AWSA
(Advanced Writers and Speakers Association) announces finalists for
the 2014 Golden Scroll Awards for Publisher, Editor, and Fiction Editor
of the Year as well as their finalists for their Novel and
Nonfiction Books
of the Year. The winners will be announced at the 2014 Golden
Scroll Awards,
now a CBA sanctioned event, to be held Sunday, July 22nd from 12:30 to 3 p.m. at
the World Congress Convention Center in Atlanta, GA.
Honored
for outstanding ministry partnerships with their authors, the Golden
Scroll Publisher of the Year finalists are Abingdon Press, New Hope Publishers,
and Thomas Nelson Publishers.
Editor
of the Year finalists are
Liz Heaney
of Liz Heaney Editorial Services,
Cindy
Lambert of Somersault Group and
Lambert Editorial,
and
Katara Patton of Tyndale House Publishers.
The Fiction
Editor of the Year finalists are Stephanie Broene of Tyndale House,
Joyce
Dinkins of New Hope Publishers, and
Pam Pugh of Moody Publishers.
AWSA
Nonfiction Book of the Year Award finalists include
:
Standing
Tall
After
Falling Short by Emily Parke Chase from Wingspread,
Unexpected
Love: God's
Heart Revealed in Jesus' Conversations with Women by Julie Zine
Coleman from
Thomas Nelson,
Ragged
Hope: Surviving the Fallout of Other People’s Choices
by Cynthia Ruchti from Abingdon Press,
and
Wounded Women of the Bible: Finding
Hope When Life Hurts by Dena Dyer and Tina Samples from Kregal Publications.The
Novel of the Year Award finalists include
:
Eva
Marie Everson for Slow Moon
Rising: A Cedar Key Novel from Revell,
The
Ohana by C. W. Schutter from River
Ranch Publishing,
On
Distant Shores by Sarah Sundin from Revell,
and The
Survivor by DiAnn Mills from Zondervan.
Other
awards to be presented at the Golden Scrolls Award Banquet will
include
CAN (Christian Authors Network) Nonfiction and Novel Books of the
Year awards.
The CAN finalists for Nonfiction Book of the Year include
:
I
Don’t
Chase
the Garbage Truck Down the Street in My Bathrobe Anymore by Dianne Barker
from CrossBooks,
Partly
Cloudy with Scattered Worries by Kathy Collard
Miller from Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas,
I
Believe in Heaven – Real
Stories from the Bible, History and Today by Cecil Murphey and Twila
Belk
from Regal.
CAN
finalists for Fiction Book of the Year include
:
Catherine’s
Pursuit by
Lena
Nelson Dooley from Charisma House Book Group,
All
My Belongings by Cynthia
Ruchti from Abingdon Press,
and
On Distant Shores by Sarah Sundin from Revell.
In
addition, the AWSA Member of the Year, the Beyond Me Award, as well
as the
prestigious 2014 Golden Scroll Lifetime Achievement Award will also
be presented
at the Golden Scroll Banquet. Jerry
Jenkins will be the keynote speaker with Stacy Hawkins Adams as emcee.
Authors Carol Kent and Pam Farrel will present awards. Recording
artist Gwen
Smith will perform a parody written by Martha Bolton dedicated to editors
and publishers
.
The
Golden Scroll Awards banquet are open to all authors, editors, publishers,
agents, booksellers and other CBA industry professionals. Tickets
are $54.99.
For more information or to register for the banquet, go to www.ScrollAwards.com (http://www.scrollawards.com/)
.
AWSA,
the sponsors of the Golden Scroll Awards Banquet, is an outreach of Right
to the Heart Ministries and consists of over 400 top ICRS women authors
who both publish and speak nationally. See _www.AWSA.com_
Release
Date: Coming October 2014 
