GRID CITY OVERLOAD Awarded Honorable Mention for 2012 Book of the Year Awards

So if anyone remembers, way back three months ago GCO was announced as a finalist in the LITERARY category for the ForeWord Reviews 2012 Book of the Year Award, and yesterday at the American Library Association Annual Conference, which took place in Chicago, the winners were announced on the Popular Topics Stage.

Here is how the contest is judged according to the press release: ...a panel of sixty judges, librarians and booksellers only, will determine the winners. Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards, as well as Editor’s Choice Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction... The winners of the two Editor’s Choice Prizes will be awarded $1,500 each. ForeWord’s Independent Publisher of the Year will also be announced.

Although I didn't receive any of these four awards, I was awarded Honorable Mention. I was up against novelists with some impressive pedigrees, including many university professors and previous award-winners of different fiction contests. Most everyone on the list had an MFA, it seemed, and the novel that won Silver was reviewed in the NY Times and had a blurb on the front from David Foster Wallace, so considering my own humble resume I'm honored to be among this list.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL LINE-UP OF WINNERS.

GOLD - Frottage and Even As We Speak by Mona Houghton. What Books Press.

SILVER - That's Not a Feeling by Dan Josefson. Soho Press.

BRONZE - Total Secession by Adam Connell. Published by Adam Connell. (The Bronze winner, I noticed, was the only other book on the list that wasn't published and distributed by a small press other than myself. Congratulations on your accomplishment.)

HONORABLE MENTION - Grid City Overload by Steven T. Bramble. CreateSpace.