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May

• The Art Forger tops the indie lists
  Congratulations to B.A. Shapiro, whose novel The Art Forger was Algonquin's bestselling novel in 2012. The Art Forger is currently #6 on the National Indie Bestseller List, as well as #3 on the New England Booksellers Association list; #3 on the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance list; #13 on the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association list; # 9 on the Nothern California Independent Booksellers Association list; and #6 on the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association list!
  
  
• Toast B.A. Shapiro at "Toast the Author!"
  As part of Eight Cousins bookstore's "Toast the Author!" series, B.A. Shapiro will read from her best selling novel The Art Forger, as well as host a Q&A session and book signing. The evening will begin with wine and hors d'oeuvres, and feature a tour of the basement where the stolen paintings are rumored to have spent the night on their way out of Boston. The reading is on May 24 at 6 pm in Falmouth, Ma.
  
  
• B.A. Shapiro reads at Melrose Public Library
  B.A. Shapiro will read from her bestselling novel The Art Forger, as well as host a Q&A session and book signing, at the Melrose Public Library on May 21 at 7:30 pm in Melrose, Ma.
  
  
• Kid Spirit sold
  Author Jen Prosek and developmental psychologist Richard Rende's Kid Spirit, a nonfiction book offering parents upbeat advice on raising can-do, resourceful, entrepreneurial kids, has sold to John Duff and Marian Lizzi at Paregree, an imprint of Penguin.
  
  
• B.A. Shapiro awarded by Boston Authors Club
  Congratulations to B.A. Shapiro, whose novel The Art Forger has won the 2013 Julia Ward Howe Book Award. Each year the Boston Authors Club gives this prize to two books (one for young readers)published the year prior to the award. Authors must live within 100 miles of Boston the year their book is published. Learn more here.
  
  
• Meet Ann Collette at Muse in the Marketplace
  Agent Ann Collette will attend Grub Street's annual writing conference, Muse in the Marketplace, from May 3-5. She'll take pitches as well as teach the workshop "Do's and Don't's of Mystery and Thriller Writing," a class on the rules of writing crime fiction. "Do's and Don't's" will take place at 11:15 on Sunday, May 5, at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston, MA.
  
  
• Bill Capodagli speaks at Esko
  Bill Capodagli, author of The Disney Way and The Pixar Way, will be the keynote speaker at EskoWorld 2013, the renowned customer conference. Bill is currently the most requested speaker on Disney's sucess and leadership principles in the U.S. Learn more here.
  
  
• Ann Collette to attend CAPA-U
  Agent Ann Collette will attend the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association conference, where she will cohost the panel "Writer Idol." In this session, a professional actor will perform the first page of contestants' unpublished manuscripts for the audience and a panel of three agent judges. "Writer Idol" will take place at 12:45 on May 11 in The Hartford Steam Boiler Convention Center in Hartford, CT.

April

• Hear Bill Capodagli on the web
  Bill Capodagli, author of The Disney Way and The Pixar Way, will conduct a national Webinar Seminar on customer service as part of the Rockhurst Conference Series on April 24. Bill is currently the most requested speaker on Disney's sucess and leadership principles in the U.S. Find out about the Webinar here.
  
  
• Siobhan Fallon reads at SUNY Canton
  Siobhan Fallon, author of the short-story collection You Know When the Men Are Gone, will speak as part of the Living Writing Lecture Series at SUNY Canton, New York, on April 24. Find out more about the reading here.
  
  
• Siobhan Fallon reads at JCC
  Siobhan Fallon will give two readings from her short-story collection You Know When the Men are Gone at the State University of New York, Jefferson, on April 23. The first will occur at JCC at 12:30, and the second willbe held at the McEwen Library at 4 pm. Additionally, Fallon will conduct closed workshops with writing students in JCC's English concentration.
  

• Straightjacket reviewed in Young Adult Magazine
  Meredith Towbin, author of the recently released Straightjacket, was interviewed in Young Adult Magazine. Of the book, Young Adult Mag said: "Drawing inspiration from sources as disparate as Steinbeck and Death Cab for Cutie ... Towbin creates the world of Straightjacket, in which two teenagers lost in a bleak landscape manage to find love." Read the intervew here.
  
  
• Siobhan Fallon speaks at West Point
  Siobhan Fallon, author of the short-story collection You Know When the Men Are Gone, will speak at the panel 'Authors and Artists on War: An Exploration of Art and Conflict,' hosted by the United States Military Academy at West Point. The panel is open to the public, and will take place on April 20, at 2 pm in West Point, NY.
  
  
• The Rumpus interviews Adrian Van Young
  In an interview with Lincoln Michel of The Rumpus, author Adrian Van Young spoke about his debut short-story collection, The Man Who Noticed Everything, horror films, book launches, the supernatural, and his upcoming novel. Read the interview here.
  
  
• Meredith Towbin talks to MTV
  In an interview on MTV's Page Turners, author Meredith Towbin spoke about her recently released YA novel, Straightjacket. MTV's Kat Rosenfield asked Meredith to sum up her book in three sentences, Boy Meets Girl style. Meredith's answer: "Boy meets girl. Girl isn’t sure if boy (who says he’s an angel) is crazy because, well, they meet in a psych ward. Girl doesn’t care and runs away with boy to live happily ever after...until something goes terribly, terribly wrong. Duh duh DUUUHH!" Read the interview here.

March

• The Art Forger is a Must-Read Book
  The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro was just named a "Must Read Book" of 2013 for the Massachusetts Book Awards. Six Must-Read Books are selected in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Children's/Young Adult. The winner in each category will be announced in April. Congratulations, B. A. Shapiro!
  
