We’re thrilled to celebrate our eleven incredible finalists for the 2025 #FOREWORDINDIES Book of the Year Awards!
Congrats to all of our authors & editors whose work continues to inspire, inform, & challenge readers everywhere.
Stay tuned, winners will be announced in June!
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Graphic with the headline “Congratulations 2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalists!” showing four Bywater Books covers: Chocolate Chip City by Be Steadwell (Multicultural Fiction), The Ever End by Audrey Wilson (Suspense Thriller), Switch by Ann McMan (Romance), and Crime Ink: Iconic edited by John Copenhaver and Salem West (LGBTQ+ Fiction), with the Bywater Books logo at the bottom.
Big love to the brilliant authors behind these books!
Indie presses show up, tell the stories & don’t ask permission to exist.
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Just announced: #FOREWORDINDIES 2024 Winner! Included in this list? Making the Unknown Known: Women in Early Texas Art as the SILVER🥈Winner for Art! Congratulations to editors Victoria H. Cummins and Light Townsend Cummins!👏
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2024 GOLD Winner for Juvenile Fiction The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree Contributor(s) Lucille Abendanon Publisher Jolly Fish Press ISBN-13 978-1-63163-820-6 Publication Date Jan 23, 2024
We are thrilled that THE SONGBIRD AND THE RAMBUTAN TREE by Lucille Abendanon is the #ForewordINDIES Gold Winner for Juvenile Fiction! ❤️ www.forewordreviews.com/awards/winne...
Infographic titled Homefront by Victoria Kelly is the Foreword INDIES 2024 Silver Winner for War & Military (Adult Fiction). It includes the cover of Homefront by Victoria Kelly and the logo for the Foreword INDIES Silver Winner.
Congratulations to Victoria Kelly, author of 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙩, for being the Foreword INDIES 2024 Silver Winner for War & Military (Adult Fiction)!
Click here to purchase 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙩: unpress.nevada.edu/978164779144...
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A lovely surprise. So thankful for outlets like #ForewordINDIES and readers who take chances on independently published books, especially books that touch on #climatechange.
So proud of my publisher @bywaterbooks.bsky.social!! #ForewordINDIES
So proud of everyone at Bywater Books—way to go!
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Foreward Indies silver awards for WE CALLED THEM GIANTS
This is amazing news. @stephaniehans.bsky.social and my WE CALLED THEM GIANTS from @imagecomics.com just won the Silver for Graphic Novels/Comics in the Foreword Indies 2024 awards. To be picked by Librarians and Booksellers is just lovely #ForewordINDIES
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OUTSTANDING news! Bywater Books was named the Foreword Reviews 2024 Indie Publisher of the Year!
#ForewordINDIES #SapphicBooks #LGBTQBooks #Booksky
Image shows the book cover of Honeymoons in Temporary Locations and a Foreword INDIES Silver winner emblem and notation stating the book is the winner for General Adult Fiction.
The image shows the book cover for Core Samples and the Foreword INDIES Silver winner emblem and includes a notation that the book is the winner for Essays.
Congratulations to @ashleyshelby.com and Anna Farro Henderson on their #ForewordINDIES wins!
Something to be proud of!!
Bywater Books has been named the 2024 Foreword INDIES Publisher of the Year!
I proofread for Bywater Books. It's an honor to be affiliated with this award-winning publisher and some of the BEST award-winning authors.
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🏆Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Winner🏆
Congratulations to Karen E. Fisher on Zaatari being the gold winner in the Foreword INDIES cooking category! We couldn't be more thrilled 😍
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Happy first anniversary to Life Span, Molly Giles’s bold and brilliant memoir featuring a woman writer's ambition and love of writing. As a 2024 Foreword INDIES finalist, this book has made an unforgettable impact on readers. Pick up a copy here: linktr.ee/wtawpress
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🎉 Big news! Storytelling with Purpose by Michael Hernandez is a finalist for a Foreword Indies Award!
Empower students through storytelling—and ISTE members save 25%!
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The book cover of Detachable Penis depicts a crocheted penis the author purchased from Etsy.
