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Katherine Harris said today she’s writing a book about her tumultuous campaign for the U.S. Senate.

The congresswoman from Longboat Key near Sarasota grabbed the national spotlight during Florida’s disputed vote count in the 2000 election.

She’s far behind incumbent Senator Bill Nelson in the polls and has weathered a rocky and controversial campaign season.

Staffers quit, telling reporters she throws temper tantrums over such minutia as whether a Starbucks is nearby.

She’s made questionable public statements and has had to answer questions about her dealings with a corrupt defense contractor. Campaign donations have trickled in.

Harris isn’t talking about details of the book at campaign appearances, but the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported that it would be a “tell-all” book about the conspiracy to undermine her U.S. Senate bid.

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The folks at Creative Nonfiction are worried that nobody believes authors anymore.

It’s the fallout from disclosures that autobiographer James Frey exaggerated his life story and that journalists Jason Blair and Stephen Glass found it easier to make up stories than write the truth.

To get writers back on course, the Pittsburgh-based foundation and literary journal is holding a weeklong look at “Ethics in Writing” during its third 412 Creative Nonfiction Festival, “Can You Handle The Truth?,” at spots around the city.

“It’s the responsibility of all nonfiction writers to tell the truth,” said Lee Gutkind, foundation director.

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The editors of Spirituality & Health magazine invite you to a week long retreat with travel writer Judith Fein, her photographer husband Paul Ross (see their website at www.GlobalAdventure.us), and Editor-in-Chief Steve Kiesling, at a remarkable eco-resort, Rancho Encantado (www.encantado.com), in the heart of the Yucatán, in Mexico, near Belize.

We will go to remote Maya archeological sites, cook with Maya people, swim, go kayaking, get a massage, take a boat trip, enjoy breakfast and a three-course candlelight gourmet dinner each day, explore the remote tropical lagoon where the resort is located, and learn to transform all these experiences into travel articles and travel stories. For those interested, travel photography will be demystified.

The best story will be published in Spirituality & Health. No experience in writing or photography necessary. Space is limited to 26, and is available on a first-come, first-served basis. All costs are included, except airfare to Cancún. The resort is three and one half hours from Cancún, and transportation from the airport is provided.

Price per person is $1,895.
($100 discount for booking before December 15.)
To reserve, call Rancho Encantado at 1.800.505 MAYA (5292).

Soul of Travel Writing Workshop
March 8–15, 2007
Rancho Encantado eco-retreat & spa
Laguna Bacalar
Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula

A “gripping” exploration of the economic and business implications of China’s breakneck growth, China Shakes the World, has won the 2006 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS - news) Business Book of the Year award.

James Kynge, the book’s author, collected the £30,000 top prize at a ceremony in New York on Thursday night. The judges praised the pace and style of the book, published by Houghton Mifflin.

The other finalists were: The Long Tail, Chris Anderson’s look at the economics of the internet; Bo Burlingham’s Small Giants about US companies that decide to be great instead of big; The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman, an analysis of the world’s biggest retailer; and The Box, an investigation by Marc Levinson of the container’s impact on world trade.

Link to the Yahoo News story