  
• The Art Forger wins NES Book Award
  Congratulations to B. A. Shapiro, whose novel The Art Forger has won the 2013 New England Society Book Award for Fiction. The NES Book Awards honor books of merit that celebrate New England and its culture. They are presented annually to books of Fiction, Nonfiction and Art & Photography.
  
  
• Great press for The Man Who Noticed Everything 
  Adrian Van Young's new short-story collection The Man Who Noticed Everything was recently reviewed by HTML Giant. Adam Robinson writes: "The stories in The Man Who Noticed Everything have the sensibility that the world is unknowable, human experience is mysterious even to the human experiencer ... The stories are subtle because big action, like life, is unrealistic."
  
• Straightjacket gets great reviews
  Meredith Towbin's recently released debut novel is drawing great reviews! Tiffany Harkleroad at Tiffany's Bookshelf calls Straightjacket "Dreamy, and romantic, but also incredibly thought provoking ... As a debut novel, this is simply stunning and gorgeous," and Kathy Love at For the Love of Lit says "Straightjacket is sit-on-the-edge-of-your-seat, double-take good. So well written, it is almost impossible to believe this is Towbin’s first novel." Read the rest of the reviews on Meredith's website.
  
  
• Southeast Review reads The Man Who Noticed Everything
  Adrian Van Young's new short-story collection The Man Who Noticed Everything was recently reviewed by the Southeast Review. Keith McCleary says "Perhaps the strangeness in these stories is that they refuse to celebrate their strangeness; more uniquely, they choose simply to exist."
  
  
• Gerald Schroeder speaks on science
  Gerald Schroeder, author of Genesis and the Big Bang and other books, was recently invited to give the closing address at The National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. President Obama gave the opening address. Much of Congress attended Schroeder's talk on the confluence of biblical and scientific descriptions of the world.
  
• See Siobhan Fallon at the AWP
  Siobhan Fallon, author of the short-story collection You Know When the Men are Gone, will participate in the Concequences Magazine panel discussion:
  What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About War, at AWP Boston on March 8.
  
  
• LitBridge picks Adrian Van Young
  Adrian Van Young's new short-story collection, The Man Who Noticed Everything, is LitBridge's fiction pick of the month for March. Read about it here.
  
  
• Siobhan Fallon reads Short Stories from the Long War
  Siobhan Fallon, author of the short-story collection You Know When the Men are Gone, will read alongside fellow authors for the Fire and Forget series, on March 4 at Barnes and Noble in New York.
  
  
• Abe Rabinovich discusses The Yom Kippur War.
  Abe Rabinovich, author of The Yom Kippur War, was recently interviewed by Al Jazeera Television for an upcoming series on the war, to be aired in October, its 40th anniversary.

• Nancy Koehn on the news
  Last week on Boston Public Radio, Harvard Business School Professor Nancy Koehn spoke with colleagues about Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer's new and controversial company ban on telecommuting. Listen to the segment here.
  

 February

• #Tobyreads reviews The Man Who Noticed Everything 
  Adrian Van Young's new short-story collection The Man Who Noticed Everything was recently reviewed by Tobias Carroll for Volume 1 Brooklyn. Carroll called the collection "a gripping narrative in its own right, with just enough surrealism added to heighten its inherent unpredictability ... It’s a potent and considered collection." Read the full review here.
  
  
• Straitjacket now available in ebook
  Congratulations to Meredith Towbin, whose YA book Straightjacket was released  today in ebook format by Etopia Press. Find it on Amazon here.
  

• Siobhan Fallon reads at Politics and Prose
  Siobhan Fallon will read from the anthology Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, on February 28 at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.
  
• Siobhan Fallon speaks on Writing in Wartime
  Siobhan Fallon, author of the short-story collection You Know When the Men are Gone, will participate in the Rose O'Neil Literary House Series. The event, "Writing in Wartime: An Evening of Fiction with Siobhan Fallon" will be held February 19 at Washington College, MD.
  
  
• Nancy Koehn talks about Lincoln
  In a recent segment on Boston Public Radio, Harvard Business School Professor Nancy Koehn spoke about President Abraham Lincoln's management style. Listen here, and read her New York Times article 'Lincoln's School of Management' here.
  
  
• Scent to Kill in stores soon
  Congratulations to Chrystle Fiedler, whose novel Scent to Kill: A Natural Remedies Mystery will be released on February 26. Scent to Kill is the sequel to Death Drops.
  
  
• See You Know When the Men Are Gone on stage
  Stories from Siobhan Fallon's collection You Know When the Men Are Gone will be performed by Word for Word, a theatre company at Z Space that transforms works of literature verbatim to the stage. See the show in San Francisco, CA on February 7 and 16, with a post-show conversation with Siobhan on the 16th.
  
  
• Straitjacket in stores soon
  Congratulations to Meredith Towbin, whose YA book Straightjacket will be released in ebook format on February 15 by Etopia Press.

January

• The Art Forger makes the Mystery List
  Congratulations to B.A. Shapiro, whose novel The Art Forger is #4 on The Indie Mystery and Thriller Bestseller List.
  
  
• She Reads reads The Art Forger
  B.A. Shapiro's new novel The Art Forger is the January pick for She Read's online book club.
  
  
• Ann Collette to visit Stonecoast
  Agent Ann Collette will visit the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA program for Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry and Popular Fiction on January 11.
  
  
• The Man Who Noticed Everything on sale now
  Congratulations to Adrian Van Young, whose short-story collection The Man Who Noticed Everything is on sale now. Of the stories, author Ben Marcus says "Adrian ... channels such a diversity of mighty literary voices, you'd think this book was an anthology collecting the work of the best young writers of the new generation." Find out more about the author and the book here.
  
