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A Review of Fellow Finalist Rob Hiaasen’s Float Plan

My Review of Float Plan

In last week’s newsletter, I shared the incredible news that Tiger Drive has been nominated for the Benjamin Franklin Award in Popular Fiction. I’m reading the other three finalists’ books. I started with Rob Hiaasen’s Float Plan.

Before I share the synopsis and my review, you should be the first to know, I wish I knew Rob Hiaasen. His novel, Float Plan, has planted a firm author-crush from me onto him because he and I have* something in common: we both write about flawed characters who want to matter.

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Tiger Drive Nominated for the Benjamin Franklin Award

Dear Friends,

Last week I cried. I cried hard.

But they were happy tears. Validating tears.

I found out that my debut novel, Tiger Drive, has been nominated for the Benjamin Franklin Award:

“The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards™, which include over fifty categories recognizing excellence in book editorial and design, are regarded as one of the highest national honors for independent publishers…Gold winners will be announced April 5, 2019, during a gala dinner ceremony held in conjunction with IBPA Publishing University in Chicago, Illinois.”

Why is this recognition so important to me when it’s already been so rewarding and gratifying to see how readers have responded to–even related to–the Sloan Family’s determination to change after generations of family secrets, addiction, and trauma? Why am I thrilled at this ‘shout out’ and pleased with the silver Benjamin, or still possible, gold Benjamin?

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IBPA Press Release

31st Annual IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards

Press Release: IBPA Announces Finalists in the 31st Annual Benjamin Franklin Award Program. Click here to read the press release.

Tiger Drive Nominated for the Benjamin Franklin Award

Tiger Drive by Teri Case has been nominated for the Benjamin Franklin Award in Popular Fiction

“The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards™, which include over fifty categories recognizing excellence in book editorial and design, are regarded as one of the highest national honors for independent publishers . . . Gold winners will be announced April 5, 2019 during a gala dinner ceremony held in conjunction with IBPA Publishing University in Chicago, Illinois.”
IBPA

To order or learn more about this novel, click here.

Congratulation to my fellow nominees in Popular Fiction:
Cathy Zane, Better Than This
Rob Hiaasen, Float Plan
Dave Edlund, Guarding Savage: A Peter Savage Novel

I can’t wait to read your books!

Thank you IBPA for this wonderful honor, and thank you, readers, for being you!

Teri

Tiger Drive Wins Best Cover of 2018!

Wow! Tiger Drive‘s cover won Best Cover (mystery genre) in Kobo’s best cover awards. I’m not only excited for my amazing cover designer at 99Designs; This exposure will help fund the Tiger Drive Scholarship!

Thank you so much for being you and Happy Holidays!

Teri

Tiger Drive Wins Best New Fiction–2018 American Fiction Awards

Tiger Drive wins Best New Fiction – 2018 American Fiction Awards.

Wow, wow, wow! Tiger Drive has won! When I opened the below email, I had to read it several times. Could this be true? Yes, it can! I’ve already called my siblings and mother.

Tiger Drive Wins American Fiction Award

If you’d like to read the press release, click here. The American Fiction Awards recognizes publishing in mainstream, independent, and self-publishing. Please check out the finalists in Best New Fiction. I’ll admit, their books are right up my alley:

The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride by Joe Siple
Love After Life by Richard Sieg

Thank you so much for being you. It takes a village to write and publish a book. To prove it, here is a video I made that recognizes everyone in the Acknowledgments of Tiger Drive:

Thanks for being you!

Teri, Award Winning Author (Hee hee)