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Winners and
Finalists in the seventh annual Independent Publisher Book
Awards have been chosen, the Ten Outstanding Books of the
Year have been named, and Awards will be presented to
winning publishers at BookExpo America 2003 in Los
Angeles.
The quality
of the books entered this year took another quantum leap
forward, and we were awed by their phenomenal creativity
and craftsmanship. From our viewpoint, independent
publishing continues to mature, improve, and become a more
vital part of the world of books and reading. Everyone
here at Independent Publisher and Jenkins Group
applaud the courage of authors and publishers who
aren't afraid to take chances and break new ground.
This is where the innovation in the world of publishing
comes from.
In all,
1545 titles were entered by 952 publishers, a 25% gain over
last year's participation, which had been clearly
affected by 9/11 and the subsequent budget-tightening that
occurred. This year, 30 New York City publishers entered,
along with entrants from all 50 U.S. states, the District
of Columbia and six Canadian provinces. This year's
Awards also saw increased numbers of participants, winners
and finalists in e-book and Print-on-Demand format,
reinforcing the viability and growth of these new
publishing technologies.
The 2003
"IPPY" Awards saw continued emergence of
quality regional publishing from throughout North America,
with winners and finalists coming from 41 U.S. states and
six Canadian provinces. This is a testament to the
abilities and resourcefulness of publishers who are able to
create quality books anywhere, from South Dakota to South
Carolina, from New Mexico to New Brunswick.
The state
of California claimed the most award-winners with 26,
followed by New York with 17. Massachusetts and Minnesota
publishers each claimed eight Awards, followed by Texas (7)
and Washington (5).
Congratulations to all participants for their fine
work!
The Ten Outstanding Books of the Year
Ten Outstanding Books of the Year were chosen for exemplifying
courage, creativity, and independent spirit. Each will receive a $500 cash award.
Most Inspirational to Youth
Dreams To Grow On by Christine Hurley Deriso; illus.
by Matthew Archambault (Illumination Arts)
Business Breakthrough of the Year
The Personal Branding Phenomenon, by Peter Montoya
(Personal Branding Press)
Most Likely To Save the Planet
Live Safely in a Dangerous World: How To Beat the Odds
of Dying in an Accident, by John C. Myre (Safety
Times)
Best Health Book
The John Hopkins Medical Guide to Health After 50
(REBUS Inc.)
Best Book Arts Craftsmanship
Antarctica
: Explorer Series,
Volume 1,
by Pat & Rosemarie
Keough; hand binding by Felton Bookbinding (Nahanni
Productions)
Best
Corporate Branding Book
Museum of Flight: 100 Years of Aviation
History
, by Museum of Flight,
Seattle (Elton-Wolf Publishing)
Most Life-Changing
The Intersection of Joy and Money, by Mackey Miriam
McNeill, CPA/PFS (Prosperity Publishing)
Most Original Concept
The High Sierra of California,
Story Teller of the
Year
Dave Eggers, author of You Shall Know Our Velocity
and founder of McSweeny's Books
Most Unique
Design
Macy's On Parade, written and illustrated by
Pamela Pease (Paintbox Press)
Independent
Publisher Book Awards 2003 winners and finalists by
category:
1. Fine Art
Winner: Contemporary Chicano and Chicana Art
(Bilingual Press/Editoral Bilingé)
Finalists: Whitney Biennial 2002 (Whitney
Museum
of American Art)
Stained Glass in Catholic Philadelphia (St. Joseph's
Univ)
2. Performing Arts
Winner:
Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande
(Andante)
Finalists:
Russ Columbo and the Crooner
Mystique
(Feral House)
Pixerecourt: Four Melodramas
(Martin E. Segal Theater Center
3. Photography
Winner:
Abandoned
America,
Photographs and Text by
Steve Gottlieb (Sleeping Bear Press)
Finalists: Quizzical Eye: The Photography of Rondal
Partridge (Heyday Books)
Reefs and Rain Forests, Murray S. Kaufman (Reefs and
Rain Forests Publications)
4. Architecture
Winner: Ralph Rapson: Sketches and Drawings from Around
the World (Afton Historical Society Press)
Finalists: Architecture Canada 2002 (Tuns
Press)
Prefab (Gibbs Smith, Publisher)
5. Fiction - General
Winner: The God File, by Frank Turner Hollon
(MacAdam/Cage)
Finalists: Avoidance, by Michael Lowenthal (Greywolf
Press)
One Foot in
Eden
, by Ron Rash (Novello
Festival Press)
Cloud Cuckoo Land
, by Lisa Borders
(River City Publishing)
6. Short Story Fiction
Winner: Coal Miner's Holiday, by Kiki DeLancey
(Sarabande Books)
Finalists:
Small
Accidents,
by Andrew Gray (Rain
Coast Books)
McSweeny's 7, various authors
(McSweeny's Books)
7. Juvenile/Young Adult Fiction
Winners: The Raging Dragon, by Len Lamensdorf
(Seascape Press)
Finalists: Partners in the Wilderness: Travis's
Choice, by Ed Kienzle(Jetback Publishing)
The Hero Perseus: A Mad Math Mystery, by Robin and
Tony DiTocco (BrainStorm Publications)
8. Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Winner: an end. , by Paul Evan Hughes (BookSurge,
LLC)
Finalists: Enoch's Portal, by A.W. Hill
(Champion Press Ltd.
