Congratulations to our YA/Adult Book Cover Design Finalists! Kimberly Killion created the cover for Forgotten Female Felons by Sherry Skye Stuart, Marina Drukman designed A Complete Fiction's cover by R. L. Maizes (Her cat was shocked, but pleased), and Aaricia Wiesen brought the creativity to The Elixir of the Green Willow Guard by AD Uhlar.
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Congrats to CAL's Biography/Memoir Finalists: You were Chosen, Just Like Mary by Jack Maher, Beyond the Bataan Death March by Dana Frazee, and Cuddling the Cactus by Susan Bavaria.
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The Article finalists are "Night of the Living ZomBees" by R. Gary Raham, "In the Crosshairs" by Barbara Ellen Sorensen, and "Reflections on World War II Heroines" by Penny Rafferty Hamilton. Congratulations!
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Who's on the list?!
Not that list. The CAL Awards Finalist list! Let's start off with Anthology, where we have Four Corners Voices II, edited by Gail Binkly; The Four Faces of Eve with contributors Constance E. Boyle (pictured), Petra Perkins, Brooke Granville, and Gail Waldstein; and Our Wanderings, edited by Shana Marie Gilbert with Valor Christian High School Senior Creative Writing Collective as contributors.
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And the winners are...
See the full list at www.coloradoauthors.org
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AND THE LAST CATEGORY IS... Book Cover Design: YA/Adult. The finalists are Momir Borocki for A Warrior's Path by Steve Stratton; Jody Chapel for Four Corners Voices by Mark Stevens, Lisa C. Taylor, and Chuck Greaves; and Tristan Bowersox for Tales of the Incorrigible: A Song of Wood and Meat by Kevin Bowersox.
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Congratulations to CAL's Romance Finalists: Fairest of the Fayre by Sheri Cobb South, Perfect Office Pact by Maria Jane, and Cole and Laila are Just Friends by Bethany Turner.
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In the Anthology category, the finalists are At Home in Nature, edited by Mary Taylor Young, Four Corners Voices edited by Chuck Greaves, Lisa C. Taylor, & Mark Stevens, and Colorado Mystery Merge, written and compiled by the Colorado Chapter of Sisters in Crime. Congratulations!
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CAL's Illustration finalists are Gabby Zapata (center, top) for The Ofrenda That We Built by Jolene Gutiérrez and Shaian Gutiérrez, Jessica Robin Harkey for Boo Bear's Light by Catherine Ann Russell, and Flo Minowa (not pictured) for The Year Santa Took the Toys Back by Sheri Cobb South.
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Congratulations to CAL's Middle Grade finalists, Keeper of the Gremkat Key by John Lyon and Brad Lyon, Coal Dust and Dreams by M.J. Evans, and Skyriders by Polly Holyoke.
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