MEMBER NEWS

Writers report moves, promotions, new projects

Former executive director Elizabeth Barnes Beshear has relocated from L.A. to Dallas . . .

Leigh Cort is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her Florida-based public relations firm . . .

Toronto-based freelancer May Georgina DeLory, who has started a blog at Wordpress, invites NATJA members to check out her website, http://maydelory.wordpress.com/ . . .

Dave G. Houser earned a bronze award in the grand award voting for 2009 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year. The New Mexico freelancer has won two previous awards, in 1986 and 1992, in the history of the 25-year-old Lowell Thomas competition . . .

Maureen A. Hennessy of Portland, OR has been awarded an MS degree and is considering pursuing a PhD. The author of How to Go Almost Anywhere for Almost Nothing, Hennessy has written for Good Housekeeping, First for Women, Distinctly Northwest, and many other publications. She is now writing a new book of travel essays . . .

Ann Terry Hill co-authored Pendleton Roundup at 100: Oregon’s Legendary Rodeo, an illustrated history released last summer. Hill’s book, which contains 900 photos, was co-authored by Michael Bales . . .

Long-time Canadian member Maureen Littlejohn of Toronto went to Dubai for Convene magazine, saw the just-opened Burj Dubai skyscraper, and experienced a desert safari complete with dune jeep chases and bellydancing. She later went to Richmond, B.C. for the same magazine and bladed around the new Olympic Oval (the speed skating venue). Littlejohn covered Ontario motorcycle tours for the Toronto Star, adventure travels in Sedona for Adventura magazine, and the new Westin Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale . . .

Another author of a new volume is Janice McDonald, whose Historic Walking Guides: Bruges was published by Destin World of London. Published last summer, it will be re-launched this spring . . .

Cleo Paskal, who won multiple NATJA awards for her travel writing, is splitting her time by continuing her Toronto Star travel column and promoting her latest book, Global Warming: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crisis Will Redraw the World Map (Palgrave Macmillan, January 2010) . . .

Peter Rose and his wife Hedy are spending the early part of the year as visiting scholars at Stanford. He’s also working on “Immigration, Nativism, and the Limits of Tolerance in Europe Today” in preparation for a symposium he organized and a journal issue on “Other Europes, Europe’s Others” . . .
Co-founder and president emeritus Dan Schlossberg cracked the pages of The History Channel Magazine for the first time with “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!” in the January/February issue. His latest baseball book, The 300 Club: Last of a Breed, will be published in March by Ascend . . .

Mike Schuman will have a pair of young adult titles published in April: Adam Sandler: Celebrity at Heart and Angelina Jolie: Celebrity with Heart. He’s also penning books on Tina Fey (late 2010) and Scarlett Johansen (2011) . . .

Christine Tibbetts is narrowing the essence of Kathmandu, Nepal, and South India for a travel feature series and continuing coverage of destinations relative to the Civil War sesquicentennial. She is also organizing a cultural heritage exhibit about Peru, set for February debut, and sponsoring an indigenous Quechua woman to guide exhibition discussions in Tifton, Ga. Chris plans travel features in June on both sides of the Niagara, plus Quebec City in August.

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