Sniper Bid Garners 4th National Award

Sniper Bid Garners 4th National Award


USA BOOK NEWS ANNOUNCES WINNERS AND FINALISTS OF
THE NATIONAL "BEST BOOKS 2009" AWARDS



Independent Titles Score Top Honors in the
6th Annual National "Best Books" Awards

LOS ANGELES - USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced the winners and finalists of THE NATIONAL "BEST BOOKS" 2009 AWARDS (NBBA) on October 20, 2009. Over 500 winners and finalists were announced in over 140 categories covering print and audio books. Awards were presented for titles published in 2009 and late 2008.

Jeff Keen, President and CEO of USABookNews.com, said this year’s contest yielded an unprecedented number of entries, which were then narrowed down to over 500 winners and finalists.

Award highlights include the following:
  • Sniper Bid by Rick Robinson (Headline Books) was awarded Finalist for Best new Thriller/Adventure. Earlier this year Sniper Bid was named Indie Book Awards Finalist for Best General Fiction/Novel, Honorable Mentions were awarded to Sniper Bid at both the Hollywood Book Festival and the New England Book Festival. This is author Robinson’s second award winning novel and his third novel, Manifest Destiny is due for release Spring 2010.
  • Fraidy Cat by Melinda Chambers, illustrated by Sue Ann Maxwell Spiker (Headline Books) was awarded Finalist in two categories: Best in Children’s Educational and Best in Children’s Mind/Body/Spirit
  • Kyle’s Colorful Life by Drema McNeal, illustrated by Kasey Short (Headline Books) was honored as Finalist for Best in Children’s Educational.
  • The Best New Fiction Award went to Digger, Dogface, Brownjob, Grunt by Gary Prisk (Cougar Creek Press)
  • Body Intelligence: How to "Think" Outside Your Brain and Connect to Your Multi-Dimensional Self by John Mayfield, D.C. (Nubalance Publishing Company) was awarded Best New Non-Fiction
  • Darryl and the Mountain by Lynne Emily Ozgur, illustrated by Ismail Abay (Tughra Books) was given the top spot in the Children’s Picture Book category
  • Full results listing available online at USABookNews.com

    Keen says of the awards, now in their seventh year, "The 2009 results represent a phenomenal mix of books from a wide array of publishers throughout the United States. With a full publicity and marketing campaign promoting the results of NBBA, this year’s winners and finalists will gain additional media coverage for the upcoming holiday retail season."

    Winners and finalists traversed the publishing landscape: Simon & Schuster, Penguin, W.W. Norton, Revell, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons, Thomas Nelson, American Cancer Society, Greenleaf Book Group, Sourcebooks, Headline Books & hundreds of independent houses contributed to this year’s outstanding NBBA competition. Keen adds, "NBBA’s success begins with the enthusiastic participation of authors and publishers and continues with our distinguished panel of industry judges who bring to the table their extensive editorial, PR, marketing, and design expertise."

    USABookNews.com is an online publication providing coverage for books from mainstream and independent publishers to the world online community. USABN Magazine Online is the monthly electronic magazine e-mailed free to a large cross-section of the book buying public. JPX Media, in Los Angeles, California, is the parent company of USABookNews.com.

    A complete list of the winners and finalists of the USABookNews.com National "Best Books" 2009 Awards are available online at http://www.USABookNews.com.
     

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