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Digital Book World Announces the Winners of the 2018 DBW Awards
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories by Fiza Pathan receives the Award for Best Book Short Stories.
Bandra, Mumbai 400050, INDIA (October 29, 2018): Fiza Pathan Publishing OPC Private Limited is proud to announce that The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories by Fiza Pathan was declared a Winner in Best Book (Short Stories) in the 2018 DBW Awards. The results were announced during a ceremony at the #DBW18 conference on Oct. 2 in Nashville, Tenn. at the Music City Center.
The Press Release is given below:
October 3, 2018 | Bradley Metrock, CEO Score Publishing
Digital Book World Announces the Winners of the 2018 DBW Awards
‘Galdo’s Gift: The Boovie’ Receives Four Awards Total, Including Best Book (Overall)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Oct. 3, 2018) – Digital Book World announced the winners of the 2018 DBW Awards – including Best Book (Overall), Best Audio Book and Publisher of the Year, as well as 48 other key categories – during a ceremony at the #DBW18 conference on Oct. 2 in Nashville, Tenn. at the Music City Center. Award winners represent books in various categories, publishing tech innovations and leading technology companies, as well as industry professionals and authors.
“Digital Book World is honored to recognize best-in-class achievement across the wide world of publishing, and we’re thrilled to celebrate these distinguished award winners with the publishing and technology community,” said Digital Book World Executive Producer Bradley Metrock. “Congratulations to all of the award winners – we’re proud to showcase your work.”
One of the honorees, Galdo’s Gift: The Boovie, received four awards total, including: Best Book (Overall), Best Book (Fiction), Best Book (Children’s) and Best Book (Interactive Fiction). Galdo’s Gift is a hybrid book-movie for children.
During the ceremony, Digital Book World also inducted two industry veterans into DBW’s new Publishing Hall of Fame – Marie Dutton Brown and Len Edgerly, both of whom attended the event. Brown is the iconic editor and literary agent who successfully championed diversity in publishing over the course of her 50-year career, and Edgerly is the creator and host of The Kindle Chronicles, a podcast which has aired every week, without disruption, for more than a decade.
Winners of the 2018 Digital Book World Awards include:
Publisher of the Year
Dark Horse
Trade Publisher of the Year
Macmillan
Children’s Publisher of the Year
Disney Publishing
Educational Publisher of the Year
A Book Apart
Corporate Publisher of the Year
NASA
Academic/Scholarly Publisher of the Year
Princeton University Press
Religious Publisher of the Year (Tie)
Kube Publishing
LifeWay
Independent Publisher of the Year
Milkweed Editions
Publishing Executive of the Year (Tie)
Jeff Bezos, Amazon
Dominique Raccah, Sourcebooks
Publishing Entrepreneur of the Year
Matt and Melissa Hammersley, Novel Effect
Publishing Commentator of the Year
Joanna Penn, Author
The DBW Medal for Leadership in Diversity
Morgan Jerkins, Author
Best Book (Overall)
Galdo’s Gift: The Boovie (Trevor Young and Eleanor Long)
Best Book (Fiction)
Galdo’s Gift: The Boovie (Trevor Young and Eleanor Long)
Best Book (Non-Fiction)
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America (Morgan Jerkins)
Best Book (Essays)
Feel Free: Essays (Zadie Smith)
Best Book (Politics)
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Michael Wolff)
Best Book (Religious)
Longing For Motherhood (Chelsea Patterson Sobolik)
Best Book (Science Fiction)
Artificial Condition (Martha Wells)
Best Book (Short Stories)
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories (Fiza Pathan)
Best Book (Social Issues)
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America (Morgan Jerkins)
The full Press Release can be read at :
https://www.digitalbookworld.com/single-post/2018/10/02/2018-DBW-Award-Winners
Digital Book World (DBW) is the annual gathering of the wide world of publishing. Next year’s event will also take place in October (dates TBD) in Nashville – the new permanent home for the conference.
To learn more about Digital Book World, visit http://www.digitalbookworld.com. Follow Digital Book World on Twitter: @DigiBookWorld or via #DBW18 and #DBW19
Digital Book World 2018 Award Finalists Announced
We are pleased to announce the Finalists for the Digital Book World 2018 Awards – part of the DBW 2018 program and the largest publishing awards program in the world.
