2012 Independent Publisher Book Award

Awards List

Au/Nz Fiction

The Scent of Apples
(Gold Medal Winner)
Jacquie McRae

Canada-East Fiction

That Forgetful Shore
(Gold Medal Winner)
Trudy J. Morgan-Cole

Canada-West Fiction

The Canterbury Trail
(Gold Medal Winner)
Angie Abdou

Children's Pict/7&under

Tadeo's Search for Circles
(Gold Medal Winner)
Marion Brooker

Erotica

Carnal Machines: Steampunk Erotica
(Gold Medal Winner)
D.L. King

Fiction-Short Stories

Knuckleheads
(Gold Medal Winner)
Jeff Kass

Living Arrangements
(Gold Medal Winner)
Laura Maylene Walter

Gay/Lesbian Fiction

Beatitude
(Gold Medal Winner)
Larry Closs

Great Lakes Fiction

The Sausage Maker's Daughters
(Gold Medal Winner)
Ags Johnson

Hist/Military Fiction

Soldier of the Horse
(Gold Medal Winner)
Robert W. MacKay

Horror

Floating Staircase
(Gold Medal Winner)
Ronald Malfi

Juvenile Fiction

Dancing on the Inside
(Gold Medal Winner)
Glen C. Strathy

Lgbt Fiction

I'm Trying to Reach You
(Gold Medal Winner)
Barbara Browning

Literary Fiction

Lord of Misrule
(Gold Medal Winner)
Jaimy Gordon

Mid-Atlantic Fiction

Tracks: A Novel in Stories
(Gold Medal Winner)
Eric D. Goodman

Mid-West Fiction

Nazareth, North Dakota
(Gold Medal Winner)
Tommy Zurhellen

Multicultural Fic Child

The White Zone
(Gold Medal Winner)
Carolyn Marsden

Multicultural Fiction

Midnight Sweatlodge
(Gold Medal Winner)
Waubgeshig Rice

Mystery/Intrigue

Murder on Music Row
(Gold Medal Winner)
Stuart Dill

Popular Fiction

Vertical
(Gold Medal Winner)
Rex Pickett

Religious Fiction

The Wise Man Returns
(Gold Medal Winner)
Kenny Kemp

Romance

Find Wonder in All Things
(Gold Medal Winner)
Karen M. Cox

South Fiction

Higher Ground
(Gold Medal Winner)
James Nolan

South-East Fiction

Render Unto the Valley
(Gold Medal Winner)
Rose Senehi

Suspense

Department Thirteen
(Gold Medal Winner)
James Houston Turner

U.S. N.East Fiction

The Great Lenore
(Gold Medal Winner)
Jm Tohline

Visionary Fiction

A Brief Moment in Time
(Gold Medal Winner)
Jeane Watier

West-Mountain Fiction

Quantum Physics and the Art of Departure
(Gold Medal Winner)
Craig Lancaster

West-Pacific Fiction

The Snow Whale
(Gold Medal Winner)
John Minichillo

Young Adult Fiction

In Trouble
(Gold Medal Winner)
Ellen Levine

Animals/Pets

Tea with Lady Sapphire: Sharing the Love of Birds
(Silver Medal Winner)
Carl R. Sams II; Jean Stoick

Chippy Chipmunk: Babies in the Garden
(Silver Medal Winner)
Kathy M. Miller

Canada-East Fiction

Double Talk
(Silver Medal Winner)
Patrick Warner

Children's Interactive

Road Trip to the Parks
(Silver Medal Winner)
Michael Dilorenzo; Jennifer Julich

Children's Picture

Where Wild Horses Run
(Silver Medal Winner)
Georgia Graham

Erotica

The Company He Keeps
(Silver Medal Winner)
Dale Chase

Fantasy/Sci-Fi

The Lament of the Stone
(Silver Medal Winner)
Dora Machado

Fiction-Short Stories

All the Roads That Lead from Home
(Silver Medal Winner)
Anne Leigh Parrish

Gay/Lesbian Fiction

Shaken and Stirred
(Silver Medal Winner)
Joan Opyr

Great Lakes Fiction

Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them: Contemporary Michigan Literature
(Silver Medal Winner)
Keith Taylor

