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November 2009

Jodie Gould's new book Change One Thing: Discover What's Holding You Back -- and Fix it -- With Secrets from a Top Executive Image Consultant, written with Anna Soo Wildermuth, was released by McGraw-Hill in August. Stephen R. Covey, bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People said, "Keeping your self-image fresh in this global economy is essential not only for your business, but your life too. This superb book gives excellent advice to help jump-start your engine."

Hilary Davidson has turned to crime—fiction, that is. She has just signed a two-book deal with Forge, a division of St. Martin's Press. Her debut crime novel, The Damage Done, will be published in October 2010.

Brenda Lange has been named editor in chief of a new group of lifestyle magazines in Bucks and Montgomery counties, Pennsylvania. Suburban Life, LLC will publish eight localized editions each month focusing on profiles, home and garden, travel, health and wellness, finance, real estate, style, and local events.

Co-authors Adele Woodyard and Stephen Morrill have updated and revised Fun With the Family Florida, 7th ed., for Globe Pequot to publish in November.

A new magazine, Caregiving in America (The Sauck Media Group, Fairmont, Minnesota) debuts in November. Harriet Hodgson will be writing a monthly column detailing personal caregiving experiences, with a focus on hope.

Helen-Chantel Pike's ninth book, co-written with retired New Jersey state Sen. Frank J. "Pat" Dodd, is now available. Listed as historical fiction, The Spirited Ladies of Liberty Street: A Story of Liberation and Liquor in Prohibition blends the family stories of a bootlegging grandma with national headline-making events.

Bloomberg Press just published John Wasik's Audacity of Help: Obama's Economic Plan and the Remaking of America, an in-depth examination of the Obama economic agenda. Earlier in the summer, Bloomberg published his book, Cul de Sac Syndrome: Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream.

Eliza Cross tested countless recipes for pecan waffles, baby back ribs, and chocolate truffle cake during her grueling research as co-author of The Rusty Parrot Cookbook, released this past summer by Gibbs Smith.

A few days before Senator Edward Kennedy's funeral, Florence Isaacs was interviewed on the subject of eulogies on the nationwide Michael Smerconish radio show. Isaacs' book, My Deepest Sympathies, came out in 2000. One question asked of her was, "What's your advice for President Obama's eulogy?" Isaacs says, "I wound up advising Obama to keep it brief—five to seven minutes. That should be the maximum ordinarily, but afterward I wished I'd said something else, since Obama is an orator (not to mention the president of the United States)".

Michele and Tom Grimm's all-inclusive photo guide, The Basic Book of Digital Photography, was released October 27 by Plume/Penguin. The husband/wife photojournalism team's classic in the field, The Basic Book of Photography, has sold more than 400,000 copies.

Susan Shapiro Barash's Toxic Friends: The Antidote for Women Stuck in Complicated Friendships was published by St. Martin's in October. Barash is the author of ten previous books, including Tripping the Prom Queen, and teaches gender studies at Marymount Manhattan College.

James McCommons' narrative non-fiction book, Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service, is out this month by Chelsea Green. A combination of investigative journalism and travel memoir, the book was chosen by the Library Journal as one of its "Best Picks for Fall." The editors wrote of "the pleasure of reading prose that has the shimmer, strength, and authenticity that our railroads can still inspire." James met his agent at an ASJA conference.

Maryn McKenna has been named an Ochberg Fellow of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. She also has been elected to the board of the Association of Health Care Journalists.

Toshiko Mori says of the architecture featured in Four Florida Moderns by Saxon Henry, due out in early December, "The strength of expression and primacy of geometry still exist as heroic gestures, but the possibility of intimacy in modernism as demonstrated by their work has never before been achieved.".

Janet Groene's new travel relationship column, "Cruise Counselor," has debuted in Porthole magazine. Her Caribbean "Steeple Power, People Power" at PerceptiveTravel.com was judged Best Online Consumer Article in a recent SATW contest.

Cheryl Platzman Weinstock was selected as a 2009 National Press Foundation Fellow to learn about cancer news. This follows her being selected as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT earlier this year, as well as receiving a Knight Center Fellowship at the University of Maryland.