Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt's children's book, You Think It's Easy Being the Tooth Fairy?, has sold more than 16,000 copies to date, and is now available in English, Hebrew, and French. She has four more titles coming out with Capstone Press in 2010/2011

Rosemary Carstens has a feature on landscape painter Chuck Rawle in the July issue of Southwest Art magazine, with several future profiles to come

Mary Collins' book, American Idle: A Journey Through Our Sedentary Culture (Capital Books, 2009) won the 2010 Grand Prize Next Generation Indie Book Award. It won in the nonfiction category then beat out winning nonfiction in 60 other categories for the top prize ($1500 prize money). Award winners had a social and awards ceremony on May 25 in New York City at the Plaza Hotel

Jessica DuLong's My River Chronicles: Rediscovering the Work that Built America; A Personal and Historical Journey has been released in paperback by Free Press. Winner of the 2010 ASJA Outstanding Book Award for memoir, the book was lauded as "elegantly written" by Gay Talese, a founder of the "New Journalism" movement

Hope Feinglass Egan, author of What the Bible Says about Healthy Living Cookbook: Simple and Tasty Recipes Featuring God's Ingredients, won the Healthy Food Indulgences writing contest hosted by For Her Information. Her winning article, "Who Needs Reese's?" appears in the June 2010 issue

Michael Fitzgerald is one of the Nieman Foundation's 2011 Journalism Fellows

Mark L. Fuerst's new fertility book (with Drs. Zev Rosenwaks and Marc Goldstein) A Baby at Last!: The Couples' Complete Guide to Getting Pregnant – from Cutting- Edge Treatments to Commonsense Wisdom was published by Simon & Schuster in June

The state of Georgia is using Echo Garrett's My Orange Duffel Bag: A Journey to Radical Change (Operation Orange Media LLC) as training curriculum in a pilot program with 30 foster youth who are aging out. By summer's end, they will be certified as Orange Duffel Bag Coaches. Garrett has also launched a nonprofit called the Orange Duffel Bag Foundation to help homeless teens and those who are aging out of foster care

On July 15, the Hudson Valley Writers' Center Twilight Readers' Series (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.) will feature ASJA member Herbert Hadad reading from his memoir, Finding Immortality: The Making of One American Family, along with Fawzia Afzal-Khan, author of Lahore with Love, a portrait of daily life of women in Pakistan

Constance Hale has sold a proposal to W. W. Norton. Titled Vex, Hex, Smash, and Smooch, it will follow on the heels of her popular guide to writing, Sin and Syntax. The new book will focus on what some consider to be the heartbeat of the sentence, and indeed English: the verb!

Christine Heinrichs, who often writes about poultry and sustainable agriculture, participated in a National Science Foundation Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence workshop in May on concept maps at Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo. She attended as a docent for the Elephant Seal Viewpoint in Piedras Blancas, California

Marie Proeller Hueston's first picture book, The All American Jump and Jive Jig, written under M.P. Hueston, recently was published by Sterling

Cheryl Jarvis's The Necklace: Thirteen Women and the Experiment that Transformed Their Lives, co-authored with the Women of Jewelia, came out in paperback (Ballantine). Hersheys selected it to promote its Bliss line of chocolates. The hardback hit

No. 18 on The New York Times nonfiction extended bestseller list

Judi Ketteler's first book, Sew Retro: A Stylish History of the Sewing Revolution + 25 Vintage-Inspired Projects for the Modern Girl, releases on July 15 (Voyageur Press). It traces the history of women and sewing from the mid-19th century until today, with retro-inspired projects to celebrate each decade

Maureen Littlejohn's new book, Aboriginal Tourism in Canada in the 21st Century (Lambert Academic Publishing) examines stereotypes, cultural preservation and how traditions are shared at Native tourism destinations. Published in May, the book focuses on Woodland Cultural Centre in Ontario and Xá:ytem Longhouse Interpretive Centre in British Columbia

