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Wrapagami
The Art of Fabric Gift Wraps
By Jennifer Playford, founder of Furochic™
7 x 8, 128 pages, 4C, paperback with flaps
Wrapagami is an ingenious and beautiful method
of wrapping gifts in fabric that anyone can do.
Traditional paper gift wrap is not at all earth-friendly.
Wrapagami is a gorgeous, green alternative, requiring nothing more than a square of fabric. Wrapagami
derives from an ancient Japanese tradition called
tsutsumi, and can be applied to objects of any shape or
size. These simple wraps make for a unique and lovely
way to present gifts, with the truly thoughtful bonus
of being re-usable by the giftee.
Award-winning designer Jennifer Playford presents
more than 20 wraps, each one explained with clear
instructions accompanied by easy-to-follow diagrams,
with a lovely color photograph showing the finished
product.
Jennifer Playford is an illustrator, the creator
of online retailer Jenny Wren Paperie, and
the inventor of the award-winning Furochic™
line of wraps (a finalist at the Best New
Product Awards at the National Stationery
Show in May 2007). Jennifer lives by the
beach in Victoria, BC, with her husband and
two children. To learn more, visit her website:
http://www.jennywrenpaperie.com.
Published in North America by St. Martin’s Press
Territory: World
Rights sold: WE, FR
For rights and coeditions, please contact:
Sharyn Rosart, sharyn@powerhousepackaging.com
powerHouse Packaging & Supply, Inc. • 37 Main St. • Brooklyn, NY 11201 • 718.230.4565 • www.powerhousepackaging.com
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Baby Wrapping for Beginners
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bestseller!
By Andrea Sarvady
Foreword by Fern Drillings, R.N.
Photography by Bill Milne
Illustrations by John Stislow
6 x 7, 96 pages, 4C, hardcover with jacket
As every new parent learns, a timeless method of
comforting an infant is to wrap him or her snugly in a
blanket—a technique known as swaddling. Baby-gami
is a welcome new approach to the swaddling tradition
that uses the folding techniques of origami combined
with creative ideas from real parents to produce
no-fail swaddles—with style!
Swaddles include the newborn Snug Wrap and the
classic Burrito Wrap, plus plenty of special occasion
hands-free! Slings include the Office Sling, Glamour
and emergency wraps. Baby-gami also instructs parents
Sling, and Housework Sling. Each swaddle and sling
in the art of tying a sling so baby can be carried—
is presented with step-by-step instructions, easy-tofollow illustrations, and a beautiful photograph of the
finished product.
Writer and counselor Andrea Sarvady lives in
Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and an alarming
number of young daughters.
Published in North America
by Chronicle Books
Territory: World
Rights sold: AU/NZ,
DU, FI, FR, GR, HE, IT,
NA, RU, SC, UK
For rights and coeditions,
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Sharyn Rosart, sharyn@
powerhousepackaging.com
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Yoga for Dogs
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bestseller!
By Jennifer Brilliant and William Berloni,
with Buster, Bennie, Harlem, Cricket, Pi, and Kessie
8 1⁄2 x 8 1⁄2, 96 pages, 4C, paperback with flaps
Dogs have always been natural yogis. In fact, many of
the movements and positions that dogs do can inspire
and assist humans in their own yoga practice. Now, six
master dogis reveal the secrets of doga. Doga presents
the major asanas of the practice, from the relaxing
Happy Puppy to the restorative Pup’s Pose. Each pose
is shown by one of the dogis, with accompanying text
that explains how people can adapt these positions
to their own practice. Also included are breathing
techniques such as the Breath of Fire, or Pant, and tips
Jennifer Brilliant teaches yoga at
on practicing with your own dogi.
New York City’s famed OM Yoga.
She regularly studies with dogis to
enhance her own practice.
William Berloni is an animal
consultant whose canine clients
work regularly in Broadway shows.
by Chronicle Books
Territory: World
Rights sold: AU/NZ, FI, FR,
GR, JP, NA, UK
For rights and coeditions,
please contact:
Sharyn Rosart, sharyn@
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Sex Toys 101
A Playfully Uninhibited Guide
By Claire Cavanah and Rachel Venning,
Founders of Toys in Babeland
8 x 8, 176 pages, 4C, paperback
Sex Toys 101 offers a lively introduction to the world
of sex toys, from orgasm-enhancing vibrators to
pleasure-and-pain inducing floggers. Fun, frank,
and uninhibited, Sex Toys 101 provides detailed
information on adding toys to your sexual repertoire.
