ABOUT BOOK AWARDS
Industry book awards matter. In the competitive world of publishing, every recognition counts, especially the more widely known awards and honors. But even smaller awards can make a difference in an author's home locale. Minimally, snagging a finalist or winner's award infuses an author with additional confidence, something far too many authors lack in this dog-eat-dog world of publishing.
BookSpot - a list of top book awards
Industry book awards matter. In the competitive world of publishing, every recognition counts, especially the more widely known awards and honors. But even smaller awards can make a difference in an author's home locale. Minimally, snagging a finalist or winner's award infuses an author with additional confidence, something far too many authors lack in this dog-eat-dog world of publishing.
BookSpot - a list of top book awards
PORT YONDER PRESS Awards Won
Mainstream / General Market / Crossover
Spur Award Rod Miller (r) receiving the Spur Award, June 2012.
The poem, "Tabula Rasa," included in Things A Cowboy Sees and other poems by Rod Miller and published by Port Yonder Press, won the 2012 Spur Award for Poetry. Rod and PYP are honored to have received this prestigious recognition. Given annually for distinguished writing about the American West, the Spur Awards are among the oldest and most prestigious in American literature. In 1953, when the awards were established by WWA, western fiction was a staple of American publishing. At the time awards were given to the best western novel, best historical novel, best juvenile, and best short story.Since then the awards have been broadened to include other types of writing about the West. Today, Spurs are offered for the best western novel (short novel), best novel of the west (long novel), best original paperback novel, best short story, best short nonfiction. Also, best contemporary nonfiction, best biography, best history, best juvenile fiction and nonfiction, best TV or motion picture drama, best TV or motion picture documentary, and best first novel (called The Medicine Pipe Bearer’s Award).Winners of the Spur Awards in previous years include Larry McMurtry for Lonesome Dove, Michael Blake for Dances With Wolves, Glendon Swarthout for The Shootist, and Tony Hillerman for Skinwalker. (from the Western Writers of America website) |
The Moonbeam Children's Book Awards
Eddie Jones' The Curse of Captain LaFoote brought home a Bronze Medal in the Pre-Teen Fantasy Category at the 2012 Moonbeam Awards.
"The Moonbeam Children's Book Awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children's books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading. The Awards recognize and reward the best of these books and bring them to the attention of parents, booksellers, librarians - and to children themselves." (A division of the Eric Hoffer Book Awards) ________ WESTERNERS INTERNATIONAL FRED OLDS POETRY AWARD
"This award recognizes outstanding contemporary cowboy poetry in the tradition of Badger Clark, S. Omar Barker, and other great western poets, sponsored by Indian Territory Posse of Oklahoma Westerners. Two places are awarded."
Things a Cowboy Sees and Other Poems by Rod Miller snagged a first place win in this fine contest. |
Inspirational / Religious
Grace Award
The Grace Awards are a newer and very small faith-based book awards group based initially on reader nominated books, then decided via a judging system.
Linda Yezak's Give the Lady a Ride was granted the 2011 Grace Award for Romance / Historical Romance. You can read about the 2011 Grace Awards winning entries here. ___________ Carol Award Finalist
The Carol Awards are ACFW's recognition for the best Christian fiction published by traditional publishing houses in the previous calendar year.
Linda Yezak's Give the Lady a Ride was a 2012 finalist in the Debut Novel category. What's the book about? For a New York socialite and a Texas cowboy, faith and love are just one bull away. Great read! |
BRMCWC Selah Book of the Year Award
Open to published authors, this is an annual award given in several categories. Winners are announced during the BRMCWC conference each spring.
A Port Yonder Press book, The Curse of Captain LaFoote, by Eddie Jones, won the 2011 Selah Book of the Year Award in Young Adult Fiction. Travel with Ricky Bradshaw as he ventures back in time to a world of pirates, treasure, and adventure. Ages 10 to adult. Beautifully illustrated softcover. |
