A full High Five to celebrate! Five book award competitions have chosen my book The Telling Image Shapes of Changing Times. It won Grand Prize Best Nonfiction 2019 from Next Gen Indie Book Awards, where it was recognized with a ceremony in Washington, D.C. during the American Library Association Convention. It was selected for the Nautilus Book Award, which honors better books for a better world. The National Indie Excellence Award and the Independent Press Award also chose it as their winner. News of my fifth book award was just received from NYC Big Book Award, which selects for great ideas from around the globe. The Telling Image took home awards in three categories: Photography, Coffee Table Book, and Book Interior Design Nonfiction.
It is gratifying that ideas that sleep in my mind awaken in books that reach other minds. It is thrilling when my book is honored for its writing, photographs, design, cover, and quality. Writers write in isolation, not knowing if the words will land with welcome by readers. When awards are received, it lets the writer know that an invisible full circle has occurred - that an unknown reader and an unknown judge have sent their nod that an idea transferred from my mind to theirs. It is a sacred circle.