May 6| All The Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House, by David Giffels (Morrow/Simon & Schuster) is selected as a June Booksense pick: "Great memoirs tend to be stranger than fiction, and David Giffels' riotous recollection of human willpower versus decaying architecture, contemptible rodents, and one stubborn octogenarian is no exception. An utterly unforgettable chapter in one young man's life."
May 5| Publisher's Weekly reviews Chuck Klosterman's first novel, Downtown Owl (Scribner/Simon & Schuster), saying he, "...creates a satisfying character study and strikes a perfect balance between the funny and the profound."
May 4| Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational (HarperCollins) appears on The New York Times list of business bestsellers for the fourth month in a row.
May 4| Fly Solo (Perigee/Penguin) by Teresa Rodriguez Williamson is recommended by the Indianapolis Star: "A formatted, destination-specific guide featuring international locales recommended for safety, transportation, socializing and other factors."
Apr 28| Stephen Baker's The Numerati (Houghton-Mifflin) is one of two non-fiction titles singled out by Publishers Weekly in its "shortlist of top galleys worth grabbing at BEA". Scheduled for release in September, PW reports the buzz on the book as, "This feels timely and gripping," and, "Definitely another classic in the tradition of The Long Tail and The Wisdom of Crowds."
Apr 24| Romantic Times reviews The Fidelity Files (St. Martin's Griffin) by Jessica Brody, calling it "..a terrific debut novel...The quick, engaging story has well-defined characters and a deftly placed plot."
Apr 18| The Washington Post publishes an Op-Ed by Lisa Guersey, author of Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age Five (Basic Books), about how parents can use television to the benefit of raising their children. The Washington Post
Apr 18| Thirteen Forum posts a full lecture with Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang, to introduce their book, Welcome To Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life (Bloomsbury). Thirteen Forum
Apr 17| The New York Times profiles David Giffels, author of All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House (HarperCollins). The New York Times
Apr 17| Publishers Weekly reviews Alison Bass's Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial (Algonquin), saying "…this story of determined do-gooders is inspiring."
Apr 16| Sam Wang, co-author with Sandra Aamodt of Welcome to Your Brain (Bloomsbury) published an Op-ed in the USA Today on the subject of autism, vaccines, and Jenny McCarthy. USA Today
Apr 13| Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins) by Dan Ariely is reviewed in The Toronto Star. The Toronto Star
Apr 12| The Globe and Mail reviews Lisa Lutz's Curse of the Spellmans (Simon & Schuster), calling it "…one of the best comic novels ever…hilarious, smart and irresistible."
Apr 7| John Wood, author of Leaving Microsoft To Save The World (Harpercollins) wrote a story for Newsweek about his experiences with Microsoft, finding meaning, and the drive to help educate children across the developing world. Newsweek
Apr 7| Congratulations to Patrick Coleman of Laguna Beach Books, Laguna Beach, Calif., whose ballad "Remaindered Love" has won the Grand Prize in the Bookstore Power Ballad Contest sponsored by Algonquin Books and Shelf Awareness in honor of Rock On: An Office Power Ballad (Algonquin) by Dan Kennedy. To hear the winning ballad, which is hilarious, go to the Rock On Website
Apr 7| Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins) appears on the USA Today Money Best Sellers list at #5.
Apr 7| Sam Wang, co-author with Sandra Aamodt of Welcome To Your Brain (Bloomsbury), appeared on NPR's Talk of the Nation, to speak about building willpower over time. NPR
Apr 4| Mark Montano, author of The Big-Ass Book of Crafts (Simon Spotlight Entertainment/Simon & Schuster), explains how crafting will change the world in an interview with the Courier-Journal. Courier-Journal
Apr 4| Nora Pierce's The Insufficiency of Maps (Atria/Simon & Schuster) was named a fiction finalist for the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Book of the Year Awards.
Apr 2| Design*Sponge reviews Mark Montano's The Big-Ass Book Of Crafts (SSE/Simon & Schuster). Design*Sponge
Apr 2| An Op-Ed piece about willpower by Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang, authors of Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life (Bloomsbury), appears in The New York Times. The New York Times
Apr 2| The Globe and Mail reviews Stopwatch Marketing (Portfolio/Penguin Group)by John Rosen and AnnaMaria Turano. The Globe and Mail
Apr 1| Woman's Day endorses Mothers Need Time-Outs Too (McGraw-Hill) by Susan Callahan, Anne Nolen and Katrin Schumann: "By the last page you'll be plotting your own mini-escape."
Mar 31| A Vermont Public Radio listener comments on the late Elizabeth Mayer's Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind (Bantam). VPR
Mar 31| Modish reviews Mark Montano's The Big-Ass Book Of Crafts (SSE/Simon & Schuster), saying, "it is looooaaaaded with great ideas." Modish
Mar 30| The London Times reviews Dan Kennedy's Rock On (Algonquin): "Kennedy is not, in real life, the bumbling ingénu he masquerades as in Rock On. He is a wise guy in geek's clothing. It's a measure of his book's success that this running gag neither palls nor distorts [this] high-spirited obituary for the record business."
Mar 28| Tito Mukhopadhyay, author of How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move? (Arcade), as well as others, appeared on CNN. CNN
Mar 23| Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational is featured in The New York Times as an Editor's Choice. "Moving comfortably from the lab to broad social questions to his own life, an M.I.T. economist pokes holes in conventional market theory." The New York Times
Mar 22| The Financial Times runs "Give with the stars - but make it count: The Emergence of an Online Philanthropic Marketplace," by Randall J. Ottinger, author of Beyond Success (McGraw-Hill). The Financial Times
Mar 22| The Daily News reviews Curse of the Spellmans (Simon & Schuster) by Lisa Lutz. Daily News
Mar 23| The New York Times writes of Lisa Lutz's Curse of the Spellmans (Simon & Schuster), "It's nice to hear such an original voice."
Mar 19| AOL interviews Nanette Gartrell, author of My Answer Is No...If That's Okay With You (Free Press/Simon & Schuster) AOL
Mar 16| The Richmond Times reviews Lisa Lutz's Curse of the Spellmans (Simon & Schuster), saying that it "could have been concocted by Alfred Hitchcock and Lucille Ball working together."
Mar 16| The New York Times' Sunday Book Review reviews Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins): "this sly and lucid book ... is a far more revolutionary book than its unthreatening manner lets on. It's a concise summary of why today's social science increasingly treats the markets-know-best model as a fairy tale." The New York Times
Mar 13| Dan Kennedy appeared on NPR to speak about his new book Rock On (Algonquin/Workman). NPR
Mar 12| TIME Magazine calls Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins), a "fantastic romp through the science of decision-making that unmasks the ways that emotions, social norms, expectations and context lead us astray."
Mar 10| Seattle PI reviews Nanette Gartrell's My Answer Is No ... If That's Okay With You: How Women Can Say No and Still Feel Good About It (Free Press/Simon & Schuster). Seattle PI
Mar 10| Business Week calls Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins), "an entertaining tour of the many ways people act against their best interests, drawing on Ariely's own ingeniusly designed experiments."
