ICQ --- 2001/No.2

Susan Birk ’91 and Spaghetti Cake, Jam Food (Morris, Conn.: Self-produced, 2000)

Birk, a high school art and photography teacher in Connecticut, and her band have released a jam rock record designed for families. Birk wrote the lyrics to the songs, designed the cover art for the CD, and is the lead vocalist; artists featured on the album include Flipper Dave’s Glen Nelson and Robert Fried from Mac Creek.

Frank Brown ’51, M.S. ’61, A Band Director’s Handbook of Problems and Solutions in Teaching Instrumental Music (Millport, N.Y.: Frank Brown, 2000)

Brown has recently reacquired the rights to his handbook, which was originally published by Studio P/R, and self-published a reprint. The book is geared for novice instrumental music teachers, their supervisors, and substitute teachers of music.

Richard Frishman ’76, Jay Conrad Levinson, and Michael Larsen, Guerrilla Marketing for Writers: 100+ Strategies for Selling Your Work (Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 2000)

Along with his coauthors, Frishman has written a book outlining how to promote and market one’s writing. Part of the Guerrilla Marketing series, this book shows authors how to think like entrepreneurs and encourages them to take responsibility for the marketing of their own writing. The authors claim that their guidelines can help promote work of all genres.

Geoffrey Groce ’92 (as McKinley Hill), True Confessions of a Dumpster Diver (Bloomington, Ind.: 1stBooks, 2000)

The author’s first book is a modern reimagining (what the author calls a "cyberpunk version") of the Beowulf legend. In it the hero, Wulf Platero-Sietes, battles the Grendel Virus, a computer bug that can shut down the East Coast power grid. Along the way, Wulf is pursued by Ogre Algol, who, along with the help of the Black Swan Dragon, is trying to destroy the human race with a DNA virus. The book, which has been published under Groce’s pseudonym McKinley Hill, is being distributed via a new publishing and printing technology called "print on demand."

Jeanne Mackin ’70, The Sweet By and By (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000)

Mackin’s fifth book revolves around journalist Helen West, who has been contracted to write about Maggie Fox, the founder of the 19th-century American spiritualist movement. West forms a strange bond with her subject and learns that, though gone, the dead may still have something to say. Mackin teaches in the Department of Writing at the College.

Stephan Schiffman ’68, Make It Happen before Lunch (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000)

Schiffman is a corporate sales strategist and president of D.E.I. Management Group. His most recent book offers advice on establishing advantageous business and professional alliances.

Gladys Varona-Lacey, José María Arguedas: más allá del indigenisma (Miami: Ediciones Universal, 2000)

In her latest book Varona-Lacey, associate professor and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, analyzes the work of Peruvian writer José María Arguedas from both a literary and social perspective. The book also examines how Arguedasethnological research affected his fiction and made his work unique in its portrayal of the indigenous population of Peru. Varona-Lacey has published a number of other Spanish- and English-language books.

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	Susan Birk ’91 and Spaghetti Cake, Jam Food (Morris, Conn.: Self-produced, 2000) Birk, a high school art and photography teacher in Connecticut, and her band have released a jam rock record designed for families. Birk wrote the lyrics to the songs, designed the cover art for the CD, and is the lead vocalist; artists featured on the album include Flipper Dave’s Glen Nelson and Robert Fried from Mac Creek.
	Frank Brown ’51, M.S. ’61, A Band Director’s Handbook of Problems and Solutions in Teaching Instrumental Music (Millport, N.Y.: Frank Brown, 2000) Brown has recently reacquired the rights to his handbook, which was originally published by Studio P/R, and self-published a reprint. The book is geared for novice instrumental music teachers, their supervisors, and substitute teachers of music.
	Richard Frishman ’76, Jay Conrad Levinson, and Michael Larsen, Guerrilla Marketing for Writers: 100+ Strategies for Selling Your Work (Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 2000) Along with his coauthors, Frishman has written a book outlining how to promote and market one’s writing. Part of the Guerrilla Marketing series, this book shows authors how to think like entrepreneurs and encourages them to take responsibility for the marketing of their own writing. The authors claim that their guidelines can help promote work of all genres.
	Geoffrey Groce ’92 (as McKinley Hill), True Confessions of a Dumpster Diver (Bloomington, Ind.: 1stBooks, 2000) The author’s first book is a modern reimagining (what the author calls a "cyberpunk version") of the Beowulf legend. In it the hero, Wulf Platero-Sietes, battles the Grendel Virus, a computer bug that can shut down the East Coast power grid. Along the way, Wulf is pursued by Ogre Algol, who, along with the help of the Black Swan Dragon, is trying to destroy the human race with a DNA virus. The book, which has been published under Groce’s pseudonym McKinley Hill, is being distributed via a new publishing and printing technology called "print on demand."
	Jeanne Mackin ’70, The Sweet By and By (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000) Mackin’s fifth book revolves around journalist Helen West, who has been contracted to write about Maggie Fox, the founder of the 19th-century American spiritualist movement. West forms a strange bond with her subject and learns that, though gone, the dead may still have something to say. Mackin teaches in the Department of Writing at the College.
	Stephan Schiffman ’68, Make It Happen before Lunch (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000) Schiffman is a corporate sales strategist and president of D.E.I. Management Group. His most recent book offers advice on establishing advantageous business and professional alliances.
	Gladys Varona-Lacey, José María Arguedas: más allá del indigenisma (Miami: Ediciones Universal, 2000) In her latest book Varona-Lacey, associate professor and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, analyzes the work of Peruvian writer José María Arguedas from both a literary and social perspective. The book also examines how Arguedasethnological research affected his fiction and made his work unique in its portrayal of the indigenous population of Peru. Varona-Lacey has published a number of other Spanish- and English-language books.

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