2014 Independent Publisher Book Award

Awards List

Anthologies

Astoria to Zion
(Gold Medal Winner)
Ben Fountain

Au/Nz Fiction

Strands of Flax
(Gold Medal Winner)
Raewyn Gregory

Canada-East Fiction

An Absent Mind
(Gold Medal Winner)
Eric Rill

Children's Pict/7&under

Momo and Snap Are Not Friends!
(Gold Medal Winner)
Airlie Anderson

Children's Picture

The Acrobat
(Gold Medal Winner)
Alborozo

The Man with the Violin
(Gold Medal Winner)
Kathy Stinson

What Do You Do with an Idea?
(Gold Medal Winner)
Kobi Yamada

Erotica

Under My Thumb
(Gold Medal Winner)
Alison Tyler

Fantasy

Beasts of Upton Puddle
(Gold Medal Winner)
Simon West-Bulford

Gay/Lesbian Fiction

Unbroken
(Gold Medal Winner)
Larry Benjamin

Graphic Novel-Drama

War Brothers
(Gold Medal Winner)
Sharon McKay; Daniel LaFrance

Great Lakes Fiction

Something That Feels Like Truth: Stories
(Gold Medal Winner)
Donald Lystra

Historical Fiction

Anvil of God
(Gold Medal Winner)
J. Boyce Gleason

The Kiss
(Gold Medal Winner)
Scott E. Blumenthal

Horror

Athema
(Gold Medal Winner)
D.A. Dalessandro

Inspirational/Spiritual

Burning the Midnight Oil
(Gold Medal Winner)
Phil Cousineau

Juvenile Fiction

The Boy Who Ran
(Gold Medal Winner)
Michael Selden

Literary Fiction

Fugitive Colors
(Gold Medal Winner)
Lisa Barr

Mid-Atlantic Fiction

A Waste of Shame and Other Sad Tales of the Appalachian Foothills
(Gold Medal Winner)
Geoffrey Smagacz

Mid-West Fiction

The Stray Pitch
(Gold Medal Winner)
Marilyn Janice Bos / Marilyn Bos

Multicultural Fiction

How to Knock a Bravebird from Her Perch
(Gold Medal Winner)
D. Bryant Simmons

Mystery

What's a Witch to Do?
(Gold Medal Winner)
Jennifer Harlow

Popular Fiction

11 Stories
(Gold Medal Winner)
Chris Cander

Religious Fiction

Treason: A Catholic Novel of Elizabethan England
(Gold Medal Winner)
Dena Hunt

Romance

The Red Chrysanthemum
(Gold Medal Winner)
Linda Beutler

The Echoes of Love
(Gold Medal Winner)
Hannah Fielding

Science Fiction

Artifact
(Gold Medal Winner)
Shane Lindemoen

Short Fiction

Corporeality
(Gold Medal Winner)
Hollis Seamon

Train Shots: Stories
(Gold Medal Winner)
Vanessa Blakeslee

South Fiction

In the Garden of Stone
(Gold Medal Winner)
Susan Tekulve

South-East Fiction

Long Gone Daddies
(Gold Medal Winner)
David Wesley Williams

Suspense

Carved in Darkness
(Gold Medal Winner)
Maegan Beaumont

U.S. N.East Fiction

The Biology of Luck
(Gold Medal Winner)
Jacob M. Appel

Visionary Fiction

Mystic Tea
(Gold Medal Winner)
Rea Nolan Martin

West-Mountain Fiction

Badlands
(Gold Medal Winner)
Thomas Biel

Young Adult Fiction

The Sin Eater's Confession
(Gold Medal Winner)
Ilsa J. Bick

Some Quiet Place
(Gold Medal Winner)
Kelsey Sutton

Canada-East Fiction

Strum
(Silver Medal Winner)
Nancy Young

Children's Pict/7&under

What the Sleepy Animals Do at the Audubon Zoo
(Silver Medal Winner)
Grace Millsaps; Ryan Murphy

The Night Before Baseball at the Park by the Bay
(Silver Medal Winner)
David Schnell

Children's Picture

Maurice's Valises: The Micetro of Moscow: Moral Tails in an Immoral World
(Silver Medal Winner)
J.S. Friedman

Erotica

Under Her Thumb: Erotic Stories of Female Domination
(Silver Medal Winner)
D.L. King

Gay/Lesbian Fiction

Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
(Silver Medal Winner)
Kirstin Cronn-Mills

