THE NATIONAL “BEST BOOKS” 2007 AWARDS were announced on November 1, 2007 and A Book is Born was an Award Finalist... on the day of its release!
Winners and finalists traversed the publishing landscape: Simon & Schuster, Penguin-Putnam, HarperCollins, Random House, McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Co., John Wiley & Sons and Wyatt-MacKenzie.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson was the winner in our “Writing/Publishing” category – we're absolutely thrilled for her. Roll over her customer images on Amazon, that’s my copy of her book with all of the post-its. And read Carolyn’s review of A Book is Born.
We were in great company–other finalists in our category included The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living by Peter Bowerman and Sell Your Book on Amazon: Top-Secret Tips Guaranteed to Increase Sales for Print-On-Demand and Self-Publishing Writers by Brent Sampson, foreword by Dan Poynter.
Wyatt-MacKenzie also had two finalists in the "Parenting/Family" category! A Book is Born co-author Arlene Schusteff's Special Gifts: Women Writers on the Heatache, the Happiness and the Hope of Raising a Special Needs Child and co-author Jennifer Thie's And Then Came Arthur.