Several Gorham Printing authors win 2006 Ippy Awards
The Independent Publisher Book Awards, launched in 1996, are designed to bring increased recognition to titles published by independent authors and publishers. Gorham Printing did the complete design layout for each of these titles. These winners brought a distinctly northwest flavor to the competition
Noah Ashenhurst, of Shelton Washington, won for Best Regional Fiction (West Pacific) for his debut novel Comfort Food: A Novel, a character-driven; literary work about six young adults trying to find their purpose in the world.
Russell H. Holter and Jesse Clark McAbee won Honorable Mention for Best Regional Non-Fiction (West Pacific) for "Rails to Paradise, The History of the Tacoma Eastern Railroad 1890-1919".
Cora Holmes won in theBest Romance category for her novel "Outside Man", a story of suspense, romance and ancient legends set in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska.
PJF Publishing is pleased to announce that VETTING has won the 2010 First Place Gold Award in the AXIOM Business Book Awards competition in the category of Business Biography and Memoirs. This competition was open to all publishers and not limited to independent publishers.
In 2010, Joan Webster won a bronze medal for Visionary Fiction for her novel "Turkoise." The novel also took top honors in the Multicultural Fiction category at the NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards)