Satirica Nominated for an IPPY! | Bill Housley

Satirica Nominated for an IPPY!

My publisher just informed me that he nominated Satirica for an IPPY Award for 2009.

Click here for more on the Satirica anthology and my story “Another Man’s Terrorist.”

Click here to read Another Man’s Terrorist in a Google Preview of Satirica.

The Independent Publisher Book Awards select books by independent publishers from a field of over 3000 entrants and give somewhere around 450 Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards to the previous year’s best books in a number of categories. See the 2008 winners here!

The judges for the 2009 contest are making their determinations now. Independent Publishers will begin announcing semifinalists on May 1st.

Stay tuned!

~ by Bill Housley on April 25, 2009.

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