Author: Lincoln Pierce
Publisher: Harper Collins

Big Nate - On a Roll

For those who still enjoy the morning newspaper while enjoying your first cup of daily caffeine intake, you probably have  heard of the popular comic-strip, BIG NATE by Lincoln Pierce, which is featured in over 200 newspapers around the country (and online at gocomics.com).  The rambunctious middle schooler recently made the leap from syndicated comic strip to bestselling young-reader book series. Newman was once again called into action, providing radio and television book publicity, promoting this latest book in the Big Nate series, BIG NATE ON A ROLL.

We had the chance to go in-studio with Lincoln Pierce to produce the tour with the help from our friends at Boston Bureau Production.  It is always a thrill to see these tours in action with a behind the scenes view and in the end, Lincoln completed a number of interviews including features with some great stations and  shows including:

• WGHP
• WSLR
• The Conn Jackson Show
  

About the Book:

BIG  NATE  is always a blast and so is his new book BIG NATE ON A ROLL. In the hilarious third novel,  Nate faces his nemesis, the foreign exchange student,  Artur, in a scout troop showdown.  In a race to raise the most money for his troop by selling lame Warm Fuzzies (wall hangings with cheesy saying on them),  Nate gets carried away with crazy plans for outshining Artur and winning the grand-prize- a personalized skateboard! Get ready for a fun filled show down between Nate and his longtime rival. With more then 500 black-and-white  illustrations, including Nate’s own comics, doodles, and unforgettable “top 10 lists,  BIG NATE ON A ROLL is  sure to have readers rolling on the floor with laughter!

About the Author:

Cartoonist/writer Lincoln Peirce lives with his wife and two children in Portland, Maine, and frequently visits schools to talk to students about comics. Peirce is the creator of the comic strip Big Nate, that debuted in 1991 and appears in over 250 newspapers in the US and online daily at www.gocomics.com, and is featured on the website Poptropica, www.poptropica.com.

Author: Janet Reitman
Publisher: Houghton-Mifflin

Inside Scientology - Janet Reitman

If all you know about Scientology is that Tom Cruise and John Travolta are practitioners of the religion, then Janet Reitman has written the book for you.

Newman Communications helped educate and inform radio listeners nationwide with a radio focused book publicity tour for Janet Reitman’s controversial book INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion.  Janet completed a 30-city radio book tour, which included KFI-AM/Los Angeles, Talk Radio Network,  Sirius/XM Radio America’s Radio News Network and more. Janet also recently hosted a live online Q&A about Inside Scientology with the Washington Post, discussing the  extensive research she did preparing for the book.

About the book

Inside Scientology is the defining work on the faith by the Rolling Stone journalist.  It confirms the astonishing truth about life within the controversial religion.

The book is based on confidential documents, over one hundred interviews with current and former Scientologists, and five years of research. Reitman reveals all, starting with how the singular L. Ron Hubbard transformed a self-help group into a worldwide spiritual corporation. After Hubbard’s death in 1986, a young acolyte named David Miscavige assumed control; since then, he has overseen some of the church’s greatest triumphs — among them a controversial billion-dollar IRS tax exemption and Tom Cruise’s emergence as a vocal advocate — while also creating a climate of fear and intimidation, according to ex-members whose stories of abuse Reitman shares. Reitman is the first to examine Miscavige’s twenty-five-year reign and what it might mean for the future of the church.

About Janet Reitman

Janet Reitman was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in 2007 for the Rolling Stone story “Inside Scientology,” from which this book grew. She is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. Her work has appeared in GQ, Men’s Journal, the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, and the Washington Post, among other publications. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

Additional Information

You can hear Janet’s radio interview on America’s Radio News Network here:
www.americasradionewsnetwork.com/inside-scientology-janet-reitman

Learn 7 scientology secrets in this photo essay from Janet and the Huffington Post:  www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-reitman/scientology-secrets_b_891483.html#s304129&title=6_

Washington Post talks with Janet Reitman about the research and preparation she did for Inside Scientology.

America’s Favorite Forensic Anthropologist Returns in Kathy Reichs’ 13^th Novel, Spider Bones

Spider Bones - Kathy Reichs

Bestselling author, Kathy Reichs – whose books have inspired the TV show, Bones – is back with her thirteenth novel featuring America’s favorite forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan. Book publicity firm, Newman Communications, scheduled Reichs with more than 20 national and local radio interviews, including USA Radio Network, CJAD-AM (Montreal), Northeast Public Radio, and Lifestyle Radio Network.

Book Description:

In Spider Bones, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Quebec. The victim’s fingerprints identify him as John Lowery – an American soldier who had been declared dead in Vietnam in 1968 and buried long ago in North Carolina. How could a man have died twice, and how did his body end up in Canada? As Brennan’s investigation progresses, a riveting and complex tale of murder and deceit unfolds in Spider Bones.

