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• Achievements are featured for permanent record in our e-newsletter, The E-Nunciator.
• Submit achievements by the e-newsletter deadline (see current issue for next deadline).
• No retrospectives, no phone-ins.
• Be complete: give title, publisher (or periodical), and publication date.
• NEW! If you have just published a book, you may also send a cover image to be placed with your announcement. (Send photo of cover or e-mail a .jpg image.)
• Send clipsheets for writeups. Don't send anything you want returned!
• No uncompleted or not yet published projects are included.
• Vocational positions occupied are not included unless it's a new appointment.
• We've included conference directing/presentations, if submitted.
• Ordinarily, non-writing related items cited by achievers are not included.

Patsy Bickerstaff
Prize poems, in Grandmother Earth, 2010.

Austin Camacho
Panelist-"Moonlighting--Unlikely Sleuths," VA Festival of the Book, March 20. Presenter- "Writing Mysteries," Maryland Writers Association Conference, Hunt Valley, MD. April 24. www.marylandwriters.org; Panelist-"Thrills and Chills: Books That Take You on a Wild Ride" on May 2 at 10:20 am at the Malice Domestic mystery convention, Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA www.malicedomestic.org; Panelist-"Book Promotion in the New World of Publicity," Washington Writers Conference, June 12. www.amerindywriters.org.

Sheila Dane
Winner, 2009 Family Choice Award for book, Fairy Hunters, Ink (www.fairyhunters.net).

Patricia Daly-Lipe
Books, All Alone, Washington to Rome: A '60s Memoir, and A Cruel Calm: Paris Between the Wars, both XLibris Corp., March 2010. Review author's books at www.literarylady.com. Author radio station interviews, Boston; Ocala, FL; Baltimore; Sacramento; Colorado Springs, and Atlanta, ref. Messages from Nature, January-February 2010.

Austin Gisriel
Book, Safe at Home: A Season in the Valley, Augusta Free Press, January 2010. Available at www.rebelsbaseball.biz

Sarah Collins Honenberger
Don't miss National Book Award YA winner Kathyrn Erskine's interview of Sarah about her new book Catcher, Caught here as well as the Library Journal blog, also about Catcher, Caught.

James Morrison
Second Place, Big Read Roanoke Valley contest for writing new ending for Ernest J. Gaines 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, 2010. Article, "Down Home in Moneta," Cooperative Living, Association of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware Electric Cooperatives small-town article series, 2009.

Becky Mushko
Book, Ferradiddledumday: An Appalachian Version of the Rumpelstiltskin Tale, Cedar Creek Publishing, January 2010. Author interviews: Blue Ridge Regional Library System telecast "Cover to Cover," December 29, 2009; Cable 12 "Rise and Shine Show" and WYTI "Our View", 2010. Book signings: Franklin County Library, January 26, and Westlake Branch Library, January 28; the General Store at Westlake, 2010. Panelist: Roanoke Regional Writers Conference, Hollins University, January 23, 2010, and at "Ask the Authors," Bluebird Grill and Bakery, Roanoke, March 2010. Participant, Westlake Branch Library "Comedy Cafe," February 11.

Michelle O'Hearn
Poetry Chapbook, Hysterias & Happiness, Polican Publishing Co., March 2010.

Harvey Tate
Mystery thriller, Death Takes a Number, Champagne Books (champagnebooks.com), January 2010, also available on Amazon Kindle.

Jack Trammell
Book, Down on the Chickahominy, nominated for the 2010 Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Panelist - "Local History," VA Festival of the Book.

Helen Rodman
Book, With Dearest Love, Cedar Creek Publishing, December, 2009.

Sally Roseveare
Novel, Secrets at Sweetwater Cove, a mystery set at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia, Infinity Publishing, July 2009.

Jennifer (JB) Stanley
Book, Hope Street Church Mystery Series, Stirring Up Strife, St. Martin's Minotaur, January, 2010.

John M. Wills
Book signings for novels, Midnight Battles in the Windy City, and Gripped by Fear (both Chicago Warrior Thriller Series), University Cafe, Fredericksburg, January 4 and Orleans Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 20, 2010. Wrote foreword for novel, Child Finder Resurrection by Mike Angley, Total Recall Publications, January 2010. Author supplied 24 copies of his novels to Mill Creek, Washington, police officers as sympathy gift following murders of five officers of the police department. Authored book review for New York Journal of Books, January 26, 2010. Book signing, Borders Books, Central Park, February 13, 2010. Panelist, "Why We Write, What We Write: Authors Share Their Varied Works," VA Festival of the Book, March 17.