Images from the Film: Memoirs of a Geisha

Julie is interviewed June 25, 2008, by Chuck Sambuchino, Editor of The Guide to Literary Agents. go to: guidetoliteraryagents.com,click on Editor's Blog.The Guide is published by Writers Digest Books.

THE HAPPY NEUROTIC DVD, aka CRACKING UP, by David Granirer, is being shopped to major networks and programming outlets by GRBTV in Los Angeles. GRBTV distributes to HBO, NBC, all majors. Mental Health is hot, so we expect this deal to be made soon. His tie-in book,THE HAPPY NEUROTIC,will be marketed by us as soon as GRBTV wraps the DVD negotiations. We hope to announce soon which US network will be airing the documentary. It has already been airing on the CBC in Canada,where the work originated.THE HAPPY NEUROTIC TV(U.S.) series is also in the works.

Andrea Joy Cohen's A BLESSING IN DISGUISE(Penguin/Berkley) continues to get hot reviews and make multiple bestseller lists. The collection of humanism luminaries' stories of trial then transformation have been the subject of many a clergyman's sunday sermon, finding its way into new thousands of hearts and minds each Sabbath. If you like Joan Borysenko, Dharma Singh Khalsa, among other great thinkers, this book is for you.

Laura Lea Miller has made the Barnes and Noble Family Travel Bestseller list at #9 with Walt Disney World and Orlando 2008. Her other two current books are on that extended list.

The Chicago Tribune rave-reviewed Suzi Doll and David Morrow's FLORIDA ON FILM, released early summer. Congratulations to them on an outstanding study of film culture, history, and tourism for cinema buffs and serious students of film history.

Congratulations to Joe Wolff and Roger Paperno, their book CAFE LIFE: FLORENCE voted Travel Book of the Year! CAFE LIFE:VENICE will pub in September of this year.

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From Publishers Weekly, re: SUNSHINES by Michael Lutin, (Astrologer for Vanity Fair Magazine for 25 years, now of The Huffington Post)

According to long-practicing astrologist and author Lutin (Made in Heaven, Childhood Rising), happiness comes from knowing "who you really are and what in the name of tarnation you are doing here on Earth." In this sprawling guide to "how our Sun Sign (and other major forces) can overcome almost anything," Lutin attempts to impart that knowledge in the irreverent, inimical manner his fans have come to expect. The format of the book is straightforward enough: in part one, entertaining entries for each birth sign and birth year provide the standard breakdown of strengths, weaknesses and advice. Part two, "Going Deeper," is more esoteric; covering "the desires that undo us all," Lutin shows how ideas like "Independence," "Communication" and "Love" can become misery-sustaining obsessions.

Stephen Markley, Andrea Joy Cohen MD, Michael Lutin, DailyOm,com/Daily Media, Madisyn Taylor, Scott Blum, Peggy Mulloy, Robert Zweig Ph.D., Barbara Ganim, Susan Fox, Joe Wolff, David W. Morrow, Suzi Doll Ph.D., Darlene Trew Crist, Roger Paperno, Robert Llewellyn,Timothy Jordan MD, Laura Lea Miller, Richard Moss, MD., David Granirer, Laurie Sue Brockway.

Matt Lauer/ MSNBC-TV HEADLINERS AND LEGENDS: The Betty Broderick Story.
Cafe Life: Rome and Cafe Life: Florence, favorably reviewed by the Chicago Tribune, London Observer, London Times,San Francisco Chronicle, among many others.Winner
(see above) 2007 Travel Book of the Year.

Books:Images from the Film: MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, by Peggy Mulloy and Director Rob Marshall, media tie-in book to the Golden GLobe and Academy Award Winning film from Sony Pictures.

Visual Journaling( Quest Books), Art and Healing( Three Rivers/Random House)
( both One Spirit Book Club Selections and Finalists for the Benjamin Franklin Award), American Gargoyles( Clarkson Potter/Random House),& The Cafe Life Series: Rome, Venice and Florence.( Interlink Books, Boston)

Return to Naples: My Italian Bar Mitzvah and other Discoveries. by Robert Zweig,Ph.D.(Barricade)

Cafe Life: Venice by Joe Wolff and Roger Paperno, photographer ( Interlink Books)

Frommers and Dummies titles re: Walt Disney World, multiple titles, Laura Lea Miller( Wiley)

A Blessing in Disguise by Andrea Joy Cohen MD, (Berkley/Penguin))

SUNSHINES, The Astrology of Happiness. by Michael Lutin.( Simon and Schuster)

Images from the Film: Memoirs of a Geisha (Newmarket Press, New York)

Drawing From The Heart, When it Hurts Too Much To Talk, Spring 2004.( The Theospohical Press,Quest Books) Cafe Life: Florence, Spring 2006( Interlink Books, Boston),Florida: Coast to
Coast with Kids, Fall 2007, (University Press of Florida) Florida on Film by Suzi Doll Ph D and David Morrow, fall 2007, (U. Press Florida) Walt Disney World with Kids for Dummies,by Laura Miller, fall 2007( Wiley/Dummies). and MORE!

The Happy Neurotic, by David Granirer, all exc. Canada

Treat Your Man Like A Dog (and live happily
ever after) by Maia Madden, all
A Blessing in Disguise, all foreign, audio, merchandising.
Sunshines, all foreign.
Florida: Coast to Coast with Kids, all foreign
Florida on Film: all foreign

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The University of California at Berkeley Publishing Course(1997)

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