Cuqui, by David L. Kilpatrick (1st Books
Library)
9. Historical/Military Fiction
Winner: Speaks the Nightbird, by Robert McCammon
(River City Publishing)
Finalists: The River Is Mine, by Arian Gill (Local
Color Press)
A Bloodline of Kings, by Thomas Sundell (Crow Woods
Publ.)
10.
Horror
Winner:
The
Craving
, by A.K. Sheils
(LTDBooks)
Finalists: When the Autumn Moon is Bright by Brian
Easton (Writer's Club Press/iUniverse)
Cries from the Cradle, by Bonita Wagner
(Writer's Club Press/iUniverse)
11. Multicultural Fiction
Winner: Soy
la
Avon Lady and Other
Stories
, by Lorraine
López (Curbstone Press)
Finalists: Not My Bowl of Rice, by E.R. Escober
(1st Books Library)
Red Thunder, by David Matheson (Media Weavers
LLC)
12. Multicultural Fiction - Juv/Young Adult
Winner: Pájaro Verde (The Green Bird) by
Joe Hayes; illus by Antonio Castro L. (Clnco Puntos
Press)
Finalists: The Hoopster by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
(Milk Mug Publishing)
Lucas and His Loco Beans, by Ramona Moreno Winner;
illus by Nicole Velasquez (BrainStorm 3000)
13. Mystery/Suspense/Thriller
Winner: The Holy, by Daniel Quinn (Context
Books)
Finalists: Restless Spirit, by S.D. Tooley (Full
Moon Publishing)
The Kokopelli Theory, by Kevin Correa (Lone Peak
Press)
A Fine and Private War, by Stuart M. Van Tine
(Force Books)
14. Romance
Winner: Another Chance, Another Time, by Catherine
Snodgrass (LTDBooks)
Finalists: Shyla's Initiative, by Barbara
Casey (Crossquarter Publishing Group)
Scandal's Daughter, by Mallory Dorn Hart (John
James Co.)
15. Visionary Fiction
Winner: The Lapsit Chronicles, by Edith Shaw
(Dealen-de Publishing)
Finalists: Sunrise At Two Lions, by Jeff Belyea, PhD
(Suite One Design Group)
We Came As
Angels
, by Kenneth W. Brown
(W
aterwoods
Press)
16. Children's Picture Book (6 & under)
Winner: Sweet
Dreams
Douglas
by Regan Dunnick (Junior League of Houston)
Finalists: Alphabeasts by Wallace Edwards (Kids Can
Press)
Just You And Me by P.Taylor Copeland; illus. By
suzi Bliss kyle (Grammy Time Books)
17.
Children's Picture Book (7 & over)
Winner:
by Jody Bergsma
(Gallery Press)
Finalists: Rip Squeak and His Friends Discover the
Treasure by Susan Yost-Filgate; illus. by Leonard
Filgate (Rip Squeak Press)
In English, of Course by Josephine Nobisso;
illus by Dasha Ziborova (Gingerbread House)
18.