  
• Read Rebecca Podos in Paper Darts
  Associate Agent Rebecca Podos' short story "Mandala and the Bear" has just been published in Paper Darts. Read the story here.
  
  
• See B.A. Shapiro at the Book Fair.
  B.A. Shapiro, author of The Art Forger, will be at the New England Mobile Book Fair on Wednesday, January 3, at 7 p.m. in Newton Highlands, MA.
  

December

• See Siobhan Fallon on CBS, hear Siobhan Fallon on NPR
  Siobhan Fallon, author of the short-story collection You Know When the Men are Gone, spoke recently on the subject of military marriage and infidelity on NPR and CBS. See and hear the interviews here and here.
  
  
• The Unnatural States of Dead Girls in Wells sold
  Author Rin Chupeco's YA literary horror novel The Unnatural States of Dead Girls in Wells has sold to Sourcebooks.
  
  
• Winning with Big Data sold
  Executive Director of Talent Analytics at Morgan Stanley, Jeremy Shapiro's Winning With Big Data: How Smart Companies Are Capitalizing on Talent Analytics, which shows business executives the tools and techniques to mobilize talent better in support of key business objectives, has sold to McGraw Hill.
  
  
• Lorin Rees joins Salamandar
  Agent Lorin Rees has joined the board at Salamandar, a literary magazine for poetry, fiction and memoirs. 
  
  
• The Art Forger tops the lists
  B.A. Shapiro's new novel The Art Forger is currently #32 on the New York Times hardcover fiction list,and #9 on the Indie Bestseller hardcover fiction list. It's also #5 on the Southern Indie Booksellers Association's Bestseller List; #5 on the New England Independent Booksellers' Association's Bestseller List; #11 on Heartland's Bestseller List; #10 on the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association List; #13 on the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association List; #14 on the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association List; and #14 on SCIBA's List!  
  

November

• REDBOOK's rave review
  B.A. Shapiro's new book The Art Forger was recently reviewed on Redbookmag.com. Of the novel, Redbook said "Shapiro hits the jackpot ... The Art Forger is smart, sexy and spellbinding."
  
  
• The Art Forger sweeps the indie lists
  B.A. Shapiro's new novel The Art Forger is currently #16 and "On the Rise" on the Indie Bestseller List for hardcover fiction. It's also #9 on the Southern Indie Booksellers Association's Bestseller List; #13 on the New England Independent Booksellers' Association's Bestseller List; and #14 on Heartland's Bestseller List. 
  
  
• She Reads reads The Art Forger
  The national online book club She Reads has selected B.A. Shapiro's novel The Art Forger for their January book club pick. She Reads selects one book each month
  
  
• The Art Forger makes the Times
  Congratulations to B.A. Shapiro, whose novel The Art Forger is now 29th on the New York Times Best Sellers List!
  
  
• Ann Collette and Nicole LaBombard to attend NCWFC
  Agents Ann Collette and Nicole LaBombard will attend the North Carolina Fall Writers' Conference from November 2-4 in Cary, North Carolina.
  
  
• Meet the authors of Where's Whitey?
  Kevin Weeks and Phyllis Karas, authors of Where's Whitey? will speak at the Leventhal-Sidman JCC in Newton, MA on Sunday, November 11.
  

   

• The Art Forger is an Indie Next Pick
  Congratulations to B.A. Shapiro, whose novel The Art Forger is the American Bookseller's Associations's #1 Indie Next Pick for November! Of The Art Forger, bookseller Lanora Haradon says "While you are drawn deeply into the story, Shapiro outlines big questions about morality, fame, and truth in a world that is all about creating illusion for the sake of beauty. A masterpiece!"
  

• Ann Collette to attend Crimebake
  Agent Ann Collette will attend the New England Crime Bake 2012 Annual Mystery Conference for Writers and Readers, November 9-11 in Dedham, MA. Editors, agents, authors and guests from across the East Coast and beyond will be in attendance.
  

• Meet the authors of Where's Whitey?
  

  Kevin Weeks and Phyllis Karas, authors of Where's Whitey? will appear at Endicott College in Beverly on Thursday, November 15, at 7 p.m. to discuss their book.
  
  

October

• The Art Forger gets rave reviews
  B.A. Shapiro's novel The Art Forger, now on sale, is pulling in rave reviews from January Magazine, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, USAToday, New York Daily News, The Connecticut Post, The Naples Daily News and The Toronto Star. Read them all, and pick up The Art Forger today!
  
  
• Preview The Art Forger with Dial-A-Book
  

  The Dial-A-Book program will excerpt up to 15 initial pages of B.A. Shapiro's forthcoming novel The Art Forger on select websites for free preview browsing. Learn more about the program here.

• The Bookseller makes Oprah's Reads
  Congratulations to Mark Pryor, whose new novel The Bookseller was picked as one of the Unputdownable Mysteries for Oprah's Fall Reads. Of The Bookseller, the review says: "Much like a baguette, this fabulous story is crusty on the outside, sweet on the inside, and once you've had a bite, you can't wait for more."
  
  
• The Cleveland Clinic Way sold
  CEO and president of the Cleveland Clinic Dr. Toby Cosgrove's THE CLEVELAND CLINIC WAY: A Model of Innovation and Management in Health Care has sold to McGraw-Hill.
  
  
• The Art Forger featured in Maximum Shelf
  B.A. Shapiro's forthcoming novel The Art Forger is featured in this edition of Maximum Shelf. Maximum Shelf is Shelf Awareness' weekly review highlighting a book they love. Of the book, reviewer Tom Lavoie says "Shapiro deftly takes on the role of magician, dazzling us with ingenious slights of hand and a narrative juggling act. Watching her bring all the pieces together makes for an exciting and very pleasurable read."
  