Full-color photos offer further enlightenment. This
is sex education as it should be—and you’ll look
forward to the homework.
Claire Cavanah and Rachel Venning are
well-known sex educators whose unintimidating style has won accolades for their
work and their Toys in Babeland stores.
by Simon & Schuster/Fireside
Territory: World
Rights sold: CC, JP, NA
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Get a Hobby!
101 All-Consuming Diversions
for Any Lifestyle
By Tina Barseghian
Foreword by Miguel Figueroa, MD
Cover photography by Bill Milne
8 x 10, 224 pages, 2C, paperback
It’s a well-documented medical fact that indulging in
a hobby decreases anxiety, increases concentration,
and boosts all-round mental and physical health.
So what are you waiting for? Budding hobbyists now
have the perfect resource: Get a Hobby!, a rollicking
A-to-Z guide to more than one-hundred hobbies—
from the sublime to the silly.
The book opens with a handy quiz designed to help
you choose the right kind of hobby based on your
aptitudes, personality, schedule, and budget. Descriptions of 101 hobbies follow, with full explanations
of what each one involves and how to do it—plus a
beginner-level project for each. Try your hand at:
•beer brewing
•ikebana
•basketry
•photography
•collecting
•and many more!
A hobby lover who has delved into each of these and
more, author Tina Barseghian serves up a playful mix
of information and resources to help you get your
hobby on and experience a whole new world of fun
and relaxation.
Tina Barseghian was the Editor-in-Chief of CRAFT
•historical re-enactment
magazine. She has written for the San Francisco
Chronicle, Design for Living, and Condé Nast Traveler
and was a contributing editor at ReadyMade magazine.
Tina is also the author of A Homemade Christmas.
entering contests
HOBBY PERSONALITY: adventurous • animal-loving • artistic • crafty • dexterous • epicurean • extroverted • history-loving •
independent • meditative • meticulous • musical • nature-loving • nurturing • outdoorsy • patient • social • sporty • technical
WE’VE ALL WONDERED WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO WIN A HUGE STASH OF CASH. What would we do with all
that money? Buy gold-flecked toilet paper and a house and y acht for ourselves and every member of our
extended family, pay off loans, quit our jobs, travel the world, and, most importantly, never worry about
money again. Simply indulging the fantasy is motive enough to start entering contests. You know what
they say: You can’t win if you don’t play!
what you’ll need
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Internet access or access to
magazines that offer sweepstakes
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Stamps
Pen
Envelopes and index cards in the
sizes specified by the sweepstakes instructions
resources
How to Win Lotteries, Sweepstakes, and
Contests in the 21st Century, 2nd ed., by
Steve Ledoux (Santa Monica Press, 2004).
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My
Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less,
by Terry Ryan and Suze Orman (Simon &
Schuster, 2002).
Contest Queen, by Carol Shaffer, et al.
(Truman Publishing, 2002).
Best Publications
PO Box 421163
Plymouth, MN 55442
www.bestsweepstakes.com: A contests and
sweepstakes newsletter published weekly
by Best Publications.
www.contestalley.com: Enter to win everything from iPods to trips to Disneyland.
http://contests.about.com/library/blprize.
htm: A list of online sweepstakes.
www.recipecontests.com: Cooking contests
central.
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overview
Companies sponsor contests as a way to promote their goods and services.
Some sweepstakes require nothing more from entrants than sending in your
name and address, while others solicit creative entries like recipes, poems,
or slogans, or require you to write essays, answer trivia, or submit photos. For
“sweepers” (those who enter sweepstakes as a hobby), the internet has opened
up a whole new world of resources to mine, though many still use “snail-mail”
(the U.S. Postal Service) as well. Without having to spend a dime, sweepers are
enticed to participate in contests that sometimes offer unfathomably large sums
of money or other expensive prizes. Some of the best-known ones are American
Family Publishers Sweepstakes, Publishers Clearing House, and Reader’s Digest
Sweepstakes, all of which hawk magazine subscriptions on the same form as
the sweepstakes entries. Fast-food companies, food retailers, travel agencies,
radio stations, newspapers, magazines, and any other entity that has a chance
of nabbing a customer by offering prizes also sponsor sweepstakes.
getting started
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FIRST, DO SOME RESEARCH to figure out what types of sweepstakes you’re
interested in. Thousands of companies offer ways to win their goods or
services, so it’s up to you to narrow down the vast array of choices. If you’ve
got a knack for creating recipes, taking photos, or writing poetry, look for
contests soliciting those types of entries. (See resources for websites and
newsletters that publish sweepstakes details.)
