More Alumni Authors
Tamara (Cook) Dever ’92 (LS), owner of book design company TLC Graphics in Austin, Texas, recently won 14 national awards, including a silver Benjamin Franklin Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association for the interior design of Quiero Ser Poeta.
The company also won a bronze Independent Publisher Outstanding Book of the Year award in the Most Inspirational to Youth category for A Promise to Our Child (www.lifeissuespublishing.com). Another top honor was a silver Mom’s Choice Award, Children's Picture book, ages 0 to 9, for The New Place.
Dever began the business while still a student at UW Oshkosh, doing freelance work for local businesses and campus organizations.
Dave Lande ’87 MA, recently joined National Geographic magazine in Washington, D.C., as a senior researcher. He wrote the cover story for the September 2008 issue of Smithsonian Air & Space magazine. Titled “Live and Let Fly,” the article examines aviation in James Bond movies. Lande and his fellow editors watched all 22 Bond flicks as part of their research. It took 46 hours and netted a total of 150 aircraft and spacecraft, both real and fictional.
Patricia (Zietlow) Miller ’90 (LS) and ’00 MS, of Fitchburg, received a letter of commendation in the 2008 Barbara Karlin Grant competition for picture book writing, sponsored by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
Joye Moon ’84, has been a nationally recognized watercolor artist, instructor and exhibit judge for more than 20 years. This month, she adds another entry in her resume: author.
Moon’s first book, Exploring Textures in Watercolor, was released in early November by North Light Books.
“It took a tremendous amount of work, not only from the writing aspect — trying to explain all the processes correctly,” she said, “but also creating each chapter’s painting in a step-by-step procedure, then photographing each phase of the process.”
Moon has received more than 50 international, national and regional awards for her work. Her paintings are in public, private and corporate collections.
Read an excerpt from Exploring Textures in Watercolor at www.artistsnetwork.com/article/wc-moon. The book is available for purchase on Amazon.com or by contacting Moon directly at joyemoon@northnet.net. Visit her Web site at http://www.joyemoon.com.
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