Mar 9| Bride Clark´s Because She Can (Grand Central) is mentioned in The New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Mar 6| Senator Tom Daschle appeared on The Daily Show to talk about his new book, Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin´s Press). The Daily Show
Mar 6| Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins) is reviewed in Slate magazine.
Mar 5| A report on the effect of placebos by Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins), is featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and The Los Angeles Times.
Mar 3| In The Christian Science Monitor, Nanette Gartrelle shares tips from her new book, My Answer Is NO … If That's Okay with You (Free Press/Simon & Schuster). The Christian Science Monitor
Mar 3| Dina Koutas Poch, author of I Heart My In-Laws (Holt), has a piece on pregnancy featured in The New York Sun. The New York Sun
Mar 2| The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reviews Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins), saying, "The book is often amazing, and frankly, so is Ariely."
Mar 2| The New York Times' Sunday Book Review calls Dan Kennedy's Rock On (Algonquin/Workman), "hilariously spot-on." The New York Times
Mar 2| The Onion, creators of Our Dumb World, is featured on CBS Sunday Morning. CBS Sunday Morning
Mar 2| Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang's Welcome to Your Brain (Bloomsbury) is reviewed in The Plain Dealer. The Plain Dealer
Mar 1| Laura Schenone, author of The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken (W.W. Norton), is featured in Saveur magazine, which writes, "This wonderfully intricate, rumpled, generous narrative would be a joy even without the final lagniappe of about two dozen hard-won recipes. Written in the thoughtful, instructive language of someone who's aware that recipes--"somewhat like family life"--can let you down.
Feb 27| The New York Times calls James Braly's Life in A Marital Institution, "Particularly remarkable...he's never less than excellent company." The New York Times
Feb 26| Mark Montano is featured on ivillage's television show for his new book, The Big-Ass Book of Crafts (Simon Spotlight Entertainment/Simon & Schuster), to show that making fabulous crafts need not be an expensive endeavor"
Feb 25| The USA Today reviews Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational (HarperCollins), saying that it, "makes economics and the strange happenings of the human mind fun."
Feb 23| The Financial Times writes that Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational (HarperCollins), "is a more than capable storyteller, and he sticks close to his own research so his writing is full of colour and detail."
Feb 21| The Independent selected Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects in a list of The Ten Best crime novels.
Feb 21| NPR's All Things Considered interviewed Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins). All Things Considered
Feb 19| Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins), appeared on CBS News's The Early Show. The Early Show
Feb 18| USA Today review's Dan Kennedy's Rock On (Algonquin / Workman), calling it an, "amazingly funny yet perceptive look at rock music and big corporations in crisis — and the difficulty so many young men have in trying to define success today." USA Today
Feb 16| The New York Times heralds Tech Ticker, the video blog by Sarah Lacy, author of Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0 (Gotham/Penguin Group).
Feb 15| The New York Observer calls Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins), "...a fascinating new book of behavioral economics...countless entertaining experiments...a lively and interesting book full of inspired queries and creative answers." The New York Observer
Feb 13| The Washington Post reviews Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay's How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move: Inside My Autistic Mind (Arcade). The Washington Post
Feb 11| Maclean's talks to Nanette Gartrell, author of My Answer is No...If That's Okay With You (Free Press/Simon & Schuster), in a cover story about "Women who can't say No." Maclean's
Feb 10| Financial Times calls Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins), "an excellent new book." Financial Times
Feb 10| The Washington Post calls Rob Sheffield’s Love is a Mix Tape (Crown/Random House) “a celebration of pop music and its power to bring people together.”
Feb 7| Beth Lisick, author of Helping Me Help Myself (HarperCollins), is intervied in the USA Today. USA Today
Feb 6| Nanette Gartrell's My Answer is No...If That's Okay With You (Free Press/Simon & Schuster) is excerpted in the USA Today. USA Today
Jan 27| My Answer is No...If That's Okay With You (Free Press/Simon & Schuster), by Nanette Gartrelle, appears at #7 on The San Francisco Chronicle's Nonfiction Bestseller list.
Jan 27| Get Rich, Stay Rich, Pass It On: The Wealth-Accumulation Secrets of America's Richest Families (Portfolio/Penguin Group) by Catherine McBreen and George Walper Jr, is reviewed in USA Today. USA Today
Jan 27| Sam Means' humor book, A Practical Guide to Racism (Gotham Books / Penguin), appears at #8 on The Los Angeles Times' Nonfiction Bestseller List.
Jan 24| Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods (Algonquin), received the 2008 Audubon Medal, which since 1947 has been bestowed on a wide array of influential environmentalists in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of conservation and environmental protection. Past recipients include Presidents (Jimmy Carter), Authors (Rachel Carson), Scientists (E.O. Wilson) and Philanthropists (The Rockefeller Family).
Jan 18| Entertainment Weekly reviews Beth Lisick's Helping Me Help Myself (William Morrow/Harper Collins).
Jan 10| Nanette Gartrell, M.D. appears on Good Morning America to discuss her book My Answer is No...If That's Okay with You (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)--and to provide tips to women on how to say "NO." Good Morning America
Jan 10| Publisher's Weekly gives a starred review to The Curse of The Spellmans (Simon & Schuster), Lisa Lutz's sequel to her The Spellman Files (Simon & Schuster).
Jan 8| People magazine lists Beth Lisick's Helping Me Help Myself (William Morrow/Harper Collins) as this issues's Critic's Choice, awarding it 4 stars. "Her accounts of everything...are not only hilarious but enlightening. Finding useful tips amidst the bunk, she distills the best from thousands of pages of self-help books. Readers will be inspired: If a woman in a banana suit can clean her closet and pay off her credit card debt, surely you can, too."
Jan 4| Helping Me Help Myself (William Morrow/Harper Collins) by Beth Lisick is reviewed by Steve Almond in The Los Angeles Times.
Jan 4| Dan Kennedy's Rock On: An Office Power Ballad (Algonquin Books, Feb 2008) is a February Booksense pick.
Dec 24| The Three Signs of a Miserable Job (Jossey-Bass) by Patrick Lencioni is named by The Wall Street Journal as one of the Best Books of 2007.
Dec 24| Anita Bruzzese's 45 Things You Do That Drive Your Boss Crazy - and How To Avoid Them (Perigee) is named by The New York Post as one of its 2007 Notable Business and Career Books.
Dec 24| The Onion's Our Dumb World (Little, Brown and Co.) is featured on NPR's Weekend Edition.
Dec 22| The Guardian reviews Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects (Phoenix in UK), saying, "Dark, edgy and extremely readable, Sharp Objects is a brilliant debut."
Dec 20| Sandra Blakeslee, co-author of The Body Has a Mind of It's Own (Random House), appears on NPR's Science Friday.
Dec 17| Erika Anderson's Growing Great Employees (Portfolio / Penguin) is one of 4 semi-finalists in the Human Resources/Organizational Development category of the 8CR Best Business Books Awards for 2007.
Dec 16| Nanette Gartell, M.D., author of My Answer is No...If That's Okay with You (Free Press/Simon & Schuster), offers tips on how to make sure your questions are answered in the doctor's office. SFGate.com
Dec 10| Jacqueline Golding's Healing Stories: Picture Books for the Big and Small Changes in a Child's Life (M. Evans & Company) is listed on the Cool Book of the Day website. coolbookoftheday.com
Dec 8| Laura Schenone, author of The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken (W.W. Norton) appeared on NPR's All Things Considered.