  
• The Bookseller now for sale
  Congratulations to author Mark Pryor, whose book The Bookseller: The First Hugo Marston Novel, is now available.
  
  
• Siobhan Fallon to speak at Texas Conference for Women
  Siobhan Fallon, author of the short-story collection You Know When the Men are Gone, will lead a panel on creative and innovative leadership at the Texas Conference for Women on Wednesday, October 24 in Austin, Texas.
  
  
• Ann Collette and B.A. Shapiro attend NEIBA
  Agent Ann Collette and author B.A. Shapiro will attend the New England Independent Book Seller's Association trade show October 3-5 in Providence, RI. Shapiro's forthcoming novel The Art Forger will be releaed on October 23, 2012.
  
  
• The Art Forger takes the Indie top spot
  The American Booksellers Association has announced its November Indie Next List, and B.A. Shapiro's forthcoming novel The Art Forger is number one on the list, which is drawn from bookseller-recommended favorite handsells, and "epitomizes the heart and soul of passionate bookselling." Congratulations, B.A. Shapiro!
  
  

• See Phyllis Karas at the Worcester JCC
  Phyllis Karas, co-author of Where's Whitey? will give a lecture and book signing at the Worcester Jewish Community Center at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct 27 in Worcester, MA.
  

• See Siobhan Fallon in Providence
  Fans of Siobhan Fallon's award winning short-story collection You Know When the Men are Gone will have two chance to see the author in Providence, RI on October 12. Siobhan will attend a reading and book discussion in the Campus Ministry Building of Providence College at 4 p.m, followed by her Convocation Address in Slavin Center from 6-8 p.m. Ticket information can be found here. 

• Be the next Writer Idol
  Agent Ann Collette will once again help judge the Writer Idol competition at this year's Boston Book Festival. Those who wish to participate should bring the first 250 words of their unpublished novel (fiction or nonfiction only) double-spaced, titled, with its genre clearly marked. Drop your submissions in the box as you enter. An actor will read the submissions and the panel of experienced agents will crown a winner.  Warning: This session is not for the thin-skinned! The BBF takes place on Saturday, October 27 in Boston, MA. 

September

• Ryan Bradford talk to San Diego City Beat
  In an article on San Diego City Beat, author Ryan Bradford describes his upcoming projects with So Say We All, a nonprofit literary arts collective that puts on written-word showcases throughout San Diego. Among them, two new collections to be published in October. Read about them here.
  

• Three-Two-One Pitch is open
  The Three-Two-One Pitch contest, judged by associate agent Rebecca Podos, is now open for submissions. The query contest is being held on We Do Write, YA author Dorothy Dreyer's blog for writers both published and aspiring. The contest closes at midnight on Saturday Sept 22. Enter here.
  
  

• Read Ryan Bradford in Paper Darts
  Congratulations to author Ryan Bradford, whose story "Desert Island Records" has just been published on Paper Darts. Read the story here.
  

• America's Second Chance sold 
  Joel Kurtzman's new book America's Second Chance To Be Number One: Why the Forces of Economic Change Are Blowing In Our Direction, has sold to Public Affairs Books.

• Sol LeWitt biography sold 
  The first authorized biography of Sol LeWitt, Sol LeWitt: A Life Of Ideas, by Lary Bloom, has sold to Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.

• Pick up A Slice of the Pie
  Congratulations to author Nick Sarillo, whose book A Slice of the Pie: How to Build a Big Little Business, is now available.

• Meet B.A. Shapiro at MPIBA
  B.A. Shapiro, author of the forthcoming novel The Art Forger, will appear at the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association's 2012 Trade Show, which runs from September 20-22 in Denver, CO.
  
  

• B.A. Shapiro to appear at SIBA
  B.A. Shapiro, author of the forthcoming novel The Art Forger, will appear at the Southern Independent Booksellers Association's 2012 Trade Show on Sunday, September 9 in Naples, Fl.

• The Bookseller makes Mystery Debut of the Month
  In a starred review in Libarary Journal, Mark Pryor's new novel The Bookseller was named Mysery Debut of the Month. The Bookseller is the first book in the Hugo Marston mystery series. Jacobsen says of the novel: "With a cast of characters you want to know better and a storyline cloaked in World War II betrayals (think Nazi collaborators), the author winningly blends contemporary crime with historical topics."
  

• Cruel Harvest picked by SIBA
  Congratulations to Fran Grubb, whose memoir Cruel Harvest was selected as one of SIBA's Fall Okra Picks. The Picks are selected by Southern independent booksellers, sponsored by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance to recognize titles that are "Southern in nature."
  
  
• Pick up Trojan Horse today
  Trojan Horse, Mark Russinovich's new novel, is now on sale. Kirkus Reviews recommends the sequel to Zero Day as "Top-knotch geek lit."
  
  
• Mark Aesch talks on Taking Stock
  In an interview on Bloomberg TV's "Taking Stock," Mark Aesch spoke with Pimm Fox about the potential of the public sector. Mark Aesch is the CEO of TransPro and the author of Driving Excellence: Transform Your Organization's Culture and Achieve Revolutionary Results. Watch the interview here.
  
  
• Rebecca Podos judges Three-Two-One Pitch
  Associate agent Rebecca Podos will be the judging agent for a query contest on We Do Write, YA author Dorothy Dreyer's blog for writers both published and aspiring. Entrants submit a three-sentence pitch for their manuscript, and the winner receives a full manuscript request. The contest will be held September 21-22.
  
  
• Siobhan Fallon takes the PEN prize
  Big congratulations to Siobhan Fallon, who won the 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction for her short-story collection You Know When the Men are Gone.
  Learn more about the award here.

