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Official Outskirts Press EVVY Award Nominees
The EVVY Awards recognize excellence in self-published books. Each fall, approximately 5% of the books published by Outskirts Press become finalists for official Outskirts Press nomination by receiving an invitation to participate from Outskirts Press.
Exemplary Outskirts Press books are nominated by the Author Support Department and OP Executive Team for submission to the EVVY Awards in the fall of the year of their copyright. For example, this past November select books with a copyright date of 2009 were invited to participate in the 2010 EVVY Awards by receiving an invitation via email from our Director of Author Support.
All the books published with our Diamond and Pearl packages are automatically eligible for EVVY Award Nominee consideration, but not all Diamond and Pearl books receive an official nomination. What makes a good EVVY Award Nominee? The same thing that makes any good award-winning book: A fantastic cover, strong, well-written content, and copyediting. These are the cornerstones of any good book. Fortunately, Outskirts Press offers the optional services necessary to turn an average book into a good one, and a good book into an award-winning one!
So, without further ado, please join us in congratulating this year’s Official Outskirts Press EVVY Award Nominees:
| The Young Guardians and the Genesis Spell | by | Grady P. Brown |
| The Channel | by | Susan Alcott Jardine |
| The Ghost Tree | by | Daphne Oberon |
| Let Your Innate Sing | by | Dr. William A. Kriva |
| Barnyard Babies To The Rescue | by | Carol Italiano-Krivinskas |
| Dear Sebastian | by | Bianca Tora |
| Queen Vernita Visits the Blue Ice Mountains | by | Dawn Menge |
| Pieces ‘N Bits | by | William Ison |
| The Messy Buddha | by | Kate McLennan, D.Min. |
| How I Lost Twenty Pounds N Kept It Off | by | Caren Wong |
| The Reluctant Survivor | by | Kathy Ferrell Powell |
| Heroes of Googley Woogley | by | Dalton James |
| Dose of Revenge | by | Rhonda Thomas McWhirt |
| Eddie’s Wake | by | C. A. Peterson |
| The Sara Chronicles | by | L. Hughes |
| In the Land of Cotton | by | Martha A. Taylor |
| The Mystery of the Moaning Banshee | by | Fritz Peterson |
| Mickey Mantle is Going to Heaven | by | Barbara Carroll |
| Compulsion | by | Jennifer Chase |
| Dream Chaser | by | P. Christina Greenaway |
| The Expedition | by | Kerry Fusaro |
| The Gate of Beautiful | by | Gerald Rasmussen |
| Privileged Information 101 | by | Rayford Lynn Butler Sr. |
| Christmas Treena | by | Carol A. Hanzl Birkas |
| Murdock Mystery #1 | by | Sandy Zaugg |
| As Long As He Needs Me | by | Mary Verdick |
| Life Against All Odds | by | Alfred Cave |
| The Paradise Puzzle | by | Ed Jones |
| Mysterious Magical Circus Family Kids | by | R. Hawk Starkey |
| A Bridge of Doom | by | Kurt Paul Hotelling |
| Khan in Rasputin’s Shadow | by | Chad Huskins |
| Empire of Peace | by | Don L. Johnson |
| Virginia’s Travel Basket | by | Sharon M. Harvey |
| To Rhyme Is Not A Crime | by | Walter Brandenberg |
| The Smile of a Man Lost | by | J. Evan Johnson |
| Unlocking the Poet’s Realm | by | Matt Wiebusch |
| Charlie – A Boy With Reading Difficulties and His Dream | by | Vassiliki Plomaritou |
| Both Ends Burning | by | Craig Juntunen |
| 21 Bizarre Short Stories | by | Jose Cepeda Garcia |
| The Student Prophet: Initiation Rites | by | James Nicholas Logue |
| Burnarounds: Unlocking The Double Digit Profit Code | by | Steven L. Blue |
| The Wedding Palace | by | M. Abdelsalam Elemary |
| The Transition | by | Dennis Niewoehner |
| Bobby and Troubador’s Great Adventure | by | Ronald Raver |
| Robbobell | by | Dr. Robert F. Hill |
| Through The Triangle | by | C.P. Stewart |
| Ribbons and Roses | by | Vassiliki Plomaritou |
| Aurora of the Northern Lights | by | Holly Hardin |
| Rainbow Bed | by | Glenna S. Edwards |
| Mr. Emotions & Friends | by | Glenna S. Edwards & Karen Henriques |
| From an Otherwise Comfortable Room | by | Roger Sakowski |
| Life and Times of a Ragamuffin | by | Russ Freeman |
| Looking Glass | by | Max Boneta, MA |
| Holly Hill | by | Scott Dahm |
| The Adventures of Magellan | by | T.L. Mann |
| Emerge | by | Ken Jibben |
| It’s in the Eyes | by | Charles Toftoy |
| The Breakout Year | by | Vicki Williams |
| The Bethlehem Scroll | by | Bill Thompson |
| Cash in on the Obama $3 Trillion Spending Plan! | by | Ed Benjamin, Colonel, USAF (Retired) |
| Ribbon Falls | by | Brad Anderson |
| Tirissa and the Necklace of Nulidor | by | Willow |
| Exploring the Sixth Sense | by | Dr. James E. Jones |
The Awards Ceremony and Banquet is held in March by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association. Award-winners are announced at that time and soon thereafter our EVVY-Award winning authors are notified. Winners will also be featured on this blog.
