I’ve slacked on this blog for over 4 months now, and much has happened in the interim. I’ll write up some other entries regarding some Hoosh events and happenings. In terms of awards, Hoosh won the Travel category of the 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards, earned a Silver in Creative Nonfiction for the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards, and was a finalist in Nonfiction for the 2013 Maine Literary Awards.

What has been particularly interesting about this process is that each award places Hoosh in a different category: Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction, Travel and (for the Andre Simon Award) Food and Drink.  To paraphrase Billy Holiday, if you put it all together, Hoosh has everything a good reader needs…