Aging/Death & Dying
Winner: Remembering the Death of a Child (Sugarloaf
Publishing House)
Finalists: Anna's Friends (Rogue River
Books)
A Good Enough Life: The Dying Speak (Goose Lane
Editions)
19. Essay/Creative Non-Fiction
Winner:
Remembrance: A Tribute
to America's Veterans
by Robert A. and Robert
B. Fletcher (Iron Mountain Press) Finalists: The Story
of My Typewriter by Paul Auster and Sam Messer
(Distributed Art Publishers)
Ohio States: A Twentieth-Century Midwestern by
Jeffrey Hammond (Kent State University Press)
20. Juv/Young Adult Non-Fiction
Winner: Ten Amazing People and How They Changed the
World (Skylight Paths)
Finalists: Secrets of Space (innovative KIDS)
Exploring Chinatown (Pacific View Press)
21. Multicultural Non-Fiction
Winner: Sun Tzu's THE ART OF WAR: Plus the Ancient
Chinese Revealed
(Clearbridge
Publishing)
Finalists: These Hands I Know (Sarabande Books)
Ojibwe Waasa Inaabidaa (We Look in All Directions)
(Afton Historical Society Press)
22. Multicultural Non-Fiction – Juv/Young
Adult
Winner: If the World Were a Village (Kids Can
Press)
Finalists: A Mexican Christmas (Carolrhoda
Books)
Juan Quezada (Norman Books)
23.
Autobiography/Memoir
Winner: Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on
Writing, by Margaret Atwood (Cambridge University
Press)
Finalists: Epicurean Simplicity, by Stephanie Mills
(Island Press)
Copywriter: A Life of Making Ads and Other Mistakes
(Hot House Press)
24. Biography
Winner:
First World Flight: The
Odyssey of Billy Mitchell
(U.S. Press)
Finalists: Dangerous Kitchen: The Subversive World of Frank
Zappa (ECW Press)
The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and
Their Solvers
(A.K. Peters)
25. Business/Career
Winner: The 9 Super Simple Steps to Entrepreneurial
Success (Gatekeeper Books)
Finalists: Investigating Workplace Harassment
(Society for Human Resource Management)
Due North! Strengthen Your Leadership Assets
(Crystal Stairs Publishers)
26. Coffee Table Books
Winner: Cowboy Artists of America (Greenwich
Workshop)
Finalists: Masking and Madness: Mardi Gras in New
Orleans (Vissi d'Arte Books)
The Wonder of American Toys 1920-1950 (Collectors
Press)
27. Computer/Internet
Winner: The Blankenhorn Effect
(Trafford/A-Clue.com)
Finalists: Arc the Lad Official Strategy Guide
(Working Designs Inc.)
Leonardo's Laptop (The MIT Press)
28. Cookbooks
Winner: Into the Sauce! From Our Cucina to Your
Kitchen(Buca di Beppo)
Finalists: Retro Diner (Collectors Press)
Texas on the Plate
(Shearer
Publishing)
29. Current Events
Winner: The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from
Afghanistan (Grove/Atlantic)
Finalists: Evidence: The Case Against Milosevic
(de.MO)
Misplaced:
New York
City's Street Kids
(Xenium Press)
30. Education/Academic/Teaching
Winner: Jimi's Book of Japanese (PB&J
Omnimedia)
Finalists: Disarming the Playground: Violence Prevention
Through Movement and Pro-Social Skills (Wood
‘n' Barnes)
Expecting Good Things of All (The Blake School)
31. Environment/Ecology/Nature
Winner: There's A Porcupine in My Outhouse
(Capital Books)
Finalists: Northeastern Wilds (AMC Books)
The Sacred Balance (Greystone Books)
32. Erotica/Sexuality
Winner: TOYGASMS! An Insider's Guide to Sex Toys
and Techniques (Tickle Kitty Press)
Finalists: Nocturnal Admissions (ECW Press)
Making Love Again (Ant Hill Press)
33.
Gay/Lesbian
Winner: Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and
Bisexual African American Fiction (Cleis Press)
Finalists: Gift of the Soul (Rainbow Pride
Press)
Out/Lines: Underground Gay Graphics from before
Stonewall (Arsenal Pulp Press)
34. Health/Medicine/Nutrition
Winner: The Ultimate Healthy Eating Plan: that still
leaves room for chocolate (Whitecap Books)
Finalists: The Kids' Guide to First Aid
(Williamson Publishing)
The Little Big Book of Pregnancy (Welcome
Books)
35.
History
Winner:
PARIS: Capitol of the
World
(Belknap/Harvard)
Finalists: Secrets of the Magic Valley and
Hagerman's Remarkable Horse (Black Canyon
Communications)
Heaven On Earth: The Rise and Fall of
Socialism
(Element Books)
36. Home & Garden
Winner: Flower Arranging:
The
Winterthur
Way
(Winterthur Museum)
Finalists: The
Intuitive
Gardner
(Fulcrum
Publishing)
Wildflowers of
Monterey
County (
Carmel Publishing
Co.)