August 

• Read Ryan Bradford in Paper Darts, Commas and Colons
  Congratulations to author Ryan Craig Bradford, whose had two new stories published this month in the literary magazines Paper Darts and Commas and Colons. Read them here and here.
  
  
• Read Rebecca Podos in Glimmer Train
  Associate Agent Rebecca Podos has a story out in Glimmer Train's Fall 2012 issue. Learn more aboutIssue 84 here.
  
  
• Zero Day to be published in Hungarian
  Hungarian Rights have sold for Author Mark Russinovich's novel Zero Day.The novel is currently available in hard cover in America, and will go on sale in trade paperback on August21. To learn more or buy the book, visit the publisher's website.
  
  
• Karuna Cayton Talks At Google
  Karuna Cayton, author of The Misleading Mind: How We Create Our Own Problems and How Bhuddist Psychology Can Help Us Solve Them,will speak at Google San Francisco for their Talks At Google series.The seminar will take place onWednesday, August 15, and will be broadcast on YouTube.
  
  
• Zero Day to be published in trade paperback
  Mark Russinovich's novel Zero Day will go on sale in trade paperback on August 21. To learn more or buy the book, visit the publisher's website.
  
  
• Ann Collette to attend SEAK
  Agent Ann Collette will attend the Seak 2012 Fiction Writing Conference for Physicians and Lawyers. The course is designed specifically for busy professionals who wish to learn from "an international faculty of New York Times best-selling authors." The conference will be held August 11-12 in Cape Cod, MA.

July

• Amazon picks The Art Forger
  Amazon's Senior Editor Mari Malcolm has selected B.A. Shapiro's forthcoming novel The Art Forger as one of her fall favorites, naming it "the most absorbing story ever written about watching paint dry." Amazon's Big Books Fall Preview covers a list of new releases their Senior Editors are most excited about for the coming season.

• E!online quotes Bill Capodagli
  Bill Capodagli, author of The Disney Way and The Pixar Way, was recently quoted in an article at E! online, addressing (and dispelling)rumors that the renowned film company is running out ofideas. Bill is currently the most requested speaker on Disney's sucess and leadership principles in the U.S.
  

• Early press praises The Art Forger
  In an early review of author B.A. Shapiro's forthcoming novel, The Art Forger, Booklist had nothing but praise. Booklist writer Donna Seaman describedShapiro's book as"an entrancingly visual, historically rich, deliciously witty, sensuous, and smart tale of authenticity versus fakery in which Shapiro artfully turns a clever caper into a provocative meditation on what we value most." The Art Forger will be released in October, 2012.
  

• The Misleading Mind leads Kindle sales
  Congratulations to author Karuna Cayton, whose book The Misleading Mind: How We Create Our Own Problems and How Bhuddist Psychology Can Help Us Solve Them, is NWL's second bestselling Kindle title in July.
  

• Ann Collete to speak at Stonecoast
  Agent Ann Collette will speak to creative writing students of theStonecoast MFA program at USM, one of the only popular fiction programs in the country, on July 12 and 13.

• Learn from Walt Disney with Bill Capodagli
  In recent interviews with Vern Burkhardt on Idea Connection, Bill Capodagli, author of The Disney Way and The Pixar Way, shared his expertise of the business practices that made Walt Disney so successful. Bill is currently the most requested speaker on Disney's sucess and leadership principles in the U.S. Read the interviews here and here.

• The Art Forger gets great press
  The Art Forger, Barbara Shapiro's anticipated upcoming novel, has been raking in the presswith a mention in Shelf Awareness'Fall Fiction Preview, and its second article this month in Publishers Weekly. "I was so completely taken by this book," Publishers Weekly quotes editor Amy Gash. "I felt the voice and characters were so unusual. I loved it, and so far everybody in-house who has read it has loved it."

June

• Ann Collette to attend Weekend with the Agents
  Agent Ann Collette will attend the Cape Cod Writers Center's Weekend with the Agents, an intimate three-day conference where a diverse group of agents speak and evaluate manuscripts for attendees. The conference will be held June 1-3 in Yarmouth Port, MA.

• Siobhan Fallon to read at VWC
  Siobhan Fallon, author of the short-story collection You Know When the Men are Gone, will read and speak at the Veterans Writing Conference. TheConference invites veterans and family members from a four-state area to learn from a panel of well-published authorswith varying backgrounds in military life, and will be held June 1-2 in Las Vegas, NE.

• See B.A. Shapiro book in Publishers Weekly
  Author B. A. Shapiro'sforthcoming novel The Art Forger was featured in a recent Publishers Weekly article "Galleys to Grab at BEA." Read the article here.

• Gretchen Peters gets rave review
  Following a recent reading of her book Seeds of Terror at the Army and Navy Club in Washington,D.C., Ms. Peters received the thanks of the club and its president, who praised her "candor regarding progress in Afghanistan and the future of the region."

• Karuna Cayton Reviewed
  In the Hearth Foundation's recent newsletter, Karuna Cayton's book The Misleading Mind was reviewed by writer Juliet Pailes. Of the book, Pailes wrote: "I would recommend it to those who are interested in discovering more about themselves and their relationships as well as about how Buddhist psychology can enhance our abilities as caregivers and parents ... As a parent and parent educator, I could not ask for more from a book."
  

• Ann Collette to attend BEA
  Agent Ann Collette will attend Book Expo America 2012, an annual book fair and one of the leading publishing event world wide. Ann will attend on June 5, in NYC.

• You Know When the Men are Gone wins Indies Choice
  The short-story collection You Know When the Men are Gone, by Siobhan Fallon, recently won the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards'Adult Debut Honor Award. Winners are voted on by independent booksellers nationwide, and will be honored at the Celebration of Bookselling Author Awards Luncheon on June 5, at theBEA.

