2017 was a successful year for many of the writers with whom I worked on book proposals, manuscripts and publishing strategies. Here is a partial list of their awards and forthcoming or recently published books.

Michele Harper, The Beauty in the Breaking (Riverhead)

Jane Finkle, The Complete Career Guide for Introverts (Career Press)

Judith Pransky, The Seventh Handmaiden, winner of the Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award of the Association of Jewish Libraries

Margaret Thorell, Karin Bergoo Larrsson and the Emergence of Swedish Design (McFarland)

Lyndon Back, Treading Water at the Shark Café (Open Books Press)

Judith Teitelman, Guesthouse for Ganesha (She Writes Press)

Margaret Broucek, The Futility Experts, winner of the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature (Schaffner Press)

Janet Steinwedel, Authenticity as an Executive Coach: Waking Up the Wounded Healer Archetype (Chiron Publications)

Ellen Cassedy, translator, On the Landing and Other Stories by Yenta Mash (Northern Illinois University Press)