| Linda Konner was recently selected to serve as the exclusive literary agent to Harvard Health Publications. HHP publishes trade health books bearing the Harvard Medical School imprimatur and written by such Harvard doctors as Walter C. Willett, MD, who wrote the best-seller Eat, Drink and Be Healthy (Simon & Schuster) and the current The Fertility Diet (McGraw-Hill). |
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Hilary Nangle won the North American Snowsports Journalists Association's 2007 Harold Hirsch Award for Excellence in Snowsports Newspaper Writing. She explored 5,300 miles of coastline for Moon Coastal Maine (3rd edition) and moseyed back roads lacing Maine's 33,215 square miles for the reformatted fourth edition of Moon Maine (Avalon Travel Publishing). |
| Laura Del Rosso's first book, Great Escapes: Northern California, was released in early May. Part of a new series from Countryman Press, a division of W.W. Norton, the book offers 30 day trips and weekend getaways, including dozens of dining and lodging suggestions. |
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ABC Television Network veteran Anne Marie Riccitelli is media co-chair of the 61st annual United Nations Department of Public Information/NonGovernmental Organizations Conference to be held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris September 3-5, 2008. Titled "Reaffirming Human Rights: The Universal Declaration at 60," this conference is the first in history to be held away from UN headquarters in New York City. Paris is the city where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights first was signed in 1948. More than 1,500 international NGO representatives are expected to attend this annual meeting on the eve of the General Assembly opening. |
| In June, Deadly Ink Press published Cheryl Solimini's first mystery novel, Across the River. The Baby Boomer tale of suspense won Deadly Ink's 2007 Best Mystery Award. Edgar-nominated mystery author Cornelia Read calls it "dark, charming, funny, and gorgeously written—a magnificent debut from a great new talent." |
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Marcia Z. Nelson received a Knight fellowship to attend a week long seminar: "Longevity: America Ages" at the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland in College Park. |
| Lisa Palmer was awarded a Knight Center for Specialized Journalism fellowship in May. ?She was among 30 print, broadcast and online journalists from North America selected to study climate change and its sweeping effects. Held at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism in collaboration with the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism at Michigan State University, and the Society of Environmental Journalists, Lisa is using the fellowship to deepen her focus on how business and lifestyles will be affected by changes in the environment, public policy, foreign policy and other arenas. |
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| Pat Olsen's new book, Sober Siblings: How to Help Your Alcoholic Brother or Sister and Not Lose Yourself, written with Petros Levounis, M.D., will be published in July by Da Capo Lifelong, a division of Perseus. |
| Quirky religion reporter Jonna Lightfoot MacLaughlin has traded the Big Easy for the Big Apple in Jo Kadlecek's final installment of The Lightfoot Trilogy, A Minute Before Friday, (May 2008, NavPress). Previous books in Jo's fiction series include A Mile From Sunday (May 2006), and ?A Quarter After Tuesday (June 2007). |
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| Patricia Barnes-Svarney's latest book is out for middle readers—a total remake and update of her 1994 book, A Traveler's Guide to the Solar System through Sterling. It's a space hike through the solar system, complete with illustrations and the best NASA images. |
| Kelly James-Enger's book, The Belated Baby: a Guide to Parenting after Infertility, was published by Cumberland House in May. Kelly and her co-author, Jill S. Browning, are post-infertility moms; Belated Baby will help women make the transition from fertility treatment or adoption to parenthood. Actress Brenda Strong wrote the foreword. |
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| Jennifer Margulis' fourth book, co-authored with her husband James di Properzio, was just published by Willow Creek Press. The Baby Bonding Book for Dads: Building a Closer Connection to Your New Baby is about all the ways that dads and babies can bond—from diaper time to baby wrestling—and is accompanied by beautiful black and white photography by international photographer Christopher Briscoe. |
| Erin Torneo has been named a 2008 Soros Justice Media Fellow, along with her collaborators Jennifer Cannino and Ronald Cotton. Their forthcoming book, Picking Cotton (St. Martin's Press, 2009), illuminates the problem with eyewitness testimony: Cannino identified Cotton as her rapist and sent him to prison for eleven years until DNA evidence exonerated him. |
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Jan Arrigo celebrates the recent publication of her fourth book about another fascinating aspect of New Orleans history called Plantations and Historic Homes of New Orleans, from Voyageur Press. |
| Stephanie Golden's fourth collaboration, The Permanent Pain Cure: The Breakthrough Way to Heal Your Muscle and Joint Pain for Good, coauthored with Ming Chew, LPT, has been published by McGraw-Hill. It offers a drug-free program for healing pain and injuries that most medical professionals believe require medicine or surgery |
| Martin Zucker's latest book, Move Yourself: The Cooper Clinic Medical Director's Guide to All the Healing Benefits of Exercise (Even a Little!), was recently released by John Wiley. Aimed at the sedentary masses, it shows people why they MUST get off their duffs and how to creatively do it. Writers, take heed! |
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