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Announcing The 2013 Tournament Of Books Zombie Poll

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By HulaMonkey on January 17, 2013

Reprint from The Morning News by The Tournament of Books Staff

Announcing the 2013 Tournament of Books Zombie Poll

In less than three months we’re going to launch our ninth annual Tournament of Books, presented this year by NOOK® by Barnes & Noble.

But before that can happen, there’s a certain matter regarding the undead that must be addressed.

Each year in the tournament, 16 works of fiction battle each other in daily contests to win that vaunted literary prize, The Rooster. Along the way, victors advance and losers fall. But there’s a twist. During the semifinal match, called the Zombie Round, two books that were previously ousted—yet deemed the most popular by this very poll—are resurrected from the dead to fight the would-be finalists.

So, which one of our finalists was your blue-eyed title from 2012?

CLICK HERE to submit your title.

 

The Morning News (TMN) is an online magazine of essays, art, humor, and culture published weekdays since 1999.

Caldecott, Newbery Among Book Awards Revealed

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By on January 24, 2012

by Nancy Gilson (The Columbus Dispatch)

A picture book about a favorite toy and a comedy about a boy “grounded for life” took top honors yesterday at the American Library Association Youth Media Awards:

• Chris Raschka’s A Ball for Daisy, a tale for preschool children about a puppy’s ball destroyed by another dog, won the Caldecott Medal for distinguished picture book. The book explores the joy and anguish of the young with impressionist illustrations.

• Jack Gantos’ Dead End in Norvelt won the Newbery Medal for children’s literature. In the wild story, for age 10 and older, the title character (who shares the author’s name) spends his time while grounded writing obituaries of the people who founded his town.

Raschka, 52, is a two-time Caldecott winner, having received the 2006 medal for TheHello, Goodbye Window.

Gantos — a 60-year-old known for his tales of Joey Pigza, a boy with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder — is a first-time winner of the Newbery, although he has won a Newbery honor award and been a National Book Award finalist.

The annual awards are considered the Oscars of children’s literature. Committees of Library Association members vote to select the winners.

More than 18 awards were announced yesterday morning at the association’s midwinter meeting in Dallas.

The Newbery honor books are Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai; and Breaking Stalin’s Nose, written and illustrated by Eugene Yelchin.

The Caldecott honor books are Blackout by John Rocco, Grandpa Green by Lane Smith and Me . . . Jane by Patrick McDonnell.

Other winners

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2011 Goodreads Choice Award Winners

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By on December 6, 2011

 
In a result that reinforces the crossover power of Young Adult titles, “Divergent,” the debut novel by Veronica Roth, won Favorite Book of 2011 in this year’s Goodreads Choice Awards.

The critically-acclaimed “1Q84″ by Haruki Murakami, a 900-page masterpiece of mystical realism won Best Fiction of 2011. Definitely not in the “loser” category is the winner of Best Non-Fiction – “The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth” by Alexandra Robbins which demonstrates how outcasts thrive after high school.

Decided by voting open to the 6.4 million members of Goodreads, the Goodreads Choice Awards are the only major book awards chosen by readers. Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations.

The Goodreads Choice Awards represent the best books of 2011 and provide great holiday gift suggestions. To see the 20 nominees in each of the 22 categories in this year’s Goodreads Choice Awards, visit www.goodreads.com/award/choice/2011.

“In winning Favorite Book of 2011, Veronica Roth joins the ranks of YA authors like Suzanne Collins and Stephanie Meyer who have successfully attracted readers across all age groups,” said Jessica Donaghy, features editor of Goodreads. “Fifty percent of Goodreads members who read ‘Divergent’ were 25 and older.”

Here is the list of the other titles – both for adults and children – that won the hearts and minds of Goodreads members this year:

  • Beating out books from Rob Lowe, Jaycee Dugard and Dick Van Dyke, Best Memoir & Autobiography of 2011 went to “Two Kisses For Maddy” in which Matthew Logelin tells the heart-breaking story of raising his daughter alone after his wife, Liz, died of a pulmonary embolism just 27 hours after giving birth to their only child.

