The editorial director for the international publishing strategy and services agency Somersault Group (http://somersaultgroup.com) (@smrsault), Dave Lambert, is a finalist for Fiction Editor of the Year, a category in the 2011 Golden Scroll Awards sponsored by the Advanced Writers & Speakers Association (AWSA).
Responsible for managing the editorial development process for each manuscript at Somersault, Lambert is also the owner of Lambert Editorial. He’s the author of 10 books (including The Missionary); a requested speaker; former senior fiction editor at Howard Publishing, a division of Simon & Schuster; and former executive editor for fiction at Zondervan, a HarperCollins company. Lambert was a previous finalist in this category in 2009 and the winner in 2002.
Honored for outstanding ministry partnerships with their authors, nominees for this award are selected by authors, and the voting is done by authors. “Dave has a reputation of pushing authors beyond their comfort zone to help them hone their writing craft and achieve their best book possible,” says John Topliff, Somersault general manager. “This recognition reflects Somersault’s commitment to the highest editorial standards.”
Other finalists for Fiction Editor of the Year are Vicki Crumpton of Baker Publishing Group and Jan Stob of Tyndale House Publishers. Along with Fiction Editor of the Year, the 2011 Golden Scroll Award categories are Publisher of the Year, Editor of the Year, Novel of the Year, and Nonfiction Book of the Year. The winners will be announced at the AWSA awards banquet, July 10, at the Omni at CNN Center in Atlanta during the International Christian Retail Show annual convention.