Sam Elkin's memoir, Detachable Penis: A Queer Legal Saga, relates his bumpy journey from lesbian to transgender lawyer as the inaugural lawyer of Victoria’s queer law service after Australia amended the marriage act to enable same-sex marriage. #ForewordIndies www.wlupress.wlu.ca/Books/D/Deta...
Obsessed with The Sheriff Bet Rivers Mystery Series by Elena Taylor! 📚
Seriously, A COLD, COLD WORLD is 🔥 and even got a nod for Best Mystery of 2024! 🏆
Let's hope for the win in June! 🤞
#Bookworm #Mystery #ForewordINDIES #MustRead
Infographic titled Foreword INDIES Finalist. It includes the cover 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙩 by Victoria Kelly.
𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙩: 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 by Victoria Kelly is a Foreword INDIES finalist in the War & Military (Adult Fiction) category!
Click here to see a complete list of finalists: www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final...
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Thrilled to see that Naomi Cohn's THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA is a Finalist in the Autobiography and Memoir category of the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year awards! #ForewordINDIES www.forewordreviews.com/awards/final...
"Indie Book of the year award finalist" for We Called Them Giants.
This is fun news. We Called Them Giants has been shortlisted for the Foreword INDIES FINALIST award. It's really nice to be included in something selected by booksellers and librarians, who clearly see so much stuff. #ForewordINDIES
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Five years after COVID-19 erupted in our lives, becoming a "global social fact", the book Jennifer Welsh and I co-edited with 50 contributors from four Montréal-based universities is shortlisted for the #ForewordINDIES Book of the Year award
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Monarch by Emily Jon Tobias is a Forward INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist!
Learn more about Monarch
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Feeling the indie love!
THE BLACK BIRD OF CHERNOBYL, by ANN McMAN, has been chosen as a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards FINALIST in BOTH LGBTQ+ & HUMOR categories!
Click here for the full list: loom.ly/iUQiemI
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Rage Prayers is a finalist for the indie award from Foreword Reviews. I’m so deeply honored and delighted by this recognition. Thanks for raging with me friends #rageprayers #indieawards #forewordindies #publishing #episcopal
AKMARAL is a finalist in the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards!
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Congratulations to authors Judith Barrington and Elizabeth Mehren for "Virginia's Apple" and "I Lived To Tell the World" being named 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalists! 🎉
See the full list of finalists online:www.forewordreviews.com/awar...
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Blue book cover of SHELLY MAZZANOBLE's HOW TO DUNGEON MASTER PARENTING with a D20 dice featuring a parent and kid on the 20. The words A Guidebook for Gamifying the Child Rearing Quest, Leveling Up Your Skills, and Raising Future Adventurers is under it.
Congratulations, @shellymoo.bsky.social! HOW TO DUNGEON MASTER PARENTING is a 2024 Foreword INDIES Finalist! #ForewordINDIES #nonfictionbooks #parentingbook (cc: @andreabrownlit.bsky.social)
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A graphic reading: 2023 Finalist: Foreword INDIES Award: Fantasy (Adult Fiction). Joythief by Brenda J. Pierson. Crimson Fox Publishing
A screenshot from the Foreword INDIES Finalist page: JOYTHIEF 2023 INDIES Finalist Finalist, Fantasy (Adult Fiction) Brenda J. Pierson Crimson Fox Publishing (Feb 21, 2023) Softcover $14.99 (340pp) 978-1-952667-97-8 A spider-thief, a slave, and a woman with hidden darkness inside team up to save the world in Brenda J. Pierson’s Arabian-inspired fantasy novel "Joythief". Mariq is a pampered princess in Kuriza by day and a gifted spider-thief for the Star-Blades by night. The Star-Blades give her two... Read More
Congratulations to our own Brenda J. Pierson! We're so excited to announce that JOYTHIEF is a finalist in the Foreword INDIES Award Adult Fantasy category!
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Early-bird deadline 6/30: #ForewordINDIES Awards; submit independently published books—including those from #selfpublished authors and university presses—published in 2022; fee: $79 for 1st category, $59 for addl; win $1,500 and promotion...
