2009 New Mexico Book Award Finalists

2009 New Mexico Book Awards FINALISTS

NM Book Awards Sponsors
The 2009 New Mexico Book Awards are sponsored by Underwritten by Albuquerque The Magazine, Borders, Sunbelt Shows/Fiery Foods, Printer’s Press, LPD Press & Rio Grande Books, New Mexico Book Co-op, and New Mexico Humanities Council, the New Mexico Book Awards are sponsored by Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System and the Friends of the Albuquerque Public Library, Albuquerque The Magazine, Borders, Cygnet Press, Land of Enchantment Romance Authors, New Mexico Book Association, New Mexico Coalition for Literacy, New Mexico Humanities Council, New Mexico Poetry Tangent, New Mexico State Library, PageOne Books, Pen New Mexico, Portales Public Library, Printer’s Press, ReadingNewMexico.com, ReadWest, Rio Rancho Public Library, Santa Fe Public Library, SouthWest Writers, Sunbelt Shows/Fiery Foods, WalMart at Zuni, and WordHarvest Writers Workshop.

Organized by the New Mexico Book Co-op
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Children’s Picture Book — sponsored by Albuquerque/Bernalillo Co Public Library and the Friends of the Albuquerque Public Library
Hamilton, Kersten — Police Officers on Patrol (Viking)
Heide, Florence Parry and Jill McElmurry — The One and Only Marigold (Schwartz & Wade Books/Random House)
Mraz, David — Little Goose (Tricycle Press)
Nelson, Vaunda — Who Will I Be, Lord? (Random House)
Porter, Pamela — Yellow Moon, Apple Moon (Groundwood Books)
Redmond, Shirley Raye — Blind Tom: The Horse Who Helped Build the Great Railroad (Mountain Press Publishing)

Children’s Activity Book (workbook/craft book/coloring book) — sponsored by PageOne Books
Cash, Marie Romero — Santos, A Coloring Book (Sunstone Press)

Young Readers Book (to grade 3) — sponsored by Santa Fe Public Library
Eschberger, Beverly — An Elephant Family Adventure: The Elephants Tour England (Kinkajou Press)

Juvenile Book (grade school to junior high school) — sponsored by Printer’s Press
Drucker, Malka — Portraits of Jewish American Heroes (Dutton Childrens Book)
Gotsch, Connie — Belle’s Star (Artemesia Publishing)
Hayes, Joe — Dance, Nana, Dance (Cinco Punto Press)
Mayfield, Barbara — The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me (AZRO Press)
Paulsen, Gary — Notes from the Dog (Wendy Lamb Books/Random House)
Tacang, Brian — The Model President (HarperCollins)

Young Adult Book (high school) — sponsored by Albuquerque/Bernalillo Co Public Library and the Friends of the Albuquerque Public Library
Beller, Ken and Heather Chase — Great Peacemakers (LTS Press)
Buckley, Kate — Choices (Book Publishers Network)
Dix, Catherine Parra — Rosetta Stones (Central Ave Press)
Klages, Ellen — White Sands, Red Menace (Viking)
Lassiter, Karl — Drifter (Avalon)

Anthology (individual or collection) — sponsored by Printer’s Press
diSuvero, Victor — We Came to Santa Fe (Pennywhistle Press)
Hunner, Jon — Senator Pete Domenici’s Legacy (Rio Grande Books)
Lacy, Ann & Anne Valley-Fox — Outlaws & Desperados (Sunstone Press)

Anthropology/Archaeology/Science — sponsored by Rio Rancho Public Library
Fowler, Catherine and Don Fowler — The Great Basin (School of American Research Press)
Kandasamy, W.B. Vasantha and Florentin Smarandache — n-Linear Algebra of Type II (ILQ)

Arts Book (includes art, music, or photography) — sponsored by Cygnet Press
Barrow, Thomas & Kristen Barendsen — Photography: New Mexico (Fresco Fine Arts)
Manno, Lois — Visions Underground (Rio Grande Books)
Owings, Natalie — The Heart and Soul Animal Sanctuary (Sunstone Press)

Biography (includes memoirs and autobiographies) — sponsored by Albuquerque The Magazine
Allen, John — Me and the Biospheres (Synergetic Press)
Dunaway, David — How Can I Keep From Singing? (Villard)
Sager, Stan — ¡Viva Elfego! (Sunstone Press)
Stevens, Reed — Santa Fe Dreamhouse (iUniverse)