About the Author:

Kathy Reichs, like her character Temperance Brennan, is a forensic anthropologist, formerly for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in North Carolina and currently for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciaires et de Médecine Légale for the province of Québec. She is one of only 82 forensic anthropologists ever certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, is past Vice President of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and serves on the National Police Services Advisory Board in Canada. Reichs’ first book, Déjà Dead, catapulted her to fame and became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Her novel, Devil Bones, was a #1 New York Times bestseller.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid - The Ugly Truth

It’s been quite a ride for Jeff Kinney.  In it’s first three days, the book has sold over 700,000 copies and landed at #1 on the NY Times best seller list, putting our former President, George Bush at #2.  In 2009, TIME Magazine named him one of the top 100 “Most Influential People” in the world.  He also saw an adaption of the book made into a movie and another will be on screen in 2011.  This year, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will feature a balloon of Greg Hefley for all to enjoy.

What’s next for Kinney?  More entries in the Wimpy Kid series of course!  We are sure that millions of Greg Hefley fans just can’t wait to learn what’s in store for him the next time around.  Newman will be waiting to in hopes of working with Jeff Kinney again.

Author: Dale Brown
Publisher: William Morrow

After the success with his first book publicity campaign for ” Rogue Forces ” ,  Dale Brown has returned to Newman Communications  with his newest title, “Executive Intent”.  Brown, the New York Times-bestselling master of military suspense, is back with an action-packed tale of intrigue and technological weaponry that puts the world’s superpowers in contest for dominance of space as well as Earth’s oceans.  Newman has produced another book publicity campaign, and spread the word on radio stations including: LA Talk Radio, WBZ in Boston, CNN, Cable Radio Network and stations in Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit and more.

About the Book:

The United States begins to establish the ultimate High Ground, a space-based anti-ballistic missile and anti-satellite system in Earth’s orbit, which could protect not only America, but also her allies from attack. The most controversial part of the system is Mjollnir, a precision-guided artificial meteorite that can strike almost anywhere on the planet in a matter of seconds. China responds by setting up dozens of anti-satellite missile sites around the world aimed at America’s Armstrong Space Station. Meanwhile, a series of accidents in space, the possibility of an arms race with China, the upcoming elections and a worsening economic outlook all put the pressure on U.S. President Joseph Gardner to cancel the weapon satellite system and call for treaties to eliminate all space-based weapons. But instead of negotiating, China surges its military forces for the first time since the Korean War by invading Somalia and Yemen and capturing the vital shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden.

Now, America’s vaunted nuclear aircraft carrier battle groups are in the crosshairs of Chinese hypersonic missiles and hunter-killer submarines. Russia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and others see America’s military dominance eroding and rush to take advantage.

About the Author:

Former U.S. Air Force captain Dale Brown is the superstar author of 22 action-adventure “techno-thriller” novels starting with Flight of the Old Dog in 1987. He is also the co-author of the best-selling Dreamland techno-thriller series and writer and technical consultant of the Act of War PC real-time strategy game published by Atari Interactive and the Megafortress PC flight simulator by Three-Sixty Pacific. Dale’s novels are published in 11 languages and distributed to over 70 countries. Dale is a command pilot in Angel Flight West, a group that volunteer their time, skills, and aircraft to fly needy medical patients free of charge to receive medical treatment. Dale is also a pilot in the Civil Air Patrol, which performs search and rescue, disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, surveillance, and many other missions in support of the U.S. Air Force and other federal agencies. He supports a number of organizations to promote law enforcement, education, literacy, and support for military veterans and their families. Dale Brown is a Life Member of the Air Force Association, U.S. Naval Institute, and National Rifle Association. He is a multi-engine and instrument-rated private pilot and can often be found in the skies all across the United States, at the controls of his Piper Aztec-E. On the ground, Dale is an AYSO youth soccer referee and enjoys tennis and scuba diving. Dale, his wife Diane, and son Hunter live near Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

Author: Tiffany Baker
Publisher: Grand Central/Hachette

Newman Communications providing National Book Publicity Tour for Little Giant of Aberdeen County

The Newman Team is excited about the National Book Publicity Tour for Tiffany Baker’s bestselling debut novel. The recently released paperback edition of The Little Giant of Aberdeen County is just in time for a Summer Book Publicity Tour, opening up many National outlets.

The Book Publicity Tour for Little Giant has had much success; not only has Little Giant become a hit in the social media sphere, it has scored inclusion in Summer reading roundups nationally. Several top daily newspapers including the News-Journal and the York Daily Record have reviewed the novel or requested a place in the Book Publicity Tour. Other major outlets the Newman Team will target for the  Book Publicity Tour include national, local, and regional TV stations, regional and national NPR radio stations, Top Daily Newspapers,  and National Magazines.

About the Book:

When Truly Plaice’s mother was pregnant, the whole town of Aberdeen lined up to bet on the weight of the baby that could stretch a woman to such epic proportions. Young Truly would pay the price of her enormity. Her father blamed her for her mother’s death in childbirth, and was totally ill equipped to raise either this giant child or her older sister and polar opposite, Serena Jane, the epitome of feminine perfection. His subsequent death left Serena Jane to live a life of privilege as the town’s prodigal May Queen and Truly to eke out an existence with a rattletrap, outcast family on its rundown farm.

