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Jobs, Promotions, and New Enterprises
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Diana Altman has an article published for ForbesWoman: A Married Name Without The Hyphen plus two short stories published at Scribd called Settling Daddy In and The Drunkle. She also read from her novel-in-progress, ‘Harry at the Box Office’ at the New York Society Library at the end of October.
- Deborah Brodie, freelance editor, moderates the New School Forum on Writing for Children. Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30 pm at 66 West 12th Street. $5
- Polly Franchini's books are featured on the home page of Kitchen Arts & Letters new web site—and there’s a great review as well!
- Bill Greer, author of The Mevrouw Who Saved Manhattan, is speaking at the Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch, on November 18th, at 7:00 pm. Sex and the City: The Early Years will take a look at the bawdy culture the Dutch and other Europeans brought to Manhattan four hundred years ago.
- Dr. Irene S. Levine, who blogs as The Friendship Doctor on The Huffington Post and psychologytoday.com, has a new book called Best Friends Forever: Surviving a Breakup with Your Best Friend (Overlook Press). According to Publishers Weekly, “Levine’s first book is a formidable resource for negotiating the ending of women’s friendships.”
- Joan Regen-Ramirez has started a consulting business ESL for publishing professionals new to the States who want to learn the nuances of American-style publishing—individual and group classes plus Business English instruction—all levels. Reasonable rates are available.
Contact: writerjr1044@gmail.com
- Rosalind Reisner's new book, Read On...Life Stories: Reading Lists for Every Taste (ABC-CLIO) was published Sept. 30th. Roz provides annotations of 450 memoirs arranged in fun, browsable lists—there's something for everyone—from Frank McCourt to Sharon Osbourne; Nelson Mandela to Julia Child. For more details, visit A Readers Place.
- Andrea M. Rotondo has launched a new quarterly cruise travel magazine called Voyage. She is the editor-in-chief of the magazine and its associated website, LuxuryCruiseBible. She remains senior editor at Sterling Publishing. Click here to read the fall issue!
- Jim Story is announcing that he has a trifecta this quarter: one story appearing in the current issue of Confrontation called Love and Other Terminal Diseases and one in the upcoming issue of The Same called Chasing the Condor, and a third in the November issue of BigCityLit called Shampoo.
- Meryl Zegarek Public Relations is proud to announce their second Nobel Prize winner, Herta Müller, who has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Passport, Müller's first book in English translation, has been re-released by Serpent's Tail. MZPR also represents Elfriede Jelinek, 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient
- Kay Williams and her sister Jerri Williams Lawrence, have won a 2009 Ohioana Award for writing and editing excellence in finishing their late father’s romance novel, One Last Dance: It’s Never Too Late to Fall in Love. The sisters will be honored on October 17th at the Ohioana Award ceremony to be held in the Atrium of the Ohio State House in Columbus.
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Kirsten Ringer attended a terrific monthly event held by Choose What You Read NY, a non-profit organization offering free books to New Yorkers. By encouraging NYC residents to read more by providing an alternative to the wasteful daily papers that eventually get tossed out, CWYR-NY recycles used books that would have unfortunately been thrown away. Please visit their website for more information and for locations of drop-boxes around the city at http://www.choosewhatyoureadny.org/.
- Susannah Greenberg, Publicity Chair of WNBANYC, and President of Susannah Greenberg Public Relations, a book publicity firm, reports media placements by her firm: REAL SIMPLE magazine, circulation over 2 million readers, XM Radio over 19 million subscribers; MSN Money Central over 3.4 million viewers; and VOICE OF AMERICA News, a national and international booking on radio and other media. She has new profile of herself online at http://google.com/profiles/SusannahGreenberg.
Courses, Lectures, and Interviews
- Anna Olswanger will be a panelist at a workshop called “Why Was My Manuscript Rejected? 3 Literary Agents, 3 Opinions” that promises to be lively with three, possibly different, opinions about the strength and weaknesses of each manuscript. There will be a discussion of marketplace considerations, writing tips, and a general Q&A session. The workshop will be held on Sunday, November 15th from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at The Shelburne Hotel, 303 Lexington Avenue @ 37th Street. Anna’s website is www.olswanger.com.
