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September 2010
Susanne M. Alexander has a new book: All-in-One Marriage Prep: 75 Experts Share Tips and Wisdom to Help You Get Ready Now (Barringer, 2010). She was both lead editor on the project and one of the contributors as a relationship and marriage coach. A number of ASJA members provided excellent testimonials
Candy Arrington's coauthored book, When Your Aging Parent Needs Care: Practical Help for This Season of Life (Harvest House Publishers, 2009), won first place for nonfiction in the National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest
Howard Baldwin is happy to report that his blog "Middle-Age Cranky: The Aggravations of Being a Baby Boomer" is now being repurposed on the Boomer Living website: www.boomer-living.com
Marie Bartlett's fourth book, The Frontier Nursing Service (McFarland, 2010) reflects a forgotten part of Americana. Long before healthcare reform, early midwives rode on horseback delivering babies and family care to the Appalachian region. The book tells their amazing true stories and was favorably reviewed by the American Nurse-Midwife Association
Divine Appointments, the second in Charlene Ann Baumbich's Snowglobe Connections series (Random House), releases Sept. 21. A batch of downsized-yet-kindhearted employees, a bleeding heart boss, and a mysterious snowglobe set buttoned-up, career-focused Josie on an unexpected "right-sizing" path to making life changes that really matter
Stefan Bechtel has signed a contract for his tenth book, this one for Beacon Press, called Mr. Hornaday's War: How A Peculiar Victorian Zookeeper Waged A Lonely 'War For Wildlife' That Changed The World
Joshua Berman has one new baby girl and two new books: Zenlana Summer Berman was born on July 4, 2010, and new editions of Moon Nicaragua and Living Abroad in Nicaragua are shipping to bookstores in September
Alma Bond has two books in publication. Michelle Obama: A Biography will be published by Greenwood Press this month, and Jackie O: On the Couch is in publication with Bancroft Press, and will be published in 2011
Dennis Byrne has completed his historical novel, Madness: The War of 1812, and the manuscript is in the hands of his Chicago agent, Joel Weisman.
A centennial book for Sandvik, a global high-tech engineering company, is the latest project at Marian Calabro's firm CorporateHistory.net. Also, Marian won a 2010 Apex Award of Excellence in Special Purpose Writing for Clinton County ARC: Past & Present. Theresa Russell conducted many oral history interviews for the latter book
Natalie Canavor, co-author of The Truth About the New Rules of Business Writing (Pearson/FT Press, 2010), has signed with SAGE Publications to write a textbook for MBA and upper-level undergraduate business students tentatively titled, Business Writing for the Digital Age
Rosemary Carstens has a feature on iconic western painter G. Harvey in the September issue of Southwest Art magazine and another about the wide range of styles being produced by Texas artists today in the September issue of Fine Art Connoisseur
Cooking with the Movies: Meals on Reels, co-authored by Anthony F. Chiffolo, re-creates meals from 14 feature films -- including Babette's Feast, Big Night, Chocolat, Tampopo, and Tortilla Soup -- spanning cuisines from French to Mexican to Japanese. Providing complete recipes, the book is a feast for "foodies" and film buffs alike
Stephanie Citron's article on Sustainable Staunton, Virginia was featured in the printed and online July/August issues of Arrive Magazine
Jan Collins' recent book, Next Steps: A Practical Guide to Planning for the Best Half of Your Life (Quill Driver Books) won a Merit Prize in the National Mature Media Awards, an awards program for books, advertising, and educational materials for older Americans. Coauthored with attorney Jan Warner, the book helps readers develop a detailed plan -- and the necessary documents -- for successful aging and retirement
Lisa Collier Cool is lead health blogger for GE's healthymagination.com blog, where she blogs about stories, insights, and ideas to inspire a shared commitment for creating better health. The blog will also include guest posts by ASJA member Paula Dranov and other freelancers. Lisa also just sold a new book, BOO! The Dog Who Unleashed Miracles to Harlequin nonfiction
