Scott Norton, president of Publishing Professionals Network, has announced a new student category to the organization’s highly regarded book design competition. Entries may include books, covers, jackets, ebooks, and product catalogs across all … [Read more...]
Surprise! BAIPA Author Laurie King Wins Four Prestigious Awards in 2017 for Book Originally Published in 2014!
Persistence pays! A few months ago, BAIPA member Laurie King entered her first collection of travel stories, originally published in 2014, in several contests. She didn’t have high hopes, because the book hadn’t previously won any awards, but … [Read more...]
Awards Roll in for Susanna Janssen’s Wordstruck! + Hasta la Vista, Baby
Wordstruck! was awarded both Winner in the Humor/Comedy category, and Finalist in the Education/Academic category by Next Generation Indie Book Awards. It also was awarded Finalist in the Reference category by the National Indie Excellence Awards … [Read more...]
Raves and Awards Coming in for BAIPA Member Cathy Wild and ‘Wild Ideas’
Raves and Awards are coming in for BAIPA Member Cathy Wild and Wild Ideas: Creativity from the Inside Out !!! Cathy’s recently published book Wild Ideas: Creativity from the Inside Out won TWO Finalist Medals in the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book … [Read more...]
Two Awards for Dennis Koller
It's always a great day when you wake up to find two of your novels have won national awards. The Oath, which won BAIPA Best Fiction award in 2016, won the Independent Press Award for Military Fiction, and The Custer Conspiracy was a … [Read more...]
Review of “The Oath,” 2016 BAIPA Award Winner for Fiction
Before I finished the first chapter of The Oath, Dennis Koller’s San Francisco–based mystery/thriller, I was feeling uncomfortable. Koller’s novel starts with a flashback to 1966 at the “Hanoi Hilton,” the North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war … [Read more...]
Dennis Koller and Skye Blaine Win BAIPA Book Awards
At its December 10 meeting, the BAIPA awards committee honored 12 authors for their books, with first-place for fiction going to Dennis Koller's The Oath and first-place for non-fiction to Skye Blaine's Bound to Love. Second-place awards … [Read more...]
Author Meg Beeler Lands Publishing Contract and Wins Cover Award
Author Meg Beeler has just received word that Findhorn Press will publish her book, Living in the Heart of the Universe: Expanding Your Relationship with Earth and the Cosmos, in 2017. Also this month, as icing on the cake, the book’s cover … [Read more...]
JoAnn Smith Ainsworth Wins Awards
JoAnn Smith Ainsworth received runner-up status for her WWII paranormal suspense novel, Expect Trouble, in the 2016 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition. Check out the promo video. And her latest book, Expect Deception, the second book in … [Read more...]
BAIPA Book Awards Winners/Member Panel Spill Their “Secrets”
Come one, come all—to the December BAIPA meeting for a variety of surprises and treats! Meeting on December 10 runs from 9am to 12:30pm with a members-only holiday party immediately following The winners of the BAIPA Book Awards will be announced! … [Read more...]