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Penguin Group (USA) Weekly Update - 8/18:

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John Makinson and Viking/Penguin Author Craig Johnson Way Out West

Penguin Group Chairman John Makinson (wearing the cowboy hat) was recently on vacation in Montana's Bighorn Mountains, where he ran into Viking/Penguin author Craig Johnson. Currently on his "motorcycle tour" promoting his latest books, Another Man's Moccasins (Viking) and Kindness Goes Unpunished (Penguin), Johnson said, "He and the family came out to a dude ranch in the Bighorn Mountains. [My wife] Judy met him at our store two years ago, so I finally got to meet him last week. The photo was John's idea. He had to go get his cowboy shirt and jeans on. What a great guy!"

Trudy Kallman, Penguin Sales Rep, Wins NAIBA's Hellmuth Award

Trudy Kallman, Paperback Sales Representative for Penguin Group (USA), has won the William Helmuth Award, sponsored by the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association to honor "an exceptional salesperson who serves booksellers in the highest manner of professionalism" and who "best embodies the dedication, book knowledge and heart shown by the late William Helmuth of BookTravelers fame."

Mark LaFramboise of Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C., praised Kallman for going out of her way to help stores. "Whether she's working within her own company, Penguin, to help her accounts, or making sure we are knowledgeable of strong titles and good deals, her efforts are always appreciated. Her book knowledge and knowledge of the industry have proven indispensable time and again."

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Penguin Weekly Update

Tue, 08/19/2008

Writing When Enough Is Enough by Candy Finnigan:

The idea for writing When Enough is Enough was forced into my consciousness by events. After I became an interventionist on the A&E show, "Intervention", I began receiving a lot of email from people in trouble. Families beset by seemingly insurmountable problems with children, fathers, mothers.

Soon the steady stream of mail from people desperate for help, became a torrent. I was getting hundreds of letters and I felt duty-bound to answer them. There were questions about the symptoms of addiction, about where to get help in a certain part of the country, questions about insurance, about the proper response to various crises, about the availability of government assistance, and more.

In addition to information about the choices available for the chemically dependent, there was often a clear necessity to explain the need for action on the part of family members to address co-dependency - the destructiveness of their own habits of thinking and acting, and how that might be enabling the addict. Each piece of mail seemed to demand a specific response.

During the process of dealing with this deluge it became apparent that there was a genuine need for some straightforward instructional literature which addressed the problems of the many thousands who find themselves facing the destructive power of addiction. My brother-in-law, Sean Finnigan, is a writer and is someone who has a great deal of experience in recovery so it seemed natural to partner with him in this effort.

We produced a book I believe can be invaluable for anyone looking for answers to the riddle that is chemical dependency.

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