• Catch B.A. Shapiro at the BEA
  Author B.A. Shapiro will sign galleys of her forthcomingnovel The Art Forger, a featured fall 2012 title from Algonquin, at the BEA onJune 5.

• Siobhan Fallon to read at MMC
  Siobhan Fallon, author of the short-story collection YouKnow When the Men are Gone, will read at Omaha Metropolitan Community College on June 19 in Omaha,NE.

• Karuna Cayton speaks to Tiny Buddha
  In a recent article on Tiny Buddha, author Karuna Cayton spoke about his philosophy in his book The Misleading Mind: How We Create Our Own Problems and How Buddhist Psychology Can Help Us Solve Them: "The bright side is this: we create our own world, we can create any world we want."
  

May

• Lorin Rees to visit Norman Mailer Writers Colony
  In May, agent Lorin Rees will visit and meet with students at the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony in Provincetown, MA. The Colony was established to honor Norman Mailers work and lifelong interest in and commitment to writers and writing programs. It is visited by students, fellows, writers and scholars from all over the world.

• Ann Collette to attend Muse and the Marketplace
  Agent Ann Collette will attend Grub Street's 2012 Muse and the Marketplace in Boston, MA, May 5-6, 2012. Muse and the Marketplace is a literary conference featuring hundreds of participants and presenters.

• Siobhan Fallon to read at Gaithersburg
  Siobhan Fallon, author of the short-story collection You Know When the Men are Gone, will read at the Gaithersburg Book Festival on Saturday May 19, at 4:40 pm in Gaithersburg, MD.
  
  

• Ann Collette to attend CAPA-U
  Agent Ann Collette will attend the Connecticut Authors and Publishers Associations' 9th Annual Writing Conference in Hartford,CT, May 12, 2012. CAPA-U is a forum for both experienced and aspiring authors.

• Learn The Disney Way on the web
  Bill Capodagli, management expert andauthor of The Disney Way, will host the Webinar Creating Magical Customer Service on Wednesday May 16, 2012 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM. Register here.

• Ann Collette to attend DFW Writers' Conference
  Agent Ann Collette will attend the Dallas/ Fort Worth Writers' Conference in Hurst, Texas on May 19-20, 2012. Writers attending the conference will have the chance to pitch their projects to agents and editors from across the country.
  

April

• Siobhan Fallon to read for One Book, One Bedford
  Siobhan Fallon, author of the short-story collection You Know When the Men are Gone, will read at the Bedford Town Hall Auditoriam as part of Bedford's One Book, One Bedford annual community-wide reading event. The reading will be at 2 p.m. on April 29 in Bedford, MA.
  

• Adrian Van Young to read at BC
  Author Adrian Van Young will read an excerpt from his as-of-yet untitled novel at the Boston College 14th Anuual Arts Festival on Saturday, April 28, at 12 p.m. in Boston, MA.
  

• The New York Times sites The Disney Way
  A recent Times article on The Disney Institute, the Walt Disney Company's new consulting division, gave a shout out to Bill Capodagli and Lynn Jackson's book The Disney Way. Read the article here.
  

• Karuna Cayton tells Entrepreneurs' Secret
  In an article on Inc.com, Karuna Cayton speaks on meditation as a secret stress-buster for entrepreneurs. Cayton is the author of The Misleading Mind: How We Create Our Own Problems and How Bhuddist Psychology Can Help Us Solve Them.

• Siobhan Fallon to read at Porter Square Books
  AuthorSiobhan Fallonwill read from her short-story collection, You Know When the Men are Gone, at Porter Square Books on april 30, at7 p.m. in Cambridge, MA.
  

• Ann Collette to attend MO Writers' Guild Conference
  Agent Ann Collette will attend the 2012 Missouri Writers' Guild Conferencein St. Louis,MO, April 20-22, 2012. The conference will feature classes, agent/editor panels, book signings and open mic events.

• Dream More Like Walt Disney with Bill Capodagli
  In a recent interview with Shawn Hanks, Bill Capodagli, author of The Disney Way and The Pixar Way, shared his expertise of the business practices that made Walt Disney so successful. Bill is currently the most requested speaker on Disney's sucess and leadership principles in the U.S. Watch the interview here.

• Siobhan Fallon to speak at Literary Orange
  Siobhan Fallon, author of the short story collection YouKnow When the Men Are Gone, will co-host the panel War: Call to Duty, at the Literary Orange 2012 Conference.The conference will be held on Saturday, April 14, at the UC Irvine Student Center in Irvine, CA.

• Catch Karuna Cayton on the air
  Throughout the month of April, Karuna Cayton, author of The Misleading Mind, will be doing several interviews onthe Namaste Radio Show, Conscious Talk Radio, Unifty FM, Project Empowerment Radio and others. Information on air times can be found here.

• Siobhan Fallon to speak with Officers' Wives
  Siobhan Fallon will visit the Army Officers' Wives' Club of the Greater Washington Area on Thursday, April 19.As the author of the short story collection You Know When the Men Are Gone, she will speak at the Officers' Club in the Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Fort Myer, VA.

March

• Mark Russinovich earns early praise
  A recent advance review on Libarary Journal praised Trojan Horse, the upcoming novel by author Mark Russinovich. Of the book, Hoffert wrote "What made the authors feted debut thriller, Zero Day, so scary was how plausible it was. Russinovich obviously knows his tech stuff. Here's another scarily plausible work." Trojan Horse will be out in September 2012.

• Gerald Schroeder takes the Trotter Prize
  Congratulations to author Gerald Schroeder, who on March 6 won the coveted Trotter Prize in Information, Complexity and Inference, for his work Genesis and the Big Bang. The award is given annually for "pioneering contributions ... in illuminating the mechanisms and wonder of nature."

