Breaking news from Book Expo: Selzer wins another award!

Seems like only yesterday we were announcing that Richard Selzer's Knife Song Korea won an Independent Publisher Book Award (in fact, it was just last week). Just moments ago, we received word from our people at Book Expo that it's also been awarded the 2009 Editor's Choice Award for Fiction by Foreword Magazine! Congratulations are once again in order for Richard.

Visit us at Book Expo America

Next week, we'll make our annual trek down to BookExpo America (BEA), the largest publishing event in North America. Publishers, booksellers, authors, librarians, and more will gather in New York City to celebrate publishing, books, and all things related.

We'll be featuring our newest books in the exhibit hall and many of our noted authors will be on hand for autographing sessions, including Binnie Klein, Barbara Chepaitis, Anthony V. Riccio and Silvio Suppa, and Dan Rattiner. BEA will take place from May 25-27 at the Javits Center in New York City. Passes are available to the public, so be sure to stop by and check us out!

ForeWord Book of the Year Finalists

Congratulations to authors Richard Selzer, Joe Amato, and Eve Pell. Their books were recently name ForeWord Book of the Year Finalists!

2009 Finalists in Fiction - Literary Category

Knife Song Korea, by Richard Selzer

2009 Finalists in Autobiography/Memoir Category

Once an Engineer, by Joe Amato

We Used to Own the Bronx, by Eve Pell

The 2009 Book of the Year Award winners will be announced on May 25 at a ceremony at BookExpo America. The winners are being selected by a panel of librarians and booksellers.

 

ForeWord's Book of the Year Awards program was designed to discover distinctive books from independent publishers across a number of genres. The Awards program often serves to provide these worthy projects with a second wind of publicity.

Book Expo news and notes

Book Expo America in NYC is fast approaching—it starts next Thursday, May 28. We'll have some fun stuff for you to take away from our booth (#4840), plus book signings on Sunday, May 31 for Go, Tell Michelle from 9:30–10:30 and for A Family Place from 11:00-noon. Word is we might also have some hot-off-the-press galleys for Woodstock, so look for those as well.

Also, be sure to sign up for the BEA Book Raffle to win $500 worth of books! We've seen the list and it's a nice collection of books in film & television, American history, comic books, spirituality, and more...including three SUNY Press books: the aforementioned Go, Tell Michelle, A Family Place, and Black Elk Speaks. For a chance to win the complete set of books, all you need to do is drop off your business card or fill out a raffle ticket at the AAUP booth (#4846). Best of luck!

Book Expo America

We're busy with the final stages of prep work before we attend Book Expo America at the Javits Center in NYC, "the premier publishing event for the North American publishing industry." Throughout the month of May we're featuring select titles on our website so you can see what we'll have at our booth (# 4840).

Book Expo runs from May 28–May 31, so stop by and visit us while making your way through the labyrinth in the Javits Center. On Sunday May 31 we're hosting book signings for Go, Tell Michelle from 9:30–10:30 and for A Family Place from 11:00–noon. We hope to see you early and often during those four days.

Twenty West: Riding US Route 20 to an IPPY award nomination

Twenty West: The Great Road Across America, by Mac Nelson, has been named a semifinalist in the Travel Essay category in the IPPY awards, or Independent Publisher Book Awards.

Winners will be announced on Friday, May 29, from 6–9 pm, at Book Expo America in New York City. They will receive a medal and a certificate—congrats and best of luck, Mac!

Click here for a full list of IPPY award semifinalists. We're also including Mac's two-part video series on Twenty West below. Enjoy.

2008 ForeWord Book of the Year Finalists

Two SUNY Press books are finalists for the 2008 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards.

William Cullen Bryant, by Gilbert H. Muller, is a finalist in the biography category, while Twenty West, by Mac Nelson, made the cut in the travel category.

The winners will be announced at Book Expo in New York City on May 29. Congratulations to our authors on this exciting news!