Tiger Drive has won the Gold for Best Popular Fiction at the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards! Here is the official press release.
I am so honored to win and to be compared to the following talented authors and their Five Star books.
Thank you for being you!
Teri
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You each know that Tiger Drive was nominated for the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award in Popular Fiction alongside these amazing authors and their novels:
Float Plan by Rob Hiaasen
Guarding Savage by Dave Edlund
Better Than This by Cathy Zane
I read each of the above novels, and as I finished each book, I had to pinch myself. They are Five Star books. Yes, I believe in my novel, Tiger Drive, but being compared to these authors and their works was an award in itself. So I packed my bags and headed to Chicago for the Benjamin Franklin Award Ceremony, knowing that one of them would win the Gold, and I wanted to be there when they did.
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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.
Continue reading“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,
IBPA2019 during a gala dinner ceremony held in conjunction with IBPA Publishing University in Chicago, Illinois.”
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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