Jac Fitzenz won the opening chapter prize at the 2017 San Francisco Peninsula Literary Fair for his second Mike and Grace novel, Spies with Benefits. This is the second consecutive year Dr. Jac has won the prize. In 2016 he received the award for Undaunted Lovers.
Ann Parker’s novel What Gold Buys, has been nominated for the Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Novel. This is the fifth book in her Silver Rush Mystery series which take place in Leadville, Colorado in the late nineteenth century. What Gold Buys was a 2016 Sarton Women’s Book Award (Historical Fiction) finalist and a 2017 Lefty Award Nominee for Best Historical Mystery novel.