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Jan Yager: For a new book, I’m looking to hear from book authors who have sold their books internationally, directly or through an agent, into foreign languages or English reprint rights in other countries. Your experiences, if used in the book, can be for attribution or anonymously, whatever you prefer. I want to hear the good, the bad, and the unusual about foreign book sales as well as any of your experiences attending or exhibiting at foreign publishing industry trade shows or at international professional meetings that have bookstores/exhibiting areas. I am also interested in hearing
about any career opportunities that were a direct result of those foreign translations or editions of your books such as academic positions, speaking engagements, coaching clients, other business ventures, or even how it expanded your readership. Best way to contact me is by
e-mail: jyager@aol.com. In your response, please provide your contact information including what city/state (and time zone) and/or country you’re in since I prefer phone or in-person interviews, if possible. Please also include the titles of any or your books that you’re discussing/writing about. Depending upon the volume of responses I receive, I may only be able to contact those I want to communicate with further, but I thank you for your time and help in advance, anyway. (I do try to save responses so if you don’t hear from me right away, I might contact you down the road.) For more on me, go to: www.drjanyager.com. I’m also on twitter:
drjanyager I welcome your participation in my research by filling out the short confidential survey on foreign rights that I developed and that is available at
Ross Koppel, interviewed in American Medical Association article on errors in electronic medical records, jama_va_errors.pdf and a new JAMA article on new health care information technology, hold_harmless_rkdk.pdf
Laura Nichols, Santa Clara University: Project with students on the Use of Transportation for Shelter. They surveyed 49 unhoused riders, finding, among many other patterns, that many use the bus as the only available source of affordable housing.
Steve Picou, University of South Alabama: 5 year study of community recovery from hurricane Katrina in Mississippi and Louisiana. The primary objective of the study is the analysis of community recovery from longitudinal surveys of 2,600 residents in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013. In addition results of ongoing data analyses will be presented to community leaders and members of voluntary and faith-based recovery organizations. The initial results of the 2008 survey has been used by the Mississippi Gulf Coast Interfaith Disaster Task Force to train mental health counselors, social workers, teachers and other community leaders for improving coping skills of returning residents. Dr. Picou has also given several workshops on peer-listener training. The development of a peer-listener network provides additional resources for reaching residents experiencing mental health problems from hurricane Katrina. This project is being funded by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, $425,750.