{"id":24264,"date":"2016-05-13T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T07:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=24264"},"modified":"2016-05-13T00:01:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T07:01:58","slug":"ippy-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/ippy-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"My IPPY Gold Book Award — Celebrating High Above Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Four California writers — Veda Stamps (“Flexible Wings,” IMO Books), Barbara Falconer Newhall (“Wrestling with God,” Patheos Press), Laura A. Ackley<\/a> (“San Francisco’s Jewel City,” Heyday), Aleta George<\/a> (“Ina Coolbrith,” Shifting Plates Press) — IPPY winners all. Photo by Jon Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Hey, everybody.\u00a0I’ve got my IPPY gold \u00a0medal in my hot little hands, and it’s a beaut.\u00a0As many of you know, “Wrestling with God: Stories of Doubt and Faith” won a first prize — an Ippy<\/a>\u00a0—\u00a0in the\u00a02016 Independent Publisher Book Awards.<\/p>\n

The \u00a0awards ceremony took place Tuesday evening at the Skydeck on the 99th floor of Chicago’s \u00a0— very tall — Willis Tower. And since\u00a0Jon and I planned to be\u00a0in the Midwest\u00a0paying our brand-new granddaughter a visit, we decided to swing by Chicago to pick up the gold and drink a little self-congratulatory toast with the other IPPY winners.<\/p>\n

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The Independent Publisher Book Awards\u00a0has dozens of categories — 80 to be exact. “Wrestling with God” won first prize IPPY gold in the Religion Eastern – Western category.<\/p>\n

The ceremony took place on the eve of\u00a0the BookExpo America book publishing convention, which is being held in Chicago this year. Jon and I spent Wednesday at BookExpo checking out the new books — memoirs and God books for me, thrillers for Jon.<\/p>\n

IPPY Gold and INDIEFAB<\/h5>\n

The IPPY award is not the same as the INDIEFAB award, btw. The latter is presented by Foreword Review, and WWG is still one of 16 finalists in its INDIEFAB category. Those results will be announced in Florida next month at the American Library Association convention.<\/p>\n

Organizations like the Foreword Review and the Independent Publisher Book Awards run\u00a0competitions and promotions for books from small publishers and self-published books. You have to pay to enter, but if you win, it definitely helps your book\u00a0to\u00a0stand out from the crowd.<\/p>\n

Yippee. I’ve been needing a little encouragement in the “Wrestling with God”<\/a>\u00a0department, and here it is.<\/p>\n

More missives from The Writing Room at “You’ve Got the Agent, You’ve Got the Publisher, but Do You Have the Publicist?”<\/a>\u00a0 Also, “Making Friends — Trying To — With the Dread Serial Comma.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Authors from all over the world gathered in the Skydeck of Chicago’s Willis Tower to collect their Independent Publishers Book Awards for books published in 2015. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I went to Chicago to collect an IPPY gold book award for “Wrestling with God” — and celebrate with other winning authors. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,52],"tags":[1486,1686,1705,1037,34,1706,1707,1708,1690,1709,1440,1710,53],"class_list":["post-24264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-writing-reading","category-the-writing-room","tag-aleta-george","tag-book-awards","tag-book-expo-america","tag-book-publishing","tag-dont-miss","tag-foreword-reviews","tag-independent-publishers-book-award","tag-indiefab","tag-ippy","tag-laura-a-ackley","tag-promotion","tag-veda-stamps","tag-wrestling-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}