Author News & Events
This Month
Awards
Amira Tame
July 2009
Amira Tame received the National Mature Media Silver Award for her book, Activity Techniques that Heal the Wounds of Alzheimer's.
Joanne Hughson AKA Stef
June 2009
Her book, Be Careful What You Wish For ... The Story of: Gwendolyn the Great, Savior of Idlebury, Protector of the Universe, placed as a Finalist the 2009 National Indie Excellence Awards and as a Finalist in the 2009 Next Generation Indie Books Awards.
Gary Forney
May 2009
Gary Forney, author of Discovery Men, will have a book presentation and signing at the historic Elling House in Virginia City, MT.
Connie Houser
February 2009
Connie Houser, author of The Letters, Portrait of an Artist, Jim Houser, won FIRST PLACE in the Art and Photograph category in the 2008 California Book Festival.
Steve Phillips
2008
Steve Phillips, author of Proximity, won the 2008 Gold Medal Award (Navy Category) from the Military Writers Society of America.
Albert Russo
2008
Albert Russo has three books, which qualified as finalists at the National Indie Excellence Awards in the Photography category.
- City of Lovers- City of Wonder
- Body Glorious/Corps á corps
- New York at Heart/New York au Coeur
Gina Jones
2008
Gina E. Jones, author of Flying Between Heaven and Earth, was voted semi-finalist for Fiction & Literature in the New Age Fiction category by USA Book News.
For more information, go to www.FlyingBetweenHeavenAndEarth.com.
Lucy Cain
November 5, 6 & 7, 2007
Lucy Cain, author of Secure the Fort, is the recipient of the 2007 Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal Award for Best Anthology to be presented at the annual conference/banquet in Branson, MO.
Kevin Weeks
June 2007
Kevin M. Weeks, author of The Street Life Series: Is it Suicide or Murder?, was inducted as the Best New Urban Author of the Year 2006 for his novel. A voluntary Top Advisory Board of one hundred active members inducts The YOUnity Guild Award Winners of Excellence each year. He also won an award (Wild Card) in the New York Book Festival.
Jameela Alter
2007
Jameela Alter, author of On Clipped Wings, is a finalist in Foreword Magazine's eighth annual Book of the Year Awards in the Fiction-General category.
Judy Snider
2006
Judy K. Snider, author of Goldy’s Baby Socks, and her illustrator, Thomas McAteer, won The Cat Writer's Association award of excellence and the 2006 CWA Muse Award for best children's book.
Speaking Engagement
Sonia Pressman Fuentes
October 2009
Sonia will be a luncheon speaker at the October 2009 Third Annual Conference of the Florida Consortium for Women's and Gender Studies, followed by a Q&A.
TOPIC:
"The Women's Rights Movement: Where It's Been, Where It's At"
- PLACE:
- University of Tampa
- 401 W. Kennedy Blvd.
- Tampa, Florida 33606-1490
- CONTACT:
- Judy A. Hayden, Ph.D.
- Conference Organizer
- Tel. (813) 257-3535
- jhayden@ut.edu
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