Dec 3| The Washington Post named The Body Has a Mind of Its Own (Random House), by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee, as one of the best non-fiction books of 2007.
Dec 3| Publisher's Weekly calls Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life (Bloomsbury) by Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang, “a terrific, surprisingly fun guide for the general reader.”
Dec 1| Laura Schenone’s The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken (Norton) is featured as an ELLE magazine Readers’ Prize pick: “Schenone’s account shines when she focuses on the complexity of aromas and nuances in flavor, and how these aspects of the recipes we love most, derived from distant times and places, strike a chord in our memories and evoke a feeling of home.”
Nov 30| The Prayer Chest (Doubleday Religion / Random House), by August Gold and Joel Fotinos, appears at #4 on the Denver Post fiction bestseller list.
Nov 25| Donna Bee-Gates, author of I Want It Now: Navigating Childhood in a Materialistic World (Palgrave McMillan), is featured in an AP article about the materialism and Christmas: 'With kids, a lot of the stuff that they get doesn't have any meaning….They just open the stuff and they throw it onto the pile'…Bee-Gates suggests making gingerbread houses together or eating breakfast as a family before commencing the gift-opening frenzy on Christmas morning.” Minneapolis Star Tribune
Nov 24| The Financial Times review article "How to Make Your Giving More Effective" cites Randall Ottinger's Beyond Success: Building as Personal, Financial and Philanthropic Legacy (McGraw-Hill) as being among the few books that "teach how to give effectively... Ottinger interviewed a who's who of successful Americans for Beyond Success. Through relating these conversations and presenting short stories of people who have moved beyond financial success to create a meaningful intersection of wealth, family and philanthropy, Ottinger leads the reader to a broader understanding of success." The Financial Times
Nov 23| Our Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of Planet Earth (Little, Brown & Company/Hachette) is featured in a New York Times article about books on maps: "For a truly abusive tour of the world “Our Dumb World” would be hard to top...it’s an astoundingly offensive guide to the states of the union and the countries of the world...This is 'South Park”'humor: sophomoric, transgressive and intermittently brilliant.” New York Times
Nov 19| The Dangerous Book for Dogs (Villard/Random House) is featured in a USA Today round-up of dog-themed books: “Publishing Goes to the Dogs." USA Today
Nov 19| The C Student’s Guide to Success (Tarcher/Penguin) by Ron Bliwas is featured in Investor’s Business Daily. Investor's Business Daily
Nov 18| Rob Sheffield’s Love is a Mix Tape (Crown/Random House) is named as one of the best memoirs of 2007 by the Kansas City Star. Kansas City Star
Nov 17| The Sydney Morning Herald calls Joe Bageant’s Deer Hunting with Jesus (Crown/Random House) “a wonderful roller-coaster of exuberance, outrage, righteous indignation and passion."
Nov 17| Stuff On My Cat (Chronicle) and Kittenwars (Chronicle) are both mentioned in The Guardian UK ’s round-up of the best cat blogs. Stuff On My Cat and Kittenwars
Nov 16| Paula Kamen’s Finding Iris Chang (Da Capo) is selected as a Booksense pick for November: “Kamen creates an intimate and compelling story about an extraordinary woman and her sudden, mysterious death.” Book Sense
Nov 15| Bobbi Conner's Unplugged Play: The Essential Parents Guide (Workman) won the Parents Choice Silver Honor from The Parents Choice Foundation, which is dedicated to identifying the best products for parents and children.
Nov 15| Entertainment Weekly recommends Laura Schenone's The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken (W.W. Norton)
Nov 15| Kasper Hauser, authors of SkyMaul: The Unauthorized Catalog Parody (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press) are featured in a New York Times article for their Craigslist parody, Khraigslist. New York Times
Nov 14| Debra Conden, author of AmBITCHous (Broadway/Random House), published an op-ed in The Huffington Post, titled "Beat the Bitch? Straight Talk on the B-Bomb" The Huffington Post
Nov 12| Newsweek calls The Onion's Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of Planet Earth (Little, Brown & Co/Hachette) “the best parody since the National Lampoon published its phony newspaper,” claiming that "it transcends its own silliness with Swiftian satire…The Onion's picture of our world is skewed, buffoonish, raging, mocking and often ridiculous. It is not factual, fair or balanced. But it certainly rings true.”
Nov 12| Patrick Lencioni's The Three Signs of a Miserable Job (Wiley), was reviewed in The Financial Times.
Nov 11| Scott Adams, author of Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain (Portfolio/Penguin), is profiled in The New York Times. New York Times
Nov 8| Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang, authors of the forthcoming Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everday Life, scheduled for Spring 2008 publication by Bloomsbury USA and many publishers around the world, have an OpEd entitled "Exercise on the Brain" in The New York Times. The New York Times
Nov 7| The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy (Collins) by Rick Beyer, was mentioned in The Boston Globe.
Nov 5| Christine Comaford-Lynch's Rules For Renegades (McGraw-Hill) makes its first appearance on the BusinessWeek bestseller list.
Nov 4| The New York Times Style section reviews The Dangerous Book For Dogs (Villard/Random House) by Joe Garden, Anita Serwacki, Janet Ginsburg, Chris Pauls, and Scott Sherman. The New York Times
Nov 1| The Capital Times reviews The Dangerous Book For Dogs (Villard/Random House) by Joe Garden, Anita Serwacki, Janet Ginsburg, Chris Pauls, and Scott Sherman, saying, " the finished book is laugh-out-loud funny and, for dog lovers, even touching on occasion."
Oct 30| A reviewer in USA Today claims that she "laughed her head off" whie reading the "snarky satire" Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of Planet Earth (Little Brown/Hachette).
Oct 30| Congratulations to Bryant Terry, co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (Tarcher / Penguin Group), 1 of 10 people to receive a 2008-2010 Food and Society Policy fellowship.
Oct 29| Domino magazine features tips on how to prepare an eco Thanksgiving dinner spread by Bryant Terry and Anna Lappe, authors of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (Tarcher / Penguin Group). Domino
Oct 28| The Washington Post Book Review says that Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee's The Body Has a Mind of Its Own (Random House) is a "captivating exploration of the brain's uncanny ability to map the world. .. The authors have essayed some difficult terrain here and, for the most part, with clarity. They know the inner workings of both the scientific laboratory and the brain and wisely keep their heady subject matter anchored in those worlds. Readers will emerge with a far keener sense of where they are. The Washington Post
Oct 22| Kirkus gives a starred review to Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions (HarperCollins): " Make a point of seeing this book. That way you'll know you want it, and you will."
Oct 22| The London Times reviews Marc Prensky's Don't Bother Me, Mom-I'm Learning (Paragon House), titling the piece "Computer games are good for you."
Oct 18| Kirkus gives a spectacular review to Beth Lisick's Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone (William Morrow/Harper), calling it "Funny, perceptive and surprisingly open-hearted under the cynicism."