We received an incredible number of submissions, from all over the world. As we culled through them, we made decisions on some categories which could be combined with others, and some categories which did not end up with enough volume to justify Finalists, and were removed. Every Finalist was selected from among a pool of nominations made to Digital Book World 2018 over the calendar year.
As important as Digital Book World is in convening the wide world of publishing, and enabling publishers of all sizes and types to gather together, it’s just as important to provide a venue for all publishers to compete against one another on equal footing, With the DBW Awards, we have accomplished that, providing an awards program honoring best-in-class achievement across that same wide world of publishing.**
We encourage you to check out these fantastic Finalists. Thanks to our judges from all across the world who participated in this process. Read more at: https://www.digitalbookworld.com/single-post/2018/09/10/Digital-Book-World-2018-Award-Finalists-Announced
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I am honored to announce that my book The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories @FizaPathan is a #Finalist for Best Book – Short Stories and Best Book – Social Issues.
I am pitted against an awesome lineup of award-winning authors, translators and professionals in both categories:
Best Book – Short Stories with @chanellebenz
Best Book – Social Issues with @kenshropshire @DrCollinWill @proflinder @MorganJerkins and Ghada Samman (Translator: Nancy Roberts).
The Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Finalists have been determined.
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It is my honor to announce that my book The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories by Fiza Pathan is a #Finalist in category Best Short Story in the Killer Nashville 2018 Silver Falchion Award.
As mentioned in their email dated August 8, 2018: We’d like to thank all who entered the 2018 competition. We received many excellent entries, making this one of our toughest competitions to date.
Silver Falchion Award winners and runners-up will be announced at the
Killer Nashville Awards Dinner on August 25, 2018. (Keeping my fingers crossed. Read the awesome lineup of deserving books/authors.)
Since 2006, Killer Nashville has been an advocate for beginning and mid-list writers, as well as a resource for platform-building for established authors. It is a community of genre and non-genre writers whose work contains elements of mystery, thriller, or suspense.
The Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award™ is committed to discovering new writers, as well as superlative books by established authors and, upon discovery, sharing those writers and their works with new readers.
HISTORY
The Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards began in 2008 as a way to honor attending writers at Killer Nashville. Alumni of Killer Nashville then asked if we could open the awards to them, which we did. Non-alumni then asked if we could open the awards to them. We did. Then, alumni from other countries asked if we could open the award to them. We listened there, as well. And now the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards are open—fiction and nonfiction, anthologies, essays, collections, and more—to writers throughout the world. (Source: Killer Nashville website)
The Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Judging Process: (Source: Killer Nashville Facebook Timeline May 23, 2017)
All entries to the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award go through multiple rounds of judging that are performed by a collective of industry peers—writers, editors, agents, reviewers, etc. Each title is assigned a numerical score addressing multiple elements present within the submitted work. Scores are averaged together and the best-performing works move on to the next round of judging. This process is repeated until the judges are able to determine finalists and definitive winners in each respective category.
As additional components of Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion Award, we host two awards competitions that are determined by popular vote.
The Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Reader’s Choice Award is given to the author who receives the most votes for his/her title. Voting is done online and is open to everyone. Each user can vote only once per category. This award was designed to give readers and fans a chance to honor their favorite authors and titles. By submitting to the Silver Falchion Award competition, authors are automatically placed in the Reader’s Choice Award contest, as well.
The Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Best Attending Author Award is open for voting to all attendees of the Killer Nashville conference and is a chance for them to honor their favorite author who submitted to the Silver Falchion Award and is also in attendance at the event. Non-registrants of Killer Nashville are excluded from voting.
Do vote for my book for the Readers Choice Award voting for which is open to all. You will find it listed under Anthology/Short Story. My multiple award-winning book is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and online stores. Bookstores, wholesalers can order their books through Ingram.
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Author Fiza Pathan receives national recognition through the INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD®!