  • In the most closely contested category, only seven votes (out of more than 40,000 votes cast in this category) separated the winner of Best Paranormal Fantasy of 2011, “Shadowfever” by Karen Marie Moning and the runner-up, “A Discovery of Witches” by Deborah Harkness.

  • Taking the crown of Best Travel & Outdoors of 2011, “Little Princes” by Conor Grennan is no ordinary travelogue. Volunteering for three months at the Little Princes orphanage in Nepal, Grennan discovers that the children are not orphans but are victims of child trafficking. And so begins his journey to reunite the children with their families.

  • Best Historical Fiction of 2011 went to Paula McLain’s “The Paris Wife” about the iconic American writer, Ernest Hemingway, and his first wife, Hadley and their life in Paris in the glittering 1920s.

  • Best Fantasy of 2011 was another close finish with “A Dance with Dragons” by best-selling author George R.R. Martin beating debut novel “The Night Circus” by newcomer Erin Morgenstern by just 15 votes.

  • Tina Fey’s popular “Bossypants” secured top spot in Best Humor of 2011, despite strong competition from the runner-up, the controversial picture book “Go the F**k to Sleep.”

  • In Best Romance of 2011, “Lover Unleashed,” the ninth book in the popular Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward took top honors.

  • “Smokin’ Seventeen” by Janet Evanovich and the 17th in the Stephanie Plum series won Best Mystery & Thriller of 2011.

  • In Best Horror of 2011, “Graveminder” took top honors for Melissa Marr with her first adult novel after her successful Wicked Lovely YA series.

  • In Best Science Fiction of 2011, Stephen King, better known for his horror novels, won the most votes for “11/22/63,” a what-if time travel story about a man who finds a portal back to 1958 and tries to prevent the assassination of President Kennedy.

  • “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson took top honors in Best History & Biography of 2011, a decisive win over runners-up Erik Larson’s “In the Garden of Beasts” and Robert K. Massie’s “Catherine the Great”.

  • Building on the success of her popular YA series, Richelle Mead’s “Vampire Academy: The Graphic Novel” with illustrations by Emma Vieceli and adaptation by Leigh Dragoon won Best Graphic Novel of 2011, beating out “Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Vol 2.”

  • Gwyneth Paltrow can now add a different award to her collection of acting awards: award-winning author. Her cookbook, “My Father’s Daughter,” a collection of favorite family recipes and stories of growing up with her father, Bruce Paltrow, won Best Food & Cooking of 2011.

  • In Best Poetry of 2011, former Poet Laureate of the United States, Billy Collins won the most votes with his collection “Horoscopes for the Dead.”

  • The award for Best Young Adult Fiction of 2011 goes to “Where She Went” by Gayle Forman, the second in the “If I Stay” series.

  • Veronica Roth’s “Divergent” takes a double honor by also winning Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction of 2011, emphasizing the trend that science fiction stories with powerful heroines are overtaking paranormal fantasy in teen literature.

  • The prolific and popular children’s author, Rick Riordan managed the feat of taking both the winner and runner-up spots in Best Middle Grade & Children’s of 2011. The winner was “The Son of Neptune,” the second book in his Heroes of Olympus series and the runner-up was “The Throne of Fire,” the second book in the Kane Chronicles.

  • And our third celebrity author winner this year is Al Yankovic for his first picture book, “When I Grow Up” which won Best Picture Book of 2011.

  • The final award is not for a book but for an author. Members were invited to vote for their favorite author of a book published in 2011 who is also one of the 30,000 authors who have joined Goodreads. The winner of Best Goodreads Author of 2011 is Cassandra Clare, author of “City of Fallen Angels,” the fourth in the Mortal Instruments series. She has built up a strong fan base through interaction with readers on the site, including Q&As for her books.

 
Congratulations to all of the winners!

