2012 Indie Book Award Winners Announced
The top prize winning books in the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards are:
Top Non-Fiction Books
First Place Winner ($1,500 Prize)
Inner Visions: Grassroots Stories of Truth and Hope, by Jan Thrope (Orange Frazer Press)
Second Place Winner ($750 Prize)
Put the Needle on the Record: The 1980s at 45 Revolutions Per Minute, by Matthew Chojnacki (Schiffer Publishing)
Third Place Winner ($500 Prize)
Strategy for Good: Business Giving Strategies for the 21st Century, by Susan A. Hyatt, M.S. (GoodWorks Publishing)
Top Fiction Books
First Place Winner ($1,500 Prize)
The Parsifal Pursuit, by Michael McMenamin and Patrick McMenamin (Enigma Books)
Second Place Winner ($750 Prize)
A Little Leg Work, by Royce Leville (Rippple Books)
Third Place Winner ($500 Prize)
Walter's Muse, by Jean Davies Okimoto (Endicott and Hugh Books)
Other Winners
A prize of $250 was also awarded for Best Design to The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North, by Beverley Gray, designer Anna Comfort (Aroma Borealis Press).
In addition to the grand prize winners, top indie books were named as winners and finalists in 60 publishing categories ranging from Action/Adventure to Young Adult. A complete list of 2012 winners and finalists is available at the Next Generation Indie Book Awards website at http://www.indiebookawards.com.
2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Entries are now being accepted for the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The awards program is open to fiction and nonfiction books from independent authors and publishers worldwide released in 2012 or 2013. Visit the Next Generation Indie Book Awards website at http://www.indiebookawards.com for more information.
