Congratulations to the members of Ellen Reid's Book Shepherding Client Roster that won the 2006 USA Book News Awards!

Finalist:

Fiction & Literature: General

Julia Fairchild by Louise Gaylord, Little Moose Press, 0978604970

FIRST PLACE WINNER DAN POYNTER!

Business: Writing/Publishing

Winner :

The Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book, 15th Edition by Dan Poynter, Para Publishing, 1-568601344

Fiction & Literature: New Age Fiction

Winner:

Ancient Pact, Volume 1: The Element of Air by Caryn Colgan, Good Spirited Company, LLC, 0-9679616-3-7

Finalist:

If I Know Then: A Nightmare Becomes Reality by Carleton Heaviside, Laplace Publishing, 0-9719540-5-4

Ted Dawson, the CEO of a high-tech engineering company, is kidnaped by a deviant genius and coerced into authoring a graphic adult novel based on his warped captor's erotic and lurid fantasies of age regression, sexual compulsion, teleported brain exchanges, programmed dreaming, and nvoluntary transgenderism. How the beleaguered victim of this neo-SciFi odyssey attempts to escape from his kidnapper's devilish Shangri-La takes SciFi into disturbing but fascinating new territory.

Autobiography/Memoirs

Finalist:

I'll Be in the Car: One Woman's Story of Love, Loss and Reclaiming Life by Annette Januzzi Wick, Three Arch Press, 0-9774856-0-9

When Annette Wick's young husband dies, she is ill-prepared for the challenge of reclaiming her life. I’ll Be in the Car relates her inspiring quest to become a mother—and a woman—again. n. Annette reveals to us her innermost doubts about her husband and herself as they wash over her, wave after wave. When Annette reflects back on her youthful romance, she confesses her need to find a calling. But instead of pursuing a promising career, Annette meets Devin and changes course from working woman to wife and mother. She recounts how, soon after their dream move to the Oregon coast, her new life is shattered when Devin is diagnosed with leukemia.

Aging/Death & Dying

Finalist:

What to Do Before & After Someone Dies by Judith Lee, Little Moose Press, 0-09720227-8-3

Self-Help: General

Finalist:

Remodel Your Reality: Seven Steps to Rebalance Your Life and Reclaim Your Passion by Kimberly Fulcher, River Rock Press, 0-9770260-4-3

Remodel Your Reality is a simple, seven step process that will help women reinvent themselves and take control of their lives. After moving through this foundational process, a woman will know who she is, what she wants, and what she needs to do to have an amazing life. Reclaim your joy with Remodel Your Reality and begin living with purpose, passion, and pleasure.