Whitney Award Winners and Gala Photo Gallery
On Saturday, the best of the best gathered for the Whitney Awards gala to honor this year’s awards winners.
What are the Whitney’s you ask?
From their website
“The Whitneys are an awards program for novels written by LDS authors. Elder Orson F. Whitney, an early apostle in the LDS church, prophesied “We will yet have Miltons and Shakespeares of our own.” It is our hope to be a part of that journey toward excellence by honoring the LDS writers also working toward that goal.”
Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to a wonderful group of authors, publishers, judges, our president and the committee who put in countless hours of work to get the results. This year I had the chance to work as a committee member and judges coordinator, and realized just how much has to go in (by many hands) to coordinating the process. You can find all the titles nominated and past years’ winners on Wikipedia. Thanks so much to everyone who received our numerous emails and mailings, and to those who were kind along the way!
Here are my photos from the event and the 2013 Whitney Award Winners…
Best Novel of the Year
Blackmoore by Julianne Donaldson
Best Youth Novel of the Year
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
Best General Fiction
Mile 21 by Sarah Dunster
Best Historical
Esther the Queen by Heather B. Moore
Best Romance
Best Mystery/ Suspense
Deep Cover by Traci Hunter Abramson
Best Speculative
Dark Memories by Jeffrey S. Savage
Best Young Adult Speculative
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
Best Young Adult General
All the Truth That’s in Me by Julie Berry
Best Middle Grade
The Runaway King by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Best Novel by a New Author
Pivot Point by Kasie West
Lifetime Achievement
Blaine Yorgason
Outstanding Achievement Award
Rachel Ann Nunes
View all the Gala photos as they are edited and uploaded this week on Heather Gardner Photography’s facebook and smugmug page.