Great Lakes Fiction

Pepperland
(Silver Medal Winner)
Barry Wightman

Historical Fiction

The Sixth
(Silver Medal Winner)
Avery Hays

Holiday

A Fantastic Holiday Season
(Silver Medal Winner)
Kevin J. Anderson

Horror

Chiral Mad 2
(Silver Medal Winner)
Michael Bailey

Juvenile Fiction

Finn Finnegan
(Silver Medal Winner)
Darby Karchut

Literary Fiction

Liliane's Balcony
(Silver Medal Winner)
Kelcey Parker

Mid-Atlantic Fiction

Elizabeth's Field
(Silver Medal Winner)
Barbara M. Lockhart

Mid-West Fiction

The Bastard Trail
(Silver Medal Winner)
James Duermeyer

Multicultural Fic Y/A

I'm Just Me
(Silver Medal Winner)
M.G. Higgins

Multicultural Fiction

If I Never Went Home
(Silver Medal Winner)
Ingrid Persaud

Mystery

Coldwater
(Silver Medal Winner)
Diana Gould

Colorado Noir
(Silver Medal Winner)
John Dwaine McKenna

Popular Fiction

Infidelity
(Silver Medal Winner)
Stacey May Fowles

Religious Fiction

The Lamp of Darkness
(Silver Medal Winner)
Dave Mason; Mike Feuer

Romance

Song of the Storm
(Silver Medal Winner)
Mariam Kobras

Science Fiction

Virtually True
(Silver Medal Winner)
Adam L. Penenberg

Short Fiction

If a Stranger Approaches
(Silver Medal Winner)
Laura Kasischke

Living Together
(Silver Medal Winner)
Gloria Whelan

South-East Fiction

Shorter's Way
(Silver Medal Winner)
Grace Hawthorne

Suspense

The Cana Mystery
(Silver Medal Winner)
David Beckett

U.S. N.East Fiction

Puritan Witch
(Silver Medal Winner)
Peni Jo Renner

Visionary Fiction

The Rockin' Chair
(Silver Medal Winner)
Steven Manchester

West-Pacific Fiction

Scary, Man
(Silver Medal Winner)
Jeffrey Hickey

Young Adult Fiction

Reclaimed
(Silver Medal Winner)
Sarah Guillory

Au/Nz Fiction

Paddy's People
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Gerry Burke

Children's Interactive

Me and Giant Kangaroo
(Bronze Medal Winner)
M.H. Clark

Children's Pict/7&under

A Happy Hat
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Cecil Kim

Lenny the Crow
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Angela Halgrimson

Children's Picture

Stumble Trip Fall
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Robert Scully

Erotica

The Pleasure Dial
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Jeremy Edwards

Essay/Creative Nonfic

Dead Meander: Essays
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Adria Bernardi

Fantasy

The Raven's Warrior
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Vincent Pratchett

Gay/Lesbian Fiction

Leap
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Z. Egloff

Historical Fiction

The Cairo Codex
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Linda Lambert

Horror

Caught on Film
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Andy Otto

Juvenile Fiction

The Devil's Backbone
(Bronze Medal Winner)
James Babb

Literary Fiction

The American Sun & Wind Moving Picture Company
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Jay Neugeboren

Ma Ana Means Heaven
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Tim Z. Hernandez

Mid-West Fiction

Che Guevara's Marijuana & Baseball Savings & Loan
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Jack Shakely

Military/Wartime Fiction

The Peacekeeper's Photograph
(Bronze Medal Winner)
M.L. Doyle

Multicultural Fic Y/A

Danny Blackgoat, Navajo Prisoner
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Tim Tingle

Multicultural Fiction

First Generation
(Bronze Medal Winner)
David La Piana

Mystery

Fleeting Glance
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Sherban Young

Popular Fiction

On Grace
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Susie Orman Schnall

Smart Mouth
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Holly L. Lorincz

Romance

The Bloodline War
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Tracy Tappan

Science Fiction

The Last Firewall
(Bronze Medal Winner)
William Hertling

Short Fiction

Praying Drunk
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Kyle Minor

Suspense

Enough Rope
(Bronze Medal Winner)
P.L. Doss

Corridor of Darkness
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Patrick W. O'Bryon

U.S. N.East Fiction

The Cost of Living
(Bronze Medal Winner)
M.L. Pressman

Visionary Fiction

Cobalt Blue
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Peggy Payne

West-Pacific Fiction

The Condor Song
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Darryl Nyznyk

Two Performance Artists Kidnap Their Boss and Do Things with Him
(Bronze Medal Winner)
Scotch Wichmann

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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