'Pitching' coach Soni Dimond enters the book game

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From: Sunday News Lancaster, PA
Date: 20050213
Author:Jo-ann Greene

"Life's a Pitch!" (the titled is trademarked) might have been written by three collaborators: your mother; Miss Manners (if she could allow that rampant self-interest lies behind most social niceties); and Becky Sharp, heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel "Vanity Fair" (whose personal charm was her key to power, position and pounds sterling).

The book's sole author is actually Soni Dimond of Soni Dimond Media in Lancaster, a public-relations specialist and image consultant.

In her 149-page self-help guide, subtitled "From Hosting to Toasting ... From News to Schmooze," Dimond updates ...

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