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WINNING SWEEPSTAKES TAKES PERSISTENCE, which requires time and
energy. But there are shortcuts. If an automated form is available, for
example, use it to save time. But if they ask for 3-by-5-inch index cards, be
sure to stick to the rules—some companies immediately toss entries that
don’t arrive in the proper form. And remember, the more difficult the entry
process, the better your chances are of winning. Even a simple thing like
requiring that you print your name in all capital letters or that you use an
odd-size envelope or card deters some potential contestants from entering,
so don’t be one of them.
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IT’S EASY TO GET BURNED OUT if you’re entering too many contests at once.
Pace yourself by entering a few every month throughout the year, rather
than going through sweepstakes spurts. Don’t wait till the last minute to
send in your forms—it would be a shame to be disqualified because your
entry was late. If there is no maximum number of entries, it’s better to
spread yours over the course of the sweepstakes timeline rather than send
them in a huge group at the end. When there are a large number of entries
and one is going to be picked from the heap, it’s better to have your cards
distributed throughout the whole pile rather than be clumped together in
one spot.
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ONCE YOU’VE ENTERED, it’s just a matter of waiting for the news. Obviously,
the more contests you enter, the higher your chance of winning. The most
popular contests will have far smaller odds of winning. In fact, the odds of
winning a sweepstakes, contest, or legal lottery are 400 million to 1 against
winning a grand prize of $500,000. Read the fine print carefully if you want
to calculate your odds.
history
In Roman times, emperors commonly gave parting gifts to their guests as doorprize drawings, but Augustus Caesar was the first to conduct a public lottery as
a means to raise money to make repairs to the public infrastructure in Rome.
There’s also mention of a lottery in the Bible—a way for Moses to award land west
of the Jordan River to the tribes of Israel. In modern times, the Irish Hospitals’
Sweepstakes in 1930 was the biggest of its kind; it was promoted internationally,
reaching eager participants in the U.S. and Canada, which had abolished lotteries
at the time. But by 1964, New Hampshire had created a state lottery, the first of
its kind that was legal in the 20th century.
project: homemade
envelopes and index
cards for contest entries
Using store-bought envelopes and
index cards for entering contests can
be expensive, especially since you
aren’t guaranteed a win. Instead of
buying new ones, try making your
own; sweepstakes companies don’t
care how your entries arrive, as long
as they do.
Old calendar pages make great
envelopes because of the weight
and broad size of the pages. Before
you start cutting them up, first undo
a standard envelope to use as a
template. Cut the pages to match
the size and shape of the standard
envelope, then fold and fix the edges
together with a glue stick. Shopping
bags, construction paper, or heavyweight, glossy magazine pages
make good envelopes, too.
When it comes to the index cards,
the main thing is to make sure the
dimensions are right. Instead of
wasting new index cards for contest
entries, reuse your resources: Write
on the backs of old, blurry photos
that you were going to toss anyway
and send them in. You can also cut
birthday and holiday cards you’ve
received down to the right size.
Published in North America by Collins
Territory: World
Rights sold: NA
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Salt, Lemons, Vinegar,
and Baking Soda
Hundreds of Earth-Friendly Household
Projects, Solutions, and Formulas
By Shea Zukowski
5 1⁄2 x 7, 208 pages, 2/c, paperback
bestseller!
The Fab Four: Salt, lemons, vinegar and baking soda
are the all-you-need all-stars of the home. From
personal hygiene and grooming to household cleaning
and gardening, this powerful quartet has a long and
storied history of usefulness that is also utterly modern
and of-the-moment—green, cheap, and effective.
