May 2009
LIGHTLAND WINS GOLD MEDAL IN FOREWORD
BOOK-OF-THE-YEAR AWARDS
Fourth major publishing award for Kenny
Kemp's new novel.
ForeWord magazine announced the winners of the
2008 Book of the Year Awards at a ceremony at BookExpo America in New York
City on May 29, 2009. 220 Book of the Year Award winners in 61 categories
were honored. These books, representing the best independently published
books from 2008, were selected by a panel of librarian and bookseller
judges who are experts in the subject matter of the books they judged, and
Lightland was among them, winning the Gold Medal in the Science
Fiction category.
ForeWord's founder and publisher, Victoria
Sutherland, spoke at the awards ceremony and announced the winners.
"The Book of the Year Awards help level the playing field," she
said. "Look at the other national awards programs. There seems to be
a prejudice against anything that isn't from a larger house. ForeWord
honors only those books coming from the independent community, giving them
the value they deserve."
The list of finalists is searchable by category,
publisher, title, and author at: http://www.forewordmagazine.com/botya.
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May 2009
LIGHTLAND
WINS ITS THIRD MAJOR LITERARY AWARD
It's
a Trifecta.
Kenny Kemp's new novel, the soul's journey Lightland,
has just won its third publishing award, this time in the small press
competition sponsored by Independent Publisher Magazine. 3,380 books were
entered in 65 categories, an average of fifty contenders per category.
The specific award was a Gold Medal in the Visionary
Fiction category.
This is the fourth time Kemp has won an award in this prestigious
competition. His previous winners were:
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I Hated
Heaven, Finalist in
the Visionary Fiction category;
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Dad Was
a Carpenter, Gold medal in
the Audiobook category;
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Oki's
Island, Bronze medal in the Inspirational/Spiritual
category.
Lightland has also been entered in two
other major competitions, both of which will be decided in late May at BookExpo
New York City: The ForeWord Book of the Year Awards and the Writer's
Digest-sponsored International Self-Published Book Awards. Kemp's book Dad
Was a Carpenter won the Grand Prize in the latter competition
in 2000.
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April 2009
LIGHTLAND WINS CATEGORY IN THE 2009 NEXTGEN INDIE BOOK AWARDS
Second
award for new
novel.
Kenny Kemp's new novel Lightland
has has been named the Winner in the Science Fiction category of
the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
As a category winner, the book will now compete with other
category winners for substantial cash prizes. In addition, it will be reviewed
by New York literary agent Marilyn Allen of Allen O'Shea Literary Agency for
possible representation. Ms. Allen has over 25 years of sales and marketing
experience, including Senior Vice President, Associate Publisher, and Director
of Marketing for Harper Collins and directing sales and marketing teams for
Simon & Schuster, Penguin Books and Avon Books. Ms. Allen has worked with
many best-selling authors including Stephen King, Ken Follett, Barbara
Kingsolver, John Gray, Mary Higgins Clark, and many more.
The book will be listed as a Winner in the 2009 Next Generation
Indie Book Awards catalog which will be distributed at Book Expo America in New
York in May to thousands of attendees including book buyers, library
representatives, media, industry professionals, and others.
More information at www.IndieBookAwards.com.
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Nov 2008
LIGHTLAND WINS ITS
FIRST PUBLISHING AWARD
Kemp's seventh book is a
finalist in the National Best Books Awards
Kenny Kemp's new recently-published novel Lightland
has just been named as a finalist in the
Thriller/Adventure category in the 2008 National Best Books Awards
sponsored by USA Best Books.
USABookNews.com,
the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent
publishing houses, announced the winners and finalists of National "Best
Books" 2008 Awards (NBBA) on October 20, 2008. Over 500 winners and
finalists were announced in over 140 categories covering print and audio books.
Awards were presented for titles published in 2008 and late 2007.
Jeff Keen, President and
CEO of USABookNews.com, said this year’s contest yielded an unprecedented
number of entries, which were then narrowed down to over 500 winners and
finalists.
Keen says of the awards,
now in their fifth year, “The 2008 results represent a phenomenal mix of books
from a wide array of publishers throughout the United States. As an executive in
the publishing PR and marketing industry and president and CEO of JPX Media, I
wanted to create an awards competition that recognized books in their
publication year rather than months after the original launch window. With a
full publicity and marketing campaign promoting the results of NBBA, this
year’s winners and finalists will gain additional media coverage for the
upcoming holiday retail season.”
Winners and finalists traversed the publishing landscape: Simon & Schuster,
Tarcher/Penguin, HarperCollins, Hyperion, St. Martin’s Press, McGraw-Hill,
John Wiley & Sons & hundreds of independent titles contributed to this
year’s outstanding NBBA competition. Keen adds, “NBBA’s success begins
with the enthusiastic participation of authors and publishers and continues with
our distinguished panel of industry judges who bring to the table their
extensive editorial, PR, marketing, and design expertise.”
USABookNews.com is an
online publication providing coverage for books from mainstream and independent
publishers to the world online community. USABN Magazine Online is the monthly
electronic magazine e-mailed free to a large cross-section of the book buying
public.
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