June 27, 2014—Judged by a group of librarians and booksellers from around the United States, the Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year Awards were announced this evening at the American Library Association annual conference in Las Vegas. Among the winners in the Writing category: Word Up!
IndieFab winners were selected after months of editorial deliberation over more than 1,500 entries in 60 categories. This year’s list of winners includes Garrison Keillor, Barry Lopez, Harvard Business Review, Georgia Museum of Art, B&H Publishing, Rizzoli Publishing, SUNY Press, Loyola University Press, Chicago Review Press, Valentine D’Arcy Sheldon, and Wayne State University Press.
Foreword’s IndieFab Book of the Year Awards program was created to discover distinctive books from the indie-publishing community.
Other recent awards for Word Up!:
- IndieReader Discovery Award
- Next Generation Indie Book Award
- Readers’ Favorite Award (international winners to be announced Sept. 1, 2014)
Congratulations. As a former ALA member I know the high standards of that award.
Fred, That’s good to hear. Thanks for the note.
Whoo hoo! Well-deserved congratulations.
Thanks, Eddie.
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