2011 National Book Award Winners

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By on November 17, 2011

 

 

The 2011 National Book Award Winners:

FICTION: Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA)

NONFICTION: Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W. W. Norton & Company)

POETRY: Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split (TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press)

YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE: Thanhha Lai, Inside Out & Back Again (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)

The 2011 Best Illustrated Children’s Books

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By on November 7, 2011

by Pamela Paul (The New York Times)

Sophie Blackall

 
The New York Times Book Review has announced its list of the 10 Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2011. Artwork from this year’s winners will appear in the special Children’s Book section of the Book Review’s Nov. 13 issue.

The judges this year were Jeanne Lamb, the coordinator of youth collections at The New York Public Library; Lucy Calkins, the Richard Robinson Professor of Children’s Literature at Teachers College of Columbia University; and Sophie Blackall, an author and artist who has illustrated 24 books for children, including one of last year’s Best Illustrated winners, “Big Red Lollipop,” as well as “The Crows of Pearblossom,” “Spinster Goose: Twisted Rhymes for Naughty Children” and “Are You Awake?” — all published this year. They chose from among hundreds of children’s picture books published in 2011.

The Book Review’s 10 Best Illustrated Children’s Books for 2011, in alphabetical order, are: “Along a Long Road,” written and illustrated by Frank Viva (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers); “A Ball for Daisy,” written and illustrated by Chris Raschka (Schwartz & Wade); “Brother Sun, Sister Moon: Saint Francis of Assisi’s Canticle of the Creatures,” written by Katherine Paterson, illustrated by Pamela Dalton (Chronicle Books); “Grandpa Green,” written and illustrated by Lane Smith (Roaring Brook Press); “Ice,” written and illustrated by Arthur Geisert (Enchanted Lion Books); “I Want My Hat Back,” written and illustrated by Jon Klassen (Candlewick Press); “Me … Jane,” written and illustrated by Patrick McDonnell (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers); “Migrant,” written by Maxine Trottier, illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault (Groundwood Books); “A Nation’s Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis,” written by Matt de la Peña, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Dial); and “A New Year’s Reunion,” written by Yu Li-Qiong, illustrated by Zhu Cheng-Liang (Candlewick Press). Next year, The New York Times Best Illustrated awards will celebrate its 60th anniversary.

2011 National Book Award Finalists Announced

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By on October 13, 2011

The twenty Finalists for the 2011 National Book Awards were announced on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s morning radio program, Think Out Loud, in front of a live audience at the new Literary Arts Center in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday, October 12. The announcement was also streamed live on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s website, www.opb.org/nationalbookawards. Past NBA Winners, Finalists, and Judges announced this year’s Finalists by category:

  • Virginia Euwer Wolff, National Book Award Winner in 2001, will announce the Young People’s Literature Finalists.
  • Vern Rutsala, National Book Award Finalist in 2005, will announce the Poetry Finalists.
  • Sallie Tisdale, National Book Award Judge in 2010, will announce the Nonfiction Finalists.
  • Charles Johnson, National Book Award Winner in 1990 and Judge in 1999 and 2009, will announce the Fiction Finalists

Think Out Loud host David Miller interviewed each of the four guests, as well as National Book Foundation Executive Director Harold Augenbraum, about their own National Book Award experiences.

The 2011 Finalists are (out of a whopping 1,223 submissions):

Fiction

Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn (Bellevue Literary Press)

Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife (Random House)

Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House)

Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (Lookout Books, an imprint of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington)

Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA)

Fiction Judges: Deirdre McNamer (Panel Chair), Jerome Charyn, John Crowley, Victor LaValle, Yiyun Li

 

Nonfiction

Deborah Baker, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (Graywolf Press)

Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution (Little, Brown and Company)

Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W. W. Norton & Company)

Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking Press, an imprint of Penguin Group USA)

Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout (It Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

Nonfiction Judges: Alice Kaplan (Panel Chair), Yunte Huang, Jill Lepore, Barbara Savage

 

Poetry

Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split (TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press)

Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Carl Phillips, Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Adrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 (W.W. Norton & Company)

Bruce Smith, Devotions (University of Chicago Press)

Poetry Judges: Elizabeth Alexander (Panel Chair), Thomas Sayers Ellis, Amy Gerstler, Kathleen Graber, Roberto Tejada

