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June 2007
Hey y'all! The memoir that Sherry Suib Cohen wrote with the queen of southern cuisine, Paula Deen, It Ain't All About The Cookin', hit the nonfiction bestseller list of the New York Times at #2, one week after publication
Rebecca Skloot has accepted a tenure track position in the University of Memphis' MFA program, where she'll teach creative nonfiction and continue her freelance career. She will divide her time between Memphis and New York City
ASJA Past President Florence Isaacs' eighth book When The Man You Love Is Ill: Doing Your Best For Your Partner Without Losing Yourself, coauthored with Dorree Lynn, Ph.D., was out in May. The book is an emotional guide to taking care of a sick spouse or significant other effectively. Unfortunately, Florence wound up living her book. Her own husband became seriously ill at the beginning of the project and ultimately died about six weeks before deadline. She feels the book pulled her through the ordeal. "I had to get an extension, but believe it or not, it was therapy," she says
Lucy Kavaler's Mushrooms, Molds, and Miracles, is being republished in the Authors Guild Back-in-Print series. Time called it "fascinating" (lead review); New Haven Register said: "This superb book does for fungi what Audubon did for birds and Freud for the psyche."
Allison Winn Scotch's debut novel, The Department of Lost and Found (HarperCollins), was released in May. The book was selected as Redbook's Book Club pick for the month of May, and an excerpt appeared in the magazine, along with an author Q&A on Redbook's Web site
The Kalamazoo Civic Theatre presents "Master Class,'' by Terrance McNally about diva Maria Callas, with help from dramaturge Alma Bond. Bond is the author of several works about the opera singer, and is returning to the Civic after 60 years. She was the second intern hired at the theatre
Michael Luongo has two new books out: He edited Looking for Love in Faraway Places (Haworth Press) is a collection of essays by gay writers who found love overseas. Luongo's novel, The Voyeur (Alyson Books), about a sex researcher in Giuliani-era New York, also has been released
Who would have thought there were 70 breeds of chickens in dozens of wild colors, but Carol Ekarius—and a cadre of professional photographers on assignment to bring back perfect photos of these winged beauties—found all of them, as well as dozens of breeds of turkeys, ducks, and geese for her 5th book, Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry
This spring Tim Harper has moderated, has been a panelist or has spoken on contracts, publishing or the future of news at MIT, the Editorial Freelancers Association, the Women's National Book Association, the Small Press Center in Manhattan and the New York Roundtable Writers Conference. He's also given his "Publishing 101" talk several times
Carol Kino has been named a fellow of the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism program in Los Angeles, CA, where she'll spend three weeks this summer in meetings and seminars with six other mid-career arts journalists, plus senior fellow Kurt Andersen. The highly competitive program is designed to promote excellence in cultural coverage, while immersing participants in the Southern California arts scene
Sheri Koones' book, Prefabulous: The House of Your Dreams Fresh from the Factory, was released last month by The Taunton Press. Koones has written the first book that outlines the various methods of prefab construction and wows with beautiful examples of houses built with these methods
Christie Aschwanden spent three weeks in Vietnam this spring reporting on the legacy of Agent Orange. Her trip was funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. In May, Aschwanden's High Country News article about an endangered species controversy received an honorable mention for print journalism from the American Institute of Biological Sciences
Judith Kelman's 16th suspense novel, The First Stone, was a May hardcover release from Berkley. Number one bestselling author Clive Cussler said of the book: "The First Stone is a remarkable story by a remarkable writer. Filled with intrigue, beautifully blended with friendships and love of family. Judith Kelman's characters are warm and wonderful."
Anne Hart's 78th book, How to Launch Impressive Online Genealogy/Family History TV Programming & Publishing Businesses (ASJA Press), discusses online specialty markets for your future Family History Channel online. Broadcast those historic vintage railroad or genealogy maps with video commentary on your Web site as an online television station
Trisha Gura's new book, Lying in Weight: the Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women (HarperCollins) is just out
Antoinette Bosco's new book, Mother Benedict Duss, Foundress of the Abbey of Regina Laudis (Ignatius Press), picks up where Hollywood left off. In 1950, a movie called Come to the Stable, with Loretta Young, told a fictionalized story of an American nun who escaped the Nazis in France, returned to America and began a Benedictine monastery in Bethlehem, CT. Bosco's new book, with a foreward by Mother Dolores Hart, the actress who left Hollywood to join this Abbey in 1963, picks up where the movie ended
Debbie Feit's first book, The Parent's Guide to Speech and Language Problems, will be released by McGraw-Hill this August. In addition to guiding parents through the process of helping their communication-challenged children, Feit is also serving the special needs community through her Web site: www.ourspecialkids.com ... Nancy Yanes Hoffman has become a member of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) and is looking for good books to review on her blog, www.writingdoctor.typepad.com ... Bonnie Remsberg, who won ASJA's Career Achievement Award in 2002, is Artist-in-Residence this summer at the National Puppetry Conference of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. She has written, and stars in, "Scarves," about the late Kay Thompson, author of Eloise, singer, dancer, musical arranger and coach. The play employs many forms of puppetry and has a staff of student and professional puppeteers
Megan McMorris is the editor of a new anthology, Cat Women: Female Writers on Their Feline Friends, published by Seal Press. ASJA members Jenna Schnuer, Susan Lennon, Sophia Dembling, Margaret Littman, Erin Torneo and Kathryn Renner contributed essays to the collection.
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