Mumbai — The INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD recognized The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories by Fiza Pathan as a Distinguished Favorite in the category of LGBTQ Fiction. This is the third award bestowed on the book the other two being 2018 Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Book Award) and the 2018 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book – Notable Indie
The competition is judged by experts from different aspects of the book industry, including publishers, writers, editors, book cover designers and professional copywriters. Selected award Winners and Distinguished Favorites are based on overall excellence.
Title: The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories
Author: Fiza Pathan
Genre/category: LGBTQ Fiction
Synopsis:
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name by Fiza Pathan is a collection of twenty-one original short stories, each centered on some aspect of the social, cultural, psychological, and emotional issues facing the LGBTQIA community in the world today. False prejudice has blighted much of society’s sensitivity to what is necessarily a human rights issue. Ignorance has compounded it. What if you, as a parent or a family member, are faced with this “coming out” issue? Are you aware what each term in the acronym LGBTQIA really means? Are you aware of the emotional and psychological damage you do to a loved one when you fail to understand, and/or reject, their perspective of love, sex, and acceptance?
Understanding the implications of the above, the author after months of research has crafted these stories based on actual conditions existing in different countries of the world. You will meet Rocky in “(A)sexual Story,” the psychiatrist Dr. Timothy in “Fix It,” and Jasmine and Randy in “Human Work of Art.” You will learn about DSD–Dysfunction Sexual Disorder–in “Isher” and why Bangkok is called the “Kathoey Paradise.” You will shudder at the public repression of gays by ISIS in Raqqa, and learn about the dichotomy that exists in Iran. You will revel at the miracle you witness in “Topanga,” cry for Sameera in “The Girls’ Bathroom,” and be educated by “The Gay Truth.”
And in all these stories and many more, you will learn that every human being suffers like you do and rejoices as you do, and deserves the right to choose how he or she should live their life, however different we perceive them to be.
In 2018, we again had a most impressive worldwide participation: cities such as London to Moscow to San Francisco, and many countries such as Australia, Canada, India and Japan, and across the globe had books submitted to the INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD. We are so delighted to announce the winners and distinguished favorites in our annual 2018 INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD. Independent publishing is very much alive, and continues to flourish worldwide.” said awards sponsor Gabrielle Olczak.
For more information please visit independentpressaward.com and to see this year’s list of Winners and Distinguished Favorites, please visit the website pages
http://www.independentpressaward.com/2018winners and http://www.independentpressaward.com/2018distinguishedfavorites
I felt I just had to share my post of February 21, 2016. It is as relevant today as it was then.
I’m not here to talk about how Harper Lee and Umberto Eco left this world.
I’m not here to write their eulogies on insaneowl.com.
I’m not here to describe their body of work or how popular they were.
I’m here to send a message to my readers that we mourn Harper Lee and Umberto Eco because we knew them; they were popular. But out there in the world, there are many writers whose deaths don’t concern us, which they should.
For when an ordinary person who does not write dies, one life in the family of humanity is lost.
When a writer dies, many different kinds of people, places, worlds, universes, thoughts etc., die with him/her. In short, a part of humanity itself is lost.
I was an introvert at school and no one wanted to be my friend. I grew reclusive even in the midst of school chaos and…
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I am grateful to Dr. Gabriel Constans for his insightful and thought-provoking review of my book ‘The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories’. I am reblogging the same for the benefit of my followers.
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name – Short Stories by Fiza Pathan. Reviewed by Gabriel Constans.
Confession time. When I saw that this collection of short stories was over 450 pages long, I planned to skim over them and write a brief overview. After reading the first one, The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name, I was hooked and ended up reading each story from start to finish. They are all excellent, different and well written. They take place in different countries (India, Canada, United States, Iran, Syria, un-named South American country, Thailand, and the United Kingdom). What they all have in common is the portrayal of someone who is not part of the stereotyped heterosexual majority.