- Member Deborah Brodie is helping create the First Annual Stanford Publishing Courses Writers Workshop, July 31 and August 1, at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. Explore writing and marketing books for children, young adults and adults, plus magazine journalism and new media tools, such as blogs and Web videos. For more info: http://publishingcourses.stanford.edu/writers-workshop/
- Dr. Abby Aronowitz, author of Your Final Diet, interviewed the South Beach Diet Doc for her next book, Dr. Abby'S Diet Revolution! An excerpt entitled, "Dr. Abby vs. Dr. South Beach: Fit and Fat?" was featured on Diet.com's home page on May 4th. For more info, please see www.DearDrAbby.com.
Deals Made
- Janet Reid recently sold rights for Andrew Grant’s debut thriller Even to Thomas Dunne Books in a six-figure preempt. Even introduces David Trevellyan, described as Jack Reacher’s younger brother who joined the British Navy and followed James Bond’s career path. Andrew Grant lives in the UK and is the younger brother of Lee Child, author of the New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher novels. Publication is tentatively scheduled for June 2009.
Published Works
- Susan Breen's short story "Triplet" was published in the anthology 2009 BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING. The story was first published in the literary magazine, anderbo.com. Her website is www.susanjbreen.com.
- Member Mary Sanders Smith’s novel ESCAPE is being published in Spring 2010 by Marick Press, an independent press in Michigan affiliated with Wayne State University. ESCAPE is a wilderness/survival/ suspense novel involving a prison escape on a wilderness river in Wisconsin, the subsequent chase, capture and having to hole up in a remote cabin during an unprecedented Alberta Clipper snowstorm. On another level, it is the story of a prison superintendent who has to be invulnerable to do their job but succumbs to excessive pride and the need to control. It is a story of Fate drawn from Indian myth and Greek drama.
- Rosalind Reisner’s manuscript for her next book, a reader’s guide to the memoir genre, was accepted by the publisher Libraries Unlimited/ABC-Clio for publication this fall. The book, part of a series, will be titled Read On…Life Stories.
- Member Roberta Prada reports that Vox Mentor will be releasing iMozart on DVD, brilliant Tomatis-based music. The price will enable many more people to have access to this valuable resource for focus, creativity, stress reduction and more. Delivery was anticipated in early May.
- Member Adam Eisenberg, whose agent is Janet Reid, announces that his book A Different Shade of Blue: How Women Changed the Face of Police Work will be released by Behler Publications on July 15th. As one of the very first cities to hire female cops in 1912, Seattle serves as the perfect backdrop to tell the national history of policewomen. Three generations of women – black, white, Asian, Latina, gay, straight – speak 'on the record' about their experiences on the streets and in the precincts. For more info, please see www.adifferentshadeofblue.com.
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Talia Carner’s as yet-unpublished novel JERUSALEM MAIDEN has been named semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest--out of close to 10,000 entries! It moved from quarter-finalist to semi-finalist on the strength of the reviews from Amazon's Expert and Publishers' Weekly.
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Member Martha Randolph Carr's most recent column on the demise of GM made the Wall Street Journal http://davos.wsj.com/article/0dVd9KpasBfe9.
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Member Rose Marie Dunphy has just had another piece published in Newsday. It’s about the economy and is titled "Recession? Time to make some lemonade:"
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opdun0412614358apr08,0,694389.story.
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New member Marissa Walsh edited an anthology for teens called Does this Book Make Me Look Fat?, which was recently published by Clarion,
an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It features short stories and
essays by a variety of authors including Megan McCafferty, Ellen
Hopkins, Wendy McClure, Carolyn Mackler, Coe Booth, and Sara Zarr. For more information, please see the amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Does-This-Book-Make-Look/dp/0547014961/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238091134&sr=1-1
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