Business Book (includes career) — sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
Durgin, David with Sherry Robinson — Entrepreneur to Investor the Hard Way (Sunstone Press)
Moonwalker, Tu & JoAnne O’Brien-Levin — Business Revolution through Ancestral Wisdom (Outskirts Press)

Cookbook — sponsored by PageOne Books
Hillerman, Anne — Santa Fe Flavors (Gibbs Smith)

Crafts/Hobby/How-to Book— sponsored by Albuquerque The Magazine
Davis, Jerry — Master of None (Montañas Press)
Sanchez, Laura and Alex Sanchez — Adobe Houses for Today (Sunstone Press)

Gardening Book — sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
Bruce, Hank & Tomi Jill Folk — Windowsill Whimsy: Gardening & Horticultural Therapy Projects for Small Spaces (Petals & Pages Press)
Giannangelo, Frank & Vicky — Growing with the Seasons (Sunstone Press)

Gay/Lesbian (GLBT) Book — sponsored by NM Book Co-op
Katt, AC — The Sarran Plague (Eternal Press)
Pyeatt, Keith — Struck (Quest)
Tilchen, Maida — Land Beyond Maps (Savvy Press)

Health Book (includes wellness, nutrition, beauty) — sponsored by NM Coalition for Literacy & WalMart at Zuni
Brasch, Jillian — The Last Gifts: Creative Ways to Be with the Dying (Andrew McMeel Publishing)
Calhoun, Yael, Matthew Calhoun and Nicole Hamory — Yoga for Kids to Teens (Sunstone Press)

History Book – New Mexico subject — sponsored by NM Humanities Council
Andrews, Martha and Richard Melzer — The Whole Damned World (Rio Grande Books)
Burke, Flannery — From Greenwich Village to Taos (University Press of Kansas)
Kessell, John — Pueblos, Spaniards and the Kingdom of New Mexico (University of Oklahoma Press)
Martin, Craig & Heather McClenahan — Of Logs and Stone (All Seasons Publishing)
Torrez, Robert — Myth of the Hanging Tree (University of New Mexico Press)

Multi-cultural Subject (Hispanic, Native American, etc.) — sponsored by NM Humanities Council
Bsumek, Erika Marie — Indian-Made (University Press of Kansas)
Chávez, Nicolasa — A Century of Masters (Rio Grande Books)
diSuvero, Victor — We Came to Santa Fe (Pennywhistle Press)
Kessell, John — Pueblos, Spaniards and the Kingdom of New Mexico (University of Oklahoma Press)
Medina-Sandoval, Isabelle —Guardians of Hidden Traditions (Gaon Books)

Nature/Environment Book — sponsored by LPD Press/Rio Grande Books
Clark, Paulle — Wolf Song: A Love Story (Dogear Publishing)
Lipman, Jane — The Rapture of Tulips (Pudding House Publications)
Lopez, Clarissa — Fisher-Chick (Clarissa Lopez)

New Age Book — sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
Brill, Michael — Numerology for Healing (Destiny Books)
Lightwater, Rheanni — Reiki Chakra Keys (Soul Resources)

Poetry Book (individual or collection) — sponsored by Rio Grande Books
Lipman, Jane — The Rapture of Tulips (Pudding House Publications)
Norris, Noreen — Caught Heart (Sunstone Press)
Udall, Jay — The Welcome Table (University of New Mexico Press)
Yurcic, Jason — Odes to Anger (West End Press)

Political Book (includes social/current events) — sponsored by PEN New Mexico
Beller, Ken and Heather Chase — Great Peacemakers (LTS Press)
Bullis, Don — New Mexico & Politicians of the Past (Rio Grande Books)
Smarandache, Florentin — Global Totalitarianism & the Working Animals (ILQ)

Reference Book — sponsored by New Mexico State Library
Beverly, Edward — Chasing the Sun (Sunstone Press)
Bullis, Don — The Old West Trivia Book (Rio Grande Books)
Kandasamy, W.B. Vasantha and Florentin Smarandache — Special Classes of Set Codes and Their Applications (ILQ)
Smarandache, Florentin — Experimental Paradoxist Linguistics (ILQ)
Wheeler, DonnaLee — Who’s the You in the Mirror (Kin Folk Trails)

Religious Book— sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
Drucker, Malka — Women and Judaism (Praeger)
Drucker, Malka — Portraits of Jewish American Heroes (Dutton Childrens Book)
McLaughlin, Judith — Sacred Feminine (Rio Grande Books)
Thompson, Jim — The Physics of Genesis (Pleasant Word)

