The 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards have been announced and Crossing Swords has won two book awards, including a $100 cash prize! 

Religious Non-Fiction Winner 

In the category of Religious Non-Fiction, Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage by Cindy Safronoff tied for first place with The Case Against Origen and Reincarnation by Eric Liberatos. This first-place win award includes a Winner Certificate, a gold metal, and a $100 cash prize. As a Winner it will be listed in the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards brochure to be distributed at the Book Expo America (BEA) publishing industry convention in Chicago, and will also be reviewed by Allen O’Shea Literary Agency of New York for possible representation.

Women’s Issues Finalist

Crossing Swords was also named one of five Finalists in the category of Women’s Issues, earning it a finalist metal and certificate. The winner in the Women’s Issues category was Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox Book by Joanne Cronrath Bamberger. The other finalists were Fat Girl, Skinny: A Memoir by Amye Archer, Jewels of Allah: The Untold Story of Women in Iran, by Nina Ansary, Shifts: An Anthology of Women’s Growth Through Change, Edited by Michelle Duster and Trina Sotira, and The Full Catastrophe, by Karen Lee. 

Chicago Awards Ceremony

The 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards contest will hold an awards reception and presentation for winners and finalists at the Newberry Library in Chicago on Wednesday, May 11. The Newberry Library is an independent research library originally founded in 1887 and moved to the current historic building in 1893.

About the Next Generation Indie Book Awards

All 2016 winners and finalists are listed on the website. This is the ninth year for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, a not-for-profit book contest which was started by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group to recognize and honor the most exceptional independently published books in over 70 different categories. All winners and finalists are considered to be among the best of independently published books.

Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage by Cindy Peyser Safronoff (This One Thing, July 4, 2015) is available on Amazon, by special order through your favorite local bookstore (through Ingram), and at a growing list of public libraries.

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The Silver metal for Women’s Issues in the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards goes to Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage by Cindy Peyser Safronoff (This One Thing). 

The IP Book Awards a.k.a “IPPY” winners are judged for “content, originality, design, and production quality, with emphasis on innovation and social relevance.”  The mission of the contest is to “recognize the deserving but often unsung titles published by independent authors and publishers, and bring them to the attention of booksellers, buyers, librarians, and book lovers around the world.” 

Women’s Issues award winners

In the category of Women’s Issues, two books tied for the gold metal: Prime Reflections on Time and Beauty, by Peter Freed and The Sisters are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America, by Tamara Winfrey Harris. Following Safronoff’s Crossing Swords silver metal award, political commentator and journalist Joanne Cronrath Bamberger of She Writes Press won bronze for her Amazon #1 bestseller Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox, an edited collection of essays on presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

2016 Award Ceremony

The award ceremony for the 2016 IPPYs will be in Chicago on May 10, 2016, in the Willis Tower, the tallest building in the Western hemisphere. The gala event will be held 1,353 feet above the ground at the panoramic Skydeck on the 99th floor. 

The IPPY award

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Independent Publishers Book Awards. Established in 1996, the IP book awards, nicknamed the “IPPY,” was the first award established exclusively for independently published books. It was designed to bring recognition to deserving books that might otherwise be overlooked simply because of being published independently. Over 5,000 books were entered into the contest this year. Of those, 400 books were selected for awards in 81 national award categories, plus 24 regional and 10 e-book categories.  

Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage by Cindy Peyser Safronoff (This One Thing, July 4, 2015) is available on Amazon, by special order through your favorite local bookstore (through Ingram), and at a growing list of public libraries.

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