Eliza Cross signed a contract with publisher Gibbs Smith to write the cookbook, 101 Things To Do With Bacon. The book will be published in 2011, after which time Eliza will be sequestered in her office with her Thighmaster
Laura Del Rosso's two travel apps on San Francisco were recently released by Sutro Media. The iPhone/iPod Touch travel guides -- one on Chinatown and the other on North Beach/ Fisherman's Wharf -- cover restaurants, attractions, and historic sites, and provide interactive maps and website links
The ASJA Monthly editor Barbara DeMarco-Barrett has been appointed book critic of Orange Coast Magazine, a metropolitan regional glossy in Orange County, California
Kathryn Eastburn has a new radio column, "The Middle Distance," which podcasts every Friday morning at www.krcc. org (click on The Big Something), and every Saturday at 1 p.m. Mountain Time on 91.5, KRCC, Colorado Springs' NPR affiliate station
Margie Goldsmith has just become a member of the Travelers' Century Club, limited to those who have visited 100 or more countries. Goldsmith, who has been to 116 countries, says she joined because of the club's motto: "World Traveler: the passport to 'Peace through Understanding.'" The Travelers' Century Club lists a total of 310 official countries as of March, 2010, and accepts even a port-of-call or plane fuel stop as sufficient. Goldsmith disagrees, and counts only those countries in which she has spent at least one night
After 35 published books, Hal Higdon decided to write his latest work online. Through the Woods is a memoir about the sport of cross-country. The author is issuing the book on Kindle in small segments of 3-4 chapters, which readers (and runners) can download for 99 cents. Hal plans to release sections of the book every 10-14 days, aiming for a final draft by fall, not coincidentally during the cross-country season
Belinda Hulin's memoir cookbook Roux Memories: A Cajun-Creole Love Story with Recipes (Lyons Press) will be released September 1. The book -- inspired by a box of recipes found in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina -- includes essays, photos and recipes from the author's South Louisiana childhood. This is the author's fifth cookbook, but the first one focused on her native cuisines
Cengage Learning, one of the largest textbook publishers in the world, has published the 30th Anniversary Edition of How To List and Sell Real Estate by Warren Jamison and Danielle Kennedy
Emma Johnson landed a weekly column for the job-search site eFinancialCareers.com. "Human Collateral" puts a human face on the financial fallout among Wall Streeters
Beth Kanter's new book, Day Trips from Washington, D.C.: Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler (Globe Pequot Press) was released in June
Robbie Miller Kaplan published second editions of her booklets: "How to Say It When You Don't Know What to Say," volumes on Illness & Death, Miscarriage, and Suicide, and e-books on Divorce, Pet Loss, Caregiver Responsibilities, Death of a Child, and Death of a Newborn Baby
Mary Beth Klatt has written an iPhone ap, Fabric U, for Sutro Media. It was released in June
At a recent gathering at Washington's National Press Club, Robert Knight introduced Journalistic Writing: Building the Skills, Honing the Craft (Marion Street Press). Wordsmith maven Richard Lederer calls it "an indispensable guide" for anyone writing public prose. A veteran broadcast and print journalist, Knight lives near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
This month, Portfolio/Penguin is publishing Secrets of the Moneylab: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Your Business, which offers practical insights from research into human economic behavior, including issues of fairness and reciprocity, reputation and trust, rationality, uncertainty, and others. A collaboration between Marina Krakovsky and HP Labs lead economist Kay-Yut Chen, the book includes a foreword by the Nobel-winning economist George Akerlof. Marina and her co-author have also started a blog for Psychology Today, featuring a business advice column called "Ask the Moneylab"
David Krueger, M.D., author of the recently released The Secret Language of Money (McGraw Hill), translated into 10 languages, was master of ceremonies for the International Cosmopolis Awards Ceremony honoring Lucy Jarvis, Victor Weisskopf, Ambassador Mussie Hailu, and the Wilhelm Schole International.
