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See the American Bookseller's Association's Bookselling This Week "Headlines" article on John Presta and Mr. and Mrs. Grassroots:
How Barack Obama, Two Bookstore Owners, and 300 Volunteers Did It
The Elevator Group scores big in the 2009 National
Best Book Awards announced Oct. 20! See below!
The Elevator Group is dedicated to helping people rise above and lead an abundant life by developing books,
broadcast media and motion pictures with meaning.
Obamatyme: Election Poetry by Melodye
Micere Van Putten won the category, Poetry: Urban.
These Elevator Group books won finalist awards
as follows: - Land Mines by Sheilah Vance was a finalist
in two categories--1) Fiction: Chick Lit/Women's Lit and 2) Fiction: African American. Journaling
through the Land Mines by Sheilah Vance, the companion journal to Land Mines, was a finalist in the category Self-Help:
Journals and Quotes.
- Heads Deacon, Tails Devil by P.
J. McCalla was a finalist in Fiction: African American.
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Elevator Group took two of the five spots in Fiction: African American!)
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Christian Woman's Journal to Weight Loss by Patricia Thomas was a finalist in two categories--1) Health:
Diet & Weight Loss, and 2) Spirituality: Journals and Quotes.
Click here to read the USA Book News Press Release announcing the 2009 National Best Book award recipients.
Press Release from The Elevator Group announcing its 2009 National Best Books Awards
Click here to see Publishers Weekly.com, 6/16/09, announcement that The Elevator Group has signed Chicago bookseller John
Presta for the January 2010 release, "Mr. and Mrs. Grassroots: How Barack Obama, Two Bookstore Owners, and 300 Volunteers
Did It".
The Elevator Group scores big at 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers
Group and open to all independent publishers, small presses, university presses, and self-published authors! We were
named finalists in the following categories: Land Mines by Sheilah Vance: 1) Multicultural Fiction 2) Best
Cover Design Fiction (design by Stephanie Vance-Patience) A Christian Woman's Journal to Weight Loss: A 52 Week
Guide to Losing Weight with the Word by Patricia Thomas: 1) Spiritual 2) Inspirational 3) Motivational
2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalists/Winners link
See photos of The Elevator Group authors and staff at events at 2009 Book Expo America, May 20-31, in New York City
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