We’re always proud of the work we produce for our clients, but every once in awhile, others in the publishing and communications industries find something special to recognize.
INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER Annual Book Awards – Silver Medal
Independent Publisher‘s Annual Book Awards (The “IPPIES”) competition is one of the most prestigious in the independent book publishing industry. One of the titles I edited, Mission: Murder by Betty Kerr Orlemann, won a coveted Silver Medal in 2009 as Best New Regional Fiction.
USABookNews.com –
Annual Book Awards, 2006
Best Reference Book: U.S. History, Nature Writing
USABookNews’ Annual Book Awards recognized Devastation on the Delaware: Stories and Images of the Deadly Flood of 1955 by Mary A. Shafer as Best Book in the U.S. History and Nature Writing categories in 2006. I served as editor, proofreader and indexer on this book.
WRITERS NOTES MAGAZINE –
Annual Book Competition, 2006
Writers’ Notes Magazine Annual Book Competition also recognized Devastation on the Delaware: Stories and Images of the Deadly Flood of 1955 by Mary A. Shafer – which I edited, proofed and indexed – as a Notable Book in the Reference category in 2006.
ALA-BOOKLIST’s
“Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers 2005″
Booklist’s annual list of the best titles reviewed during the previous 12 months, targeted specifically for students from the elementary-through-high-school levels, included the following Gale Group titles:
- The Crusades Reference Library (I was a copy editor on this title.)
- Reconstruction Era Reference Library (I was a copy editor on this title.)
- U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library (I was a contributing writer for this series.)

