Beth Hood started at Thomas Nelson in June of 2006. Beginning as publicist for Children’s and Gift, Beth increased media exposure for her division and landed children’s author Phil Vischer in over 75 publications; an unheard of hit rate for an inspirational children’s picture book. Recently transferred to the area of Practical Living, Hood is currently responsible for garnering media attention for authors such as John Townsend, Janine Turner, and SQuire Rushnell and Louise DuArt. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Middle Tennessee State University with a degree in Mass Communications and Marketing. A former spokesperson for former Tennessee Governor Don Sunquist, Hood traveled 50,000 miles across Tennessee representing the state’s Drug Free TN campaign.
FY09 Focus: Beth’s focus will be to liaise with outside PR firms who promote Practical Living titles and to establish new relationships with producers and editors who focus on Practical Living - specific categories.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Couple Checkup
Nashville, TN – Just as your mother persisted that you to go to the doctor for your annual checkup, the authors of The Couple Checkup (ISBN: 978-0-7852-2827-1, July, $22.99) are insisting that you take the same initiative in your relationships. That’s right. It’s time for your checkup. I hope you’ve been taking care of yourself and your partner. If not, your relationship vital signs are sure to give it away. However, there’s no need to worry. David Olson, Amy Olson-Sigg, and Peter J. Larson have developed a cure that will save your life (or at least your love life) in their revolutionary customized book. READ MORE »
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Proud Parents’ Guide to Raising Athletic, Balanced, and Coordinated Kids: A Lifetime of Benefit in Just 10 Minutes a Day
Nashville, TN – Whether you are raising the next Tiger Woods or the next Steve Jobs, Proud Parents’ Guide to Raising Athletic, Balanced, and Coordinated Kids (ISBN: 9978-0-7852-2822-6, September, $16.99) will give you the tools to guide your children through the early stages of development. In this book you will find a step-by-step handbook to nurturing your child’s growing body and mind.
From her many years of experience as a parent, an NCAA tennis player, and a coaching instructor for the Special Olympics and the United States Tennis Association, Karen Ronney has learned that a child’s future success begins with the little things that we learn in those early stages.
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
New Book Guides Encourages Us all to Make: 10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever
Nashville, TN –
“I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life.” (Deut.30.19).
In, 10 Choices: A Proven Plan to Change Your Life Forever, (ISBN: 978-0-7852-2820-2, September, $22.99), Dr. James MacDonald describes ten high impact choices that will help you and your family achieve the life God wants you to have. This book is about getting beyond self help and blame shifting and reaching for change at the deepest level.
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Hill Pens the “Antidote to permissive parenting” in Her New Book, I’m Not Your Friend, I’m Your Parent
Nashville, TN – FOX News anchor and mother of eight, E.D. Hill leads what we all would call a hectic life. Between writing and producing her own show, commuting from her New England home to New York City everyday for work and taking care of her family of eight, E.D. knows the definition of juggling. Now in her sophomore book, E.D. divulges her secrets to effective and positively influential parenting in, I’m Not Your Friend, I’m Your Parent (ISBN: 978-0-7852-2810-3, September, $24.99).
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
The Boomer Burden: Dealing with Your Parents’ Lifetime Accumulation of Stuff
Releases June 2008
(Nashville, Tenn.) Every day approximately forty-eight hundred baby boomers become middle-aged orphans when their elderly parents pass away, leaving behind a lot more than just memories. Now what?
You’ve heard the horror stories: arguments over stuff . . . an inheritance lost forever when an easily deceived parent is scammed . . . siblings estranged . . . an adult heir taken from daily responsibilities for months because of the enormous task of emptying a childhood home.
It doesn’t have to be that way for you.
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Nashville, TN – Just as your mother persisted that you to go to the doctor for your annual checkup, the authors of The Couple Checkup (ISBN: 978-0-7852-2827-1, July, $22.99) are insisting that you take the same initiative in your relationships. That’s right. It’s time for your checkup. I hope you’ve been taking care of yourself and your partner. If not, your relationship vital signs are sure to give it away. However, there’s no need to worry. David Olson, Amy Olson-Sigg, and Peter J. Larson have developed a cure that will save your life (or at least your love life) in their revolutionary customized book. READ MORE »
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