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November 2007
Member News
Kathleen Flinn's The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry (Viking/Penguin), is in bookstores. The food memoir follows her quitting of corporate life to study cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. Borders picked the title for its "Original Voices" program, while Sofitel Hotels is hosting meet-the-author parties in five cities and giving away a trip to Paris as a tie-in.
Lord & Taylor is flying Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt to four store locations to do signings of her new children's picture book, You Think It's Easy Being the Tooth Fairy? in October and November.
Claire Walter has contracted to write the ski newsletter from Frommers.com this season and is looking for ski resort news from North America and Europe.
Helen Pike, Asbury Park's Glory Days: The Story of an American Resort (Rutgers University Press), appeared on WOR Radio's The Joan Hamburg Show that was devoted to Asbury Park, NJ.
Joan Detz was a featured speaker at the National Conference of State Legislators in Boston and was the keynote speaker at the Business Writing Conference held in Chicago by the International Association of Business Communicators. Detz is the author of How To Write & Give A Speech (St. Martin's Press, 2002, 3rd edition) and also wrote Can You Say A Few Words? (St. Martin's Press, 2006).
Daylle Deanna Schwartz was invited to join the Panel of Love Experts for the new Lifetimetv.com Web site. The video for her book, Straight Talk with Gay Guys, hit 25,000 views in August and is one of the most popular book videos on YouTube.
Nancy Yanes Hoffman, the Writing Doctor at www.nyhwriter.com, has inaugurated a new blog devoted to the decline, fall and hoped-for resurrection of the world of books. It contains reviews of new books, comments on the buggy-whip status of being a writer, and devotion to readers wherever they are.
Anne Hart's 83rd paperback book published by ASJA Press, containing instructional material for writers and five short stories of intrigue, is titled: Who's Buying Which Popular Short Fiction Now & What Are They Paying?
Eve LaPlante's Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall (HarperOne), is in stores. In 1697, her ancestor Judge Sewall publicly assumed blame for sending 20 people to death on trumped-up witchcraft charges. He then affirmed the fundamental equality of races and genders, and authored America's first anti-slavery tract.
Helen Gallagher launches her second book, Release Your Writing: Book Publishing, Your Way! unraveling the mysteries of book publishing and marketing. Jan Phillips, author of Marry Your Muse said, "She has an answer for every question you've ever had about birthing a book into the world and covers every step...."
Irene S. Levine, Ph.D. received two 2007 World Wide Web Health Awards: a gold award for a story she wrote for AARP Bulletin on the risks of taking brand-new drugs and another for an article she wrote for AARP Segunda Juventud on men and depression.
Vow of Vengeance, Ray Dreyfack's medical suspense novel, written in collaboration with Harold Mellin, MD, was self-published August '07 by iUniverse. Vow is Ray's third novel and 30th book.
Dan Schlossberg's participation in Perfect Pitch at our annual conference this year produced a contract from Penguin Books and assignments from Draft Magazine and United Airlines' Hemispheres. Penguin will publish Baseball Bits in May 2008. In addition to his baseball writing, Dan continues as president of the North American Travel Journalists Association, travel editor of ConsumerAffairs com, and sports & sights columnist for Travel World International.
Every year, the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta selects one book for their 350-person incoming first-year class to read over the summer. This year, they chose Maryn McKenna's Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (Free Press, 2004), a narrative and history of the United States' "outbreak police."
Who Killed Marcia Maynard? or The Psychoanalyst is Dead, the third book in Alma Bond's Mary Wells mystery series, was just published by ASJA Press. Psychoanalyst Mary Wells, along with her lover, Lt. John Franklin, solves the baffling mystery of Maynard's murder with her astute analytical and psychological skills.
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