Oct 17| The Sacramento Bee profiles Georgeanne Brennan and says of a A Pig in Provence (Chronicle): “In its intimate tone...[it] is a throwback to a publishing era that's virtually gone...The headnotes at the start of each chapter, in their suggestions of drama to come, read as if they could be from a Dickens novel. And contrary to the modern practice of publishing recipes by listing ingredients and following them with blunt directions, the book's recipes are casual narratives, which could only be more personal if they'd been handwritten.” The Sacramento Bee
Oct 15| Booklist reviews Laura Schenone's The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken (Norton): "So compelling a story as Schenone relates can resolve itself only as the now-famished reader marches into the kitchen to reproduce these perfect pasta pockets to share with whatever family presents itself."
Oct 8| Hooman Majd, author of the forthcoming The Ayatollah Begs to Differ (Doubleday/Broadway), writes about Iranian President Ahmadinejad in The New Yorker. The New Yorker
Oct 7| Christine Comaford-Lynch's Rules for Renegades (McGraw-Hill) appears at number 5 on the New York Times hardcover business bestseller list.
Oct 1| Booklist reviews Lani Diane Rich’s Crazy In Love (Warner Forever/Hachette), calling it a “charmer about small-town life and big-time romance,” and claiming that “Rich’s readers won’t be disappointed.”
Sept 30| Metapsychology calls Richard O'Connor's Undoing Perpetual Stress (Berkley/Penguin Group), "a real gem for anyone who wants to know more about depression, anxiety and ways of handling these symptoms."
Sept 27| Nature, one of the premier journals in science, says that The Body Has a Mind of Its Own by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee (Random House) " is a thought-provoking book of wide appeal. It is a striking example of how complex issues in contemporary research can be presented to entertain everyone." Nature
Sept 26| The October issue of Pyschology Today features The Mind Has A Body of Its Own (Random House) by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee: "With captivating anecdotes and mind-bending tricks, this book shows how often we blur the boundaries between the corporal self, the mind, and the outside world."
Sept 25| In a feature article about how to gain competitive advantage by hiring the best talent, The Financial Times cites "the 'talent marketplace' described by McKinsey's Lowell Bryan and Claudia Joyce in their recent book Mobilizing Minds" (McGraw-Hill) The Financial Times
Sept 23| Rules For Renegades (McGraw-Hill) by Christine Comaford Lynch appears at number 13 on the New York Times Hardcover Advice and How To Bestseller List.
Sept 20| The October issue of SEED magazine features The Mind Has A Body of Its Own (Random House) by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee.
Sept 19| Jeffrey Stepakoff, author of Billion Dollar Kiss: The Kiss That Saved Dawson’s Creek and Other Adventures in TV Writing (Gotham Books/Penguin), was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition. NPR
Sept 17| Newsweek's article, "Meet the Parentocrats," features Ron Rentel's Karma Queens, Geek Gods & Innerpreneurs (McGraw-Hill), saying "Marketing execs have been tagging new consumer types - from yuppies to alpha males - for decades. But to replace those outmoded labels, the New York branding firm Consumer Eyes has profiled nine new 21st-century consumer groups setting market trends now." Newsweek
Sept 17| Former President Bill Clinton’s bestselling new book, Giving, cites the work of John Wood, author of Leaving Microsoft to Change the World (Collins). In the “Giving Things" chapter, he writes, "Just think what would happen if a couple hundred people followed John Wood's example... or if a few thousand simply spent their next vacation working to put all the world's children in schools, with books and other learning materials. They could do it."
Sept 15| Library Journal calls Alexander George’s What Would Socrates Say? Philosophers Answer Your Questions about Love, Nothingness and Everything Else (Clarkson Potter/Random House) an “enjoyable book” that “shows both that lay readers can ask probing questions and that philosophers can respond with short, illuminating answers.”
Sept 14| The Chicago Sun-Times recommends Simon Rich's Ant Farm (Random House), claiming that "the book is so distinctive, so fresh, so funny, so brief, one can hardly resist the impulse to share."
Sept 10 Publishers Weekly reviews The Dangerous Book for Dogs (Villard/Random House) by Joe Garden, Anita Serwacki, Janet Ginsburg, Chris Pauls and Scott Sherman, saying, "this goofy, gleeful guide to the dog life will tickle anyone with a soft spot for canines."
Sept 4| Publishers Weekly reviews August Gold and Joel Fotinos’s The Prayer Chest (due out in October from Doubleday Religion/Random House), claiming that it is an “easy, inspirational read” that it “will warm the hearts of seekers everywhere.”
Sept 3| Laura Schenone’s The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family gets a starred review from Publishers Weekly: “Schenone’s fierce honesty and relentless questioning…skillful handling and dismantling of family myth, refusal to romanticize Italy and historian's knack for sketching the big picture in a few broad strokes allows this poignant book to transcend the specificity of its subject matter.”
Sept 3| Bridie Clark, author of Because She Can (Grand Central/Hachette) has an Op-Ed featured in The New York Times. New York Times
Sept 3| People reviews Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects (Shaye Areheart/Random House), calling it a “darkly addictive mystery.”
Sept 2| The New York Times Books of Style section reviews Alexander George’s What Would Socrates Say? Philosophers Answer Your Questions about Love, Nothingness and Everything Else (Clarkson Potter/Random House) calling it “earnest and thorough.” New York Times
Sept 2| Patrick Lencioni's just-published The Three Signs Of A Miserable Job (Jossey-Bass/ Wiley) appears on The New York Times Business Best Sellers list.
Aug 28| The Wall Street Journal says Richard D. Kahlenberg's Tough Liberal (Columbia University Press) is "a thoroughly researched and engaging biography" of Albert Shanker. The Wall Street Journal
Aug 28| A Reuters review of Patrick Lencioni's The Three Signs Of A Miserable Job (Jossey Bass/Wiley) is picked up by newpapers across the country, including The New York Times, Boston Globe and Washington Post. Boston Globe
Aug 27| USA Today reviews Christine Comaford Lynch's Rules For Renegades (McGraw-Hill): "For readers in search of more hands-on, how-to instructions, Comaford-Lynch offers free links to, among other things, a sample business plan outline, sales tutorials and tips for building your own power and handling rejection." USA Today
Aug 26| Alice LaPlante's The Making of a Story (W.W. Norton) lands on the San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller List.
Aug 22| Salon.com reviews The Milk Memos: How Real Moms Learned to Mix Business With Babies -- and How You Can, Too (Tarcher/Penguin) by Cate Colburn-Smith and Andrea Serrette: “Juggling a career, breast-feeding, family and all of life's other demands is possible (but not always easy or graceful). It starts with day-by-day commitment, determination, courage and a sense of humor. To go the distance, though, you must look outside yourself and connect with other working moms."
