San Diego Book Awards Association to Honor Heart of a Military Woman Book
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Saturday, June 5, 2010, the San Diego Book Awards Association is hosting their sixteenth annual San Diego Book & Writing Awards. Held at the AMN Healthcare Building in San Diego, California, the program features Laurel Corona keynote speaker and program host Bruno Leone.
Published Book Contest
This contest is open to San Diego County residents whose books were first published in 2009 and/or bear a 2009 copyright. Published book categories include fiction, nonfiction, young adult fiction, young adult nonfiction, children’s fiction, and children’s nonfiction.
Submissions for Published Books–Nonfiction being honored as finalists this year include:
Biography
Nancy Burnett, Journeys Home
Sarita Eastman, A Trail of Light: The Very Full Life of Dr. Anita Figueredo
Gayle Slate, Dana’s Legacy: From Heartbreak to Healing
Business
Ken Blanchard, Helping People Win at Work
Scott G. Kyle, The Power Curve
Bob Nelson, Keeping Up in a Down Economy
Lee Silber, Andrew Chapman, and Linda Krall, The Wild Idea Club
Children’s/Young Adult
Edward Hujsak, All About Rocket Engines
Judith Pinkerton Josephson, Nelson Mandela
Cooking and Crafts
Gaetano Cicciotti, Cicciotti’s Kitchen
Bernard Guillen, Flying Pans
Leslie Perlis, Dimensional Mosaics
Education
Beth Wagner Brust and Cynthia La Brie Norall, Quirky, Yes—Hopeless, No
Michael Linsin, Dream Class
General
Michael Hemmingson, Star Trek: A Post-Structural Critique of the Original Series
Peter J. Munson, Iraq in Transition
Michael Oldstone, Viruses, Plagues, & History: Past, Present, and Future
History
Tom Basinski, Cross Country Evil
David Klauber, The Sounding
Amy Goodpaster Strebe, Flying For Her Country
Local Interest
Leland Fetzer, The Cuyamacas
Karla Ogilvie, Encinitas Insight
Linda H. Pequegnat, This Day in San Diego History
Memoir
Ella DeCastro Baron, Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment
Lew Decker, Fingerprints…A Coffeehouse Reader
Phyllis Pilgrim, The Hidden Passport: My Childhood Journey Through Japanese Concentration Camps in Java
Carol Poe Straubinger, My Chunk of a Century
Lac Su, I Love Yous Are for White People
Pets
Richard Lederer, A Treasury for Cat Lovers
Richard Lederer, A Treasury for Dog Lovers
Liz Palika, Puppy Love
Cindy Traisi, Because They Matter, Too
Self-Help & Medicine
Marylin S. Beidler, Everyday Wellness
Kathi Burns, How to Master Your Muck
Giovanna Pang Garcia, Why Chinese Women Are Not Broke
Spirit/Inspiration
Pamela MacPhee, Delivering Hope
Dean Nelson, God Hides in Plain Sight
Sheryl L. Roush, Heart of a Military Woman
Travel
Diane Asitimbay, What’s Up America?
Nelson Copp, Cycling the Palm Springs Region
Bette Blaydes Pegas, Chasing a Dream in the Galápagos
The San Diego Book Awards Association is a volunteer organization dedicated to enriching the large, diverse, and vibrant literary community of the nation’s third largest county. Founded in 1994, the SDBAA honors the best published books and unpublished manuscripts by San Diego County residents each year. Winning authors report that receiving a San Diego Book Award boosts sales of their books, and several winners of their unpublished novel, memoir, and poetry chapbook competitions have said that receiving a San Diego Book Award played an instrumental role in their later securing a publisher for their work.
A 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, the SDBAA promotes literacy in San Diego County schools through the Read-4-Fun program. Specially designed for fifth graders—the grade in which reading for pleasure dramatically declines—Read-4-Fun gives away approximately 2,500 books a year to student readers. For many of these children, the books they receive through Read-4-Fun are the first books they have ever owned.
Dec. 2, 2009-Military Writers Book Signing Symposium at San Diego Veterans Museum and Memorial Center
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SAN DIEGO BOOK FAIR AND SIGNING
On Wednesday, December 2, 2009, from 6-8 p.m., 14 authors from the San Diego Chapter of the Military Writer’s Society of America will gather at the Veterans Museum and Memorial Center for a Symposium, Book Fair and Book Signing.
This free event allows attendees to meet the writers, purchase books that can be personally signed, and take part in the authors’ special sales just in time for holiday gift shopping.
Topics include fiction and non-fiction and deal with WWII, Vietnam, the Cold War, Iraq and Afghanistan, military women, as well as other non-military subjects like true crime, historical fiction, self-help/inspirational, and pop culture.
Authors and Book Titles/Subjects
Books will be available for sale at the event.
Gail Chatfield
By Dammit, We’re Marines! Veterans Stories of Heroism, Horror, and Humor in World War II on the Pacific Front (WWII)
Virg Erwin
Cat Lo, a memoir of invincible youth (Vietnam)
David Lucero
The Sandman (Mystery/Suspense/Middle East)
Emilio Marrero
A Quiet Reality: A Chaplain’s Journey into Babylon Iraq with the I Marine
Expeditionary Force (Iraq)
Carl Nelson
The Advisor (Cô-Vân)(Vietnam Fiction)
Secret Players (Cold War Fiction)
Madam President and the Admiral (Fiction/Future Era)
Sheryl Roush and Eldonna Lewis Fernandez
Heart of a Military Woman (Veterans Day 2009 Release!)
Stories, Poems & Tributes Honoring Those Who Serve Our Country
Heart of a Woman in Business: Stories, Skills & Strategies for Business Success
Sheryl Roush
Heart of a Woman: Stories, Poems, Quotations
Heart of the Holidays: Yuletide Treasures and Traditions
Heart of a Mother: Stories, Poems and Tributes to Mothers and Grandmothers
Corazón de Mujer (Heart of a Woman, Spanish)
Tom Ruck
Sacred Ground, A Tribute to America’s Veterans
Mike Sager
Scary Monsters and Super Freaks (True Crime)
Revenge of the Donut Boys (Pop Culture)
Deviant Behavior, A Novel (fiction)
Wounded Warriors (Iraq/Afghanistan)
Amy Goodpaster Strebe
Flying for Her Country:
The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of World War II (WWII)
Don Westenhaver
The Whiplash Hypothesis (Vietnam)
The Red Turtle Project (Post-War Vietnam)
Nero’s Concert (Historical Fiction)
Marc Yablonka
Distant War: Recollections of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia (Vietnam)
The Veterans Museum and Memorial Center was created in 1989 to honor and perpetuate the memories of the men and women who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America. The museum honors the legacy that has been created by these courageous men and women through artifacts, personal testimonials, stories of service, and guest speaker panels. Located in the historic Chapel of the old Balboa Naval Hospital, the museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Ample, free parking available to visitors.
Veterans Museum and Memorial Center
2115 Park Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92101
619-239-2300
info@veteranmuseum.org
www.veteranmuseum.org
Contact: Melani Bruce, Events Director
vmmc.events@pacbell.net
melanijune@hotmail.com
619-886-5511
Carl Nelson, Event Chair
canelson56@cox.net
619-421-9094
The Veterans Museum and Memorial Center was created in 1989 to honor and perpetuate the memories of the men and women who have served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America. The museum honors the legacy that has been created by these courageous men and women through artifacts, personal testimonials, stories of service, and guest speaker panels. Located in the historic Chapel of the old Balboa Naval Hospital, the museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Ample, free parking available to visitors.