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Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope

An email showed up in my inbox from one of our 2012 keynote speakers, Jeff Zaslow, about his newest project, being unrolled this week. He invited me to share it:
 
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I’m happy to let you know that GABBY: A Story of Courage and Hope, the memoir of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and astronaut Mark Kelly, will be released this Tuesday. I was honored to collaborate with them on the book.
 
This Monday night at 10 p.m. ET, there will be an hour-long ABC special tied to the book. Here is a 30-second promo.
 
And here’s a link to a three-minute piece from ABC News which offers the first footage from the special. If you have a few minutes, it’s pretty compelling.
 
The book also is excerpted this coming week in PEOPLE magazine.
 
Many thanks for taking a look!
 
All good wishes,
Jeff Zaslow
 
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Can’t wait to see him at the workshop in April, where we can ask him about finding the story no one else can tell, on this books, plus other great ones like The Girls from Ames and The Last Lecture.

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Jerry Zezima

Jerry Zezima is the very model of a modern, middle-aged man — except that he’s now won four awards for humorous writing from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He laughs at the absurdities of life in his humor column for his hometown paper, The Stamford Advocate. His column is syndicated by McClatchy-Tribune and has run in newspapers across the country and around the world. A collection of his columns appears in his book, Leave It to Boomer: A Look at Life, Love and Parenthood by the Very Model of the Modern Middle-Age Man.

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I’ll take a wife

Lisa Smith Molinari, an 18-year Navy spouse, mother of three and humor columnist, published an article, “I Want a Wife, Too” in the May issue of Military Spouse magazine. Check out her blog for her weekly column that’s also published in the Indiana Gazette and on the Stars and Stripes Military Moms website.

Unwavering loyalty

W. Bruce Cameron, part of the 2012 EBWW faculty, has published A Dog’s Journey, a sequel to the New York Times‘ best-selling novel A Dog’s Purpose. Bruce has always loved dogs, which he concedes puts him in a “unique category with maybe two or three billion people.”

A real mother

Just in time for Mother’s Day, Denise Malloy has released a book, A Real Mother: stumbling through motherhood. A columnist for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, she quips her bio reads like a bad joke: “After working as a lifeguard, a Peace Corps volunteer, a middle school teacher, a switchboard operator and finally, an attorney (but don’t hold that against her), she is uniquely qualified to do absolutely nothing. That is why she writes.”

Got your trophy husband?

Lisa Tognola’s parody ad for a “Hunk of the Month” club (made of “medical grade plastic … as close as you’ll get to the real thing”) is included in the new Valentine’s Day anthology My Funny Valentine. The compilation’s editors came to her, she said.
 
“Since creating my blog last summer, I’ve benefited from increased exposure online. The co-author of My Funny Valentine spotted my work and suggested I submit a Valentine’s Day themed piece for consideration in her book,” she said.
 
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