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 | V. M. Wolter and Joseph A. Zapalac |
| 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.
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