New York Times bestseller Jonathan Maberry closes three-book, six figure deal with St. Martins Griffin for two new Joe Ledger thrillers and a standalone zombie novel. Sara Crowe of Harvey Klinger Inc. made the deal with editor Michael Homler. Also, Maberry's Joe Ledger novels were optioned by producer Michael DeLuca (Se7en, Magnolia) and SONY, and are now on ABC's shortlist for a 2011 weekly series, tentatively titled Department Zero

Eugene L. Meyer is now the editor of B'nai B'rith Magazine. He also is a contributing editor for Bethesda Magazine, writes a regular column and features for Maryland Life, and contributes occasional stories to The New York Times and US News & World Report

Judy Molland won two awards for her book, Get Out! 150 Easy Ways for Kids and Grown-Ups to Get Into Nature and Build a Greener Future (Free Spirit, 2009). Her book was selected for the ForeWord Book of the Year Gold Award, and also is a recipient of the Independent Book Publisher Association's 2010 .Benjamin Franklin Award

Randy Myers was honored in May with an Excellence in Financial Journalism Award by the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants for his article "Taxed to the Max," published in 2009 in CFO magazine. The article showed how U.S. corporate tax policy is hampering the global competitiveness of U.S. companies

Vickie Salemi's second book, Big Career in the Big City: Land a Job and Get a Life in New York (JIST) a sassy career guide about not only how to get a job but also how to thrive in the city that never sleeps

New member Judith Siegel has a new book out called Stop Overreacting (New Harbinger Press). Based on neuro-imaging and clinical research, the book describes what happens before and during emotional dysregulation, as well as ways to interrupt the cycle. It discusses triggers such as criticism, rejection and envy and is consumer-friendly and applicable to work as well as family

Jerome Tuccille's latest book, A Portrait of Hemingway as a Young Man, has just been published by Blue Mustang Press. Tuccille's rather tongue-in-cheek biography covers Hemingway in Paris during the 1920s, along with other notable writers such as Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and others. The author's last book, Gallo Be Thy Name, a biography of the Gallo wine dynasty, is now available in paperback, also from Blue Mustang Press.

Websites, Blogs & Tweets

Sheri Bell-Rehwoldt has launched an online marketing site, www.CreativesMarketing.com, helping creative entrepreneurs (authors, artists, life coaches, etc.) to become successful online marketers via consulting and training

The Department of State recently profiled Indian-American food writer Monica Bhide and her contribution to the growing popularity of Indian cuisine in the US. The article focused on her achievements as a writer and how the Indian food scene has changed. They are also planning on running a food slide show from her site very soon. You can read the article at america.gov or at her website: www. monicabhide.com A new issue of FEAST, Rosemary Carstens' online magazine about books, art, food, film, and travel is out at www.FEASTofBooks.com

Film critic Kimberly Gadette celebrates her two-year anniversary working with www. indiemoviesonline.com as their go-to film critic. Her weekly reviews also are accessible through her Rotten Tomatoes page, www.rottentomatoes.com/author/author-13058 and www.kimberlygadette.com

More on Echo Garrett's foundation (above) at www.OrangeDuffelBagFoundation.org

Follow Constance Hale (above) on www.sinandsyntax. com

Freelance journalist Lisa Marshall spent November in Nepal, reporting on the status of women's physical and economic health in the wake of the recent Civil War there. Her three-day series, which published in the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo. can be found at www.lisaannmarshall.com/ Nepal.php

More on Judy Ketteler's book (above) at www. SewRetroTheBook.com

Christine Koubek, travel writer, essayist, and author, has a new website: www.christinekoubek. com

Rodney Moore recently launched a writing coaching service along with a weekly subscription e-newsletter for writers, called Beginner's Minute. Free two week trial at www. rodneyjmoore.com

Learn more about Vickie Salemi's book at www.vickisalemi.com and @VickiSalemi

Daylle Deanna Schwartz was invited to move her blog, Lessons from a Recovering DoorMat, onto Beliefnet.com. Her first week's launch got over 8,000 views and the buzz keeps building

Barry Yeoman's radio documentary Still Singing the Blues— about older Louisiana musicians who still perform despite poverty, illness, and natural disaster—made its local-station debut June 4 on KRVS in Lafayette, Louisiana. Yeoman and co-producer Richard Ziglar have created a multimedia website at stillsingingtheblues.org