• Vicki Lane makes the SIBA long list
  Congratulations to Vicki Lane, whose new novel Under the Skin, the latest in the Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mysteries, has been nominated for a SIBA Book Award. Created to recognize great books of southern origin, the SIBA asks booksellers to nominate a southern novel they have most enjoyed selling to customers. Winners will be announced July 4th.
  

• Lahey cooks for a good cause
  From March 5 through 8, the LaheyClinic cookbook team for Cooking Through Cancer will cook, style and photograph many of the delicious new recipes for their upcoming book at the Cambridge School for Culinary Arts. Learn more about the Lahey Clinic and its efforts here.

• Catch Mark Russinovich at the RSA
  Author Mark Russinovich will speak on his newest novel, Trojan Horse, from March 1 to 2 at the 2012 RSA Conference in San Francisco, CA.
  
  

• In Defense of Women reviewed
  In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate by author Nancy Gertner, was recently reviewed by MS.JD and by he Harvard Journal of Law and Gender.
  

• Lorin Rees to speak at Amherst
  Agent Lorin Rees will speak toCreative Writing MFA students atUMass Amherst's annual Writers Work forum on Friday, March 30.

• Bill Capodagli to speak at MI2012
  Disney Way author Bill Capodagli will be a featured keynote speaker at Manufacturing Innovation 2012 in Orlando on May 9th.This annual four-day event brings together over 700 manufacturers, industry experts, and MEP field staff.

• The Disney Way goes on the air
  On Wednesday, March 21, WGN's Bill Moller will be interviewing Disney Way author Bill Capodagli for the television show First Business, carried by 100+ stations in North America and seen in 46 countries. The focus of Bill Capodagli's segment will be "the genius of Walt Disney." Stay tuned for air dates.
  
  

February

• Chrystle Fiedler interviewed on Open Beast
  Chrystle Fiedler, author of thenovel Death Drops: A Natural Remedies Mystery, was interviewed by Jessica Rock, of Open Beast.Of her debut novel,Fiedler says:"... since I was a kid, Ive been writing books, plays etc. So this is just a 'natural' progression. Natural remedies inspire me and I wanted to share that passion."Read the interview here.
  

• Lorin Rees to speak at Emerson
  Agent Lorin Rees will give a lecture toWriting, Literure and Publishingstudents atEmerson Colleges first Annual Agent Panel on Febuary 3, 2012.
  

• Vicki Lane teaches The First Forty
  Vicky Lane, author of Under the Skin, the latest in the Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mysteries, will teach a fiction writing workshop as a part of UNCAs Great Smokies Writing Program. Lanes workshop, The First Forty, will help writers with a novel in progress polish their first forty pages and catch the attention of agents, editors and publishers. The 10-week class begins February 15 in Asheville,NC.

• Chrystle Fiedler's new novel
  Chrystle Fiedler's newest book,Death Drops: A Natural Remedies Mystery, will go on sale on February 21. To learn more, visit her new website here.

• Bill Capodagli speaks with WGN
  Bill Capodagli, author of The Disney Way, will be interviewed by WGNs Bill Moller, on Febuary 11 at 11:35am CST.

• Chrystle Fiedler reviewed by Library Journal
  Congratulations to author Chrystle Fiedler, whose soon-to-be-published novel Death Drops: A natural Remedies Mystery,was recently reviewed by Library Journal: "With aterrific premise and an interesting topic, Fiedler's debut shows promise."

January

• Hear Siobhan Fallon on NPR
  Siobhan Fallon, author of the short-story collection You Know When the Men Are Gone, was recently featured on NPR's Morning Edition. Fallon spoke on the relationships of deployed soldiers andstateside spouses, and how much can depend on the tenuous long-distance phone call. Listen to the segment here.
  

• Nicco Mele makes a deal
  Congratulations to author Nicco Mele, whose book The End of Big: The Consequences of Radical Connectivity will be published by St. Martins Press. An adjunct professor at Harvards Kennedy School of Government, Mele has unique insight into the decline of classic institutions and the rise of the new he helped drive the digital campaigns of Howard Dean and Barack Obama.

• Read Chrystle Fiedler on Killer Hobbies
  Chrystle Fiedler, author of The Complete Idiots Guide to Natural Remedies and the upcoming Death Drops: A Natural Remedies Mystery, is now blogging regularly for Killer Hobbies, a website for cozy mysteries and hobbies that kill.

• Learn The Disney Way on the web
  After a decade of doing keynotes in countries across the world, author Bill Capodagli will present a webinar on his bestselling book The Disney Way. On February 15th, Capodagli will speak about harnessing and applying the practices that make Disney a spectacular and successful company. Those interested in attending can register here.

• Ann Collette tweets Today's Twelve
  In a series of tweetscalled Today's Twelve, agent Ann Collette is now posting her immediate responses to the first twelve queries she opens each day. Read Today's Twelve here.
  
  
• Catch Karas and Weeks at Barnes & Noble
  Best-selling authors Kevin Weeks and Phyllis Karas will discuss their newest book Where's Whitey? at Barnes & Noble on Saturday, January 28th, from 2-5 p.m. in Braintree, MA.
  
  
• Nancy F. Koehn's book deal
  

  Congratulations to Nancy F. Koehn on her recent book deal with Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin. In addition, Koehns widely-read article Leadership Lessons from the Shackleton Expedition was published in the New York Times. Koehn is the James Robison Professor of Business Administration atHarvard Business School.
  
  

• Pick up Siobhan Fallon in paperback
  Siobhan Fallons short story collection, You Know When the Men Are Gone, is available in paperback starting Tuesday, January 3rd. The collection was described by the New York Times as "gripping, straight-up, no-nonsense stories." Read the full Times review here.

