New Book Contracts

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Sherry Bosley's (2001) book Toepicks, Cadaver Dogs, and Sports with No Balls, just published by Wheat Field Press, placed No. 2 last week on Amazon's HOT new releases in the sports and humor category. Wheat Field Press is a new publishing venture launched last year by fellow MFA classmate Melaney Moisan.

Anna Maria Gualtieri (2009) has signed a contract with Atlas & Co. for Among the Spoils, a book based on her MFA manuscript about a painting stolen by the Nazis during World War II. Atlas is a new publishing house devoted solely to nonfiction.

Chipmunkapublishing has just published Larry Franklin's (2003) book Cherry Blossoms & Barren Plains: A Woman's Journey From Mental Illness to a Prison Cell in ebook form. The British publisher of mental health books will issue the paperback within the next five months. You can access more information HERE

Meredith May (2011) has won a Society of Professional Journalists Award for feature writing. The award was given for her narrative story "Olga's Girls" about an 83-year-old Sausalito, CA , woman who is eradicating girl slavery in Nepal by encouraging impoverished families to buy goats for livestock instead of selling their daughters.

Brian Mockenhaupt (2010) has an article titled "The Doctor's War" in the October issue of Atlantic Monthly. You can read the story about doctors and the injured civilians in Afghanistan HERE

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