http:/// http:///rss.php The latest speaker news from Hachette Speakers Bureau. Copyright 2010, Hachette Speakers Bureau "Charla Krupp discusses How to Never Look Fat Again without resorting to wearing all black and looking like “an Italian widow in mourning.” (TIME via GTN) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=35 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=35 "You'll need a library of excuses to dodge getting in shape this year." (Vogue via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=34 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=34 "Has Sue Johnson done the impossible? The Ottawa psychologist claims not only to have unlocked the mystery of love, but she says she can fix your marriage." (More via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=33 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=33 "Harold Evans, doubtless the finest English newspaper editor of his time, could make you weep in his memoir of formative days in Manchester and glory years (1965 - 1981) with the Sunday Times of London." (Huffington Post via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=32 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=32 "Ferris usually writes in a steady, cool voice whether delivering the quotidian details of office work or existential observations about God that would otherwise sound grandiose." (Washington Post via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=31 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=31 Getting older can be a career killer—if you go about job hunting it the wrong way. Entertainment journalist Mandell discovered that the resume she was sending out made her seem like an aged veteran. (More.com via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=30 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=30 "Whether it's tactics or strategy, they're terrible at it. Their attitude is, they're busy in a knife fight and don't have the time." (Newsweek via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=29 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=29 "The dialogue between Isaacs and God is raw, real and laugh-out-loud funny." (Relevant Magazine via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=28 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=28 "Washington Post critics pick their favorite novels, biographies, mysteries, memoirs and more." http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=27 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=27 Watch Ashley Merryman Speak Live at PopTech Conference http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=26 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=26 Six Pixels of Separation Named #1 on "What Corporate America is Reading November 2009." (The Olympian via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=25 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=25 "Ferris follows up his PEN/Hemingway Award–winning debut Then We Came to the End with The Unnamed, whose protagonist suffers from a mysterious disease that compels him to walk to exhaustion." (Publishers Weekly via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=24 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=24 "Barely a decade after constructing a $300 million research and development headquarters in the city, the pharmaceutical giant announced it was shutting down the facility. Just like that, New London will lose 1,400 jobs and become home to a gigantic, http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=23 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=23 "Israel has thrived during the global collapse—thanks to an entrepreneurial culture built on compulsory military service. U.S. companies should take notes." (The Daily Beast via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=22 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=22 "All attending were out of their seat on their feet, clapping, with full respect for the man on stage: decorated Navy SEAL and best-selling author, Petty Officer 1st class Marcus Luttrell." (The Houstonian via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=21 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=21 "Horse Boy recounts a deeply personal, highly subjective and inarguably thought-provoking story of one family's quest for a certain kind of peace." (The New York Times via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=20 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=20 "Every September, the class of incoming American kindergartners is ever slightly older." (Newsweek via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=19 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=19 "Corcoran has seen a lot in her time as a tycoon, but even she was shocked at some of the offbeat ideas that surfaced." (New York Daily News via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=18 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=18 "You have what it takes to change your life--or even your world. So what's stopping you?" (Forbes via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=17 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=17 "There is a new way of getting hired, and a simple resume on an 8 x 11 piece of white paper is not going to cut it anymore." (HSB via Vancouver Sun) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=16 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=16 "Author Susan Isaacs on comedy, church hopping, and having a 'middle-class white girl's Dark Night of the Soul.'" (HSB via Christianity Today) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=15 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=15 "In his brilliant new book, The Evolution of God, Robert Wright tells the story of how God grew up." (HSB via The New York Times) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=14 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=14 The best-selling author takes a closer look at El Centro, California, the "recession capital of the world." (Parade via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=12 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=12 "I don't think it's a coincidence that the new atheists really got traction in the years after 9/11." (The New York Times Magazine via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=11 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=11 "In his new book The Richest Man in Town, Jones has come up with a list of the 100 richest people by town in the largest cities in almost every state in the U.S." (BusinessWeek via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=10 Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=10 "In the easy-to-read guide, Nichols provides a road map to developing and flexing those all-important survival muscles..." (Hachette via AOL) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=9 Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=9 "He told his audience that, even at a time when London was being "bombed to smithereens"...there was a prime-ministerial view that torture was never permissible." (Hachette via Slate) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=8 Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=8 "The author knows that portions of his new book 'would no doubt appall' his parents. But...a reader should think twice before faulting him." (Hachette via The New York Times) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=7 Sun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=7 "Most people don't think of their friends as conduits and resources to their dreams and goals. That's ridiculous." (The Dallas Morning News via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=6 Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=6 Some new releases were written in direct response to the financial meltdown, including Stephen Leeb's "Game Over: How You can Prosper in a Shattered Economy." (Associate Press via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=5 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=5 If girls grow up with a canon of stories, it makes the subject much more approachable. Girls shouldn't feel awkward, embarrassed or ashamed. (Detroit Free Press via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=4 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=4 The author of 14 books, including the forthcoming Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir, reflects on his relationship with his parents. (GTN via The New York Times) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=3 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=3 Over many years, Susette Kelo stood up against corporate power and New London officials, and became known around the country as the woman who couldn't be moved. (The New York Times via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=2 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=2 When author Rupert Isaacson took his autistic son on a trip to Mongolia to ride horses and seek the help of shamans, he had a gut instinct that the adventure would have a healing effect on the boy. (New York Times Book Review via HSB) http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=1 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http:///speaker_news.php?articleId=1