Aug 19| The New York Times ran "Americanization 101," an OpEd piece on the controversy over the opening this fall of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, a Brooklyn public school dedicated to the study of Arabic language and culture, by Richard Kahlenberg, author of Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy (Columbia University Press). The New York Times
Aug 16| The New York Times OpEd page runs "The Genius of 'Baby Einstein'" by Lisa Guernsey, author of Into the Minds of Babes: How Screen Time Affects Children From Birth to Age Five (Basic Books), out next week. The New York Times
Aug 15| The Wall Street Journal says Patrick Lencioni's new book The Three Signs of a Miserable Job (Jossey-Bass/Wiley) is "entertaining, easy to read and seems real enough to resonate with readers. He tells a fun tale, and he offers a welcome reminder that there is more to work than the job you do." The Wall Street Journal
Aug 14| Debra Webb’s Traceless (St. Martin’s Press) is excerpted in Cosmo.
Aug 8| Christine Comaford-Lynch, author of Rules For Rengades (McGraw-Hill) appeared on CNBC's The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch.
Aug 8| An article by Jill Neimark, co-author with Stephen Post of Why Good Things Happen To Good People (Broadway/Random House), appears in this month's issue of Ode.
Aug 8| Jennifer Louden is profiled in The Seattle Times and interviewed about The Life Organizer: A Woman’s Guide to a Mindful Year (New World Library): "We live in this ADHD time where we're training ourselves to not be able to concentrate...You have to be intentional about bringing in your hopes, dreams and values because they are crowded out by daily life, to-do lists, busyness."
Aug 5| Publisher's Weekly reviews Lisa Guernsey's Into The Minds Of Babes (Basic Books): "A science journalist and mother of two, Guernsey manages to extricate straightforward information and guidelines from the morass of research, articles and debates on screen media and child brain development. "
Aug 1| The Wall Street Journal reviews The Marketing Mavens (Crown Business) by Noel Capon: "Mr. Capon builds a case that marketing should be the concern of the entire business, not just the marketing department." The Wall Street Journal
Aug 1| Kim Lavine, author of Mommy Millionaire (St. Martin's), is featured on Lifetimetv.com. Lifetimetv.com
Aug 1| Leaving Microsoft To Save The World (Harper) by John Wood was named one of the Top Ten 2006 Business Narratives from Amazon's Editor Picks.
Jul 29| USA Today does a feature on Bobbi Conner's Unplugged Play: No Batteries, No Plugs, Pure Fun, saying " In the summer of The Dangerous Book for Boys- a nostalgic, humorous guide to stickball, go-carts, knot-tying and such - this is a more straight-forward play recipe book aimed at parents of younger children, ages 1 to 10." USA Today
Jul 29| Advertising Age writes about the 9 C-Types featured in Ron Rentel's Karma Queens, Geek Gods and Innerpreneurs (McGraw-Hill)
Jul 28| The Times London reviews Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects (Shaye Areheart/Random House), claiming it is a "combination of straightforward detection, psychological frightener and American South gothic,” and that it is “disturbing and highly atmospheric.” Times London
Jul 28| The Atheist's Bible (Ecco/HarperCollins) author Joan Konner has been interviewed for an Associated Press feature on why religion is more of a factor in the presidential race in the present day than ever before.
Jul 28| Fly Solo (Perigee/Penguin) author Teresa Rodriguez Williamson will appear in two segments this week on the Fox 4, Good Day morning show in Dallas.
Jul 24| Publisher's Weekly gives a starred review to Christine Comaford-Lynch's Rules For Renegades (McGraw-Hill): "Entrepreneurs and leaders at all levels of their careers will find this inspiring, rags-to-riches story as pleasurable to read as it is thought provoking."
Jul 19| The Financial Times says of Lowell Bryan's and Claudia Joyce's Mobilizing Minds: Creating wealth from talent in the 21st century organisation: This is a densely written, powerfully argued book. Cynics will interpret the call for organisational redesign as a make-work scheme for management consultants. But even they would have to concede that this critique of organisational stasis is very well done indeed.
Jul 19| The Boston Globe speaks to Jeff Rivera about his experience writing the novel Forever My Lady (Warner Books), and getting it published. The Boston Globe
Jul 19| Bobbi Conner's Unplugged Play (Workman), is reviewed by Publisher's Weekly: "Conner has taken her sources at their word and produced a fun-filled compendium likely to become a dog-eared resource for parents seeking whimsical yet practical ways to unplug the electronics and promote the physical, cognitive and emotional benefits of plain, old-fashioned play."
Jul 18| Kirkus reviews Robert Brooks' and Sam Goldstein's Raising A Self-Disciplined Child (McGraw-Hill), saying it provides "Hands-on, caring advice to make your child gratifyingly, skillfully independent."
Jul 18| Daily Candy says of Stacey Grenrock Woods’ memoir, I, California (Scribner/Simon & Schuster): “The West Coast has the sunshine. And Stacey Grenrock Woods’s new memoir…is an homage to the type of girl who flourishes under its rays… Getting through her loopy, smart-ass, wildly discursive musings without snarfing a single beverage is a feat unto itself. There’s a reason people wish they all could be California girls.” Daily Candy
Jul 15| Holly Shumas’s Five Things I Can’t Live Without (Grand Central) is reviewed by People: “Neurotics will relate: An overanalyzing almost-30-year-old retools her relationship and career.”
Jul 15| Debra Webb’s Traceless (due out in August from St. Martin’s Press) is reviewed by Publishers Weekly: “Skillfully managing a big cast, Webb keeps the suspense teasingly taut, dropping clues and red herrings one after another on her way to a chilling conclusion.”
Jul 12| Dina Koutas Poch, author of I Heart My In-Laws, (Henry Holt) is featured in New York’s Daily News Article “The Honeymoon is Over: Now it’s Time To Deal With Your In-Laws.”
Jul 7| The Catastrophist (Harcourt) is a summer paperback pick by The Chicago Sun Times.
Jul 5| Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects (Shaye Areheart/Random House) wins two prestigious Dagger awards, which celebrate the best in crime and thriller writing, from Britain’s Crime Writers Association (CWA). Flynn was awarded both the New Blood Dagger and the Ian Fleming Dagger, and judges said of the book: "A very good debut, atmospheric and creepy, with a complex and convincingly drawn female protagonist. The claustrophobia of small-town America in the south is portrayed exceptionally well in this dark psychological thriller." CWA
Jul 1| Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files (Simon & Schuster) is an Amazon Editor’s Pick for July. Amazon
Jun 30| The Palm Beach Post recommends both Jennifer Louden’s The Life Organizer: A Woman’s Guide to a Mindful Year (New World Library) and Teresa Williamson’s Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places on Earth for a Girl to Travel Alone (Perigee/Penguin) in a feature article on vacation and travel books.
Jun 28| USA Today recommends Gloss by Jennifer Oko (Mira/Harlequin) as one of their "20 hot beach reads." USA Today
Jun 22| Entertainment Weekly says of Joe Bageant’s Deer Hunting with Jesus (Crown/Random House): “Mixing folksy populism with the lacerating fury of Hunter S. Thompson, Bageant’s bitingly funny report can at times make Michael Moore seem tame…While Hunting may leave you heartsick, it’s hard to turn away.”
Jun 18| Marie Claire reviews Jennifer Oko’s Gloss (Mira/Harlequin), claiming that it is “worth a revisit” and that it reminds readers of another “tongue-in-cheek mystery, Carl Hiaasen's Lucky You."
