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July/August 2009

Jan Collins has coauthored a book, forthcoming in August, Next Steps: A Practical Guide to Planning for the Best Half of Your Life (QuillDriver Books). Written with elder law attorney Jan Warner, the book helps readers develop a detailed plan—and the necessary documents—for successful aging and retirement.

A Vietnamese publisher is commissioning a Vietnamese translation of Lucy Kavaler's biography, The Astors, a Family Chronicle of Pomp and Power. Another Astor happening: A German television station is producing a documentary of John Jacob Astor and has interviewed Lucy for information and anecdotes.

On July 9, Penguin/Gotham Books published David Farley's travel memoir/narrative history, An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town, about his search to find the Holy Foreskin, which disappeared from a church in a medieval hill town near Rome.

This summer, Jack El-Hai is leading a workshop called "Creative Nonfiction for Healthcare Professionals" at the Split Rock Arts Program, University of Minnesota. He's teaching physicians, nurses, therapists, midwives, and others working in healthcare to write about their lives, experiences, and patients.

Erica Manfred's new book, He's History, You're Not: Surviving Divorce After Forty, with a foreword by member Tina Tessina Ph.D., has just come out from Globe Pequot Press. The book was born on the ASJA book forum where it got its title from member Randy Dotinga and a lot of good advice from forum participants.

Infidelity expert Ruth Houston, author of Is He Cheating on You? – 829 Telltale Signs, was a guest lecturer aboard Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Explorer of the Seas discussing high profile cheaters in her lecture, "Infidelity among the Rich and Famous."

Patricia Barnes-Svarney was a contributor to The Origins of Everything, published in August by Publications International, covering science and a bit of "fun stuff" (ever wonder about the origin of the "tussie mussie"?)

Murder Takes the Cake, the second mystery in the Sullivan Investigations series, was published in May 2009 by Echelon Press. The mysteries are written by Evelyn David, the pen name of Marian Edelman Borden and her writ-ing partner, Rhonda Dossett. The Midwest Book Review calls the book "light-hearted fun, with a little mystery; a little romance; a little family dysfunction; and several out-of-the-ordinary adventures thrown in to make it a fun-filled whodunit."

Milly Dawson returns this summer to graduate school to pursue a Masters of Public Health through the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School. She will participate as a distance learner from her home in Florida and earn 20 percent of her credits on campus. She is most interested in environmental health issues.

A new boxed set of stationery, The Art of Correspondence, (Potter Style, 2009) includes 12 note cards and 12 correspondence cards, and an etiquette booklet by Florence Isaacs, author of the bestselling Just A Note To Say. . . (Clarkson Potter).

After spearheading a campaign that garnered unprecedented press coverage for the World Water Forum in Istanbul in March, Bill Hinchberger has stepped down as communications director of the World Water Council and returned to the life of writer and media entrepreneur (BrazilMax.com). He is now based in France.

Anne Stuart was among 24 journalists who received expenses-paid fellowships to attend "Digital Life: Policy & Privacy Online," a May seminar at the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland. The intensive four-day program, which included hands-on multimedia training, explored the Internet's impact on media and society.

Rachel Dickinson's book Falconer on the Edge: A Man, His Birds, and the Vanishing Landscape of the American West (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was published in May. In this book, Dickinson follows a hardcore falconer through a hunting season in Wyoming.

Joshua Berman is in Central America researching the fourth edition of Moon Nicaragua and the second edition of Living Abroad in Nicaragua (both titles coauthored with Randy Wood); this past winter, he worked as a location scout for the Travel Channel in Nicaragua and Belize, and appears as an expert guidebook author (and testicle eater) in "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Nicaragua," which you can download on iTunes.

The Rhode Island Press Association has awarded Lisa Palmer first place in the education category for a nonfiction narrative feature article in Rhode Island Monthly. The story focuses on the music education program of Community Music Works and one of its students, Joshua Rodriguez.

The Die-Hard Sports Fan's Guide to Boston (Union Park Press) by Christopher Klein has just been published. This spectator handbook, filled with insider tips and historical vignettes, is the first and only comprehensive guide to the range of spectator sporting events in and around Boston.

Randy Myers is a new small business columnist for MSN Business on Main, a website that offers expert advice and community forums for small business owners.

Gretchen Roberts has launched Vinobite, a daily wine website for the digital set..

Adele Woodyard and Stephen Morrill collaborate on a number of travel-related writings, especially about Florida. Their ebook, 100 Florida Freebies and Cheapies, is the first in a planned three-volume series intended to help locals and visitors alike find things to see and do in the Sunshine State for five dollars or less per person.

Sondra Forsyth's eleventh book, Ask Dr. Marie: Straight Talk and Reassuring Answers to Your Most Private Questions, will be published by GPP Life on August 4. This is Sondra's third book with co-author Marie Savard, M.D., medical correspondent for ABC's Good Morning, America.

Chicago writer Mary Beth Klatt was interviewed by Pamela Dittmer McKuen about swimwear for the June edition of Chicago Life, a New York Times supplement.