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The Goodman Agency had a number of prominent blog posts in the last month, including an interview with Irene Goodman on Galleycat, the popular feature on Media Bistro.

The renowned Huffington Post featured three of our authors in June.  Sophie Littlefield was featured there in a writeup by Jason Pinter, who hailed her as "one of the brightest new mystery writers in the business."  Sophie has been nominated for just about every award there is, including Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Barry, Grammy, Oscar, Tony, and Fred!  Sophie also got a blurb in People Magazine, (July 5th issue)  and is the winner of the Romantic Times award for Best Mystery.

Another very in-demand blogger was Boyd Morrison, who was invited to guest blog on the Huffington Post, and was also interviewed by Chuck Sambuchino for Writers Digest.  It includes the now-legendary story of how Boyd and Irene got together, the deal he made with his wife in order to become a writer, and how he circumvented the publishing establishment in order to land a contract (plus 18 foreign markets and counting).

Boyd has now been invited to become a permanent guest blogger on the Huffington Post, so stay tuned.

It's not every day that an author gets written up in the New York Times, but David Chura achieved just that with I DON'T WISH NOBODY TO HAVE A LIFE LIKE MINE: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup in the Bookshelf section.  They called it "riveting".

David Chura is also guest blogging on the Huffington Post about the topic.

French sommelier Olivier Magny's Paris wine-tasting business, O-Chateau, got a nice mention in Time Magazine, citing his "irreverent anti-wine-establishment gusto".  Olivier is the author of STUFF PARISIANS LIKE, based on the highly successful blog of the same name.

THE DEVIL AMONGST THE LAWYERS, the highly anticipated new Ballad novel from Sharyn McCrumb, is an Indie Pick for July.

Linda Lael Miller continues run run on the New York Times bestseller list with THE MCKETTRICKS OF TEXAS: AUSTIN, debuting at #3, as does Keri Arthur, with MOON SWORN.

Jamie Freveletti was nominated in the Debut Thriller category by both the International Thriller Writers and Macavity, and her RUNNING FROM THE DEVIL was chosen by the Chicago Sun Times as a Top 12 Summer Read, but it was still a welcome surprise when she garnered the Barry nomination as well.

Kelly Gay is a RITA finalist in both the Best First Book and the Novel with Strong Romantic Elements categories for her book THE BETTER PART OF DARKNESS. And CJ Lyons's  WARNING SIGNS and URGENT CARE are both up for 2010 Daphne du Maurier Awards at RWA.

Boyd Morrison's THE ARK made the bestseller list of the Denver Post.

Jenna Maclaine is a finalist for the 2010 RomCon Reader Choice's Crown award with her book BOUND BY SIN.

Our own Miriam Kriss has been invited to speak on digital management rights, a hot subject on which she has become an expert, at the 2010 Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest and most prestigious international book fair in the world.

Irene Goodman's eBay charity auctions, in which she auctions critiques of partial manuscripts, have been a smashing success, raising money every month for the Deafness Research Foundation, the Foundation Fighting Blindness, and Hope For Vision.  New auctions begin on the first day of each month.


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Miriam Kriss and Barbara Poelle will be at the Romance Writers of America conference in Orlando at the end of July,  Irene Goodman will be at the South Carolina Writers Workshop in October.