December

• Siobhan Fallon reviewed in New Letters
  Siobhan Fallons short story collection, You Know When the Men Are Gone, is reviewed by Catherine Browder in the recent issue of New Letters. Browder says of the book: Fallon has achieved the trifecta of memorable fiction: convincing characters in original and quietly daunting situations, and delivered in finely tuned prose. These are immensely satisfying stories." Read the full review in New Letters, Volume 78.

• Busy Monsters picked by peers
  Congratulations to William Giraldi, whose book Busy Monsters was picked by authors David Whitehouse and Dean Bakopoulos as their favorite novel of the year in Salons annual poll of prominent writers. Whitehouse declared the novel funny, rich and so inventive that it almost speaks in tongues. Bakopouloswrote Did it make me laugh, raise my heart rate and find me howling with sympathy? Yes it did. Over and over again, amen.

• Get tips from Chrystle Fiedler
  Chrystle Fiedler, author of The Complete Idiots Guide to Natural Remedies, and the forthcoming Death Drops: A Natural Remedies Mystery, has posted her latest article on Simon & Schusters Healthy Living website, where she is a regular contributing writer.

• Driving Excellence earns high marks
  Congratulations to Mark Aesch, whose book Driving Excellence was recently ranked by CNN Money amongst the Top 5 Business Books You Can Use for 2011, and rated as #3 on Fortune Magazines list of Books Your Business Can Use.

• Algonquin sets a date
  Author Barbara Shapiro's novel The Empty Frame has been scheduled for publication by Algonquin in Fall 2012.
  
  
• Vampire Empire Trilogy finds a voice
  The Vampire Empire Trilogy, by authors Clay and Susan Griffith, will be voiced by James Marsters, best known from his work on TVs Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in the upcoming audio books produced by Buzzy Multimedia.
  
  
• Zero Day gets a fifth printing
  Congratulations to Mark Russinovich, whose novel Zero Day will enter its fifth printing with publisher Thomas Dunne.
  
  
• William Giraldi to read at The Raconteur
  Author William Giraldi will read from his novel Busy Monsters at The Raconteur on December 10, 2011, at 8 p.m. in Metuchen,NJ.

November

• Helen Rees named an inspirational woman
  Helen Rees, founder of the Rees Literary Agency, appears in the recently publishedBoston, Inspirational Women, a book of portraits by longtime Boston Globe photographer Bill Brett and his daughter, Kerry Brett.

• Siobhan Fallon makes Maslin's list
  Congratulations to Siobhan Fallon, whose short-story collection You Know When the Men Are Gone was included in literary critic Janet Maslins Holiday Gift Guide 2011 in The New York Times. Of the book, Maslin said this lean, hard-hitting short-story collection outshone some of the years most imposing doorstop-size novels.

• Juan Enriquez profiled in Wired
  Juan Enriquez, author of As the Future Catches You, was recently profiled in Wired UK magazine. Of Enriquez, Neal Pollock wrote, Juan Enriquezs accomplishments are worthy of a handful of careers, but he feels he has barely begun: Ive so much to learn, its ridiculous. Read the entire profile in Wired UKs October issue.
  
  

• William Giraldi to present at SIWC
  William Giraldi, author of Busy Monsters, will present at the Sixth Annual Sanibel Island Writers Conference, November 2-6, 2011, in Sanibel, FL.
  
  

• Lorin Rees to speak at Emerson
  Agent Lorin Rees will be teaching a class for MFA creative writing students at Emerson College on November 8th, 2011.

• Juan Enriquez published in Popular Science
  Juan Enriquez, author of As the Future Catches You, has recently published an article on big data in Popular Science. Read the article in the October 2011 issue.

• Ann Collette to attend Crime Bake
  Agent Ann Collette will attend the New England Crime Bake 201110th Annual Mystery Conference for Writers and Readers, November 11-13, 2011, in Dedham, MA. Editors, agents, authors and guests from across the East Coast and beyond will be in attendance.

• Lorin Rees to speak at Syracuse U
  Agent Lorin Rees will give a lecture to MFA Creative Writing students at Syracuse University on November 15, 2011.

• William Giraldito visit Chester College
  Author William Giraldi will speak at Chester College in Chester, NH, on November 16, 2011.

• Vicki Lane to teach at NCWN Conference
  Author Vicki Lane, whose newest book Under the Skin was released in October, will teach a workshop on writing mystery at the North Carolina Writers Networks 2011 Fall Conference on November 19, 2011. The conference, held in Asheville, North Carolina, is one of the nations largest and most inclusive writers conferences

• William Giraldi to read at Porter Square Books
  Author William Giraldi will read from his novel Busy Monsters at Porter Square Books on November28, 2011, at 7 p.m. in Cambridge, MA.

October

• Mark Pryor's three book deal
  Congratulations to author Mark Pryor, who followed up his appearance on TV's 48 Hours on October 15, 2011, by signing a three book deal with Prometheus' new crime imprint, Seventh Street.
  
  
• Ann Collette to attend SEAK
  Agent Ann Collette will attend the SEAK Fiction Writing Workshop for Physicians in Hyannis, MA, October 28-30, 2011. The conference is a hands-on, interactive course taught by New York Times best-selling authors Michael Palmer, MD and Tess Gerritsen, MD
  
  

• Vicki Lane's newest novel
  Under the Skin, the long-awaited fifth Elizabeth Goodweather novel by Vicki Lane, went on sale Tuesday, October 18th.

• Lorin Rees visits UMass Boston
  Agent Lorin Rees will give a lecture to MFA Creative Writing students at University of Massachusetts Boston on October 31, 2011.