Jen Singer will publish MommaSaid.net Presents: Stop Second-Guessing Yourself – The Toddler Years, the first in a series of parenting books due from HCI Books.

Kim Kavin's website about yacht vacations, CharterWave.com, re-launched in January with a new design to meet growing advertiser demand. The site, which is a mix of repurposed freelance material, and original content, has been featured as a top travel resource in The Wall Street Journal, Conde Nast Traveler, and the International Herald Tribune.

Cynthia Greenwood's book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays, released in April 2008 by Penguin/Alpha Books, went into its second printing in March 2009. This lively introduction to Shakespeare's most frequently performed plays is aimed at students, teachers, actors, and general playgoers.

Anne Hosansky's short story, "The New Girl," has been accepted by The MacGuffin magazine,making it her 10th piece of fiction to be published.

Gretchen Roberts, who specializes in writing about wine and food, has been awarded a fellowship by the symposium for Professional Wine Writers at the Meadowood in Napa Valley, Calif. She attended the Symposium this past February.

Randi Minetor's latest travel guide, Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks Pocket Guide (The Globe Pequot Press), arrives in stores on April 14. The guide, featuring photos by Nic Minetor (Randi's husband), provides choice intel on where to go, which trails to hike, what to see, and where to eat and sleep while touring these southwestern Utah parks.

Anne Hart's latest medieval novel, Adventures in my Beloved Medieval Alania and Beyond, a time-travel novel set in the 10th century Caucasus Moutains, was published by ASJA Press in February.

Joan Detz, author of How To Write & Give A Speech (St. Martin's Press), was the featured speaker at the New York Speechwriter's Roundtable. She addressed career opportunities for speechwriters, both on staff and freelance.

The Los Angeles Times published a story about the free shows Rena Dictor LeBlanc has produced for nursing home residents for 20 years featuring singers, musicians, and dancers.?The NBC television movie, When You Remember Me, was based on an article Rena wrote about abuse and neglect in nursing homes.

Robbie Miller Kaplan has published How to Say It When You Don't Know What to Say: The Right Words for Difficult Times: Illness & Death. Her blog, "Comforting Words: When You Don't Know What to Say," is featured on Legacy.com, the leader in the online memorial and obituary market.

Long-time member Antoinette Bosco, author of the award-winning Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End The Death Penalty (Orbis Books), has written a new book called Radical Forgiveness, (Orbis, March 2009). A single mother of seven who has lost three sons, one by suicide, one by murder and one by heart failure, she "writes convincingly of the dark, unmoving, stuck world that traps the unforgiving—because she's been there," says author Alice Camille.

Saxon Henry's book Four Florida Moderns will be released by W.W. Norton in October. The book, which features four Florida architects who embrace the principles championed by Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius, contains essays by Richard Meier, Charles Gwathmey, Terence Riley and Warren Schwartz.

Melanie Haiken is a senior editor for Caring.com, a new website for those helping care for parents or other family members. She runs the cancer channel, and posts twice weekly on the Caring Currents blog, covering family finance as well as cancer and other health news.

Charlotte Huff's first book, Raising a Child with Arthritis, has been published. Huff was approached to write the consumer health book, which includes patient profiles and the latest medical information, to assist parents of children diagnosed with the autoimmune disease.

The ASJA Monthly's editor, Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, sold her dark short story, "Crazy for You," to Akashic Books, which will anthologize it in Orange County Noir, out in early 2010.

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"I like it when that happens" and other news.

In Athens, Ga., at the Athica art gallery, long-time ASJA member and Georgia resident John English says he noticed some fine documentary photographs of Japan and saw they were by Franklynn Peterson. English recalled an ASJA member from New York with that name. From an inquiry he learned that Peterson now lives in Madison, Wis., and exhibits his photojournalism in gallery shows. Through e-mail, they re-connected. Currently both English and Peterson have art works in a new show at Athica and they plan to visit when former ASJA member Peterson comes to Athens for the show’s closing next month.

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