The winners of the 2012 Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award have been announced by the Christian Small Publishers Association (CSPA) (@SarahBolme).
Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award honors books produced by small publishers each year for outstanding contribution to Christian life. Book lovers and retailers selling Christian products voted on the nominated titles in each of 12 categories.
The winners in each category are:
Fiction
Yahshua’s Bridge by Sandi Rog (DeWard Publishing Company (@dewardbooks))
Romance
Hearts Communion by Marianne Evans (@Marmo212) (White Rose Publishing/Pelican Book Group (@PelicanBookGrp))
Christian Living
Walking in Broken Shoes by Susan Magnuson Walsh (Grace Acres Press (@GraceAcresPress))
Bible Study / Theology
The Disciple Whom Jesus Loved by J. Phillips
Devotional
Just Honor God by Dr. Rick Metrick (ShadeTree Publishing)
Biography
Mr. Awana by Art Rorheim (Grace Acres Press (@GraceAcresPress))
Relationships / Family
Deliver Me: Help, Hope, & Healing through True Stories of Unplanned Pregnancy by Dianne E. Butts (@DianneEButts) (Connections Press)
Children (age 4 to 8)
Today I Found God by Greg Long (@LaughALongBooks); Nathan Wondrak, illustrator (Halo Publishing International (@HaloPublishing))
Children (age 8 to 12)
What Do Heroes Wear? by Gary Bower; Jan Bower, illustrator (Storybook Meadow Publishing)
Young Adult (age 12+)
Purity’s Big Payoff / Premarital Sex is a Big Rip-Off, Donna Lee Schillinger, editor (The Quilldriver (@OnMyOwnNowMin))
Gift Book
A Second Cup of Hot Apple Cider, N. J. Lindquist (@NJ_Lindquist) & Wendy E. Nelles, editors (That's Life! Communications (@ThatsLifeComm))
eBook Exclusive
Keyboarding for the Christian School, Elementary Edition by Leanne Beitel (@lbeitel) (Christian Keyboarding)
Also see our previous blogpost, “ECPA Announces 2012 Christian Book Award Finalists.”
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