Month: May 2025

Chained Birds takes the True Crime top prize in Indie Reader Discovery Awards
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Oh, how I love my indie book award programs! Chained Birds has won another True Crime literary honor, this time taking the 2025 True Crime top prize in the Indie Reader Discovery Awards, announced today. I’m not sharing this award with anyone, and there are no True Crime finalists to congratulate β€” it’s just little ole’ me getting the...
CHAINED BIRDS wins SILVER in the 2025 Independent Publisher Book Awards category of True Crime!
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I just got the wonderful news that Chained Birds: A True-Crime Memoir captured the Silver Medal in the True Crime category of the 2025 Independent Publisher Book Awards, aka the IPPY awards! πŸŽ‰ This is the second true crime book award for Chained Birds this month 😭😭😭 I’d like to congratulate all the IPPY winners in the contest’s 100+...
CHAINED BIRDS wins First Place in the 2025 Next Generation Indie Book Awards category of True Crime!
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Holy moly! Chained Birds has been honored with its first “true crime” book prize thanks to the Next Generation Indie Book Awards! I was gobsmacked yesterday to find a congratulatory email from the awards program (in my spam folder, no less!) alerting me to a First Place award for my true crime memoir. I’m honored and thrilled to share...