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Book
Awards & Recognition
March 7, 2011
Alysa of
the Fields Audio Book has won in
the
Mom's Choice Awards 2011.
The Mom's
Choice Awards® program recognizes authors,
inventors, companies, parents and others for
their efforts in creating quality
family-friendly media, products and
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March 1, 2011
Alysa of
the Fields Audio Book has won an
award in the Teens (12-16) category in
the
Reader
Views Annual Literary Awards 2010.
The annual literary awards were established
to honor writers who self-published or had
their books published by a subsidy
publisher, small press, university press, or
independent book publisher geared for the
North American reading audience published in
2010.
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September 1, 2010
View photos from the Nov. 6, 2010
awards banquet on Facebook!
Alysa of
the Fields Audio Book has received
the 2010 Readers Favorite Gold in the
Audio Book category. The awards
banquet will be held in Las Vegas on Nov. 6,
and I'll be there! Will follow with news and
photos of the event.
The TrailFolk of
Xunar-kun has won the Silver
in the Sci-fi/Fantasy Book Category!
The complete
list of winners is
here. Click the
seals to the right for more information. You can add your
own comments about the audio book and Book
Two at these links.
Read about it
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September 17, 2009
The TrailFolk of Xunar-kun Places First in
the Fall 2009 Written Art Awards, Science
Fiction/Fantasy Category
RebeccasReads.com's
The Written Art
Awards is a biannual literary
awards program that takes place in the
spring and fall of every year. The Awards
were founded to pay tribute to authors who
are self-published or have had their books
published by a subsidy publisher, small
press, university press, or independent book
publisher.
Criteria for
judging was content/originality,
presentation/design, innovation, social
relevance, production quality,
enjoyment/impact, plot/story line, and
resourcefulness. Finalists in
each category were determined by a point
system. Final judging was determined by a
jury of judges.
View the list of winners.
Read the
full review by Danelle Drake who says: “The
TrailFolk of Xunar-kun: Book Two in the
Tellings of Xunar-kun will have you
hooked. This book
will teach you lessons while you are being
entertained. I have passed it on
to our teen daughter and she is totally
engrossed in the story.”
RebeccasReads.com posts book reviews, author
interviews, and offers many promotional
services to authors.
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January 25, 2009:
Substance Books Online Publicity Award
“Given ONLY to
'Well
Connected & Well Promoted' Sites. We
at
Substance Books invite all those
with a publishing-related website to apply
for our SUBSTANCE ONLINE PUBLICITY AWARD.
Your site will be judged on originality,
overall design and appearance, substance,
ease of navigation, and interconnectedness.
This is an award worth fighting for—it is
not a giveaway! All sites are carefully
considered before being included in the
winners database.”
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January 8, 2009: Howe Receives Grant to
Create Audio Book
CORNING, NEW YORK - The ARTS Council of the
Southern Finger Lakes announces the
recipients of the 2009 Decentralization
Regrant Program which serves residents of
Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben and Tioga
counties. Decentralization Program funding
is made possible with public funds from the
New York State Council on the Arts, a state
agency, administered locally by The ARTS
Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.
Read the
full press release.
Visit
The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger
Lakes.
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January 2009: Author Interview in 2007
Featured in WSKG’s
A 10th Year Retrospective on OFF THE PAGE
Aired
January 6 at 1 & 7 p.m. Available as
a
podcast.
“Way back in January,
2000 we convened a panel of science fiction
mavens to share their forward-looking
impressions on how futuristic and
imaginative writing would fare now that the
21st century had actually come into view.
Whatever other observations they might have
propounded that afternoon, the one certainty
was that our newly-established "forum for
writers from our region" would have a future
of its own. The program was called OFF THE
PAGE and it gave time and space for authors
and ideas, and an opportunity for listeners
to ask questions and add their comments.”
(story continues on the
WSKG website)
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November
2008:
Grant Awarded
to Author to Produce
Audio Book in 2009
Tina
will receive an Artist Crossroads award in
2009 for her project, Bring the Written
Word to Life through an Audio Book. Book
One, Alysa of the Fields, will come
to life through the recorded voice talent of
actors, and she will add sound effects and
music to create an experience akin to a film
without the visual aspect. In fulfillment of
the grant application, copies of the CD will
be donated to learning and health
organizations for their libraries. Watch for
audition details and other news.
This project is made possible, in part, with
public funds from the New York State Council
on the Arts’
Decentralization Program, administered
locally by the ARTS Council of the Southern
Finger Lakes.
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August 27,
2008: Alysa of the
Fields Screenplay is Quarterfinalist in
10th Annual Scriptapalooza Screenwriting
Competition!
Scriptapalooza is a contest for
screenplays; Tina converted
“Alysa” into a
screenplay last fall. It’s available for
review by interested parties.
Please inquire!
Reel Exchange
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April 19, 2008:
Literary Women
One
Seventy-One Cedar Arts Center, 171 Cedar St.,
Corning, NY
1:00-2:00 p.m. Free
and open to the public.
 This event is a component
of the Big Read
sponsored by the
Southeast Steuben County Library through an NEA
grant. Tina performed, in character, a theatrical piece
based on a strong theme from Alysa and the theme of
the Big Read: Tolerance.
Akua Lezli Hope also performed her award-winning
poetry on the same topic!
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August 2007:
Cover Artwork
Winner
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2006 Dream Realm Awards
 The 2006
Winners were announced at
ArmadilloCon 29, A Literary Science
Fiction Convention, August 11, 2007 in
Austin, TX. Alysa of the Fields was
awarded the winner in the Cover Art
category!
Alysa of
the Fields, also available in
e-book format in addition to soft and
hardcover, is available from
BookLocker.com.
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July
2007: Alysa of the Fields Featured on
NPR.org
WSKG
PUBLIC RADIO’S “OFF THE PAGE” TO BE FEATURED
BY NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO
 (Binghamton, NY -- July 27, 2007)—WSKG
Public Radio’s bi-weekly show, OFF THE PAGE,
has been chosen as one of the participants
in National Public Radio’s on-line feature “Summer Books 2007”.
OFF THE PAGE, hosted by Bill Jaker features
interviews with regional writers. Recent
guests have included Rebecca Barry, author
of “Later at the Bar”, David Sloan Wilson,
author of “Evolution for Everyone’, and Tina
Field Howe, author of a novel for young
people, “Alysa
of the Fields.” OFF THE PAGE is
broadcast live on WSKG-FM on alternate
Tuesdays at 1:00pm. The program is streamed
and also available as a podcast through
www.wskg.org. WSKG is archiving the
audio of each Off the Page program for at
least a year after broadcast, making for a
rich online library of programs with
regional authors for our web visitors to
sample.
The
National Public Radio website, www.npr.org
will highlight three books, including
excerpts read by Bill Jaker.
WSKG
Public Broadcasting currently serves 21
counties in New York and Pennsylvania. An
important resource, WSKG uses the power of
noncommercial television, radio and the
Internet to provide its audience their
quality programs and educational services
that inform, inspire and entertain.
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Bill Jaker of WSKG Public
Radio and
host of
Off the Page
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