Nobel Laureates to Receive Wyatt-MacKenzie Book!

“The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings provide a globally recognised forum for the exchange of knowledge between Nobel Laureates and young researchers.”

The 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates will take place in Lindau Germany in June and... Wyatt-MacKenzie books will be there! Laureates in Chemistry, Physics, Medicine/Physiology and the scientists, leaders, researchers and students who attend will receive the gift of REINDEER WITH KING GUSTAF by Anita Laughlin!

I am beside myself excited to imagine one of our books in the hands of these phenomenal minds.

This year the Lindau Meetings will celebrate its 60th anniversary and therefore about 70 Laureates will come together at Lake Constance in Germany to meet, interact and discuss current scientific themes and challenges with more than 650 young Top Talents from all around the world.

“Having seen and read the book by Anita Laughlin about her expectations and the life-changing results of her husband winning the nobel prize we would love to give it to the guests at the festive dinner on the opening day.” 

~ Foundation Lindau Nobelprizewinners Meetings at Lake Constance

Anita and her Nobel-winning husband Bob will attend the event, with book signings scheduled for Anita! REINDEER WITH KING GUSTAF was recently named a finalist in the ForeWord Magazine Book-of-the-Year Awards.


As they say, "SKOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The book is currently being sold at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, it was there for the Nobel Festivities last Fall. It was also endorsed by King Gustaf himself!

Just Announced at BEA - Wyatt-MacKenzie Wins a Silver ForeWord Magazine 2009 Book-of-the-Year!

Joel Schwartzberg is the man of the hour -- or at least of the 2010 Book Award Season! His book THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION just WON THE SILVER in the Humor category of the ForeWord Magazine Book-of-the-Year Awards!

WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO Joel!

We Won an Indie Book Award!

We were thrilled to learn THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad WON the Humor category in the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards presented by Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group (www.IBPPG.com). Way to go Joel!

And we also had two FINALISTS! One in Children’s/Juvenile Non-Fiction, Deb Dunham's TWEEN YOU & ME: A Pre-Teen Guide to Becoming Your Best Self. The other is Lori Radun's THE MOMNIFICENT LIFE in Parenting.


Way to go Deb, Lori and Joel!!!

An IPPY nomination!

Suzanne Kamata's CALL ME OKAASAN has been nominated for an Independent Publisher Award in Multicultural non-fiction!  

Born and raised in Michigan, and most recently from South Carolina, Suzanne is an expat living in rural Japan with her Japanese husband and bicultural twins.

ABOUT THE BOOK: What happens when your child doesn't speak your native language? How do you maintain cultural traditions while living outside your native country? And how can you raise a child with two cultures without fracturing his/her identity? From our house to your house - to the White House - more and more mothers are facing questions such as these. Whether through intercultural marriage, international adoption or peripatetic lifestyles, families these days are increasingly multicultural. In this collection, women around the world, such as Xujun Eberlein, Violet Garcia-Mendoza, Rose Kent, Sefi Atta, Saffia Farr, and others, ponder the unique joys and challenges of raising children across two or more cultures. 


Suzanne Kamata's work has appeared in over 100 publications. She is the author of a novel, LOSING KEI, and the editor of two previous anthologies - THE BROKEN BRIDGE: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan and LOVE YOU TO PIECES: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs, and is currently fiction editor of "Literary Mama". 

Spring Break's Over... and Another Award Nom!

Wyatt and MacKenzie went skiing -- at Willamette Pass -- for the first time over Spring Break! Watching the video of Kenzie going down the hill faster than fast, in an unswerving straight line, reminded me of the first few years of publishing. You fly by the seat of your pants, optimistic you'll make it to the end without getting too badly injured. To hell with the snow plow, who needs to stop? But now, if I were skiing instead of publishing, I think I'd be gracefully slaloming down the hill, avoiding pitfalls only visible to the keen, experienced eye, and not choosing hills that look too good to be true. Okay... so there's my segue.

Meanwhile, back in the Wyatt-MacKenzie offices we are thrilled to announce another ForeWord Magazine Book-of-the-Year nomination! Deb Dunham's (self-esteem guru!) TWEEN YOU & ME. It's one of MacKenzie's favorite books we've published -- the first specially for the tween market.

2009 ForeWord Finalist Juvenile Nonfiction