Proud that my second novel, A Rainbow Like You, is blessed with so much reader and media love!
2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results
Congratulations and sincere thanks to the independent authors and publishers who participated in our 25th annual, 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards contest.
POPULAR FICTION
GOLD: A Single Tear, by Nemo James (Derek Newark Publishing)
SILVER: A Rainbow Like You, by Andréa Fehsenfeld (Free Form Productions)
BRONZE: Finding Hemingway, by Ken Dortzbach (Cloister Inn Publishing)
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WIBA 2021 Shortlist Announced
Pandemics, lockdowns and novel coronaviruses (Year Two) once again did not stop self-published authors from around the country submitting their books to the Whistler Independent Book Awards. The evaluating committee assessed all the entries and is pleased to announce the shortlisted nominees for the 2021 WIBAs.
The fiction nominees are:
Valerie Dunsmore for Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit
Andréa Fehsenfeld for A Rainbow Like You
Katrin Horowitz for Just This
Pamela McGarry for The Unsuitable Bride
Don McLellan for Ouch: 20 Stories
Byron T.D. Smith for Windfall: A Henry Lysyk Mystery
The non-fiction nominees are:
Elke Babicki for Identity: From Holocaust to Home
Roxi Harms for The Upside of Hunger
Fran Hurcomb for Breaking Trail: Northern Stories from a Simpler Time
Beth Kaplan for Loose Woman: My Odyssey from Lost to Found
Angie Littlefield for Tom Thomson’s Fine Kettle of Friends
Tommy Schnurmacher for Makeup Tips from Auschwitz: How Vanity Saved My Mother’s Life
The shortlisted nominees will be judged by Canadian Authors members and the finalists will be announced July 16, 2021.