While Truly’s remarkable size makes her the subject of constant curiosity and humiliation by her peers, Serena Jane’s beauty proves to be both her biggest blessing and her worst curse, for it targets her as the obsession of Bob Bob Morgan, the youngest in a line of Robert Morgans, Aberdeen’s family doctors for generations. When Bob Bob does the unthinkable to claim Serena Jane, his actions change the destiny of all Aberdeen County.

In the end, Truly is forced to face her own larger-than-life demons, redefine mercy, and consider the possibility that love cannot be ordered to size.

About the Author:

Tiffany Baker lives in Marin County (CA) with her husband and three young children.  She is hard at work on her second novel, Fleur de Sel.

More information:

http://www.tiffanybaker.com/

http://amzn.to/bQhX85

Common Sense on Mutual Funds - John C. Bogle

John C. Bogle, founder and retired CEO of the The Vanguard Group, knows investing. But when it comes to book publicity and promotion, he turned to the experts at Newman Communications. We are thrilled to be able to work with Mr. Bogle on his latest book publicity project promoting Common Sense on Mutual Funds: Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition.

How many Wall Street legends go back to their bestselling book 10 years later and honestly annotate where they were right, where they were wrong, where we are now, and where we are going? This scorecard is truly unique.

It has been a decade since Bogle’s COMMON SENSE ON MUTUAL FUNDS was first published. His bestseller examined the fundamentals of mutual fund investing in turbulent market environments and offered valuable guidance for building investment portfolios.

Since the first edition was published in 1999, much has changed—and changed radically—in the financial landscape, and no one is more aware of this than mutual fund pioneer John C. Bogle. After decades of unprecedented growth in the U.S. stock market, over the past 10 years we’ve experienced major bear markets, and most significantly, the economic crisis of 2007-2009, which wreaked havoc on the economy at large. But despite significant turmoil, the investment principles Bogle wrote about in 1999 have stood the test of time.

“With the passage of a decade, 2009 seemed a natural time not only to bring out this updated edition of Common Sense on Mutual Funds, but to evaluate its message,” writes Bogle in the new preface to the book. “In doing so, I have not altered a single word of the original edition, but have chosen instead to update its voluminous data, and to comment on significant developments that have occurred since then.”

Newman Communications is playing a leading role and fulfilling the book publicity needs for Mr. Bogle, securing coverage at major radio and TV stations, as well as print and online placement. Though the campaign is still in it’s early development, we are already enjoying much success with hits at major national radio stations and TV networks, including:

• NPR-affiliated, On the Money broadcasted – WVXU-AM in Cincinnati
• CBS Radio Network
• Your Bottom Line on CNN-TV

The Snowball - Warren Buffet

In this startlingly frank account of Buffett’s life, Author, Alice Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley—and hand picked by Buffett to be his biographer—strips away the mystery that has long cloaked the word’s richest man to reveal a life and fortune erected around lucid and inspired business vision and unimaginable personal complexity. In a book that is dominated by unstinting descriptions of Buffett’s appetites—for profit, women (particularly nurturing maternal types), food (Buffett maintained his and his family’s weight by “dangling money”)—it is refreshing that Schroeder keeps her tone free of judgment or awe; Buffett’s plain-speaking suffuses the book and renders his public and private successes and failures wonderfully human and universal. Schroeder’s sections detailing the genesis of Buffett’s investment strategy, his early mentoring by Benjamin Graham (who imparted the memorable “cigar butt” scheme: purchasing discarded stocks and taking a final puff). Inspiring managerial advice abounds and competes with gossipy tidbits (the married Buffett’s very public relationship with Washington Post editor Katherine Graham) in this rich, surprisingly affecting biography

The Longest Trip Home

New York Times best selling author John Grogan is heading home.  Making the trip with him will be publicity firm Newman Communications.  The same author who brought you the heartfelt story of Marley and Me is now releasing his coming of age memoir The Longest Trip Home in paperback.

Grogan spent his early years mischievously exploring his youthful imagination and his suburban community outside of Detroit. Most of his choices and actions contradicted the wishes of his piously Catholic parents.  Needless to say, John did not care.  His efforts to succeed with girls and pleasure his forbidden desires were much more important.  

Through a variety of emotions The Longest Trip Home passionately details the relationship between a parent and child.  Filled with tears and laughter it is a book that can relate to any son, daughter, or parent.  Whether it is a subconscious effort or not, we often forget those who helped us find our way.  Aside from all the drama that may affect a parent/child relationship, Grogan reminds us that both are forever bonded no matter what.

The Longest Trip Home was one cross country tour Newman Communications did not want to miss.  Representing an author like John Grogan is always an enjoyable voyage that helps us remember what life is all about.