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September 2008
Judy Kirkwood's series on drunk driving at motherwarriors.blogspot.com has received a 2008 MADD Media Award for raising public awareness to stop drunk driving. Other 2008 winners include CNN's Nancy Grace show, Inside Edition's segment on Prom Parties, and Glamour Magazine's article on ÒWomen Who Drink and Drive.Ó
Beverly Blair Harzog has signed a contract to co-author The Complete Idiot's Guide to Person-to-Person Lending with Curtis E. Arnold, founder of CardRatings.com. It will be published by Penguin/Alpha Books in
April 2009
Todd Pitock's article, "Science and Islam" (Discover), was selec-ted for Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008. Another article, "As the Wind Moves, So Does Memory" (Forbes Life), is in Best Travel Writing 2008. He won a Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting grant for a series of stories in West Africa
Marian Edelman Borden has co-authored with Peter S. Gaytan, For Service to Your Country: The Insider's Guide to Veterans' Benefits (Citadel Press). Senator Bob Dole has written the foreword
Janine Latus' book, If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder and Liberation, has made the New York, London and Toronto bestseller lists. It has been released in Indonesian. Turkish, Dutch and German translations are in the works. She is at work on a novel
Kathy Sena is the new health columnist over at Jen Singer's award-winning Web site, MommaSaid.net
Iyna Bort Caruso won two New York Emmy Awards for on-air promotional scripts she wrote for the MSG cable network
ESP, Psychokinesis, and Psychics, part of a series on Mysteries, Legends, and Unexplained Phenomena geared for the teen market, was published in April 2008 by Chelsea House, a division of Facts on File. It is Joanne P. Austin's first book
Kristin Ohlson's article called "Kabul Nights" that was in last October's Gourmet, about her experiences dining out in Kabul, will be in Best American Travel Writing 2008 (Hough-ton Mifflin)
Bill Yenne's new biography, Sitting Bull (Westholme) has been getting great notice. The New Yorker writes, "Yenne's book excels as a study in leadership." Giving it a starred review, Publisher's Weekly called it a "stirring biography." Amazon named it to their "Significant Seven."
Ron Chepesiuk's book, Black Gangsters of Chicago, was awarded a silver medal for the "IPPY" 2007 True Crime Book of the Year and an Honorable Mention (fourth place) as Foreword Magazine's 2007 True Crime Book of the Year. His third 2007 book, Drug Lords, was a Foreword Magazine Award finalist
Diana Somerville has been named a Finalist in the 2008 National Indie Excel-lence Awards. Her book, Inside Out Down Under: Stories from a Spiritual Sabbatical, was honored in two categories: Memoir and Travel. She also writes magazine articles and a bi-weekly newspaper column on sustainability and the environment
Scott S. Smith authored Adams Media's newest addition to its bestselling Everything series, The Everything Public Speaking Book, which was released in June. Designed to be an easily-adopted program for improving every aspect of public presentations, it covers everything from winning debate techniques to doing successful media interviews
Amy Green is the new freelance committee chairwoman for the Society of Professional Journalists
Helen Gal-lagher's Release Your Writing: Book Publishing Your Way won second place in the Non-fiction General category in the 2008 Illinois Women's Press Assn. The contest judge said: "A fabulous work and a must for anyone trying to understand the complexities and options for publishing in the early 21st century. The organization is grand and the explanations clear and concise."
