APRIL 2009: News from HooksBookEvents
Wednesday April 08, 2009
Greetings from Perry and Loretta! We had a great time in March celebrating Women’s History Month. On the 25th, we brought the amazing Gerda Lerner (who actually helped found Women’s History Month), to speak at the Executive Women in Government conference (EWG). At 88, Gerda is an amazing, formidable embodiment of 20th century history. Armed with her ever-present cup of tea, she enthralled us with her stories of her early days as a prisoner in the Austrian jail, her experience with the McCarthy-era black list, women’s activism, and more. Gerda has seen and survived it all and we were honored to listen as she shared her wisdom with the dynamic crowd of top women in government. (See more about the EWG conference below.) Speaking of making history, we checked in with Dexter Filkins who was in Rome, en route to Kabul, to see how the young Afghan women were doing in the Marwais School. Dexter has raised more than $22,000 (up from $8,000) to help the girls recover from the Taliban attack and to purchase supplies for the school. He promises to keep us posted. To contribute to his efforts, email him: Filkins@nytimes.com. It’s official! We are going to be hosting fabulous events at The Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown. Our first event will be a luncheon on May 19 from noon to 1:30 with Lee Woodruff, author of Perfectly Imperfect.. You’ll remember that Lee’s husband, Bob Woodruff, is the TV journalist who was co-anchor of the ABC News and appeared on World News Tonight and was nearly killed in 2006 by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Join us for an intimate conversation with Lee at this exclusive. Tickets are $70, which includes a four-course lunch and a signed copy of Lee’s new book. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Lee’s foundation, Remind.org: http://remind.org. A limited number of seats are available. For more information or to buy your ticket send an email to: tickets@hooksbookevents.com. Don’t forget to check out our upcoming APRIL and MAY EVENTS. Even more are listed on our website. Remember that many of the writers that we book do have time to come to your organization – so send us an email if you’d like to set up a session. We’ll look forward to talking to you again via our e-news blast in May. To stay on top of what we’re up to this month, check out our new blog: http://hooksbookevents.blogspot.com. Only the best, Perry Pidgeon Hooks, President and Co-founder, Hooks Book Events/ perry@hooksbookevents.com Loretta Yenson, CFO and Co-founder, Hooks Book Events/ loretta@hooksbookevents.com _______________________________________________________________
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LIVING WITH HISTORY: Hooks Book Events was proud to bring books and authors to several outstanding conferences EXECUTIVE WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT (EWG) threw quite a bash on March 25 when they hosted their 2009 conference at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Among the highlights was a speech by the founder of Women’s History Month, Gerda Lerner. We felt honored to be able to bring her to the conference, and we thank our friends at Accenture for underwriting the purchase of Gerda’s book, Living with History Making Social Change. Each attendee took home a copy – along with copies of the books by the other powerful women leaders who spoke that day: Diane MacEachern, author of Big Green Purse; Rosemary O’Leary, author of The Collaborative Public Manager; Carolyn Maloney, author of Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated; and Nell Merlino, author of Stepping Out of Line. We also loved meeting the fabulously energetic and inspirational keynote speaker Vernice Armour, America’s first African-American female combat pilot (www.vernicearmour.com). This event was filled with incredible networking opportunities, good conversations, and of course, great books. Learn more about EWG and be sure to sign up for next year’s event: http://www.execwomeningov.org.  WOMEN IN CABLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS (WICT) also hosted an incredible event on April 1-2 when they brought more than a dozen authors to their annual conference at the DC Convention Center. Hooks Book Events lent a hand by setting up a grand bookstore in the lobby where we sold the books of the incredible leaders who spoke at the event: Erika Andersen, Growing Great Employees; James S. Gordon M.D., Unstuck; Ariane De Bonvoisin, The First 30 Days; Lloyd Boston, Before You Put That On; Donna Brazile, Cooking with Grease; Jeanette Bronee, Secrets to Appetite Control; Tracy Gaudet, Consciously Female; Kathleen Hall, A Life in Balance; Franke James, Bothered by My Green Conscience; Loren Slocum, Life Tuneups; and Elaine Yarbrough, Artful Mediation. We were also thrilled to help promote Olympic superstar Dara Torres, author of Age is Just a Number. She made her national book tour debut at the conference. Don’t miss next year’s event! For details, click here: http://www.wict.org. __________________________________________________________________________________
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ABOUT TOWN The cherry blossoms are visible all over DC and so are we! From private events with our government and corporate clients to the salons and conferences we participated in, we have been busy – and we are looking forward to more fun throughout 2009. Following are a few of the places where you might recently have seen Hooks Book Events: In Washington, DC: Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Pension Real Estate Association conference US Chamber of Commerce: Executive Women in Government DC Convention Center, Women in Cable Telecommunications The Willard Hotel, Center for New American Security conference The National Harbor, Legal Marketing Association conference _______________________________________________________________
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UPCOMING EVENTS: APRIL 2009 Tuesday, April 7, 2009: Positive Leadership by Kim Cameron (Berrett-Koehler Publ Inc., 2008) Wednesday, April 08, 2009: Access Denied by Palfrey, Deibert (The MIT Press, 2008) Thursday, April 09, 2009: The Sound of Freedom by Raymond Aresenault (Bloomsbury Press, 2009) Fri., April 17, 2009: Mrs. Lincoln: A Life by Catherine Clinton (HarperCollins, 2009) Monday, April 20, 2009: The Woman Behind the New Deal by Kirstin Downey (Doubleday Publishing, 2009) Tue., April 21, 2009: What We Know about Emotional Intelligence by Richard Roberts (MIT Press, 2009) Friday, April 24, 2009: A Failure of Capitalism, by Richard A. Posner (Harvard University Press, 2009) Monday, April 27, 2009: Woodrow Wilson, by H. W. Brands (Times Books, 2003) Monday, April 27, 2009: We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters by Cokie Roberts (Harper Perennial, 2009)
Thursday, April 30, 2009: Showing Up for Life, by Bill Gates Sr., Mary Ann Mackin (Broadway Business, 2009) _______________________________________________________________ |
UPCOMING EVENTS: MAY 2009 Tuesday, May 07, 2009The Inauguration of Barack Obama: A Photographic Journal by The Washington Post, Forward by Ben Bradlee Tuesday, May 12, 2009: The Difference
by Scott E. Page (Princeton University Press, ’07) Wednesday, May 13, 2009: The Supreme Court by Lucas A. Powe, Jr. (Harvard University Press, 2009) Wednesday, May 13, 2009: The Necessary Revolution by Peter Senge (Doubleday, 2008) Wednesday, May 13, 2009: Strategies for the Green Economy by Joel Makower (McGraw-Hill, 2008) Thursday, May 14, 2009: Rescue Warriors by David Helvarg (Thomas Dunne Books, 2009) Tuesday, May 19, 2009: Perfectly Imperfect by Lee Woodruff and Bob Woodruff (Random House, 2009). Sign up today to join us for an intimate luncheon with Lee Woodruff at The Four Seasons Hotel on May 19, 12-1:30. Wednesday, May 28, 2009: Mr. Market Miscalculates by James Grant (Axios Press, 2008) _______________________________________________________________ |
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