 

Young People’s Literature

Franny Billingsley, Chime (Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, Inc. )

Debby Dahl Edwardson, My Name Is Not Easy (Marshall Cavendish)

Thanhha Lai, Inside Out and Back Again (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)

Albert Marrin, Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books)

Lauren Myracle, Shine (Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS)

Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now (Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Young People’s Literature Judges: Marc Aronson (Panel Chair), Ann Brashares, Matt de la Peña, Nikki Grimes, Will Weaver

Amazon Announces Breakthrough Novel Award Winners

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By on June 14, 2011

Amazon.com, Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace, a part of the Amazon group of companies, today announced the winners of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, the international competition in search of the next popular novel, at an event held at the Amazon.com headquarters in Seattle. Gregory Hill is the winner of the general fiction category for his novel, “East of Denver,” and Jill Baguchinsky is the winner in the young adult fiction category for her novel, “Spookygirl.” Hill and Baguchinsky will each receive a publishing contract from Penguin Group (USA) that includes a $15,000 advance. “East of Denver” and “Spookygirl” will be published by Dutton’s adult and children’s divisions, respectively.

This year’s competition drew the most submissions in the history of the contest. After several rounds of judging, the winners were selected by Amazon.com customers from a group of six finalists.

“Today’s winners were chosen by Amazon.com customers, and that’s one thing that makes this contest so exciting – it offers aspiring writers the opportunity to be heard and also connects them directly with customers to help discover great new voices in fiction,” said Nader Kabbani, Director of Independent Publishing at Amazon. “We congratulate Gregory and Jill and also thank all of the people who participated for making this year’s Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest the biggest ever.”

Tim McCall, Vice President, Director of Online Sales and Marketing, Penguin Group (USA), said, “Penguin is always seeking exciting new work and we were gratified to see the many promising manuscripts entered in this year’s competition. We are very much looking forward to publishing Gregory’s and Jill’s novels.”

Gregory Hill lives in Denver where he works at the University of Denver library and plays in “The Babysitters,” a rock and roll power trio that includes his wife on drums. “East of Denver” tells the story of Shakespeare Williams, who returns to his family’s farm in eastern Colorado to find his widowed, senile father living in squalor. Facing the loss of the farm, Shakespeare hatches a plot with his father and a motley crew of his former high school classmates to rob the local bank. Expert panelist Lev Grossman, book critic for Time Magazine and author of the New York Times bestseller “The Magicians” and the upcoming sequel “The Magician King,” says that Hill’s writing is “on a par with that of top-flight black-comic novelists like Sam Lipsyte and Jess Walter, and it deserves to be read.”

Jill Baguchinsky, a longtime fan of supernatural tales, wrote the first draft of “Spookygirl” as part of National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, a movement that challenges writers to complete a novel in thirty days. In the novel, Violet Addison has moved into an apartment above her father’s funeral home in Florida. Violet regularly converses with the ghosts in the house, but what she is really scared of is starting her sophomore year at a new school. Not only will she battle rumors about her father’s involvement in her mother’s death, but, even more frightening, the evil forces that inhabit the girls’ locker room. Expert panelist Jennifer Besser, Vice President and Publisher of G. P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, writes that this “funny and suspenseful novel sets itself apart and heralds the arrival of a fresh new voice.”

The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest is an annual contest co-sponsored by Amazon.com, Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace. For the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest Official Rules, to view the winning excerpts and reviews, or pre-order the novels now, please visit www.amazon.com/abna.

Polish Book Cover Contest Winners

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By on June 10, 2011

Here are the results of the 50 Watts’ Polish Book Cover Contest, which asked contestants to design the “Polish edition” of their favorite book. Poland’s incredibly rich history of book design can be seen in the new book 1000 Polish Book Covers. To sample some real covers and read more about the contest rules, see this post.

