NAWW Member, Norka Blackman-Richards, founder of www.4realwomen.com, recently launched a FREE e-book* for women. The e-book: Redefining You: A Woman’s First Steps to Becoming Real is a free gift which includes membership, monthly newsletter, gift drawings, and complete access to the site. The e-book will be available at the website for a limited time. * The e-book also quotes from Sheri’ McConnell’s (president of NAWW) “The Woman’s Book of Powerful Quotations.”

NAWW Member, Dotsie Bregel, is excited to announce that www.BoomerWomenSpeak.com will have a monthly Featured Author and Writing Contest beginning in September. The Featured Author for September is Pamela Blair, Ph.D. Pamela has written three books, but will be discussing her latest book, The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Midlife. All are encouraged to join in the forum conversation simply by visiting this link: boomerwomenforum. Pamela is willing to discuss all things midlife and information about getting published.

Details about the September Writing Contest are as follows:
Deadline: September 30, 2006
Entry Fee: none, but great prizes including $50.00 cash.
Your best friend in the whole wide world, the one who has always been there for you, the one who would lay down her credit card for you, has just approached you with her new boyfriend. You know he is a jerk because the minute she excuses herself to go powder her nose, he hits on you. You do what? Tell her? Keep it to yourself? Put an ad in the paper? Threaten him? Tell us what you would do out of love for the friendship. Click here for Guidelines (September guidelines will appear September 1st.
Prizes: The winner will have their story placed in the Our Voices section at
www.boomerwomenspeak.com, and receive the following:
. Friends Heal Friends tee-shirt
. Baby Boomer’s Almanac, by Tim Brolus
. Writing Home, by Cindy LaFerle
. What Happens Next, by Chloe JonPaul
. DVD of the premiere season of Commander in Chief
. $50.00 cash

Submit stories to Georgia@boomerwomenspeak.com.

NAWW Member, Catherine R Donaldson, of Baltimore, Maryland, is very excited to announce that her debut novel, The Captains Marshall: A Promise of Freedom, will officially be released on October 23, 2006. The book will be available through Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, booksamillion.com, and in select stores. The book is already available for order on the PublishAmerica website at: www.publishamerica.com.

NAWW Member, Patrice-Anne Rutledge, just published her 24th book, The Web-Savvy-Writer: Book Promotion with a High-Tech Twist. Patrice’s new book shows authors how to create a website that drives book sales, develop a cost-effective online book promotion campaign that reaches thousands more potential readers than any in-person promotion, and profit from new technologies such as blogging, podcasting, RSS, and multimedia.

Patrice is a bestselling author, successful technology journalist, and online book promotion expert. Her online promotion efforts have resulted in increased sales, multiple interview requests, high-profile book and magazine assignments, and high Google keyword ranking for the companion sites to her books.

To learn more about Patrice’s latest book, visit her book companion website at www.websavvywriter.com, where you can also sign up for her free ezine and receive a complimentary copy of her special report “Your Author Website: 21 Content Ideas for Profit and Publicity.”

NAWW Member, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, will write a new column for Writers’ Journal, edited by Leon Ogroske. The award-winning author is known for her efforts to help emerging authors with the authors’ organization she founded, the community critique group she founded, and for her teaching and writing. The print journal, published bimonthly, caters to all writers whose love of writing has prompted them to take the next step, attempting to become published. The 64-page magazine circulates to about 26,000 writers nationwide. It was founded in 1980.

The Journal’s new columnist was an editorial assistant at Good Housekeeping (Hearst Corp) and was a fashion publicist for the Eleanor Lambert Agency in New York. She is a sometime movie and theater reviewer for the Glendale News-Press and publishes her own newsletter, “Sharing with Writers.” It is an entity of Authors’ Coalition, an organization for writers that she founded at:
http://authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com.

Howard-Johnson may be reached at: HoJoNews@aol.com. Information is also available at http://carolynhoward-johnson.com.

Learn more about the magazine at: www.writersjournal.com.