martin will be coming out in Czech. Carol Weston will be the keynote speaker at a conference in Nashville in October called "Today's Girl in Tomorrow's World."
Design writer Debra Prinzing announces that she and her collaborator, photographer William Wright, have sold their next project to Clarkson Potter, a division of Crown Publishing Group/Random House. The book, tentatively called Shed Style, features the architecture, interiors and design of garden sheds. Sarah Jane Freymann of the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency provided representation
How to Move to Canada: A Primer for Americans, by Terese Loeb Kreuzer with Carol Bennett, will be published in August by St. Martins Griffin. For more information on the book, visit www.HowtoMovetoCanada.net
Deborah Shouse's new book, Love in the Land of Dementia: Finding Hope in the Caregiver's Journey (The Creativity Connection Press), celebrates the gifts and blessings in journeying through Alzheimer's with a loved one. Deborah is donating all the proceeds of the initial printing of the book to Alzheimer's programs and research. Her goal is to raise $50,000. The book will be available in bookstores and on-line markets in September 2006
Marian Calabro's A. W. Hastings: An Illustrated History, released in May, is the fourth company history she has written since 2001. It's also the first one published under her CorporateHistory.net Press imprint. Marian's company, CorporateHistory.net LLC, is currently producing books for clients in Maryland and New York
Hal Hellman's Great Feuds in Mathematics will be published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. in August. It's Hal's 30th book and the fourth in his Great Feuds series. Subtitled Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever, it's aimed squarely at those who think math is an exact and staid field of endeavor
Sandra Beckwith's Publicity for Nonprofits: Generating Media Exposure That Leads to Awareness, Growth and Contributions (Kaplan Publishing) was released in June. She will be speaking at the Alliance for Nonprofit Management's national conference in August in Los Angeles and at the Philanthropy Midwest Conference in Kansas City in October.
Shari Caudron's book, Who Are You People: A Personal Journey Into the Heart of Fanatical Passion in America (Barricade Books) will hit bookstores in August. Part armchair travel, part cultural study and part personal journey, the book is a hilarious and heartwarming look at Americans and their quirky, colorful passions
New member Gladys Montgomery has two projects out this spring. Her Antiquing Weekends (Rizzoli), is a guidebook to over 52 destinations, with information about shops, inns and itineraries, and a calendar of shows by The Magazine Antiques. Montgomery is also editor of Berkshire Living Home + Garden, a new magazine.
Correction: Allan Lyons' book, Bamboozle, was published by iUniverse, not ASJA Press, as was reported in May's Society Page.
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