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LKLA CLIENT AWARDS

Cookbook Award Finalist
The Best Homemade Baby Food on the Planet (Fair Winds Press), Tina Ruggiero’s collection of delicious and wholseome kid-friendly recipes with co-author Karin Knight, was named a finalist for the 2012 Cookbook Awards presented each year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals.

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John Hanc’s Not Dead Yet: My Race Against Disease, From Diagnosis to Dominance (Thomas Dunne Books) won honorable mention in the Memoir/Autobiography category of The American Society of Journalists and Authors 2012 Writing Awards.

Michael Feuerstein, Ph.D., M.P.H., co-author of The Cancer Survivor’s Guide (Perseus), won the 2011 James J. Leonard Award for Excellence in Clinical Research in Cancer Survivorship.

Peter Filichia’s Broadway Musical MVPs: 1960-2010: The Most Valuable Players of the Past 50 Seasons (Applause Books) was chosen one of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Performing Arts titles of 2011.

Joseph Cardillo, Ph.D., author of Can I Have Your Attention? (Career Press) and co-author of Your Playlist Can Change Your Life(Sourcebooks), received the 2011 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Scholarly Research.

Shelley Carson, Ph.D.’s, Your Creaive Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity & Innovation in Your Life (Jossey-Bass) won a 2011 Gold Medal in the Mind category in the IP’s Living Now Book Awards.

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Client book signings and other events

Kerry Hannon, author of What’s Next?: Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job (Chronicle Books), appeared on the PBS show “Inside E Street” in February 2012 to discuss her book. She was also named a 2011-2012 MetLife Foundation “Journalist in Aging” Fellow.

On December 20, 2011, Sharon Palmer, R.D., author of The Plant-Powered Diet: The Lifelong Eating Plan for Achieving Optimal Health, Beginning Today (The Experiment) discussed her new book on Voice of America’s “Food for Thought” program.

Nick Friedman, co-author of Effortless Entrepreneur (Three Rivers Press), discussed his book on MSNBC’s “The Dylan Ratigan Show” in August 2011.

“The New Grief”—the subject of Saying Goodbye: A Guide to Coping with a Loved One’s Terminal Illness (Berkley/Penguin), by Barbara Okun, Ph.D., and Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D., was the cover story in the July/August 2011 issue of Psychotherapy Networker.

Jeff Brown, Mark Fenske and Liz Neporent’s The Winner’s Brain (Da Capo/Perseus) was the subject of a feature in the 22-million circulation USA Weekend in May 2011.

Megan Smolenyak’s book Who Do You Think You Are? (Viking) and a five-hour personal genealogy consulation with Smolenyak are part of a sweepstakes offered by AARP Magazine.

Julie K. Silver, M.D., Harvard Medical School rehab physician and author of You Can Heal Yourself (St. Martin’s Press), launched the Survivorship Training and Rehab (STAR) Program at hospitals and rehab clinics in Rhode Island and elsewhere, aimed to encourage and teach doctors how rehab can help cancer patients.

Linda Konner’s schedule of writers conferences and other events

2012

September

October

November

December

2013

March 14-16, 2013

Harvard Nonfiction Writers’ Conference:
Improving Healthcare Leadership, Communication & Outcomes Through Writing & Publishing

Boston, MA

Linda Konner will appear on book-publishing panels and do one-on-one consultations with writers and health professionals interested in publishing their books.