Jun 9| The Chicago Tribune says of Sandra Schwab’s Castle of the Wolf (Dorchester): “Schwab's nuanced characters, detailed setting and writing seasoned with a soupcon of tart wit blend together to create a magical, fairy-tale, Regency historical romance.”
Jun 3| Newsweek.com features an interview with Cate Colburn-Smith and Andrea Serrette, the authors of The Milk Memos: How Real Moms Learned to Mix Business with Babies—and How You Can, Too (Tarcher/Penguin). Newsweek
Jun 3| The Chicago Sun-Times praises the “crisp, sharp writing” and “clever premises” of Simon Rich’s collection of stories, Ant Farm (Random House), and calls it “the funniest writing in stores today.”
Jun 3| The New York Times reviews Georgeanne Brennan’s A Pig in Provence (Chronicle), claiming that: “With her historian’s appreciation for fading and bygone traditions, Brennan offers fascinating accounts of the... habits of the itinerant food purveyors of the Provençal hinterlands,” and that “she revels equally in the preparation and consumption of the regional cuisine.” New York Times
May 27| Anita Bruzzese, author of 45 Things You Do That Drive Your Boss Crazy--And How to Avoid Them (Perigee/Penguin) appeared on Weekend Today.
May 21| Publishers Weekly calls Abby Drake’s Good Little Wives (due out in September from Avon/HarperCollins) a “cheeky debut” that is “delightfully campy.” Publishers Weekly
May 17| CNN’s American Morning featured a segment with Jane Hyun, author of Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling (Collins/HarperCollins), about Asians and the corporate glass ceiling. CNN
May 15| Kirkus claims that Holly Shumas’s debut novel, Five Things I Can’t Live Without (5 Spot/Hachette) offers “a deep understanding of human nature.”
May 11| The Wall Street Journal reviews Jeffrey Stepakoff’s Billion Dollar Kiss: The Kiss That Saved Dawson’s Creek and Other Adventures in TV Writing (Gotham/Penguin): “Mr. Stepakoff knows how to spin a great story about the frantic, crisis atmosphere of television production, and his deft, compact sketches of individual moments on the Dawson's Creek staff are worth the price of the book alone.” Wall Street Journal
May 8| Alternadad (Vintage/Random House) author Neal Pollack and his family are featured on Nightline in a segment about alternative parenting. Nightline
May 8| Tom Ruprecht, author of George W. Bush, An Unauthorized Oral History (Andrews McMeel) appeared on David Letterman. David Letterman
May 7| Target selects Laura Fitzgerald’s Veil of Roses (Bantam/Random House) as its Spring 2007 Book Club Pick. Target Book Club
May 4| Jeffrey Stepakoff’s Billion Dollar Kiss: The Kiss That Saved Dawson’s Creek and Other Adventures in TV Writing (Gotham/Penguin) is featured in USA Today’s POP CANDY Blog, which calls it “interesting, particularly if a) you care about what went on behind the scenes at Dawson's Creek; and b) you have any interest in what it's like to write for television. It's definitely juicy before-bedtime reading.” USA Today
Apr 30| Ron Bliwas’s The C Student’s Guide to Success (Tarcher/Penguin) is reviewed in The Washington Post. The Washington Post
Apr 30| Macleans reviews Cate Colburn-Smith and Andrea Serrette’s The Milk Memos: How Real Moms Learned to Mix Business with Babies--and How You Can Too (Tarcher/Penguin). Macleans
Apr 23| USA Today says of Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files (Simon & Schuster): “It's a testament to Lutz's well-developed characters and brisk tone that you believe their oddball quirks “ and that "Lutz's resilient P.I. Isabel Spellman...part Bridget Jones, part Columbo... emerges as a thoroughly unusual heroine in her delightful, droll debut novel.” USA Today
Apr 21| An article on fly fishing by Chris Santella, author of Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die and Fifty Favorite Fly Fishing Tales (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) is featured in the New York Times. New York Times
Apr 15| The Washington Post says of Margo Candela’s Underneath It All (Kensington), that the “funny, occasionally amoral heroine” of the novel “stands out in a crowded genre” and that the book has a “quick and quirky plot.”
Apr 13| In its review of I Didn’t See It Coming: The Only Book You’ll Ever Need to Avoid Being Blindsided in Business by Nancy Widman, Elaine Eisenman, and Amy Kopelan, Blogcritic says “What's really great about this book is that although it's relatively short (only nine chapters), it's jam-packed with a lot of information and advice …[and] peppered with real-life stories of people who either succeeded or failed to avoid the land mines in their business. …. I Didn't See it Coming is a great wake-up call to managers and other higher-ups who have become complacent in their jobs and think they'll be there forever.” Blogcritics
Apr 9| The Boston Globe’s Business Section says of John Wood’s Leaving Microsoft to Change the World (Collins): “John was a rising Microsoft executive who went on a backpacking vacation to the Himalayas. While there, he was invited to visit a school, where he found that the kids literally had two books, and one of them was by Danielle Steele. That's what led to...his new book, which recounts the business lessons he learned...that have helped him to make a huge success of Room to Read, a nonprofit that builds libraries and schools worldwide."
Apr 9| Simon Rich’s Ant Farm (Random House) is reviewed in People: “Ferociously creative, this book is for readers craving both smart humor and belly laughs.”
Apr 9| Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files (Simon & Schuster) hits the New York Times Bestseller List.
Apr 4| The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Georgeanne Brennan’s A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France (Chronicle), saying: “You can almost smell the lavender as you follow Brennan’s love affair with the province that became her second home and shaped the culinary persona of this cooking and food author.”
Apr 3| John Wood, author of Leaving Microsoft to Change the World (HarperCollins) to appear on Oprah, to invite her audience to participate in the “Oprah Book Drive for Room to Read.” Oprah
Apr 1| Steve Kaplan's Be The Elephant (Workman) hits the “Advice and How To” New York Times Bestseller List! New York Times
Apr 1| The Chicago Tribune features an article with tips from Cate Colburn-Smith’s and Andrea Serrette’s The Milk Memos: How Real Moms Learned to Mix Business with Babies-and How You Can, Too (Tarcher/Penguin). Chicago Tribune
Apr 1| The New York Times reviews Simon Rich’s Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations (Random House) in its Books of Style section, claiming it to be a “collection of short comic essays whose high-spirited schadenfreude can work its magic in a page or two.” New York Times
Apr 1| Rob Sheffield is interviewed about Love is a Mix Tape (Crown/Random House) on NPR’s To the Best of Our Knowledge. WPR
Mar 26| Simon Rich’s Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations (Random House) is excerpted in The New Yorker. The New Yorker
Mar 26| Newsday recommends Donna Bee-Gates’s I Want It Now: Navigating Childhood in a Materialistic World (Palgrave Macmillan) as their “how-to book of the week,” claiming that the author “puts into historical and cultural context the alarming preoccupation Western societies have with their stuff,” and “describes in detail the various forces that can compel children…to try to solve their problems with material goods and helps parents to recognize these influences…and replace them with more positive pursuits.” Newsday
Mar 21| Linda and Allen Anderson’s Rescued: Saving Animals from Disaster (New World Library) wins the ASJA award in the service/self-help book category.
