2012 Moonbeam Award for The Curse of Captain LaFoote, by Eddie Jones

This year's Moonbeam Children's Book Award medalists have been chosen and The Curse of Captain LaFoote by Eddie Jones won the BRONZE MEDAL in the Pre-Teen Fiction/Fantasy category.
By: Blue Collar Marketing
 
 
The-Curse-of-Captain-LaFoot-cover
The-Curse-of-Captain-LaFoot-cover
Oct. 4, 2012 - PRLog -- (Traverse City, MI - Oct. 4, 2012) This year's Moonbeam Children's Book Award medalists have been chosen and The Curse of Captain LaFoote by Eddie Jones won the BRONZE MEDAL in the Pre-Teen Fiction/Fantasy category.

The Michigan-based book-marketing firm Jenkins Group created the Moonbeam Awards to bring increased recognition to exemplary children's books and their authors, illustrators, and publishers. With over 1000 entrants in this year’s contest, the Moonbeam Award winners represent the best books published for children and young adults during the previous year. Medalists receive gold, silver and bronze medals and stickers depicting a mother and child reading together, silhouetted by a full moon.

A panel of judges including teachers, students, and book reviewers chose medalists in 38 categories. Winning books came from a diverse group of long-established publishers, university presses, small presses, and foundations.

“A lot of work goes into making a book,” says author, Eddie Jones. “First, the author has to write words. Then an editor has to remove those words and put in the right ones. Next a line editor checks to make sure the right words are “spelt korwreckly.” Later a designer creates a cover and maybe adds inside illustrations and on it goes. The way I figure it, one misspelled word, missing illustration, or a boring book cover would have pushed The Curse of Captain LaFoote, off the winner’s list. Writing an award-winning book is a team effort and I’m humbled the Moonbeam Awards committee judged this young adult pirate fantasy from Port Yonder Press worthy of such a high honor.”

This is the second award for The Curse of Captain LaFoote. In 2011 the teen / tween, Middle Grade novel won the prestigious Selah Award in Young Adult Fiction. Later this month Jones takes readers to the Wild Wild West in a new YA supernatural mystery series with the release of Dead Man’s Hand, the first book in the Caden Chronicles series from Zonderkidz™, a division of HarperCollins.

This year’s Moonbeam awards ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, November 10, 2012, in conjunction with the Traverse City Children's Book Festival. The festival is open to the public and runs from 10 am to 4 pm; the awards ceremony will run from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm.

For more information about the Moonbeam Awards, contact Awards director Jim Barnes at jimb@bookpublishing.com or call 1-800-644-0133 x1011. Jenkins Group Inc. - 1129 Woodmere Ave, Ste. B - Traverse City, MI 49686

For more information about the author, to schedule an interview, book Jones for an author event or to request a review copy of Dead Man’s Hand, please contact Candice Frederick at DJC Communications: 212-971-9707 or candice@djccommunications.com.

www.captainlafoote.com
www.facebook.com/CadenChronicles
www.eddiejones.org
End
Source:Blue Collar Marketing
Email:***@djccommunications.com
Zip:10022
Tags:Moonbeam Awards, The Curse of Captain LaFoote, Harpercollins, Zonderkidz
Industry:Books
Location:New York City - New York - United States
Subject:Awards
Account Email Address Verified     Account Phone Number Verified     Disclaimer     Report Abuse
Writers Coach PRs
Trending News
Most Viewed
Top Daily News



Like PRLog?
9K2K1K
Click to Share