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This company is so cool- I love the story of how they started.  Read on! bk

August 2009 Inside this Issue 1. Featured Title:Relative Danger 2. New Publishing Partners 3. RHYW in the News 4. Publisher Profile:The Mountaineers Books 5. Things We Love

Featured Title: Relative Danger  Benjamin Franklin Award winning, Relative Danger, from Poisoned Pen Press, is author Charles Benoit's debut novel. To read the full review, click here  Back to top New Publishing Partners  RHYW is pleased to announce its newest publishing partners: Allen & Unwin, Red Wheel/Weiser, Woodslane Press and Standard Publishing.  As well, RHYW is pleased to welcome the following publishers through Perseus Books Group and Constellation: Basic Books, Public Affairs Books, Theatre Communications Group, Vanguard Press, Basic Civitas Books, Nation Books, Bellevue Literary Press, Da Capo Press, Seal Press, Fulcrum Publishing, Bitter Lemon Press, Papaloa Press, Featherproof Books, and Newmarket Press. To learn more about these publishers, click here Back to top RHYW in the News Publishers Weekly's August 3rd article, "Selling Sex in a Recession: Erotica," featured new RHYW publishing partner Cleis Press. Brenda Knight, associate publisher of Cleis Press's Viva Editions was quoted saying, "We are extremely excited to be able to provide erotica books to the visually impaired for the first time."  Back to top Publisher Profile: The Mountaineers Books ReadHowYouWant interviewed publicist, Shanna Knowlton, who states that "The publishing industry has made major strides to become an environmentally sound industry..." To read more about The Mountaineers Books, click here.  Back to top Things We Love  Louise Brown, 91, is visually impaired, and has borrowed nearly 25,000 books from her local Stanraer, England library. Her daughter said, "She has aids to help her sight and she usually borrows large print books." Mrs. Brown has never incurred a late fee. Click here to read the full article .  Large Print Reviews has reviewed two new RHYW titles:Macular Degeneration by Michael A. Samuel (Basic Health Publications), and Blaze of Glory by Michael Pryor (Random House Australia).  Author Debbe Kennedy wrote a thank you letter to RHYW founder and her publisher.  Dogs Move Too! by Anthony M.T. Majewski is a 2009 Beach Book Festival winner. To read more about The Things We Love, click here  Back to top

Work Matters

Our author BJ Gallagher is quoted in the media nearly every day, from Wall Street Journal to the LA Times to everything in between. What makes BJ so appealing to the mass media is her sincerity. BJ thinks about what the journalist is trying to report to readers and gives them a great combination of very good common sense and sophisticated thinking, from her sociologist's background. It works wonders and she has impacted thousands and thousands of people in this way. Here is a great article debuting today on "Work Matters."

BJ is living proof that "It's Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been" each and every day! -Enjoy! Brenda

http://www.webtalkradio.net/index.php?view=article&catid=34%3Ashow-hosts&id=91%3Awork-matters-hosted-by-nan-russell-&option=com_content&Itemid=56

rethinking how you're going to live

ByMarty Graham,SDNN

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It’s hard to look at extremely optimistic titles in this terrible economic time, when we’re struggling with the balance between taking personal responsibility and coming to terms with how many things are really out of our control no matter how painful their effects can be.

While the world economy moves slowly to its new -and hopefully - more useful path, an awful lot of people are also rethinking how they’re going to live. People put their dreams and their lives on hold so they could earn promotions, show their loyalty, send their kids to school, save for retirement and live in great homes; only to suffer the loss of what they’ve worked so hard for.

And now they’re looking at whatever part of their lives ended up in shambles and asking themselves what they really want, often at a time when the question of what they can get hangs urgently in the foreground.

This book, by Southern California author BJ Gallagher, is a useful tool to have as people re-invent themselves. Her own life - a self-described late bloomer - serves up lessons alongside a menu of other people’s experiences and good advice for what to focus on.

