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...aggressively marketed their work with the help of word-of-mouth and cross-author promotion. Over time, tens of thousands of listeners downloaded podcasts of Hutchins' 7th Son. By 2007, St. Martin's Press, a division of MacMillan, was intrigued enough by his success and soon Hutchins scored a book deal. He has just co-authored a book in a new series called Personal Effects, scheduled for a summertime release; and St. Martin's will publish 7th Son in book form as well this year. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...seems a ripe time for novel podcasting to grow. Traditional book publishers are struggling. Book sales are down; MacMillan has laid off employees, as have Random House and Simon & Schuster; and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has suspended the purchase of most new manuscripts. With advance money drying up as well as contracts, Terra says that aspiring writers now feel that "maybe I should try something on my own" and build an audience online...
Partly because Rivers is Rivers - willing to say anything for a laugh - her book has won a great deal of media attention. She's done the predictable Regis-Rachael Ray-Jimmy Kimmel appearances, but she's also been in the New York Times and on NPR to promote her view that women should undergo as many cosmetic procedures as they can afford. "Looking good," she and Frankel write, "equals feeling good ... I'd rather look younger and feel happy than look older and be depressed." But are they right? Does cosmetic surgery actually make you feel better...
...book, Rivers seems pleased with the results of her own surgeries, but many who seek multiple cosmetic procedures aren't. Some patients who want repeated surgeries suffer from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), an illness defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual used by mental-health professionals as a "preoccupation with an imagined deficit in appearance" that causes distress in life. BDD sufferers may also be those who spend countless hours at the gym or abuse steroids. About three-quarters of BDD patients who have cosmetic procedures are dissatisfied with the outcome, according to a British study published...
...John Kerry’s presidential bids. He has been consulting with Obama since at least April 2007. Cutler, who specializes in health care and public economics, is a vocal proponent of increasing America’s health care spending, arguing in his most recent book, “Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America’s Health Care System,” that such spending has been worthwhile despite its high costs. “He had a strong voice in developing President Obama’s health policy ideas, so I am expecting...