The Berkeley Girl is a winner!
My novel, The Berkeley Girl, In Paris 1968, won the 2017 Distinguished Favorites award in Historical Fiction, offered by the Independent Press Awards! Thanks to Tory Hartmann from Sand Hill Review Press for submitting my work. Look for my sequel coming out in Sept., The Berkeley Girl: Rendezvous in London and other Stories of the 1960s.
Congratulations to the other California Writers Club, San Francisco Peninsula branch, and Sand Hill Review Press authors, who won 2017 Independent Press Awards and Distinguished Favorites! There were 5 winners from Sand Hill Review Press, 4 from CWC, in a range of genre categories, quite achievement for Tory Hartmann and her publishing company.
IPA Award Winners were: Laurel Anne Hill, The Engine Woman's Light; Tory Hartmann, First Friday: How Virginity Almost Killed Me; and Monsignor Harry G. Schlitt, I'll Never Tell: Odyssey of a Rock & Roll Priest.
Distinguished Favorites were: James Hanna, A Second, Less Capable Head: And Other Rogue Stories in the genre of Anthology. And me! Elise Frances Miller, for The Berkeley Girl, in Paris 1968.
Congratulations to the other California Writers Club, San Francisco Peninsula branch, and Sand Hill Review Press authors, who won 2017 Independent Press Awards and Distinguished Favorites! There were 5 winners from Sand Hill Review Press, 4 from CWC, in a range of genre categories, quite achievement for Tory Hartmann and her publishing company.
IPA Award Winners were: Laurel Anne Hill, The Engine Woman's Light; Tory Hartmann, First Friday: How Virginity Almost Killed Me; and Monsignor Harry G. Schlitt, I'll Never Tell: Odyssey of a Rock & Roll Priest.
Distinguished Favorites were: James Hanna, A Second, Less Capable Head: And Other Rogue Stories in the genre of Anthology. And me! Elise Frances Miller, for The Berkeley Girl, in Paris 1968.
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