Cheryl Jarvis' The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment That Trans-formed Their Lives, written with the Women of Jewelia, will be published by Ballantine Books September 9. Foreign rights have been sold in eight countries and Fox Searchlight Pictures bought the movie rights. Blackstone Audio will produce the book on tape
Anne Hart's latest nonfiction (86th and 87th) paperback books (ASJA Press) are titled, How to Start, Teach, & Franchise a Creative Genealogy Writing Class or Club and How to Make Basic Natural Cleaning Products from Foods. Her latest ASJA Press historical mystery novel is titled, Proper Parenting in Ancient Rome
Brette Sember is the author of the newly released Unmarried with Children: The Complete Guide for Unmarried Families, published by Adams Media
Elizabeth Hansen has three new(ish) blogs. "Authentic Luxury Travel" is based on her belief that the Third World and the Four Seasons are not mutually exclusive. "Staying Healthy on the Road" offers advice on feeling great away from home. "About La Jolla" leads visitors off the beaten path in her hometown
Heartwork: How To Get What You Really, Really Want, written by Dale Goldstein and edited by Katy Koontz, won three awards at this year's Book Expo. It was a finalist in PMA's Benjamin Franklin Awards and won silver in both the Nautilus Book Awards and the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards
Corporate History.net, Marian Calabro's custom publishing firm, is producing a 50th anniversary book for Northwest Community Hospital in suburban Chicago. The researcher and author is Candace O'Connor. Calabro also is the voice of a new online corporate history channel (YouTube.com/corporatehistory), for which Bill Dyszel produced the first two videos
Kate Hanley's book, The Anywhere, Anytime Chill Guide: 77 Simple Strategies for Serenity (skirt! Books), comes out this month. The book gives natural solutions, drawn from yoga, meditation, acupressure, and Ayurveda, to modern stressful situations—from broken hearts to bad hair days, constipation to computer crashes
Sheri Bell-Reh-woldt has won two first-place awards from The National Feder-ation of Press Women (NFPW) for her children's books. Recognized were Amazing Maya Inventions You Can Build Yourself and You Think It's Easy Being the Tooth Fairy? Tooth has sold 12,000+ copies since its August 2007 publication. A French version is planned
Joseph Boyett's newest book, Won't Get Fooled Again: A Voter's Guide to Seeing Through the Lies, Getting Past the Propaganda, and Choosing the Best Leaders has just been published by AMACOM Books
John J. Berger's newly released book is Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration and Protection (University of Chicago Press)
Amy Hill Hearth is the co-author of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's first book, Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters. The book was published by Doubleday in July to coincide with this summer's Demo-cratic National Convention, of which Speaker Pelosi is Chair
T.C. Cameron has written his first title, Metro Detroit's High School Football Rivalries, out in August from Arcadia Publishing. From the game's inception at the prep level in the early 1900s to the annual Thanksgiving Day games that would make or break a school's season, prep football has been a rite of passage for players, parents, coaches, and fans alike in Detroit since after World War II
Nancy Kriplen has been named a Strnad [sic] Fellow at Ragdale, near Chicago, the largest interdisciplinary artist's community in the Midwest and the fourth largest in the country. Kriplen's most recent book is The Eccentric Billionaire: John D. MacArthur—Empire Builder, Reluctant Philanthropist, Relent-less Adversary É Greg Cook won "Best Feature" in the General Circulation/Shelter magazine category of the National Association of Real Estate Editors Annual Journalism Awards for "Energy Stars," published in the October 2007 issue of Better Homes and Gardens. His contributions in environmental journalism won him second place for "Best Freelance Collection" in the same competition
Hal Higdon had two books published this spring: one new, one old. New was The Gigantic Book of Running Quotations, published by Skyhorse Publishing. Old is The Union vs. Dr. Mudd about the doctor who set the broken leg of assassin John Wilkes Booth. It was Higdon's first of 34 books, published in 1964, reprinted by the University Press of Florida to take advantage of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday next year
Biographer Kitty Kelley has put 8,000 photos of famed photojournalist Stanley Tretick online at www.stanleytretick.com. Tretick, who died in 1999, left his archive to Kelley, who worked with Art Vision Exhibitions to make the Web site available for historians, librarians, photo researchers, publishers and collectors
Barbara De--Marco-Barrett's radio show, "Writers on Writing," has been named Literary Magnet No. 1 in "The Best of Orange County" by Orange Coast Magazine, the metropolitan regional that serves Orange County, Ca.