We have an extra special announcement coming in 2010 that will involve next year’s EVVY Nominees, so now is the time to publish with Outskirts Press.
Add comment December 21, 2009
Self Publishing Spotlight: Cash in on the Obama $3 Trillion Spending Plan!
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Ed Benjamin, a retired Air Force Colonel and currently a consultant to industry, knows how to win contracts. In his 19-year career he has led proposal teams to win over $12 billion in US, foreign, state, and county government contract awards, and now he’s sharing his expertise in a new book, Cash in on the Obama $3 Trillion Spending Plan! How to make large amounts of money by conducting business with or receiving grants from federal, state, and local governments. The book, published by Outskirts Press, is a complete, step-by-step guide to winning government business and receiving grants. With the passage of President Barack Obama’s historic stimulus bill, there’s never been a better time to do business with the government. |
| According to Benjamin: “This book is designed to help both the beginner in the government contracting process and the experienced business development professional.” The author further states that this book “represents a distillation of my 19 years of experience writing and managing proposals and my service in the Air Force, where I served on acquisition teams to buy major weapons systems.” He points out that the proposal alone does not guarantee a contract award, but a well-written proposal that meets government requirements goes a long way toward influencing the government to award a contract or grant.Cash in on the Obama $3 Trillion Spending Plan offers those businesses seeking government contracts a step-by-step guide toward obtaining government business; it also provides those companies that are already in the government business arena with secrets to writing winning proposals. As a bonus, the book contains detailed information on selling to state and local governments, and information for those applying for government assistance.
Government evaluators have consistently rated Benjamin’s proposals as being complete and thorough. He has helped his clients win contracts worth over $12 billion—including the contract to build the presidential helicopter fleet. This book is a compilation of his years of experience and accumulated wisdom in dealing with the government. It explains: • How the government awards contracts Cash in on the Obama $3 Trillion Spending Plan is professionally written, well organized, and easy to navigate, with 200 pages of valuable information for individuals and companies alike. It is available online through Ingram Book Wholesalers, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. |
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About the Author:
Retired Air Force Colonel Ed Benjamin is a 27-year veteran of the Air Force, with years of experience in major military weapons-systems procurement. As a civilian, he has helped clients win over $12 billion in contract awards, including the multibillion-dollar contract to build the presidential helicopter. He has also published several articles and short stories for local, regional, and national publications, and Cash in on the Obama Plan is his first book. Benjamin lives in Bulverde, Texas.
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/cashinontheobamaspendingplan.
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Add comment December 18, 2009
Self Published Books in the New York Times
The December 13th issue of the New York Times Book Review focuses on the top 10 books of the year. For the following 12 Outskirts Press authors, the December 13th edition promises to be an exciting one, when these 12 books will appear toward the front of the New York Times Book Review section:
With any extensive amount of exposure like this, progressive self-publishing authors are well-advised to act quickly, contacting bookstores where the media exposure takes place. In this case, New York City bookstores would be a good target for direct sales efforts. For instance, New York City’s largest independent bookstore chain is Strand Books and their website is at www.strandbooks.com.
All these books, and other Outskirts Press titles, are available from all major online retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powells, Books A Million, and others, plus conveniently from the Outskirts Press bookstore at http://outskirtspress.com/bookstore (or in quantities of 10 or more for full wholesale trade discounts at Outskirts Press Direct (where the retailer saves money and the author still get their full royalty): http://outskirtspress.com/buybooks
Not yet a published author receiving post-publication opportunities to appear in the New York Times?
Add comment December 13, 2009
Self Publishing Spotlight: Through the Triangle
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For decades, tales of mysterious disappearances and strange phenomena in the Bermuda Triangle have captivated the public. Now, a fascinating new science-fiction novel offers a plausible explanation for this enduring enigma. Through the Triangle, from physics educator C.P. Stewart, packs a high-energy rollercoaster of a story into a well-researched and fascinating book that might make you think twice before boarding that next flight or boat through this extensive region of the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Stewart’s first book takes readers through the Bermuda Triangle to the other side and, while fictional, is based on research. He analyzed writings of well-known physicists on the subject of spacetime and M (formerly string) theory, along with reports by some of the fortunate people who were caught in the Triangle and survived to tell about it. The result is Stewart’s conviction that people and objects don’t cease to exist, but rather are propelled into another time. |
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Self Publishing Spotlight: Why Me, Oh Lord, Why Me?
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Why Me, Oh Lord, Why Me?, disproves the theory that a born again Christian cannot be possessed by demons or evil spirits. This is a true story of a woman so possessed from the age of three on through a life of tortured hardship until she confronts God with her carefully prepared demand for an answer to her question, Why me? An exceptional child, Jane could pick out tunes on the piano at the age of two, but by the time she was three, she began hearing unwanted demon voices in her head. These evil spirits ran in and out of her freely and when she was eleven, Jane accepted Christ as her Savior. |
| But these demons continued to plague her at will and she ultimately developed one tortuous second personality who caused her to act rudely and hatefully when normally, as herself, she was a joyful and congenial woman.
The remarkable conclusion to Why Me, Oh Lord, Why Me? demonstrates how Jane was finally released from the curse that had tortured and bound her for most of her life. Co-written with her sister, Rebecca, the book also contains advice for anyone helping others with the same affliction from the two women who were Jane’s caregivers and spiritual guides. |
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Add comment December 4, 2009
