EVVY award-winning author Bill Thompson will release the first six books in his best-selling Bayou Hauntings series on Amazon September. 4. The seventh book, The Proctor Hall Horror, will be out in paperback and ebook on October 1. CIPA finalist Dr. Jenny Pieratt, author of Keep it Real with PBL just published a new quick…
Wow! Our CIPA EVVY™ Awards Banquet sales are doing amazing. We are at approx. 120 tickets sold so far! We have limited seating, so once we sell out, we sell out. No walk-ins will be accepted. All tickets must be pre-purchased by Sunday, August 13 at 9pm to give our caterer enough notice. Early-bird ticket…
We have updated the list of finalists. Please note – the only category not on the list of finalists is the Editing category. Once that list is ready, we’ll update you with the full list. Click the button below to view a list of finalists (not including Editing). We will keep this list updated and send…
Thank you to those who submitted your book to the 21st Annual CIPA EVVY Awards! Click the button below to view a partial list of finalists. We will keep this list updated and send a final announcement when the list is complete. Did you or your friend make the list? Join us at the 21st Annual CIPA…
2015 21st Annual CIPA EVVY Awards Tickets are now available! Ticket cost is $60 for the reception, dinner & ceremony (soda, beer, and wine are complimentary). The CIPA EVVY Awards Banquet will be held: Sunday, August 23, 2015, from 5pm to 8pm Space Gallery, 400 Santa Fe Dr Denver, CO 80204 Meet our M.C. for the…
CIPA members and authors Allidah Poole Hicks and Bonnie Knuti are delighted to announce that their book, the EVVY Award-winning When Crisis Strikes…What To Do, What To Say, How To Help is an award-winning finalist in the USA “Best Books 2011” Awards in the Health: General category. USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for…
by Dan Miller, incoming CIPA president This is a quick update on the CIPA/Douglas County Libraries e-Book Partnership. The first group of CIPA EVVY award-winning books are now available for loan through the library’s check-out system. And I have been contacted by the largest library system in the country to explore a similar partnership. MAKE…
by Dr. Dan Miller, CIPA Vice-President It should be obvious to everyone, but just in case you haven’t noticed – CIPA is doing a lot more these days to promote its author and publisher members. Let’s start with the CIPA Library e-Book Partnership with Douglas County Libraries. The goal of this program is to facilitate…
Doris Kenney Marcotte is the author of “The Beads of Lapis Lazuli”, 2011 EVVY Award for Fiction, 1st Place. You can contact her at: [email protected]. I became interested in writing about the lost civilization on the Greek Island of Crete during a sailing holiday. I love the water. We have a house on the banks of…
Tell us about yourselves. Give us a short bio and why you started writing. Rebecca I began writing as a young girl as a way to make sense of a chaotic childhood. Writing for me has always been both a microscope and an escape, a way to figure things out and then leave them behind…