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October 2009

Brenda Lange recently published another young adult non-fiction book for Chelsea House. The Caribbean Community is part of the Global Organizations series and is a study of the Caribbean Community and Common Market, or CARICOM. She currently is finishing her eighth book for the publisher. Santa Anna will be published in the Spring.

In time for the back-to-school season, in August Penguin Books reissued Raising a Sensory Smart Child: The Definitive Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues, coauthored by Nancy Peske. The book, originally published in 2005, has won and iMedia Parenting Book Award and a NAPPA (National Parenting Publications Award), and has been expanded to include new information on children with autism and sensory issues.

Freelance travel and science writer Melissa Gaskill has been selected as a 2009 Ocean Science Journalism Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).

Joan Wester Anderson had two books released in August. Where Miracles Happen has been in print continuously since 1994, but it needed updating, and Joan added eight new stories. Joan's second book, Moms Go Where Angels Fear to Tread (Guideposts Books), is a humor book for mothers who need more time (and reason) to laugh.

Mary Collins' new book, American Idle: A Journey Through Our Sedentary Culture (Capital Books), takes a look at the social, cultural, physical and even moral consequences of a sedentary life.

Marian Calabro's Flying High Again: PARC's Redevelopment of Plattsburgh Air Force Base, published by her company CorporateHistory.net, recently won an Apex Award of Excellence for custom publishing and placed in the IABC National Gold Quill Award finals. The book will also be excerpted in a U.S. Department of Defense white paper.

Fifty-five-year member Howard Eisenberg appeared on CBS's Early Show to publicize his new iUniverse book, It's Never Too Late to Date, co-authored with Shirley Friedenthal, who has been his permanent date for the last five years. Next morning, the book's Amazon ranking soared 220,000 points.

Thomas Fensch has just published Essential Elements of Steinbeck, which includes four major essays about Steinbeck: his relationship with his editor, Pascal Covici; Steinbeck and his Monterey Bay books; the journalistic origins of The Grapes of Wrath; and how his friend Ed Ricketts appeared in at least seven Steinbeck books. The book also includes the FBI files on Steinbeck, from 1942 to 1965, which J. Edgar Hoover always denied existed. Available from ASJA Press/iUniverse.

Bookviews, a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction, edited by Alan Caruba, converted to a blog in August. Caruba will continue the report that began in the 1960s when he was a weekly newspaper reporter. Caruba is among the charter members of the National Book Critics Circle founded in 1974 and has been a member of ASJA since the '70s.

Damon Brown is now Mobile Games Editor at About.com (mobilegames.about.com). Part of one of the largest websites, mobilegames.about.com provides the latest games info for your iPhone, Palm, or favorite smartphone. Much of the daily content will be tweeted by Damon.

Debbie Danowski's fourth book, The Emotional Eater's Book of Inspiration (Da Capo Press), was recently published in Greece.

Rita Baron-Faust, author of The Autoimmune Connection, received her Masters of Public Health from Hunter College/CUNY in May. She was recently interviewed for the online women's health publication Lifescript.com and will be speaking on women and autoimmune disease on October 24 at an American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Jackie Dishner celebrates the publication of her first book this month. Backroads & Byways of Arizona, published by Countryman Press (a subsidiary of W.W. Norton), is a travel guide featuring 12 backcountry trips in 12 chapters, each filled with the author's own photography.

Motorcycle Dream Garages (Motorbooks, $35), just out by Lee Klancher, was reviewed by Publishers Weekly, which said that the large-format hardback "opens the doors to places where bikes are repaired and friendships are made of beer, b.s. and bruised knuckles."

W.W. Norton just published Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller by Steve Weinberg as a trade paperback, following the 2008 release in hardcover. Steve is now working on a proposal for his ninth nonfiction book.

Eugene L. Meyer won citations in June from the Society of Professional Journalists for an article in Bethesda Magazine about self-segregation in public schools and from the National Association of Real Estate Editors for a New York Times story about a Rapphannock, Va. getaway belonging to a DC developer. Since leaving the Washington Post in January of '04, Meyer has received five awards for his freelance writing.

Joan Detz received the 2009 President's Award from the National Association of Government Communicators. NAGC serves communicators who work in local, state and federal government. Detz, the author of It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It, frequently volunteers to teach speechwriting workshops at NAGC conferences.