>Independent Publisher Book Awards

>I’m a finalist.

Each year, Independent Publisher, the voice of the independent publishing industry, bestows Independent Publishing Awards, known as IPPYs, on books in several categories (several being an understatement). IP has just announced the 2010 finalists: Announcing the Finalists in the 2010 Independent Publishing Book Awards.

You’ll have to scroll down to the regional awards, but there you’ll find that I am a finalist in the Best Regional Fiction, Mid-Atlantic category for my book In an Uncharted Country. It appears that there are only three finalists, so I suppose I get a bronze medal in any case–but I’ll cross my fingers for gold all the same!

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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