Mar 21| Judith Wright, author of The Soft Addiction Solution (Tarcher/Penguin) is featured in a Chicago Tribune article about behavioral addictions: “The first step to beating a soft addiction requires making a commitment to higher quality of life, said Wright. Then you have to recognize the deeper need or hunger under the soft addiction. ‘Make the distinction between what you want and what you hunger for,’ Wright said. ‘You might want a new designer dress, but you're really hungry to feel good about yourself.’"
Mar 17| Carol Franco and Kent Lineback’s The Legacy Guide (Tarcher/Penguin) is featured in Newsday, which calls it “a lovely new book” and says that, true to its subtitle, it will “help you capture for yourself and your loved ones ‘the facts and meaning of your life.’"
Mar 16| People reviews Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files (Simon & Schuster), claiming “it’s not the mystery of how the cases ultimately resolve that will pull readers through, but the whip-smart sass of the story’s heroine, ace detective of her own heart.”
Mar 15| Jeffrey’s Stepakoff’s Billion-Dollar Kiss: The Story of Television Writer in the Hollywood Gold Rush (Gotham/Penguin Group) is reviewed by Library Journal: “Stepakoff blends his personal story into a larger narrative of the television industry during this time period…the book will entice media watchers and aspiring television writers with its behind-the-scenes insight on a productive time in Hollywood.”
Mar 13| Reyna Grande's Across a Hundred Mountains (Atria/Simon & Schuster), is the winner of the Premio Aztlan, a national award given yearly to works of literary excellence from authors of Chicana/Chicano background.
Mar 13| Kim Lavine, author of Mommy Millionaire: How I Turned My Kitchen Table Idea into a Million Dollars and How You Can Too! (St. Martins), appeared on the Rachel Ray Show and her book is featured on the Rachel Ray website.
Mar 12| Simon Rich’s Ant Farm, which will be published next month by Random House, is a Book Sense pick for April. Additionally, Georgeanne Brennan’s A Pig in Provence (Chronicle), Bridie Clark’s Because She Can (Warner/Hacehette), and Lani Diane Rich’s The Fortune Quilt (NAL/Penguin) are all April Book Sense Notable Picks.
Mar 12| The Observer (UK) praises Chuck Klosterman’s Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (Scribner/Simon & Schuster): “These essays are razor-sharp snapshots of contemporary pop culture. Events fade from memory and ubiquitous figures become irrelevant, but Klosterman captures their moment in all its strange, glittering and excessive glory.”
Mar 8| Portia Iversen appeared on Public Radio’s Here and Now to discuss her new book, Strange Son: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism (Riverhead/Penguin Group). Here and Now
Mar 4| The Baltimore Sun reviews Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files (Simon & Schuster): "The high-concept premise would be unworkable if not for Lutz's deep understanding of how and why her cast of characters...interact and relate to one another...There are real crimes in this book for those who crave them, but The Spellman Files wisely concerns itself more with investigating one family's bizarre expression of love.” Baltimore Sun
Mar 3| Rob Sheffield’s Love is a Mix Tape (Crown/Random House) is excerpted in The Telegraph (UK). Telegraph
Feb 27| Anita Bruzzese, author of 45 Things You Do That Drive Your Boss Crazy...And How to Avoid Them (Perigee/Penguin Group) is interviewed by Marshall Goldsmith on BusinessWeek.com: “Most people laugh when they hear the title, because I think it just hits home with everyone...I think a lot of employees who may have been clueless up until now are going to start to recognize their blunders in this book and finally understand why the boss cares.” BusinessWeek
Feb 26| In a long review in its Money section, USA Today says that Kim Lavine’s Mommy Millionaire: How I Turned My Kitchen Table Idea into a Million Dollars and How You Can, Too! (St. Martin’s) “is loaded with resources for a fledgling buiness person – woman or man – armed with a good idea and boundless energy.” USA Today
Feb 26| Publishers Weekly says of Jeff Stepakoff’s memoir Billion-Dollar Kiss: The Story of a Television Writer in the Hollywood Gold Rush (due out in June from Gotham books) that he “details the money, the madness and the industry” and claims “would-be TV writers will crave these behind-the-scenes details of a writer’s life."
Feb 25| The New York Times “Inside the List” featured Rob Sheffield’s Love is a Mix Tape (Crown/Random House) calling it “a memoir that manages, no small feat, to be funny and beautifully forlorn at the same time."
Feb 22| Erik Calonius’s The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set It Sail (St. Martins) is a finalist for the Southern Independent Bookseller’s Alliance 2007 nonfiction book of the year.
Feb 19| John Wood, author of Leaving Microsoft to Change the World (HarperCollins) is featured in San Francisco Business Times.
Feb 17| John Naisbitt, author of Mindset! Reset Your Thinking and See the Future (Collins Business) was interviewed on CSPAN by George Gilder.
Feb 16| Donna Bee-Gates, author of I Want It Now: Navigating Childhood in a Materialistic World (Palgrave Macmillan) is interviewed in Child Magazine about consumerism and children.
Feb 16| Kasper Hauser’s SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy From a Plane is featured on NPR’s Marketplace: “SkyMaul has everything you never knew you didn't want, from Llamacycles to Banana-ganizers. And it might be the funniest thing you read this year.” NPR
Feb 15| Gayle Brandeis’s Self Storange (Ballantine/Random House) and Bridie Clark’s Because She Can (Warner Books/Hachette) are featured in a New York Times article about first time novelists.
Feb 14| Glamour magazine selects Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files (which will be published in March by Simon & Schuster) as one of their monthly picks, calling it “an addictively entertaining read."
Feb 9| Neal Pollack’s Alternadad (Pantheon/Random House) is mentioned in TIME magazine: "Pollack, a novelist and erstwhile punk-rock frontman, sets out to make sure that in a world of Disney and Barney, his baby Elijah, now 5, will be cool (and thus that Dad will remain so)…Goodbye, Baby Mozart; hello, Baby Ramone. Full disclosure: I have two young sons, and if anything, Pollack gets my experience unsettlingly right."
Feb 8| “No Child Left Inside,” a feature story in the Economist, describes the national movement that has been sparked by Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder (Algonquin). The Economist
Feb 7| Pat Love and Steven Stosny appeared on The Today Show to discuss the release of their new book How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It: Finding Love Beyond Words (Broadway/Random House)
Feb 7| Debra Condren, author of Ambitchous (Morgan Road/Random House), featured on the ABC-KGO Morning Show for the Bay Area. ABC-KGO
Feb 5| Simon Rich’s Ant Farm, which will be published by Random House in April, is reviewed in Publishers Weekly: “Since brevity is the soul of wit, the book has 57 varieties of playlets, essays and mirthful monologues…imaginative premises abound."
Feb 5| Bridie Clark’s novel Because She Can (Warner/Hachette) is excerpted on Vanity Fair’s website. Vanity Fair
Feb 4| The Chicago Sun Times reviews Teresa Williamson-Rodriguez’s Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places on Earth for a Girl to Travel Alone (Perigee/Penguin), claiming that her “encouraging new guidebook” will “whet your appetite for an adventure of a different kind,” and that her “lists of the top 10 not-to-miss experiences in each location are an eclectic mix that will get the museum devotee out in the streets and the beach bunny into a museum."
