2009 DIY BOOK FESTIVAL NAMES WINNERS 2/4/2010 LOS ANGELES (February 4, 2010) _ The story of an Army veteran who served in Vietnam and Iraq is the winner of the 2009 DIY Book Festival, which honors independent and self-published books. “My Last War: A Vietnam Veteran’s Tour In Iraq," (published by iUniverse), is the story of Charles M. Grist, one of the few Vietnam veterans to have served as an enlisted solider in the Iraq war. His daily journal captures his team’s wartime experiences, taking the reader into a life filled with mortar and rocket attacks and the constant threat of ambush. But Grist’s clear-eyed sense of duty and his compassion for all in the chaos of war is the real focus of the book, which serves as a great reminder of the human side of combat, no matter where a reader stands on the issues. The competition's award for Best Design went to the Photography/Art category winner, “Contemporary Hawai’i Woodworkers,” by Tiffany DeEtte Shafto and Lynda McDaniel. Grist and other competition authors and publishers will be honored at a dinner in Los Angeles on February 25 as part of the tenth annual DIY Convention: Do It Yourself in Film, Music & Books. Other winners in the 2009 DIY Book Festival: FICTION: WINNER: The American Book of the Dead – Henry Baum HONORABLE MENTION: Power’s Garden – Dianne Ebertt Beeaff Implosion – Peter Koenig Blood of the Moon – Richard Gazala The Book of Eli – Sam Moffie The Mason Key – Volume One – David Folz If You’re Ever in Key West – Jane Dawkins Our Hart - Lloyd Lofthouse The Alpha Promise – Hayat Ali NON-FICTION: WINNER: How Big Is Your But? - James Robinson HONORABLE MENTION: Stars Everlasting – Maria Polo Who Stole My Soul? - Vishwa Prakash Maximizing LinkedIn – Neal Schaffer The Ice Cream Theory – Steff Deschenes CHILDREN’S: WINNER: Perry The Playful Polar Bear – Olive O’Brien/illustrated by Ninan Finn-Kelcey HONORABLE MENTION: Scamper – Lisa Young/illustrated by Joan Neath The Legend of Barknight – The McConnell Family I Choose – Suzin Helen Carr/illustrated by Chandler J. Carr Monster Moon: Curse at Zala Manor – BBH McChiller Nick & Slim: The Legend of the Falcon Mine – Pamela Henn Worried Wendy Goes To School - Jenna Lumbard Baron Thinks Dogs Are People Too! – Laurie Dean/illustrated by Kevin Collier The Careless Frog – Dana L. Perri/illustrated by Juan Carlos Casas Davey Bighead: Dream Big – Peter J. Hayden The Homework Monster – Karen E. Culpepper Curio a Shetland Sheepdog Meets The Cat – Jeanette A. Griver/Phyllis L. Milway PHOTOGRAPHY/ART: WINNER: Contemporary Hawai’i Woodworkers – Tiffany DeEtte Shafto/Lynda McDaniel HONORABLE MENTION: Gattorno: A Cuban Painter For The World – Sean M. Poole Minnesota: Chasing The Seasons from the North Shore to the Mississippi – Jim Jamieson downTown U.S.A. – Susan Madden Lankford A Desert Illuminated – John P. Schaefer and others BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY: WINNER: My Last War – Charles M. Grist HONORABLE MENTION: Siren’s Feast – Nancy Mehagian Beyond Reason – Gregg Korbon No Limits – Byron Rempel Beyond The Cold – Michael Kleiner Move and Other Four-Letter Words – Joan Brown HOW-TO: WINNER: Harvesting Rainwater for Drylands and Beyond, Vol I and II – Brad Lancaster HONORABLE MENTION: The Primal Blueprint – Mark Sisson Renting With Rex – Jackie Phillips Recess is Over! – Dr. Sherry L. Meinberg FUNdraising Events! – Rose Marie Kern Beyond The Brochure – Christina Simon/Anne Simon/Porcha Dodson POETRY: WINNER: Her Sculptures Speak To My Soul – Rebecca Hayward Mitchell HONORABLE MENTION: A Vision in Ebony – Ebony Alexander-Woods COOKBOOKS: WINNER: Canal House Cooking Vol. 1 – Christopher Hirsheimer & Melissa Hamilton HONORABLE MENTION: Bake Deliciously! – Jean Duane Texas Tables – Junior League of North Harris and South Montgomery Counties Shortcuts To Gourmet Cooking and Family Favorites – Frances Schaffer The Table My Mother Set – Theresa V. DeCaria How To Lower Your Cholesterol with French Gourmet Food – Chef Alain Braux COMPILATIONS/ANTHOLOGIES: WINNER: Cradle To Cross Trilogy Set – Mac McConnell HONORABLE MENTION: Recompense – Brian Irwin A Christmas Sampler – Bethlehem Writers Group TEENAGE: WINNER: The Difference Between A Boy and a Man – Amy Modica Myers HONORABLE MENTION: Lord Skyler and the Earth Defense Force – Matt T. Schott Girls Rule! – CJ Golden Practice Room – Susan Zeidler Vargulf – Tim Garrity Tyler & His Solve-A-Matic Machine – Jennifer Bouani The Attitude Girl – Mila Bernadkin GENRE-BASED: WINNER: Journey Through Ten Thousand Veils – Maryam Kabeer Faye HONORABLE MENTION: Revelations – Kevin Wright Kwatee – Richard Downey E-BOOKS: WINNER: Mayan Calendar Girls 2012 – Team 2012 HONORABLE MENTION: Deadly Enchantment – Kathryn R. Blake COMICS: WINNER: Vinland – The Saga of Leif Eriksson – Ralph Cinque

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