For people who’ve lost their place in the working world - whether it was a lay-off, a family relocation or other circumstance, Gallagher looks at how to start with the best parts and useful skills of what they’ve already done and build it into a next career, as an employee or an entrepreneur.

For people ready to walk away from a career where they’ve burned out or have lost interest, or when they’ve succeeded and become bored, Gallagher lays out a road map for breaking the change into manageable steps between where they are now and where they want to go.

Education plays a big role in changing what we do, and Gallagher tells the stories of people who’ve learned to fly, learned to teach and how they’ve made learning work for them. But she also asks the critical questions in deciding whether or not more school actually helps. Are you doing this for yourself or to prove something to someone else? Do you need the credentials to make the change?

Each chapter, including those that suggest it’s never too late to make a happy marriage, become a jock, make enough money or express creativity, ends with a set of useful pointers. Some are gagging with New Age clichés, but others make an awful lot of sense.

It’s only at the end of the book that Gallagher reveals that she wrote the book for herself on the eve of a birthday with zero involved. Hopelessness, an old friend to all of us, suggested that it was too late for her to do the things she hadn’t - find love, wealth and fitness.

So she talked to her friends and gathered the stories of their remarkable growth into the people they wanted to be, that they accomplished well after 40 - including a couple who took up hiking in their 60s. And she shared the notebook with us to remind us that we didn’t stop being capable of the extraordinary even if our lives have become more ordinary than we’d planned.

Read more:http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-08-19/news/book-report-it’s-never-too-late-to-be-what-you-might-have-been#ixzz0OgDS2vS9

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Getting grateful

 

Tgif! Today was admittedly not the smoothest day but I do reflect daily that I am glad to have work that I love and get to work with wonderfully creative people. I am simply fascinated by how powerful gratitude is as a spiritual tool. You can just turn in all around in a minute by asking yourself,"What am I grateful for today?" 

Try it! 

Also, if you are not on Facebook yet, climb on board and join the "Living Life as a Thank You" group! 

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In gratitude,

Brenda Knight

What to drink while you read reference books!

Random Obsessions: Trivia You Can't Live Without - Nick Belardes

Genre: "Reference," but, please -- it's a trivia book.

While there are more books of weird facts, quirky stories, and mind-bending figures than there are dimples on a golf ball, Nick Belardes’ Random Obsessions leaves the rest of the trivia book genre looking puny and sophomoric by comparison. Divided into eight chapters covering such themes as weird scientific anomalies, freakish illnesses, the strangest jobs ever, and assorted tales of films, authors, inventions, and artists, the sections read more like an amusing free-association Mensa exercise than a run-of-the-mill book of random information.

 

Take Chapter 6: Eccentric Authors and Fantastic Art. A typical trivia book would list interesting factoids under clearly defined, encyclopedia-boring headings. Not Random Obsessions. The chapter starts with information about expatriate writer V.S. Naipaul, leaps to random expatriation facts, moves on to J.R.R. Tolkein, then on to info about famous art depicting war. Each chapter follows this setup: leaping from one topic to another, related, if off-beat topic, to still another. The entire book is like an intellectual and oddly fascinating playground. Goody, goody.

 

What to drink while reading Random Obsessions: I'd suggest a festive, yet sophisticated, cocktail for this one. My choice would be a Gimlet. As Julie Powell of Julie and Julia fame (and soon to be released bookish movie) says, Gimlets are "exquisitely civilized and not at all girly." Well said, ma'am. Although the traditional Gimlet recipe is about 2 oz. gin, 1/2 oz. Rose's lime juice, and 1/4 to 1/2 oz. simple syrup, that's sissy stuff, in my opinion. I'm with Terry Lennox from Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye when he tells Philip Marlowe that, "a real Gimlet is half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else." Get thee behind me, simple syrup.

 

Verdict?: This is one trivia book that won't be relegated to Bathroom Status.

 

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Brenda