Each person must deal with the prejudice, religious intolerance, and/or ignorance, of their family, community, friends, culture, and/or government. Oscar Wilde quotes are also part of many of…
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Review of The Muralist by B.A. Shapiro
Reviewed by Fiza Pathan
After reading The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro, I immediately purchased a Kindle copy of her book The Muralist, and read it on my Kindle Fire. I have a feeling that this book, The Muralist , is one of the best books I have read this year. The story is about art, especially art during World War II, when painters like Pollock, Krasner, and Rothko evolved a new form of art altogether, which is termed Abstract Expressionism. For those of you who are familiar with this very famous form of artistic expression, this is certainly a book you should pick up and read. Those of you, who are also fans of art or artists, should definitely read this soul searching book, which is itself a work of art. B.A. Shapiro has merged the tale of the evolving of Abstract Expressionism, with the tale of Alizée Benoit, whose family is stuck in France due to problem of getting visas to America. They want to flee France, their homeland, because they are Jews, and believe that Hitler will take over France. The family of Alizée Benoit, flees France with a impressive number of other Jewish refugees, most of them innocent children, on the ship SS St. Louis, to Cuba and from there to the USA. However, once the ship reaches the shores of America, they are not allowed to dock, and are literally and metaphorically turned back to Europe, to their death, or as Alfred Lord Tennyson would put it, into the Valley of Death. This happened, because the US President and his Assistant Secretary of State Long, felt that that their applications for visas were not acceptable. They did not wish to take on the responsibility of housing refugees, especially Jewish refugees, for they wanted no part of the war in Europe, they did not trust the refugees, and lastly, they were most concerned that these refugees would take up all the jobs in the US, which rightfully belonged to the American citizens. (Now, where have I heard that before???) The story, which is gripping and intense, gives us a glimpse of the USA of the late 1930s and early 1940s, as well as the story of Danielle in 2015, who is trying ways and means to find out what happened to her family, the Benoit’s, during World War II, and how Alizée Benoit had a major role to play in Abstract Expressionism of the ‘30s and ’40s. The novel is racy but a tearjerker in parts. The characters are more than real, and the plot is tight with no loop holes. The Muralist by B. A. Shapiro, speaks to the readers soul, and shows us that at times, we are, or find ourselves, so helpless to save our loved ones, that even something as small as a painting or a mural is used to tell the deaf, mute, and blind world, about pain, grief, and death — meaningless death. Alizée, is a very strong character in this novel, and for those readers who love strong female characters in their books, this is the book for you. I am an Indian, born in the late ‘80s, so I am technically not so familiar with contemporary World War II and American History, and the heroes and villains of this part of history. Nevertheless, B. A. Shapiro explanation in the form of a fiction novel is so easy to comprehend, that I began to appreciate many people I came across in this book, especially people like Varian Fry and Eleanor Roosevelt. You must read this book as soul tonic. Watch out for Shapiro’s depiction of Eleanor Roosevelt, as you are definitely going to love it. It goes without saying, that if you as a reader are interested in a different and unique novel, which is part non-fiction, set in the time of World War II, then this is a book you should read. For those of you who have been and are being persecuted for your beliefs, beliefs which do not harm anyone, then this book is soul curry for you, to know that you are not alone. The Muralist is evocative and mesmerizing. The book poses a lot of questions to us, questions that are uncomfortable and need to be answered, questions about morals and ethics versus politics and selfishness. One question cut me to the core: Do innocent refugee children, who have come to seek shelter in your country, look like political spies to you? I had to cry, because I am proud of my country, India, who is definitely like a Mother, for she accepts everyone who comes to her for help. There is a saying in India, that you will find a duplicate of everything, except a duplicate of Mother India. We have given shelter over the ages, and over centuries, to Jews, Christians, Muslims, Zoroastrians, Buddhists, etc., and now they are as much a part of India, as the original Harappan people were. I am proud of my country — Are you? All these questions can be answered in The Muralist, through its characters, and history and art behind its evolution into a work of perfection. Though I have read a number of books, both fiction and non-fiction, about the Holocaust and World War II, this was the only one to bring a lump to my throat, as it dealt with something that is part of the horrible present. Alizée, Henri, Danielle, Babette, and others, come alive to you through the pen of the master literary artist B. A. Shapiro. It questions, it entertains, and it paints — most importantly, it paints. A must read for everyone, but especially for those writers, artists, poets, journalists, etc., who are being persecuted for expressing their right – their right to freedom of expression. I loved this book. Buy it. NOW!
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