Feb 2| Lisa Lutz’s The Spellman Files (due out in March from Simon & Schuster) is selected as a Booksense pick: “Lisa Lutz has given us a rollicking tale concerning a sweet but dysfunctional family of private detectives who use their considerable spy craft to keep tabs on each other. There's a lot of parental meddling, mayhem, and mirth in this spirited mystery.”
Feb 2| Harvard Business School is running an on-line forum to discuss this question: “There's know-how in business and then there's a "know why." Purpose is a powerful motivator on many levels. Can we aspire to a strong sense of "know why" even if our organization is not out to change the world?" The forum pairs Ram Charan’s new book, Know-How, with our client Nikos Mourkogiannis’ Purpose: The Starting Point of Great Companies (Palgrave Macmillan). Harvard Business School
Feb 1| Levine Greenberg author Allison Bartlett to be featured in the forthcoming Best American Crime Writing Anthology (Harper Perrenial).
Jan 30| Rosalind Wiseman appeared on The Today Show to discuss the paperback release of Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads: Dealing with the Difficult Parents in Your Child’s Life (Crown/Random House)
Jan 29| Rob Sheffield’s Love is a Mix Tape (Crown/Random House) is chosen as a Barnes & Noble weekly pick and a New Yorker monthly recommended read.
Jan 26| Teresa Williamson-Rodriguez, author of Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places on Earth for a Girl to Travel Alone (Perigee/Penguin) appeared on Live with Regis and Kelly.
Jan 25| USA Today features a story on Bridie’s Clark’s debut novel, Because She Can (Warner/Hachette). USA Today
Jan 22| The Los Angeles Times says of Neal Pollack’s fatherhood memoir Alternadad (Pantheon/Random House): “Perhaps the nicest lessons [Pollack] learns…involve Elijah. He writes deliciously of his son's malapropisms and imaginary playmates, of the intense satisfaction they get joking, moshing and telling stories. More traditional dads surely love their kids just as much, but rarely has the bond felt more moving than it does here."
Jan 22| Christine Comaford, author of Rules for Renegades (McGraw-Hill), launches her column in Business Week, where she’ll be writing about key issues for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs every other week. Business Week
Jan 19| Entertainment Weekly selects Rob Sheffield’s Love is a Mix Tape (Crown/Random House) as part of their “Must List.” EW also praises the book, calling it “a passionate and ultimately devastating romance or, rather, love triangle; to Sheffield and his beloved, music was clearly flesh and blood."
Jan 19| Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects (Shaye Areheart/Random House) is an Edgar nominee for Best First Novel. Edgar Awards
Jan 18| Michael Sofarelli’s Letters on the Wall: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Smithsonian/Collins) is featured in Smithsonian Magazine. Smithsonian Magazine
Jan 17| Booklist calls Bridie Clark’s debut novel, Because She Can (due in February from Warner Books) “devilishly funny” and “entertaining."
Jan 15| Publishers Weekly praises Lani Diane Rich’s upcoming novel, The Fortune Quilt (due out in March from NAL/Penguin) : “This vibrant novel from Rich shows that chick lit can deal intelligently with fate, family issues and romantic relationships.” Publishers Weekly
Jan 15| Publishers Weekly reviews Cate Colburn-Smith and Andrea Serrette’s The Milk Memos: How Real Moms Learned to Mix Business with Babies—And How You Can, Too, claiming that their “guidance is sound,” and that their anecdotes on motherhood are written “humorously and informatively,” and that this is a “solid resource” for working nursing moms. Tarcher/Penguin will publish The Milk Memos in March. Publishers Weekly
Jan 14| Debra Condren’s Ambitchous featured in The New York Times, which wrote “In 16 strongly worded chapters, Ms. Condren’s corrective manifesto urges women to pry apart the bars of ‘common self-imposed traps.’” New York Times
Jan 12| Alison Bass wins the prestigious Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship for her forthcoming book on the pharmaceutical company (Algonquin). The Alicia Patterson Foundation was established in 1965 to honor the founding publisher of Newsday, and the 2007 fellows were selected through a highly competitive process of screening by two panels of judges. Alicia Patterson Foundation
Jan 12| The Chicago Tribune features an article about Kasper Hauser, authors of SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy From a Plane (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press): “Welcome to SkyMaul: the book and--now--multimedia creation of San Francisco-based comedy troupe Kasper Hauser. Like much memorable comedy, this creation, based on the SkyMall catalogue, skirts treacherously close to reality. And when an airplane seat pocket-in-front-of-you catalog such as SkyMall sells ultrasonic jewelry cleaners and gravity-defying loafers, it's begging to be satirized.”
Jan 10| Time Out New York writes of Rob Sheffield’s Love is a Mix Tape (Crown): “The notion of the ’90s as a kind of underacknowledged renaissance serves as a key thesis in his new memoir…Mostly, however, the book concerns Sheffield’s relationship with his wife, rock critic Renée Crist, who died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism in 1997. What begins as a familiar record-nerd autobiography soon unravels into an eloquent meditation on love and pop culture, set in an era when the two were irrevocably entwined.”
Jan 9| Judith Wright, author of The Soft Addiction Solution (Tarcher/Penguin), is featured on Good Morning America.
Jan 8| Newsday selects How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It (Broadway/Random House) as its “Read Worthy How-To Book of the Week”: “Finally a relationship book the guys can get on board with - one that banishes the phrase, "Honey, we need to talk," and encourages (among other things) less chatter and more sex!...Concrete advice, exercises and examples show couples how to reconnect - without talking the relationship to death.”
Jan 8| Essence Magazine picks Kimona Jaye’s Good Girls Pole Riders Club (Atria/Simon & Schuster) as a “guilty pleasure”: “After reading a few pages of Kimona Jaye’s page turner, I admit I was hooked. And get this: Kimona Jaye is a pseudonym for a critically acclaimed novelist. We are not going to blow her cover, but here’s a clue: A famous jazz musician played a key role in the plot of one of her novels.”
Jan 8| Businesswire's 30 Best Business Books of the Year chooses three Levine Greenberg books: James O’Toole’s New American Workplace (Palgrave MacMillan), Geoffrey Moore’s Dealing with Darwin (Portfolio/Penguin), and Patrick Lencioni’s Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars (Jossey-Bass). Businesswire
Jan 7| The New York Times says of Neal Pollack’s Alternadad (Pantheon/Random House): “[Pollack} offers both a critique and a celebration of the blossoming subculture of hipster parents suiting up their mini-mes . . . as well as issuing 'a call for a new style of parenting.'"
Jan 7| The Times (UK) calls Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Obejcts (Shaye Areheart/Random House) “a stunningly accomplished evocation of the oppressiveness of small-town life.”
Jan 4| Portia Iversen featured on Los Angeles NPR’s AirTalk to discuss Strange Son: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism (Riverhead). Listen to the program here.
Jan 1| Publishers Weekly claims that Bridie Clark’s debut novel, Because She Can (due out in February from Warner Books), is a “devilish read” and that the author “nails the dark side of the vulgar, spiteful boss archetype.”