The Winner: Ben Jones for 1984

Ben:

I am an illustrator from Manchester, England and have been working as a freelance illustrator since graduating from my degree in Design and Visual Arts in 2006. I have a big passion for Eastern European illustration and design, in particular Polish illustration, which is what drew me to this competition. I really enjoy looking at Polish illustration. I find the way in which the ideas are communicated very interesting. Polish artists seem to use the atmosphere of the narrative to carry the artwork forward. This is what I tried to do with my 1984 book cover. I used a mixture of print making and collage to create the image.

Second place: Singeon (Nicolas Gallet) for The Baron in the Trees

Bio: Singeon is a Paris-based comics author. He has drawn in zines for a few years and his two first big books come out this year, Bienvenue and Sauvetages. He continues to participate in multiple projects, from rock-themed comics to Polish book contests. He’s fond of water, monsters, rain forests, and love stories. He’s currently working on a sci-fi comic, codename Space Ranch, about a family exiled in space.

Third place: Bas Alberts for House of Leaves

Bas Alberts from Amsterdam (contact mrbassy [at] gmail [dot] com) writes about his cover:

The cover design is based on one of my favorite books House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. The book is not your typical haunted house horror story. It’s layered with secrets, codes (Morse) and mystery. It’s a labyrinth in itself, written in a maze-like way. I tried to create a simple, striking image in red, black, and white. A house with an enormous lock to contain all its secrets, surrounded by leaf-like shapes that form a pattern similar to that of a labyrinth. Underneath the book title is Morse code which is a reference to a chapter in the book where some of the main characters hear a knocking from somewhere deep inside the house, a knocking patterned after the Morse code emergency signal SOS (save our souls). Considering the book isn’t your ordinary horror novel, I tried not to make it too ‘dark’ but kind of left it open to the viewer’s interpretation as to which genre it actually is. The design was mainly hand drawn and then run through illustrator and photoshop. All in all I’m very pleased with the end result and hope other people will like it too.

See the rest of the amazing submissions at 50 Watts!

Does Téa Obreht’s Orange Prize Signal a Return to Fabulism?

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by Sarah Crown (The Guardian)

Téa Obreht ... fabulous victory. Photograph: Chris Helgren/Reuters

Clearly, I wasn’t the only one caught on the hop by Téa Obreht’s Orange prize win. With odds of 2/1, Emma Donoghue’s novel, Room, was the galloping favourite to take the prize. The Tiger’s Wife was given joint-lowest odds of 6/1, and the book notched up just 8% of the shortlist’s sales through Amazon (Room took a thumping 69%).

But the judges went for it anyway – and reading it last night, I saw why. I loved Room, and would have been thrilled for Donoghue if she’d come away with the laurels. But The Tiger’s Wife is vivid and limber; a picaresque romp through the fragments of former Yugoslavia. I had reservations over a couple of aspects – the occasional whiff of adjectival overexuberance; the (to my mind) slightly coy fictionalising of the Yugoslav wars (Tito becomes “the Marshall”; Belgrade is referred to as “the City”). But quibbles aside, I found it enchanting: the overarching narrative, in which Natalia attempts to unravel the mysterious death of her beloved grandfather against the bombed-out, beat-up, glancingly beautiful Balkan landscape, becomes a lattice into which Obreht slots episodes lifted from several centuries of baroque folklore. We hear the tale of the deathless man,who sends a village into a frenzy by sitting up in his coffin and politely requesting a cup of water; the bear-man, the butcher-musician, and of course the Tiger’s Wife herself, a deaf-mute Muslim girl who falls in love with a tiger. All of which led me to wonder whether the novel’s triumph over Donoghue’s brand of hyper-realism (Room takes its inspiration from the true-life case of Josef Fritzl, and Donoghue used a home design website to make sure everything would fit in the 11x11ft shed in which it’s set), might in fact be a marker for something else: the return of fabulism to our pages.

