PSYCHOLOGIST AUTHOR AND OCD EXPERT TO BE HONORED
Jonathan Grayson, Ph.D., Director of the Anxiety and Agoraphobia Treatment Center and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Temple University Medical School, will be awarded a “Lifetime Achievement Award” at the next meeting of the Annual Conference of teh International OCD Foundation. This will be the second time that Dr. Grayson will receive this […]
The Best Law Book of the Year
Congratulations to John Temple, author of The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates, which has won The American Society of Legal Writers’ 2010 Book of the Year. The book follows the story of Bo Jones, and begins in 1987 when an elderly bootlegger was shot to death in Duplin County, a poor […]
Summer Beauty at Home, by Susan Campos
What could be better than Botox? A few years back I wrote an article for the New York Times Magazine about Raisa Ruder, a Russian born aesthetician who contended that her all-natural beauty potions could take on Botox any its ilk any day. Hollywood agreed: Raisa has used her Ukrainian grandmother’s tried-and-true recipes on everyone […]
A Launch Into Social Media, by Lynn Kiele Bonasia
I have vivid memories from the launch date of my first novel (Some Assembly Required, Touchstone/S&S) of sitting at my kitchen table with a glass of wine, reading congratulatory messages from long lost friends who’d received my email blast, while simultaneously (misguidedly) checking Amazon numbers. I had written the book. It was out there, and […]
RAISING THE BAR
I was speaking with one of my favorite editors this morning, Michael Flamini at St. Martin’s Press about how hard agents work on nonfiction proposals with their authors before ever submitting them to publishers. “Oh, I can tell,” said Michael. “I can really see a change over the past decade. So many proposals are just […]
WHAT DO AGENTS WANT?
It is sometimes said that it is harder to find an agent than it is to find a publisher! And there’s some truth to it. For would-be authors, though, representation is a must these days. For one thing, publishers count on agents to screen submissions for them. If they dealt directly with authors on a […]
Lapine
Missy Chase Lapine Missy Chase Lapine is the innovative force behind SNEAKY BLENDS: Supercharge Your Health with More Than 100 Recipes Using the Power of Purees (North Star Way/Simon & Schuster, September 2016). Missy is best known as the creator of the wildly successful Sneaky Chef series of books, including her first, a New York […]
Geeta Anand’s THE CURE inspires the film EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES, starring Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford
Geeta with Harrison Ford Geeta and Brendan Fraser Geeta and kids John, Aileen, Geeta, Greg (Geeta’s husband) We are having a fantastic start to 2010 with seven exciting books launching in January alone. While we love all of our clients, a special place goes to Geeta Anand this month, the brilliant and beautiful Pulitzer Prize-winning […]
THE NEW FRUGALITY
Chris Farrell’s THE NEW FRUGALITY (Bloomsbury USA) promises to change the conversation about personal finance by offering us a new model in which we spend less but live fuller, more satisfying lives. Farrell, host of public radio’s Marketplace Money is an engaging expert and writer. From THE NEW FRUGALITY You won’t find many financial calculations […]
TALK TO ME LIKE I’M SOMEONE YOU LOVE
Nancy Dreyfus’ TALK TO ME LIKE I’M SOMEONE YOU LOVE (Tarcher/Penguin) is a brilliant communication tool for anyone who has hit a wall in a relationship, from a couple to a parent and child or even good friends. Dreyfus, a therapist with more than two decades of experience, has created “flashcards for real life”—written statements […]