Mike Leonard in CNN Opinion Mike Leonard, NSNC Conference Chair for 2010, is currently featured in CNN Opinion. Mike is a longtime columnist and reporter for The Herald-Times newspaper in Bloomington, Indiana. He’s covered John Mellencamp and his music for more than 25 years. Leonard also has written for Rolling Stone magazine and other publications and…
Survey Results News Release: Membership Survey National Society of Newspaper Columnists Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 For immediate release For more information, contact Ben Pollock _____ The state of column writing, as measured in a survey, can be summed up as hanging in there. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists polled its members online in late…
Texas columnist Tracy Farr reports that he has put together an e-book called “Never Trust a Goat.” “It’s a short and inexpensive collection of stories from my weekly column made just for those people who got a new Kindle or Sony Reader for Christmas and are looking for cheap crap to put on it.…
Brad Klontz, Psy.D. received an Innovative Practice Award from the American Psychological Association in December 2009 for his “…visionary and creative development of innovative practice strategies to apply psychological interventions to help people with money and wealth issues.” Brad’s new book, Mind Over Money: Overcoming The Money Disorders that Threaten Our Financial Health was released…
Ed Addeo of Mill Valley, Calif., has had a new novel published, “The Midnight Special”, a medical thriller about the first brain transplant. “There’s a good story behind it, actually,” Addeo says. “It’s really a new ‘edition’ of a book that was published 38 years ago by Bernard Geis Associates, and sold out its first…
Rose A. Valenta, posted this discussion group comment about benefits of becoming a member of NSNC: “I had the opportunity to write an article for e-Columnist, acquired three new Facebook friends, some tweeps, author exposure, a free booklet in the mail about syndication.” (The booklet is sent to new members.) The Philadelphia humor columnist, who…
Jay Grelen of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is taking a seven-month leave from his human-interest column “Sweet Tea.” The NSNC member is still full time in the newsroom in Little Rock, working as a night-shift news copy editor. Jay’s column ran three days a week and every other Sunday, alternating with former NSNC board member Linda…
On their Web site www.suddenlysenior.com Frank and Carolyn Kaiser provide an update on their condition after being declared in remission from their cancers. “We’re living life in the slow lane, enjoying most every moment we feel energetic enough to do so, and planning for the future, albeit uncertain,” they write. (They plan on taking a 9-day bus…
Canadian columnist Dan St.Yves caught up with fellow NSNC member W. Bruce Cameron during the annual conference in Ventura, CA. Part of their conversation has already been a feature column in a Kelowna, British Columbia newspaper, and now an audio version of the interview is available as a free download: http://thatdanguy.libsyn.com/
NSNC member Linda Fulkerson, a blog coach and Internet marketing advisor, found some valuable information at one of her favorite Web sites which she would like to share with other writers. In a guest post at Copyblogger, Demian Farnworth supplies a different suggested reading list for writers and gives a brief reason why each book…
By Dave Lieber www.WatchdogNation.com By now, as a columnist, writer, information entrepreneur, whatever you call yourself these days, you have figured out that the chief currency in this stage of the information age is the keyword search in a search engine of your name. Borrowing from Microsoft’s search engine, when someone looks you…
“In the Driver’s Seat: A Girl’s Guide to Her First Car” is the latest book to be authored by teen advice columnist Erika Stalder. “Women make up more than half of the drivers on the road, but most girls still don’t know the difference between a lug nut and a dipstick,” said the California…
Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong, has won its second national book award for social change. The hardcover is the winner of The National Best Books 2009 Award for Social Change. Earlier this year, the book won the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Social Change. The…
NSNC Education Chair Russell Frank reported a new column which made its debut in September at www.statecollege.com. The column will appear every Friday. “I’ll no longer be in the Centre Daily Times,” said Frank, Associate Professor of Communications at Penn State University. Frank worked as a reporter, editor and columnist at newspapers in…
Garret Matthews, a reporter and columnist for the Evansville, Ind., Courier & Press, has published “Favorites”, described as “a collection of newspaper columns about Americana, the likes of which are fading from print.” The book is available for purchase from lulu.com. Also see http://www.newspaperwriter.com Matthews, a Virginia native, worked on the Bluefield, W. Va.,…
Debra Garfinkle – humor columnist and novelist from Orange County, California – was interviewed by the Anaheim Literature Examiner about her writing career. “I always loved to read and write,” she said. “I still do. But I grew up poor, and wanted some financial security. So I majored in economics in college, went to law…
Washington state columnist Anne Louise Grimm has several books in the works. Two are being self-published with Xlibris: “Anything Goes, Tedi, Deysha & Glenrose, Too” is a collection of fantasy and science fiction short stories, due to be released soon; and “It’s a Dog’s Life”, as she says “was written by my (immigrant) dog Trixi…
