Barbara Fosterrecently presentedA Dangerous Woman: The Life, Loves, and Scandals ofAdah Isaacs Menkento the New York Victorian Society and Fort Lauderdale Women’s Executive Club.
Amy Hill Hearth‘s novel,Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society(Atria Books, 2012), is a book club pick for Simon & Schuster, a Reader’s Digest Select Edition, and a main selection of the Pulpwood Queens, a book club with 550 chapters. The novel is set in Florida in 1962.
Lucine Kasbarian‘sThe Greedy Sparrow: An Armenian Tale (Marshall Cavendish/ Amazon Children’s Books) won the2013 Nautilus Silver Awardin the Children’s Picture Book category. Formal announcements about all winners will take place at BookExpo America.
Daphne Kalotay, co-president of WNBA-Boston, will be reading from her new book,Sight Reading, at NYC’sPosman Books, Wednesday, June 5, at 7:00PM. (Chelsea Market, 75 9th Avenue.)
Melissa A. Rosati, CPCC now represents theInstitut Van Gogh, Auvers-sur-Oise, France, as the Managing Director, Strategic Partnerships, USA. She is organizing a $50 Million Dollar Campaign titledVan Gogh’s Dreamfor the U.S. market.
Harriet Shenkmanwon second place in the National WNBA poetry contest for her poem,Mirror, Mirror. Harriet is a Professor Emerita at CUNY who has several published poems and many educational articles. Her creative writing was honed at the Hudson Valley Poetry Center, the Unterberg Poetry Center and Sarah Lawrence College. She is writing a novel calledThe Camel Tamer.
Rachel Slaimanhas two articles in the print edition of Latin Trends Magazine:Turning Your Home Into an EfficientOffice Spaceand CurrentandClassics: for stronger finances, body and mind. Her two newest blogs areBook Discussion: The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence by Jose Antonio OcampoandDoing Business in Brazil hosted by Latham and Watkins LLP.
Theasa Tuohy‘s novel,The Five O’Clock Follies, has been shortlisted for ForeWord Review’s 2012Book of the Year Awardand nominated by theOklahoma Center for the Book award for its fiction prize. The harrowing story, set in 1968, of a female correspondent during the Vietnam War, is published by Calliope Press.
Bette Ann Moskowitz will be reading from her new book, The Room at the End of the Hall as part of the Valley Writers, Ink. at the WIRED GALLERY in High Falls, New York, on Friday, May 10th from 7-9 p.m. Details are on Facebook.com/WiredGallery or www.TheWiredGallery.com
