The winners of the first Book of the Year Awards--sponsored by the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, honoring regional authors whose books were published last year and chosen by NCIBA members--are:
- Fiction: Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon (HarperCollins)
- Nonfiction: The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters (Clarkson Potter)
- Poetry: Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco)
- Poet to Watch: Disposed by Steve Dickison (Post-Apollo Press)
- Children's Literature: The Wild Girls by Pat Murphy (Viking)
- Children's Illustrated: Penguins, Penguins Everywhere by Bob Barner (Chronicle)
- Regional Title: Historical Atlas of California by Derek Hayes (University of California Press)
There will be no formal ceremony but the winners will likely be acknowledged at NCIBA's fall show. By the way, these Book of the Year awards are not connected to the Northern California Book Awards, being presented Sunday, April 13, at the San Francisco Main Library by the Northern California Book Reviewers.
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Nominees for the Second Annual Scribe Awards, sponsored by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers to honor "excellence in licensed tie-in writing--novels based on TV shows, movies, and games," are:
Best General Fiction Original
- CSI NY: Deluge by Stuart M. Kaminsky
- Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants by Lee Goldberg
- Murder She Wrote: Panning for Murder by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain
- Criminal Minds: Jump Cut by Max Allan Collins
- American Gangster by Max Allan Collins (nominee and winner)
- Last Days of Krypton by Kevin J. Anderson
- Stargate Atlantis Casualties of War by Elizabeth Christiansen
- Star Trek: Q&A by Keith R.A. DeCandido
- Hitman by William Dietz
- Forge of the Mindslayers by Tim Waggoner
- Night of the Long Shadows by Paul Crilley
- Resident Evil: Extinction by Keith R.A. DeCandido
- 52: The Novel by Greg Cox
- 30 Days of Night by Tim Lebbon
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Deathless by Keith R.A. DeCandido
- Goodlund Trilogy: Volume Three: Warriors Bones by Stephen D. Sullivan
- Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew #10: Ticket Trouble by Stacia Deutsch and Rudy Cohon
- Twelve Dogs of Christmas by Steven Paul Leiva (nominee and winner)
The association's Grandmaster Award, which honors "a writer for his extensive and exceptional work in the tie-in field," goes to Alan Dean Foster, author of novelizations for Star Wars, the animated Star Trek series, Alien, Black Hole, Starman, Outland, Pale Rider and Alien Nation.
The Scribe Awards will be given at the Comic Con show in San Diego, Calif., in July, and the special gaming scribes will be awarded at Gen Con Indy in August.