Scratching the itch : University of Dayton, Ohio

Monday April 9, 2012

Scratching the itch

Jennifer Neves, owner of Mad Dash Publishing in Olympia, Wash., published her first book, Backpack Like You Mean It: A Crackpot Tale of Travel Through Southeast Asia. It's described as a book great for scratching the travel itch, or spreading it.

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Lisa Alcalay Klug

Andrews McMeel just published Lisa Alcalay Klug's second book, Hot Mamalah: The Ultimate Guide for Every Woman of the Tribe, a humorous pop culture guide described as "a start-to-finish celebration of the strengths, challenges and triumphs of women." Her bestselling book, Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe, was a National Jewish Book Awards Finalist. She's an award-winning journalist, humorist, slam poet and popular public speaker. ...

Kevin McKeever

Kevin McKeever, who blogs at Always Home and Uncool, swept the 2012 Connecticut Press Club column-writing awards competition and picked up two more top honors from the Connecticut Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. His work appears regularly in the Stamford (Conn.) Advocate, and his scribblings also have been featured in the (New York) Daily News, The (Toronto) Globe and Mail, USA Today and The Huffington Post. McKeever describes himself as "Father. Husband. Writer. G ...

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