37. How-To (Hobby/Crafts)
Winner: Folded Flowers (Breckling Press)
Finalists: Carving Found Wood (Fox Chapel
Publishing)
Handpaint Country (XRX Books)
38. Humor
Winner: Growing Up
Simple…in
Texas,
by George Arnold (Eakin Press)
Finalists: Red Meat Cures Cancer, by Starbuck
O'Dwyer (Midnight Books)
The Harmon Chronicles
, by Harmon Leon (ECW
Press)
39. Inspirational/Spiritual
Winner: Sins and Needles: A Story of Spiritual
Mending (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Finalists: Words of Common Sense (Templeton
Foundation Press)
Consider the Butterfly (Gibbs Smith, Publisher)
40. New Age
Winner: Prince of Dharma: The Illustrated Life of the
Buddha (Mandala Publishing)
Finalists: You're Every Sign! (Health
Communications)
Healing the Fisher King (Art Tao Press)
41. Parenting
Winner: Talking To Your Kids About Sex (Nomad
Press)
Finalists: Together: Creating Family Traditions
(Nine Twenty Press)
Our Family Meeting Book
(Free Spirit
Publishing)
42. Poetry
Winner: Ebbing and Flowing Springs, by Jeff Daniel
Marion (Celtic Cat Publishing)
Finalists: No Sign of Ceasefire: An Anthology of
Contemporary Israeli Poetry , Edited and translated by
Warren Bargad and Stanley F. Chyet (Skirball Cultural
Center)
Either/Ur,
by Shawn Sturgeon
(River City Publishing)
43. Popular Culture
Winner: Trailer Travel: A Visual
History of
Mobile
America
(Gibbs Smith,
Publisher)
Finalists: Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the
Moog Synthesizer (Harvard University Press)
Hal Foster: Prince of Illustrators (Vanguard
Productions)
44.
Psychology/Mental Health
Winner: The Science of Romance: Secrets of the Sexual
Brain (Prometheus Books)
Finalists: The Illusion of Conscious Will (MIT
Press)
The Road to Malpsychia (Element Books)
45.
Sports/Recreation
Winner: Fighting Finish:
The
Volvo Ocean Race
– Round the World 2001-2002
Finalists: Barney Oldfield: The Life and Times of
America's Legendary Speed King (Brown Fox
Books)
Castwork: Reflections of Fly Fishing Guides and the
American West (Willow Creek Press)
46.
Reference
Winner: Encyclopedia of North American Sporting Dogs
(Willow Creek Press)
Finalists: On My Own: The Ultimate How-To Guide for
Young Adults (Silly Goose Productions, LLC)
Religions of the World
(ABC-CLIO)
47.
Religion
Winner: Mystics and Miracles: True Stories of Lives
Touched By God (Loyola Press)
Finalists: Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual
Life (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
Sacred Stone:
The
Temple at
Nauvoo
(Covenant
Communications, Inc.)
48. Science
Winner: That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles
(ECW Press)
Finalists: Our Molecular Future (Prometheus
Books)
Copper and Bronze in Art (Getty Publications)
49. Self Help
Winner: Tips & Tools to Speak with Confidence: Keys
to Finding Your Voice (Fingertip Solutions)
Finalists: The Courage to Be Brilliant (Vittorio
Media)
Answering Your Call: A Guide for Living Your Deepest
Purpose (Berrett Koehler Publishers)
50. Travel - Essay
Winner: American Countryside (Blake & King
Publishers)
Finalists: Ireland's Eye (House of Anansi
Press)
Holmespun: An Intimate Portrait of an Amish and Mennonite
Community
(Eaglemont Press)
51. Travel - Guidebook
Winner:
Napa Valley Expedition
Guide
(TravelBrains)
Finalists: Paddling
in
Paradise: Sea Kayak
Adventures in Atlantic Canada
(Goose Lane)
Yellowstone Treasures: The Traveler's Companion to the National Park
52. Women's Issues
Winner: Vermont Farm Women (Silver Print Press)
Finalists: Monster Lies: A Woman's Guide to
Controlling Her Destiny (Beagle Bay Books)
Tales from the Boom-Boom Room (Bloomberg Press)
See upcoming issues of INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER ONLINE
www.independentpublisher.com for articles and more info
on this year's IPPY Awards.
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