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What’s the Point of Parenting? How to Turn Your Child into a Responsible Adult is a new kind of parenting book. Written by Sherry Rhodes, a teacher for over forty years, it reminds parents of all the things children need to learn, and how to teach those things. It also offers tips on how to…
Bernie and Linda Nagy received more publicity for their three-time CIPA EVVY award-winning book. South Park, Colorado: Nature’s Paradise was reviewed for the July/August edition of the new Colorado Life Magazine. Staff writer Nathan Ward gave a glowing review of their book. “Bernie and Linda Nagy’s book is a treasure map leading to some of…
Carol Grever’s full-length poetry collection, Glimpses: A Memoir in Poetry, is now available (Outskirts Press). Widely known for her nonfiction books on straight spouse recovery (My Husband is Gay, When Your Spouse Comes Out), Carol’s new book mines four decades of poetic expression in the light of present understanding. Distinct personal stages emerge through seven…
Author and Writer’s Coach Teresa R. Funke is now an Expert Guide for Children’s Book Insider (CBI), one of the premier websites and services for authors serious about a career in writing for children. Teresa produces instructional videos to help writers learn the ins and outs of this industry and keep on the path to…
Lucy Dakota: Adventures of a Modern Explorer Book 1 – Rocky Mountain Beginnings, a CIPA EVVY Merit book in Young Adult Fiction, and Carol Sue Shride’s debut independently published novel, has won the 2012 Colorado Book Award in Young Adult Literature on June 22, 2012 in Aspen, CO.
Beyond the Wood, a Civil War ad-venture and love story, has won the 2012 John Esten Cooke Fiction Award for Southern history from the Military Order of the Stars and Bars (MOS&B). The award was presented to the book’s author, Michael J. Roueche, at the organization’s 2012 annual convention in San Antonio, Texas. The award…
The results of the Paris Book festival are in! Gentle Hands, Gentle People by CIPA Member and author, Loretta A. C. Warren was the winner in the Spiritual division. There will be a reception in San Francisco on May 19 at the Sir Francis Drake to recognize all the winners. Loretta and her partner, Dr. Aida Sahud, will be attending. A luncheon for…
More Than 36 Days, the story of four WWII Denver area Marines has been keeping the author, CIPA member Carron Barrella busy since its release last July. On May 7, Carron and the veterans, WWII veteran Jim Blane, Admiral Winnefeld, WWII veteran Don Whipple, attended the ESGR (Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve) banquet where they presented Admiral Winnefeld of the Joint Chiefs…
Shared Moments: Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park Remembered in Postcards by James Pickering and Bobbie Heisterkamp, was designed and typeset by CIPA Associate Members Pratt Brothers Composition. The book won the Gold Award for Adult Trade Book—Illustrated at the 2012 PubWest Book Design Awards. See the entire list of winners HERE.
CIPA member and author from Tucson, Arizona, Marianne Mitchell’s young adult historical fiction, A PROMISE MADE, is now available as an e‐book from all the usual sources and as a print book from Amazon.com. The story is set in Silver Plume, Colorado in 1884, the year of the great fire in that small mining town. Marianne plans to be in Colorado this…