2009 Benjamin Franklin Award Winners

Awards List

Audio Fiction

Blindness (Finalist)
Jose Saramago

Sep-1998
/ General Fiction

Audio-Children's

Geronimo Stilton: The Mona Mousa Code/ a Cheese-colored Cam... (Winner)
Geronimo Stilton

Mar-2008
/ Action Adventure

Children's Book W/Audio

Bad Rats (Winner)
Eric Drachman

Jun-2008
/ General Fiction

Cover Design-Fiction

Johnny Gruesome (Finalist)
Gregory Lamberson

Oct-2008
/ Horror

First Children & Y/A

Spenser Goes to Portland (Finalist)
Melanie Brooks

Dec-2008
/ General Fiction

Gay/Lesbian

The Lonely Hearts Club (Finalist)
Radclyffe

Feb-2008
/ Contemporary Romance

Historical Fiction

The Long Knives Are Crying (Winner)
Joseph M. Marshall III

Aug-2008
/ Historical

Jasper Mountain (Finalist)
Kathy Steffen

Nov-2008
/ Historical Romance

Humor

The Misadventures of Oliver Booth: Life in the Lap of Luxury (Finalist)
David Desmond

Oct-2008
/ General Fiction

Interior Design-Ch-Y/A

Whistling Wings (Finalist)
Laura Goering

Aug-2008
/ General Fiction

Multicultural

Sidikiba's Kora Lesson (Winner)
Ryan Thomas Skinner

Oct-2008
/ General Fiction

Popular Fiction

A Pirate's Heart (Winner)
Catherine Friend

Nov-2008
/ Romance

Buddha in a Teacup (Finalist)
Todd Walton

Feb-2008
/ General Fiction

Callie of the White Sand (Finalist)
Kimberly Ann Freel

Oct-2008
/ Romantic Suspense

Award Categories

Boty-Budget Under 10k

Children's Book W/Audio

Children's Picture Book (0-3 Years)

Children's Picture Book (4-7 Years)

Cover Design (Small)

Cover Design-1-2 Color

Cover Design-3 + Color

Cover Design-3+child-Y/A

Cover Design-3+color Lg

Cover Design-3+color SM

Cover Design-Child & Y/A

Award Years

Romance

Mystery/Thriller

Speculative

Younger Readers

2009 Benjamin Franklin Award (Awarded by Independent Book Publishers Association)

Awards List

Award Categories

Award Years