This comprehensive book of household hints for
better living includes:
•brief histories and descriptions of all four ingredients
•hundreds of kitchen-, laundry-, personal-,
household-, outdoor-, and pet-use solutions
Shea Zukowski is an editor and writer specializing
in earth-friendly information and natural living. She
•a handy housekeeping calendar
lives in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, with her husband
•quotations and fun facts
and two sons.
•educational activities for kids
One part science, one part practicality, and a dash of
Published in the US by Barnes & Noble
fun, this is the indispensable earth-friendly reference
Territory: World
Rights sold: CA, US, FR
to have on hand in any home.
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Lavender, Parsley,
Peppermint, and Sage
All-Natural, Earth-Friendly Projects and
Problem-Solvers for Health and Home
By Shea Zukowski
5 1⁄2 x 7, 208 pages, 2/c, paperback
An indispensable follow-up to the best-selling Salt,
Lemons, Vinegar, and Baking Soda, this invaluable
guide gathers hundreds of simple recipes for
herb-based household solutions. Herbs are nature’s
all-purpose helpers, providing natural, non-toxic
solutions that are safe and effective for personal
hygiene, health, and home maintenance.
•herbs can be home-grown, harvested, dried, and
transformed into helpful formulas with a minimum
of effort
Shea Zukowski is the author of Salt, Lemons,
•easy, step-by-step instructions for hundreds of
formulas
Vinegar, and Baking Soda, and many other articles
and books on earth-friendly and natural living.
•includes home remedies and ideas for common
She lives in Emmaus, PA, with her family.
conditions from indigestion to dandruff
•features household solutions for cleaning,
refreshing, and improving conditions indoors
and out—and for pets, too
Discover how easy it can be to put the power of herbs
to work in your life with this handy guide.
Published in the US by Sterling Publishing
Territory: World
Rights sold: US, CA, FR
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HOW TO BE...
In this series of uniquely practical insider guides, we
find out exactly what you need to know when you
become one of the world’s great leaders. Accurate,
detailed diagrams and maps reveal the inner workings
of private offices, security arrangements, and where to
find the bathroom.
51⁄2 x 71⁄2, 128 pages, 2C, paperback
How to Be Pope
What to Do and Where to Go
Once You’re in the Vatican
By Piers Marchant
How to Be Pope lets the newly selected pontiff in on
such crucial information as which hat and robes to
wear to which event, how to choose a Papal name,
and whether the Pope is entitled to a vacation. From
a quick course in remedial Latin phrases to an illustrated guide to waving, this is a resource no Pope can
afford to be without.
How to Be President
What to Do and Where to Go
Once You’re in Office
By Stephen P. Williams
Published in North America by Chronicle Books
How to Be President provides the newly elected Presi-
world, from a map of the White House (including
Territory: World
How to Be Pope Rights sold: AU/NZ, FR, GR,
IT, NA, PO, UK
How to Be President Rights sold: AU/NZ, IT,
JP, NA, UK
personal quarters) to guidelines for using Air Force
dent of the United States of America with the specifics needed to get started as so-called leader of the free
One and the in-house bowling alley.
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Your Career Is
an Extreme Sport
Focus • Drive • Excel
By Eileen P. Gunn
5 3⁄4 x 7 3⁄4, 192 pages, 2C, paperback
with die cut and second cover
Today’s workplace demands a bungee cord, not a
parachute. Think showing up every day, working
9 to 5, and collecting an annual 4-percent raise and
the occasional promotion makes you a player?
Reality check: You’re not even in the game.
Forget the old rules of career advancement. The
company man has left the building—and he took his
gold watch with him. Your Career Is an Extreme Sport
shows you how to apply the principles of extreme
sports—such as drive, stamina, flexibility, and guts—
to achieve success in your career. Filled with advice
from business leaders who have achieved extreme
success, this contrarian guide shows you how to get
beyond your ho-hum career comfort zone and reach
your professional peak.
Whether you are looking to land your next big gig
or put more juice in your current job, this book will
take you on the adrenaline-charged fast track you
need to get there.
Eileen P. Gunn has written for the Wall Street
Journal, the New York Times, Worth, and Business
2.0. Before going solo, she was a reporter for Fortune
magazine.
Published in North America by Adams Media
Territory: World ex English Language
Rights sold: WE

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