A freelance writer and editor based in Manhattan, Michael Lindgren writes book reviews for the Washington Post and Cleveland Plain Dealer, while also staying busy with copyediting and proofreading for a number of publishing clients. A first-year member, Lindgren enjoyed his inaugural ASJA conference as a member in April
New member Mardi Link will have her memoir published by Knopf, which bought the book at an auction held by her agent, Jane Dystel. The book details the two years following the end of her 20 year marriage, and the adventure of raising her three teenaged sons alone on a freelance writer's income. Link lives on a small farm in Northern Michigan, a state with an unemployment rate as high as 18 percent
Glaucoma -- Patient to Patient (iUniverse) is an updated and expanded version of the widely read Coping With Glaucoma by Edith S. Marks, who for the past 30 years has been coordinating a glucoma support group, one of the first and largest in the world. Edith is known internationally as a glaucoma patient advocate
Cleo Paskal's book Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map (Palgrave, 2010) has won one of three $5000 Awards of Special Merit in the Grantham Prize
for Excellence in Environmental Reporting
Olive Peart was honored at the Juneteenth Celebration saluting "10 Influential Blacks." Olive, an author and educator, successfully founded Demarche Publishing LLC and DLite Press
Literary agent Elizabeth Pomada is putting together the third San Francisco Writing For Change Conference, November 13 and 14, at the Hilton/Financial-Chinatown. Dedicated to writers who want to change the world one book at a time, keynoters are John Robbins and Dan Millman.
Laura Randall's new book, Peaceful Places: Los Angeles (Menasha Ridge Press), was published in July. It is a guide to 110 tranquil spots -- gardens, cafes, museums, beaches, and shops -- in and around the City of Angels
Maxine Rock is at the midpoint of her 10th nonfiction book, What If Your Brain Could Dance? She is working on the book with a team of brain specialists who have creative ideas about how people can change their own brain waves
In With Few Reservations: Travels at Home and Abroad (iUniverse, 2010), prize-winning travel journalist Peter Rose plays gumshoe in Honolulu, tour guide in Amsterdam, and taxonomist in China (classifying American tourists and other odd birds); he sails in Maine, treks in Tuscany, explores Patagonia, and recounts other adventures on land and sea
This month McGraw-Hill is publishing the 10th edition of Steve Slavin's Economics, now used at over 200 colleges
Kelly L. Stone's Living Write: The Secret to Bringing Your Craft Into Your Daily Life (Adams Media) will be released this month. This is the third book in the Time to Write series, a set of motivational books for authors."
Nonnie Thompson has signed with Anita Bartholomew at Salkind Literary Agency to represent her book, Time It Was: Memoir of a Modern Pioneer. The book has garnered endorsements from several iconic figures of the time, and has been optioned for film
The Association of Ghostwriters officially launched in June by founder Marcia Layton Turner and has been building momentum ever since. Members can participate in monthly teleseminars, receive the monthly association newsletter, network with fellow ghostwriters in a members-only forum, and receive announcements of available ghostwriting projects
Sharon Anne Waldrop's article, "Marriage Matters," published in the Summer 2009 issue of esperanza magazine, won a Mental Health America Media Award in the national magazine category. The award was presented at the Mental Health America Annual Conference in June in Washington, D.C.
Claire Walter's blog, Travel Babel (www.travel-babel.com), in July was one of the top 50 travel blogs of 2010 by Awarding the Web (www.awarding theweb.com). This was Travel Babel's second award. The first was a third-place honor in the new Travel Blog category in the Society of American Travel Writers Western Chapter's annual writing awards
Marvin Weisbord, with co-author Sandra Janoff, has completed a third edition of Future Search, on managing large group strategic planning, to be published by Berrett-Koehler in October. Marvin also is preparing a 25th Anniversary (third) edition of Productive Workplaces, his award-winning book on organizational change, for 2012.
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