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Recognition for Kim Boyce
Kate Krader, Food & Wine‘s restaurant editor, recently compiled a list of 10 must-visit new bakeries in the U.S. Kim Boyce’s Bakeshop is on it. Kim is the author of the Beard Award-winning baking book, GOOD TO THE GRAIN: Baking with Whole-Grain Flours, which Kate hails as “fantastic.” Check the article out here.
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Praise for THE CROOKED MIRROR
We’ve gotten two outstanding blurbs so far for Louise Steinman’s THE CROOKED MIRROR: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconcilation, which Beacon Press is publishing this November. Alexandra Fuller, author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, praised it as “heroic in all the old senses of the word: a journey of a literal sort; a [...]
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Praise for LEAVING TINKERTOWN
Tanya Ward Goodman’s father painted carnival signs for a living and raised his family in Tinkertown Museum, a roadside attraction in rural New Mexico whose walls were made of beer bottles. When he was diagnosed in his 50s with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, Goodman gave up her writing career and a new love in Los Angeles [...]
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NAACP Image Award nomination for THE GOOD FOOD REVOLUTION
THE GOOD FOOD REVOLUTION by urban farmer Will Allen (with Charles Wilson) was just nominated for an NAACP Image Award for best biography/autobiography. The book is also on the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards shortlist in the Small Biz/Entrepreneurship category. Go Will!
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Some love from CasaSugar for Kishani Perera and Kyle Schuneman
Here’s a best-of-2012 list that makes me feel all holiday spirit-y: CasaSugar’s “Best Coffee Table Tomes of 2012,” which features books by two clients: Kishani Perera’s VINTAGE REMIX (Abrams) and Kyle Schuneman’s THE FIRST APARTMENT BOOK: COOL DESIGN FOR SMALL SPACES (Clarkson Potter). Congrats to both!
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COMET’S TALE goes back to press
“We’re reprinting” are the words that every author and agent hope to hear. We learned yesterday that Algonquin is rushing to reprint Steve Wolf’s wonderful account of his life with his beloved greyhound, Comet. On top of that, Hudson News has selected Comet’s Tale for their Best of 2012 list, which means it will be [...]
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Kyle Schuneman to appear on CBS’s The Talk
It’s almost impossible to keep up with the flood of publicity for THE FIRST APARTMENT BOOK: Cool Design for Small Spaces by Kyle Schuneman with Heather Summerville and with photographs by Joe Schmelzer (Clarkson Potter). As Kyle said at the New York launch, “Not overlooking your life because your living space is temporary is what [...]
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17th printing!
Congratulations to Diana Wells, whose 100 FLOWERS AND HOW THEY GOT THEIR NAMES was just reprinted for the 17th time by Algonquin. The book currently has 142,000 copies in print. I do believe it will sell forever!
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Rave Kirkus review for COMET’S TALE
The advance reviews are starting to come in for Steven Wolf’s memoir COMET’S TALE: How the Dog I Rescued Saved My Life, which Algonquin is publishing in October. Here’s what Kirkus had to say: ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… The close bond between man and dog is only part of this absorbing tale of love, family and dealing with [...]
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