Erin Torneo's New York Times bestseller, Picking Cotton (with Ronald Cotton and Jennifer Thompson-Cannino), is out in paperback. It was optioned for film by producers Mike Menchel, David Friendly (Little Miss Sunshine), and Mark Clayman (The Pursuit of Happyness).

David T. Page's Yosemite and the Southern Sierra Nevada: A Complete Guide (Countryman Press) has received a bronze award in the guidebook category of the 2009 Lowell Thomas Awards, from the Society of American Travel Writers.

The three volumes of Patricia and Robert Foulke's heritage tourism trilogy on the Colonial to Revolutionary eras will be reprinted and released as an alternate selection by the Book of the Month Club, the History Book Club. and the Military Book Club. The three volumes were published by Countryman Press, a division of Norton, in 2006 (A Visitor's Guide to Colonial & Revolutionary New England), 2007 (A Visitor's Guide to Colonial & Revolutionary Mid-Atlantic America), and 2008 (A Visitor's Guide to the Colonial & Revolutionary South).

Jennifer Margulis has been named contributing editor at Mothering magazine. She writes features, news briefs, and a blog called "Mothering Outside the Lines."

Herbert Hadad's new memoir, Finding Immortality: The Making of One American Family (iUniverse, 2009) contains new stories and many originally printed in The New York Times.

Kay Harwell Fernandez wrote five articles in the newly released National Geographic tabletop book, Food Journeys of a Lifetime. She also did a segment on TravelNTalk Radio.

Mark H. Massé has signed a contract with the Continuum International Publishing Group (New York, London) for a 75,000-word book, Trauma Journalism: On Deadline in Harm's Way. The book, a work of narrative nonfiction, will examine the impact on journalists of covering tragedy and trauma, their sources and the communities in which they live.

Dan Schlossberg has completed The 300 Club, an Ascend Books volume about pitchers who won 300 games. The book, which features new interviews with the living members of the 300-win club, will be published in February. It is Dan's 35th book, all on baseball.

Peggy Eastman has published a new book of poetic reflections, Ten Women of the Bible: Witnesses to Faith. The common thread that links the featured four Old Testament women and six New Testament women is their willingness to take risks for God.

Member Shelley Seale has released a book, The Weight of Silence: Invisible Children of India (Dogs Eye View Media). The book follows the author's three-year journey throughout India to tell the true stories of children such as those portrayed in the movie Slumdog Millionaire.