Mark Berryman in Cowboy Poetry Anthology Three poems written by Mark Berryman are included in the newly published anthology “Georgia Cowboy Poets”. David Fillingim, an award winning author, has written a section on the history and background of cowboy poetry and compiled works by a multitude of cowboy poets from the Peach State. The book is available [...]

Mike Leonard in CNN Opinion Mike Leonard, NSNC Conference Chair for 2010, is currently featured in CNN Opinion. Mike is a longtime columnist and reporter for The Herald-Times newspaper in Bloomington, Indiana. He’s covered John Mellencamp and his music for more than 25 years. Leonard also has written for Rolling Stone magazine and other publications and [...]

You, the Columnist By Dave Lieber www.WatchdogNation.com Dear Ann Kolson, I read the obituary of your husband, Steve, in The New York Times the other day, and my heart sank(“Steven Lovelady, 66, Acclaimed Editor”). You see, I have always tried to thank those who helped me learn the craft of journalism. Years afterward, I would [...]

Host the conference next year? Year after that? The NSNC Board of Directors is accepting bids for future conferences. If you think you would like to host the annual meeting in 2011 or 2012, step right up. But first, know what the job entails. Under the NSNC bylaws, the conference chair is an elective position, [...]

Brad Klontz, Psy.D. received an Innovative Practice Award from the American Psychological Association in December 2009 for his “…visionary and creative development of innovative practice strategies to apply psychological interventions to help people with money and wealth issues.” Brad’s new book, Mind Over Money: Overcoming The Money Disorders that Threaten Our Financial Health was released [...]

Ed Addeo of Mill Valley, Calif., has had a new novel published, “The Midnight Special”, a medical thriller about the first brain transplant. “There’s a good story behind it, actually,” Addeo says.  “It’s really a new ‘edition’ of a book that was published 38 years ago by Bernard Geis Associates, and sold out its first [...]

Jay Grelen of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is taking a seven-month leave from his human-interest column “Sweet Tea.” The NSNC member is still full time in the newsroom in Little Rock, working as a night-shift news copy editor. Jay’s column ran three days a week and every other Sunday, alternating with former NSNC board member Linda [...]

By Samantha Bennett NSNC President Happy New Year! I’ve said before that what you get out of NSNC depends on what you put into it. What do you get from your NSNC membership? I’d love to hear from you, at sambennett1@verizon.net . I’d like to hear why you joined, what you enjoy about being a [...]

Canadian columnist Dan St.Yves caught up with fellow NSNC member W. Bruce Cameron during the annual conference in Ventura, CA.  Part of their conversation has already been a feature column in a Kelowna, British Columbia newspaper, and now an audio version of the interview is available as a free download: http://thatdanguy.libsyn.com/

NSNC member Linda Fulkerson, a blog coach and Internet marketing advisor, found some valuable information at one of her favorite Web sites which she would like to share with other writers. In a guest post at Copyblogger, Demian Farnworth supplies a different suggested reading list for writers and gives a brief reason why each book [...]