IBPA member, N.Y.-based
Square One Publishers has acquired IBPA member,
Safe Goods Publishing, based in Sheffield, Mass. Through the deal Square One,
as of August 28, takes charge of the company's existing stock and
backlist.
Safe Goods, founded in 1993, specializes in the categories of diet, health and nutrition, and publishes such titles as by Rachel Bell and Dr. Howard Peiper, and
The ADD & ADHA DietKids First by Dr. Ogi Ressel.
Jerry Craft, author of
Mamma's Boyz (
Mama's Boyz, Inc.), was a participant in "White and Whatever: Diversity in Children's & Young Adult Book
Publishing", a panel of the 12th annual Harlem Book Fair from the
Langston Hughes Auditorium in the New York Public Library's Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture. You can view the panel at the
C-Span Video Library here.
As reported in yesterday's
Shelf Awareness...Congratulations to Dominique Raccah, publisher and CEO of
Sourcebooks, who has won the 2010 Woman of Vision Award, which honors "groundbreaking, inspirational women who have made a difference in Chicago's business community" and is sponsored by the Chicago law firm of Arnstein & Lehr.
For a comic relief moment...a library twist on the recent
Old Spice Commercials. Very funny!
In an interesting blend of books and art,
Ocean Publishing will hold a Grand Opening and Art Show next Friday, August 6th, from 6 to 8
PM at its retail store and offices in downtown Flagler Beach. Frank Gromling, Ocean Publishing's founder, wants to celebrate with a special Art Show by
award-winning artist Rick Cannizzaro. On display will be all of Ocean's 19 books
and several forthcoming titles in its Marine Life Series and a four-book
project with ocean conservationist Jean-Michel Cousteau.
We Have A Pope! published by
New Springtime Press, author Karen Congeni, was awarded the Catholic Writers' Guild Seal of Approval. It also received this endorsement by the Most Rev. Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York: "We are all familiar with the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. Karen Congeni's pictures are worth thousands of words in
We Have A Pope! as she deftly explains the papacy to children. This book is a beautiful introduction for our young people to the ministry of the Successors to Saint Peter."
Jan Surasky tells us that her historical novel
Rage Against the Dying Light, published by Sandalwood Press, is a winner in the 2010
Eric Hoffer Awards in the Commercial Fiction category.
"We'd never done anything like this before. The closest we came was
remodeling our home in Natick, a two-year project. We found, thankfully,
that brought us closer together, and that's been the effect of writing
the book, too." - Dr. Joel Herskowitz, in a recent interview with the
MetroWest Daily News about writing
Swallow Safely: How Swallowing Problems Threaten the Elderly and Others. with his wife Roya Sayadi.
Diana Hunter, noted nutrition researcher
and award-winning author of
FoodSmart: Understanding Nutrition in the
21st Century has been super busy these days (see pictures left) and is currently on a national tour. See her
Network TV show host pitch here!