Historical Fiction

Scimitar
(Silver Medal Winner)
Robin Raybould

Gates of Eden
(Silver Medal Winner)
Charles Degelman

Holiday

The Roof Top Hop
(Silver Medal Winner)
Michael Sheahan

Horror

Dragon's Ark
(Silver Medal Winner)
Thomas Burchfield

Literary Fiction

The Message
(Silver Medal Winner)
Tariq Goddard

The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
(Silver Medal Winner)
Paul Russell

Mid-Atlantic Fiction

After the Fog
(Silver Medal Winner)
Kathleen Shoop

Mid-West Fiction

A Crooked Number
(Silver Medal Winner)
Nathan Jorgenson

Multicultural Fic Child

Unchained
(Silver Medal Winner)
L.B. Tillit

Multicultural Fiction

The Book of Want
(Silver Medal Winner)
Daniel A. Olivas

Mystery/Intrigue

Safely Buried
(Silver Medal Winner)
John Pesta

Romance

The Bedeviled Heart
(Silver Medal Winner)
Carmen Caine

South-East Fiction

The Breath of God
(Silver Medal Winner)
Jeffrey Small

U.S. N.East Fiction

Hull Creek
(Silver Medal Winner)
Jim Nichols

West-Mountain Fiction

Sojourner of Warren's Camp
(Silver Medal Winner)
Joseph Dorris

West-Pacific Fiction

Sweet Song
(Silver Medal Winner)
Terry Persun

Altamont Augie
(Silver Medal Winner)
Richard Barager

Canada-West Fiction

Dinner with Lisa
(Bronze Medal Winner)
R.L. Prendergast

Children's Pict/7&under

Mommy, Daddy, I Had a Bad Dream!
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Martha Heineman Pieper

Big Bouffant
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Kate Hosford

Children's Picture

Only Cows Allowed!
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Lynn Plourde

The Kingdom of Mine
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Gary Edwards

Erotica

Women in Lust: Erotic Stories
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Rachel Kramer Bussel

Fiction-Short Stories

God Bless America
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Steve Almond

Gay/Lesbian Fiction

The Girls Club
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Sally Bellerose

Graphic Novel-Humor

The Fabulous Adventures of Olly Oogleberry: Mission to Save Earth
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Lou Hughes

Great Lakes Fiction

Heart Of A Native
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Tom St. Dennis

Historical Fiction

Line by Line
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Amy Schor

Literary Fiction

Pacazo
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Roy Kesey

The Correspondence Artist
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Barbara Browning

Mid-West Fiction

Gone by Sundown
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Peter Leach

Multicultural Fic Child

The Latte Rebellion
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Sarah Jamila Stevenson

Multicultural Fiction

The Hometown
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Leena Ceraveeni

Mystery/Intrigue

Wicked Wind
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Helen Cothran

Popular Fiction

We Were Stardust
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Kathrin King Segal

Romance

The Distant Shore
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Mariam Kobras

Suspense

Murder Under the Microscope
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Jane Bennett Munro

U.S. N.East Fiction

Danger Sector
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Jenifer LeClair

West-Pacific Fiction

Terroryaki!
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Jennifer K. Chung

Award Categories

Animals/Pets

Anthologies

Au/Nz Fiction

Canada-East Fiction

Canada-West Fiction

Children's Interactive

Children's Pict/6&under

Children's Pict/7&over

Children's Pict/7&under

Children's Picture

Children-Y/A Fiction

Contemporary Fiction

Education/Teaching

Erotica

Essay/Creative Nonfic

Fantasy

Fantasy/Sci-Fi

Fiction-Short Stories

Gay/Lesbian

Gay/Lesbian Fiction

General Fiction

Gift

Graphic Novel-Drama

Graphic Novel-Humor

Great Lakes Fiction

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