Fabulism forms the backbone of European literature, from the Brothers Grimm all the way through to Angela Carter. But although it has remained a consistently strong strand in post-colonial fiction, it seems to me we’ve seen less of it in Europe over the last two decades: realism has been the dominant discourse. The first inkling I got that a shift might be occurring was on a rare trip to the cinema last year to see the Coen brothers’ meditation on Judaism, A Serious Man. The film opens with a brief vignette set in an unnamed eastern European shtetl, in which a peasant inadvertently invites a man who may or may not be a dybbuk into his house. The scene, qualitatively different from their usual work, reminded me forcefully of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s eerie Yiddish fables – The Magician of Ljublin, The Golem. A couple of months later, I read Dan Rhodes’s Little Hands Clapping, set in a cinerial European city and based loosely around the tale of the Pied Piper, and on the heels of that, picked up Amos Oz’s Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest – the author’s attempt to recapture the spirit of the fairytales his mother used to tell him, which he remembers as “veiled in a kind of mist, as though they did not begin at the beginning or end at the end, but emerged from the undergrowth … and then slunk back to the forest they had come from”. Add Obreht’s novel to the mix, and you have what looks suspiciously like the beginning of a trend.

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2011 Indie Book Award Winners Announced

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By on June 8, 2011

Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group has named the best indie books of 2011.

The books are winners of the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the largest non-profit book awards program worldwide, judged by leaders in the indie book publishing industry to identify indie books that deserve to reach a wider audience.

“We like to think of our awards program as the ‘Sundance’ of the book publishing world,” says Catherine Goulet, Chair of the 2011 book awards program.

Independent book publishing companies are independent of the major conglomerates that dominate the book publishing industry. The indies include small presses, larger independent publishers, university presses, e-book publishers, and self-published authors.

According to Goulet, “Like other independent artists, many indie book publishers face challenges that the industry giants don’t experience. They typically have to work a lot harder to get their best books into retail stores and ultimately into the hands of readers.”

“Authors and publishers who compete in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards are serious about promoting their books,” adds Goulet. “They aim to stand out from the crowd of millions of books in print.”

According to Bowker, publisher of the Books in Print database, preliminary data for 2010 shows more than three million new titles were published last year alone. Of these, over 2.7 million were “non-traditionally” published books, including print-on-demand and self-published titles — an increase of 269% over 2009.

To help Indie authors and publishers reach a wider audience, the top 60 books in the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards will be reviewed by New York literary agent Marilyn Allen of Allen O’Shea Literary Agency or one of Ms. Allen’s co-agents for possible representation in areas such as distribution, foreign rights, film rights, and other rights.

Marilyn Allen has worked as an executive and/or directed sales and marketing teams with Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Books and Avon Books. Ms. Allen has worked with many best-selling authors, including Stephen King, Ken Follett, Barbara Kingsolver, John Gray, Mary Higgins Clark, and many more.

The top prize winning books in the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards are:

Top Non-Fiction Books

First Place Winner ($1,500 Prize)

Last Chance: Preserving Life on Earth, by Larry J. Schweiger (Fulcrum Publishing)

Second Place Winner ($750 Prize)

Touching: Poems of Love, Longing, and Desire, edited by Sari Friedman and D. Patrick Miller (Fearless Books)

Third Place Winner ($500 Prize)

Serve to Lead®: Your Transformational 21st Century Leadership System, by James M. Strock (Serve to Lead Press)

Top Fiction Books

First Place Winner ($1,500 Prize)

Carny: A Novel in Stories, by James Hitt (Aberdeen Bay Press)

Second Place Winner ($750 Prize)

The DeValera Deception, by Michael McMenamin & Patrick McMenamin (Enigma Books)

Third Place Winner ($500 Prize)

I Can Only Give You Everything, by Bradford Tatum (self-published)

Top Design Book ($250 Prize)

Wisconsin’s Own: Twenty Remarkable Homes, by M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman, photographs by Zane Williams (Wisconsin Historical Society 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 2011 winners and finalists is available at the Next Generation Indie Book Awards website at www.indiebookawards.com.

2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards

Entries are now being accepted for the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. The awards program is open to fiction and nonfiction books from independent authors and publishers worldwide released in 2011 or 2012 or with a copyright date of 2011 or 2012. Visit the Next Generation Indie Book Awards website for more information.

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