Announcing: Country Music Causes Brain Damage
Gerry House & the House Foundation’s Nashville radio show was a requisite stop for country music artists for more than 20 years. Widely considered America’s #1 country radio Personality, Gerry House has won virtually every broadcasting award, including four wins for Personality of the Year from The Academy of Country Music and a spot in the National Association of Broadcasters…
Announcing: Sacred Success®
In the midst of a devastating financial situation, Barbara Stanny’s life changed when she interviewed successful business women for a freelance assignment and felt inspired by their wisdom and experiences. Now a leading expert on women and money, Stanny travels the country educating women about finances. Her goal? To empower women financially. She shares her story and her extensive research…
Living in the (very healthy) present
Like most forward-thinking managers, I try to envision the future and manage the business with an eye towards where things are going. But it’s possible to overdo this. There have been so many doom-crying predictions – print books are dead, publishers are obsolete, etc. – that it’s easy to forget what’s actually happening right now. In 2012, according to BookStats,…
Meet Alicia!
Alicia Kania is the Strategic Positioning and Packaging Assistant. She works with Adrienne Lang and Sarah Dombrowsky on a variety of issues, including cover development, vendor site updates, and market positioning for new titles. She has a BA in Advertising from UT Arlington – located in her hometown. Alicia’s all-time favorite movie is The Matrix, and no book has managed…
Congratulations to T. Colin Campbell and Howard Jacobson on your #9 NYT bestseller!
Whole is now #9 on the New York Times Best Sellers list for hardcovers in “Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous.” Whole picks up where Dr. Campbell’s ground-breaking book The China Study left off – exploring the science of nutrition and asking readers to rethink what is “good” for us and our health. The list will be published May 26, 2013.
Announcing: Eat Well
Dr. Linda Bacon’s first book, Health At Every Size, was an eye-opening, myth-busting game changer for a society obsessed with weight loss and dieting. Met with both positive and skeptical feedback, HAES uses exhaustive scientific research to debunk the notion that fat means “unhealthy” – or that a thin figure signifies good health. The HAES movement grew and now includes…
Announcing: Screw the Valley
While the “Silicon Valley” derives its name from the large number of silicon chip innovators who put down roots in the southern region of the San Francisco Bay, in the decades since the tech-boom, that name has come to be synonymous with technology corporations and startups of all kinds. A 2008 study revealed that when the entire Bay area is…
Meet Katie!
Katie Kennedy is a Marketing Assistant at BenBella Books. She grew up in Arlington and then moved down the road to Fort Worth, where she graduated from Texas Christian University with a BA in English. She feels pretty lucky to have found a job at a publishing company that didn’t involve moving away from her family or her favorite restaurants….
Meet Jessika!
Jessika Rieck is the Production Assistant at BenBella Books. She attended Bryn Mawr College where she graduated with a BA in English Literature and a new appreciation for the German language. (Her favorite word is herumtollen – to cavort.) Jessika likes reading poetry, transformative works, and experimental fiction. If she had one wish, she’d wish she were a little bit taller. Her New…
Meet Kathy!
Kathy Kosinski is one of the new Marketing Interns at BenBella Books. She recently moved to Dallas from Detroit, Michigan and is enjoying Texas immensely. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in English and Spanish, and spent an instructive summer at the University of Denver Publishing Institute. Kathy’s three most favorite things are dogs, books, and…