Self-help Book (includes spirituality /inspirational) — sponsored by ReadWest
Brasch, Jillian — The Last Gifts: Creative Ways to Be with the Dying (Andrew McMeel Publishing)
Gerson, Mark David — The Voice of the Muse (LightLines Media)
Thompson, Jim — The St. Nicholas Solution (iUniverse)
Vorhand, Susan — The Mosaic Within (Gaon Books)

Travel Book (includes guides) — sponsored by Albuquerque The Magazine
Lopez, Clarissa — Fisher-Chick (Clarissa Lopez)
Nye, Valerie and Kathy Barco — Breakfast New Mexico Style (Sunstone Press)

Nonfiction, Other — sponsored by Sunbelt Shows
Baxter, John — Cowboy Park (Texas Tech University Press)
Melzer, Richard — Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest (Arcadia)
Reichman, Rick — 20 Things You Must Know to Write a Great Screenplay (Central Ave Press)
Schweidel, David & Robert Boswell — What Men Call Treasure (Cinco Punto Press)
Stevens, Reed — Santa Fe Dreamhouse (iUniverse)

Novel – adventure or drama — sponsored by ReadingNewMexico.com
Martinez, Mario — Converso (Gaon Books)
Maynard, Lee — The Pale Light of Sunset (Vandalia Press)
Miller, Jonathan — La Bajada Lawyer (Cool Titles)
Shaw, Joseph — To Honor the Dead (University of New Mexico Press)

Novel – historical fiction — sponsored by Albuquerque/Bernalillo Co Public Library and the Friends of the Albuquerque Public Library
Davis, Will — Six Points of Death (Outskirts Press)
Fackler, Elizabeth — My Eyes Have a Cold Nose (Sunstone Press)
Groves, Melody — Border Ambush (La Frontera Publishing)
Jones, Jim — Rustler’s Moon (PublishAmerica)
Klages, Ellen — White Sands, Red Menace (Viking)
Tilchen, Maida — Land Beyond Maps (Savvy Press)

Novel – mystery/suspense — sponsored by Word Harvest Writers Conference
Fackler, Elizabeth — My Eyes Have a Cold Nose (Sunstone Press)
Hightower, Gloria — The Shadow Mountain Murders (Chaparral Center)
Pyeatt, Keith — Struck (Quest)
Shaw, Joseph — To Honor the Dead (University of New Mexico Press)

Novel - romance — sponsored by the Land of Enchantment Romance Authors
Katt, AC — The Sarran Plague (Eternal Press)
Redmond, Shirley Raye — Rosemary’s Glove (Avalon Books)

Science Fiction & Fantasy — sponsored by PageOne Books
Hickman, Kirt — Worlds Asunder (Quillrunner Publishing)
Katt, AC — The Sarran Plague (Eternal Press)
Wheeler, DonnaLee — Kalleni Beyond (Kinfolk Trails)

Fiction, Other — sponsored by NM Book Co-op
Cash, Marie Romero — Lowrider Blues (Sunstone Press)
Fraser, KJ — A Journey, A Reckoning, and A Miracle (O-Books)
King, Nancy — The Stones Speak (Atelier Books)
Montoya, Cheryl & Jerry — Three Dog Night (Rio Grande Books)

First Book (first book published by author) — sponsored by Southwest Writers
Dix, Catherine Parra — Rosetta Stones (Central Ave Press)
Jones, Jim — Rustler’s Moon (PublishAmerica)
Lehman, Theodore — Herr Krupp’s Berthawerk (Gaon Books)
Lipman, Jane — The Rapture of Tulips (Pudding House Publications)
Pyeatt, Keith — Struck (Quest)
Shaw, Joseph — To Honor the Dead (University of New Mexico Press)
Walker, Karen — Following the Whispers (Bascom Hill Publishing Group)


The winners will be announced at the Awards Banquet on Friday, November 20 at the MCM Elegante Hotel in Albuquerque

Connie Gotsch www.conniegotsch.com Host Write On Four Corners KSJE FM, Farmington NM www.ksje.com Author two award winning novels Snap Me a Future and A Mouthful of Shell available www.dlsijpress.com

Always in Print ‘Cuz They’re Print on Demand!

And now out! Belle’s Star,’ a youth novel from Artemesia Press at http://www.apbooks.net and amazon.com, and through your local book store.