My third book, Grandparenting Through Obstacles, Wins a CSPA "Book of theYear" Award!

Christian Small Publishers Association (CSPA) has announced the winners of their 2013 Book of the Year awards and Grandparenting Through Obstacles won in the "Family/Relationships" category!


A big hearty Thank You! to everyone who took the time to go vote. Obviously, this wouldn't have happened without you!
I offer my sincere congratulations to my co-author, Renee Gray-Wilburn, as well as to the twenty writers who contributed their stories and to Cavin Harper who wrote the foreword in the book.

Needless to say, our publisher, Pix-N-Pens Publishing, is also thrilled. This is the first Book of the Year award from Christian Small Publishers Association for the publisher as far as I know, so PNP is really excited. I also send my sincere congratulations to the publisher, Tracy Ruckman, for all she has done and all she is continuing to do to make this book successful.

(In the "continuing to do" category, we have some more really exciting news about something Tracy is up to...and we're going to need your help with that too, if I'm not coming to the well too often...but let's not cut this celebration short. I'll gather that information and put it in my next post and get it posted soon--perhaps tomorrow morning. Please don't miss it!

Oh.  You want a hint?  Okay: Going to St. Louis to promote my Pix-N-Pens books. But more about that later...)
For me, this is a special honor because this is the second year in a row one of my books has taken the "Book of the Year" in the Family / Relationships category! If you've been following this blog for long, you'll remember that my second book, Deliver Me, took this award a year ago.

Winning an award like this provides one more way to make our book known. It's hard to make a book known, but that is the only way it gets it on the radar scope of the people who need it and whom it can help.

So thank you again for all the help you gave us to win this "Book of the Year" award from Christian Small Publishers Association (CSPA). You voted. You prayed. You did it. I thank you so much.  Again.

Grandparenting book wins Book of the Year!

THANK YOU! You did it. Grandparenting Through Obstacles won "Book of the Year" at The Book Club Network, and I owe it to you who voted. (Even if you didn't vote I'm grateful for your support!)
You can see the announcement, here in Book Fun Magazine on pages 66-67. To get to the announcement, click the right arrow at the top twice to flip a few pages to the Table of Contents on page 5, then look for the "Book of the Year Results are Announced," third item down on the far right side.

While you're on that page you can read about the results in the Letter from the Editing Manager on page 4. He talks about the contest about two thirds the way down the middle column.

He has some real interesting things to say which YOU INFLUENCED! He says he was surprised that they had the largest voter turn out in their history and more votes were cast for nonfiction than for fiction. That's because of YOU!! It was you who voted for our fist place nonfiction book, so it had to be you guys who did this! As a result he says they will be paying much more attention to nonfiction from now on, which is music to this nonfiction writer's ears. That helps me in the future, too. You did this and I can't thank you enough.

There's more great news on the announcement page. If you click on the "Book of the Year Results are Announced" in the Table of Contents it will take you to the first page of that article. Click the right arrow once to turn the page and you'll see our book and my picture along with my coauthor, Renee.
Just under the book's title, it says our book won "with 28.67% of the votes. An overwhelming lead!" That's more than 10% more than the second place book. Again you did this!

If you'd like to see the book, it is here on Amazon: and here on BarnesandNoble.com. It's also on Nook and Kindle.

Again, thank you so, so much for making this happen!

Please VOTE! Grandparenting book nominated for Book of the Year at BookFun.org

Whoo-hoo! My book Grandparenting Through Obstacles: Overcoming Family Challenges to Reach Your Grandchildren for Christ has been nominated for Book of the Year at www.BookFun.org! Would you please VOTE ?

If you're not a member of The Book Club Network, you'll need to join before you can vote, however membership is free. Every month The Book Club Network takes nominations from members for Book of the Month in both fiction and nonfiction. The top three books nominated are then put to a vote. Grandparenting Through Obstacles was nominated in August, but came in second in the voting.

In the December 2012 issue of CBA Retailers+Resources (page 20), owners of The Book Club Network Fred and Nora St. Laurent, wrote, "Coming in a a strong second place with 39.3% of the vote was Grandparenting Through Obstacles: Overcoming Family Challenges to Reach Your Grandchildren for Christ by Renee Gray-Wilburn and Dianne E.Butts (Pix-N-Pens, p, $15.99, ISBN: 9781938092176...). This book received more nominations than any other nonfiction selection we have had to date."

Now, The Book Club Network is conducting their Book of the Year vote and we need you to go to the site and vote for Grandparenting Through Obstacles! You'll find it in the nonfiction category.

While you're there, please also vote in the fiction division for Jennifer Fromke's novel A Familiar Shore.

TO VOTE:

Go to http://www.bookfun.org/

Voting boxes are in the right-hand column. Select one book for fiction then click the box at the bottom of that box to cast your ballot.

Then select Grandparenting Through Obstacles in the nonfiction box and click the button at the bottom of the box to cast your ballot.



I thank you very much for your time and your vote. (In this case, your vote really will make a difference!)