2014 Oregon Book Award winners announced

It isn't every day I get to say that someone I know and whom I've interviewed on the blog has won a major literary prize, but today is such a day!

Last night the Oregon Book Award winners were announced, and I'm pleased as punch that Jay Ponteri took the prize for creative nonfiction for his memoir, Wedlocked. Congratulations, Jay! A victory for truth-tellers everywhere!

Click here to visit the Literary Arts website and find out who the other winners are this year.

And in case you missed it last year, you can still read my two-part interview with Jay Ponteri, in which he talks about his vision for the book, his writing process and the monetary side of getting published: Interview with author Jay Ponteri Part I & Part II

Oregon Book Award finalists

Jay Ponteri

Woot! Woot! Today I was excited to find out that friends of the blog Jay Ponteri and Scott Nadelson are both finalists for the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Congratulations, Jay and Scott! And congrats to their publisher, Hawthorne Books!

And in case you haven't read my interviews with them yet:

Scott Nadelson

Interview with author Jay Ponteri Part I & Part II

Interview with author Scott Nadelson

And here is my interview with their publisher, Rhonda Hughes from Hawthorne Books.