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People who leave a job for another company or self-employment often experience a sense of loss after being separated from former work peers. Career-changers should anticipate this sense of loneliness and work towards making new contacts and becoming more self-reliant., 'You're taking a big risk going out on your own,' said Michele, a colleague and good friend, during one of our ritual chats at the end of a long day. [...]

The Amish community of Cattaraugus County, NY, east of Lake Erie, provides a peaceful landscape for visitors. Amish handicrafts, baked goods and produce can be purchased directly from local craftspeople and farmers.

I read Keith Stuart's article on the video game Fortnite (Digital Native, 29 June) with mounting outrage at his naivety and apparent intent at sugar-coating an escalating blight affecting young [...]

HOLLYWOOD-BASED IFILM.com, the two-year-old movie guide Internet portal, has completed integrating Lone Eagle Publishing and Hollywood Creative Directory, two of the film industry's most respected reference publishing houses, into its [...]

The Getty Museum has amalgamated its three publishing imprints-- Getty Museum Publications, Getty Research Institute and Getty Conservation Institute-- into a single entity, Getty Publications, under the direction of publisher [...]

A NEW PUBLISHING venture called EdgeWork has been launched in San Francisco, initiated originally by 12 seasoned women authors, with a business model that mirrors more closely a real estate [...]

IN KEEPING WITH a nationwide trend of downsizing book review sections, the San Francisco Chronicle has shortened and repositioned its Book Review section as part of an overall redesign of [...]

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Above the door to Chitra Divakaruni's house in a development off a main highway of San Francisco's East Bay, a little sign in Bengali proclaims, 'Hail to [...]

THE NEW YORK trade division of Avalon Publishing, a subsidiary of Publishers Group Inc., will be taking up residence in new offices on Williams Street in lower Manhattan on May [...]

FINE-PRESS publisher Arion Press, and its sister company M&H Type, the nation's last fully functioning type foundry, moved to new digs at the former steam plant in San Francisco's Presidio [...]

It's not every day that an author takes two sisters, a brother and three nephews along on a national book tour, but then, Terry Ryan's is not your ordinary family. [...]

THE COVER OF the spring 2001 catalogue announces '30 Years, Ten Speed/Celestial Arts' and shows a cartoon of founder/owner Phil Wood wafting through the sky from a parachute. Were it [...]

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Press director James H. Clark traveled to Sacramento at the end of January to accept an award from the Speaker of the state assembly honoring the press [...]

Carroll & Graf cofounder Kent Carroll is stepping down as publisher and editor-in-chief to pursue other publishing ventures, He will continue as a consultant through June to supervise the spring [...]

SUSAN REICH, executive vice-president and COO of Avalon Publishing Group, has been promoted to president, and remains COO. She continues to report to chairman and CEO Charlie Winton, who also [...]

TWENTY YEARS AGO, Publishers Weekly (Mar. 20 & 27, 1981) published a report on new electronic media that covered teletex and videotex, video-cassettes, home computers (e.g., by Radio Shack), cable [...]

Carl Sams and Jean Stoick, the husband-and-wife team that created the 1999 picture book Stranger in the Woods, knew they had something special on their hands when the first printing [...]

Look at just the right angle across the dry, grassy hills of the Pacific coast, and you can see the Hearst Castle from Catherine Ryan Hyde's studio. It is a [...]

To open the pages of Jungles by master photographer Franz Lanting is to dive headlong into the world's Equatorial Belt. At least that's what its publisher, Taschen, had in mind. [...]

AFTER WORKING AS marketing manager for 15 years at Lawry's Foods and then three years as general manager at cookbook specialist Bristol Publishing, Peter Dombrowski, along with print broker Ken [...]

EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2001, Andrews McMeel Publishing will become the North American copublisher for books and calendars created by Anne Geddes. Geddes's works have been distributed in the U.S. by [...]

SAN FRANCISCO-BASED packager Weldon Owen Publishing, known best for the glossy, richly illustrated books it produces for such retailers as Williams-Sonoma and the Nature Company, is in the process of [...]

The Fifth Annual Books by the Bay Festival, held July 15 at Pier 32 on San Francisco's waterfront, was bigger and busier than previously, with twice as many authors. 'Books [...]

After years of gathering information and acquiring rights, The Beatles Anthology is ready for a huge worldwide laydown In May, presses in Hong Kong and Italy began to turn, 24. [...]

Paul McCartney's voice resonates with passion when he speaks about his paintings, which he began creating seriously 17 years ago at the age of 40. 'I think there are similar [...]

AWARD-WINNING nature photographer Art Wolfe is launching his own publishing house, Wildlands Press, which will be based in Seattle and be distributed by Publishers Group West. The first tide, The [...]

Anchee Min is an expert at reinvention. To survive the travails she was forced to endure in Maoist China, to be here at all, living in a modest house in [...]

SMALL PRESS DISTRIBUTION a nonprofit, literary wholesaler based in Berkeley, Calif., has hired Donald E. Knaub, formerly director of Wichita State University's Ulrich Museum of Art, as its new executive [...]

The Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association (MPBA) and the ABA jointly honored Utah Governor Michael Leavitt, head of Congress's Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, with a special award earlier this [...]

Human rights activist Ralph Schoenman, a former secretary to Bertrand Russell, won substantial damages and a full apology for defamatory statements in a book by Bryan Magee published by Orion [...]

THE UNIVERSITY of California Press has completed a three-year fund-raising campaign with a total of $3.5 million in the bank, having raised $250,000 more than its goal of $3.25 million. [...]

TRAVEL PUBLISHER Lonely Planet is launching the new millennium with seven new product categories, and is showing record revenues as well. January was a stellar month for the company, based [...]