Marti MacGibbon’s memoir Fierce, Funny, and Female was announced winner of the 2018 New York City Big Book Award in the Women’s Studies category by award sponsor Gabrielle Olczak. A young woman’s triumph over adversity and trauma, told with grace, wit, and laugh-out-loud humor, the book has received multiple accolades in 2017 and 2018.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 12, 2018, New York, NY
Contact: Gabrielle Olczak, gabby@nycbigbookaward.com
“In 2018, we had true worldwide participation in our annual NEW YORK CITY BIG BOOK AWARD website nycbigbookaward.com In our second year, book submissions were impressive as we collected from six continents: Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America; cities such as Buenos Aires, Cairo, London, Moscow, New York; and across the United States. Our NEW YORK CITY BIG BOOK AWARD program just proves great book content can be found anywhere on the globe, whether created from an individual author or a major publishing house irregardless what continent we find it. With over 600 entries, and we feel this is just the beginning and happy to highlight these authors and books and share their achievements.” said awards sponsor Gabrielle Olczak.
Submissions came from the imprints of large traditional publishers such as HarperCollins and Random House; large independent press publishers such as Galaxy Press, Roman & Littlefield and Wiley; small press and independent authors such as Marti MacGibbon to Sahar Aref. We welcome all publishers and authors to submit books for competition at nycbigbookaward.com/submit-online
2018 Recognized Titles and Authors include:
| Title | Author |
| -100: A Time-Travel Horror Romance | Jonathan Maas |
| 100 Days of Terror | Larry Temple |
| 50 Ways to Love Wine More: Adventures in Wine Appreciation | Jim Laughren, CWE |
| A Glance at my Other | Bruce Wilkerson |
| A Raccoon’s Tale: Sven Saves the Notch | Fran Hodgkins |
| Adventure New Zealand: Beneath the Totaras | Sieglinde C. Othmer |
| Aldo | Betty Jean Craige |
| Alexander’s Quest | S. Jackson |
| Alice: A Woman’s Flight for Freedom | Sam Skyborne |
| Angels and Patriots Book One | Salina B Baker |
| Aphrodite’s Tears | Hannah Fielding |
| Banished Threads | Kaylin McFarren |
| Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 | L. Ron Hubbard |
| Be a Warrior Not a Worrier | Hayley L Silk |
| Beyond Beauty Proven Secrets to Age Well, Look 10 Years Younger & Live a Truly Happy, Healthy, Long Life | Dr. Debbie M. Palmer |
| BFFs: Best Friends Forever | Alexander Rutherford |
| Blythe of the Gates | Leah Erickson |
| Butterflies and White Lies as Bollywood comes to Nashville | Mary Poser |
| Cadence: A Tale of Fast Business Growth | Pete Williams |
| Choke | Lisa Towles |
| City on a Hill | Ted Neill |
| COLUMBUS The Untold Story | Manuel Rosa |
| Coming Home to You | Mary McGuire |
| Complete Title of the Book | Author |
| Confessions of a Bone Woman | Lucinda Bakken White |
| Daily Writing Resilience: 365 Meditations & Inspirations for Writers | Bryan E. Robinson, Ph.D. |
| Dam Witherston | Betty Jean Craige |
| Darkness Is Coming | Charles W. Jones |
| Dead Cats and Other Reflections on Parenthood | Jesse McKinnell |
| Disowned | Tikiri |
| Do Big Things: The Simple Steps Teams Can Take to Mobilize Hearts and Minds, and Make an Epic Impact | Craig W. Ross, Angela V. Paccione, Victoria L. Roberts |
| Eat What You Want! Stop When You Want! A No-Diet, Weight-Loss Program | Sora Vernikoff |
| Elk Riders Volume 3: The Font of Jasmeen | Ted Neill |
| Elvis, Strait, to Jesus | Tony Brown |
| Evidence of Practice: Playbook for Video-Powered Professional Learning | Adam Geller with Annie Lewis O’Donnell |
| Facing The Dragon | Philip Derrick |
| Fathers of Invention | Andrew A Pansini |
| Feyesper and the Wicked Neighbor | Reynaldo Encina Jope |
| Fierce, Funny, and Female | Marti MacGibbon |
| Fourth Wife Free | Sahar Aref |
| Freddy Follows | Melanie Quinn |
| God’s Wisdom and Promises | Jack Countryman |
| Hannibal’s Niece | Anthony R. Licata |
| Hello, My Name is Bunny! | Matt Bloom and Shelley Simmons-Bloom |
| Hologlyphs – Twight Fields | S.K. Yeatts |
| How Autism Is Reshaping Special Education: The Unbundling of IDEA | Mark K. Claypool & John M. McLaughlin |
| How to Meditate and Why | Mara M. Zimmerman |
| Inspirations: My Vivid Imagination Has Been Transformed Into Reality | Peterson Francois |
| Investment Atlas II – Using History as a Financial Tool | Kenneth G. Winans |
| IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID! | Christos A. Djonis |
| Janhuri, Njambi & Fighting Zombies | Ted Neill |
| Judge Malvolent | Nick Roteman |
| L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 34 | Editor: David Farland |
| Lizzy the Lioness | Lisa Bevere |
| Lost in the Reflecting Pool: a memoir | Diane Pomerantz |
| Love is the Answer God is the Cure | Aimee cabo Nikolov |
| Magdalena Gottschalk: The Slippery Slope | M. Gail Grant |
| Mistress Suffragette | Diana Forbes |
| Moving Beyond the Unspoken Grief: A Doctor’s Memoir of Her Own IVF Journey as a Patient | Dr Sarah Lnyy |
| My Mother’s Son | David Hirshberg |
| Neuroscience of Mind Empowerment | Anees Akhtar & Dr. Nasim Khan |
| No One Ever Asked: A Novel | Katie Ganshert |
| One-Two | Igor Eliseev |
| OUR GRAND FINALE: A Daughter’s Memoir | Laraine Denny Burrell |
| Paint Your Hair Blue- A Celebration of Life with Hope for Tomorrow in the Face of Pediatric Cancer | Sue Matthews with her sister Andrea Cohane |
| pHood for Life “How these Natural Methods healed me from Cancer” | Jenny Magnusson |
| Preferred Stocks – The Art of Profitable Income Investing | Kenneth G. Winans |
| Primeval Origins: Light of Honor | B.A. Vonsik |
| Reading Tea Leaves After Trump | Thelma T. Reyna |
| RISK: Three Women Risk All for Love, Lust and Justice | Sam Skyborne |
| Scallywags and the Candy Catastrophe | Cameron Stelzer |
| Secrets Abound in Missing Lake | Tanya Fyfe |
| Selected Inspirational Quotes | Eric Chifunda |
| Simulation: The Dawn of a Superhero | Sam Skyborne |
| Snowsisters | Tom Wilinsky & Jen Sternick |
| So Much To Celebrate: Entertaining the Ones You Love the Whole Year Through | Katie Jacobs |
| Southern Season 12 months of Tea-licious Recipes & Ideas | Linda J. Hawkins |
| Southern Season with Memory Making Recipes | Linda J. Hawkins |
| Spiritual Awakening Insights (888 Highly Intuitive Insights) | Avic M. Chio |
| Staying Stylish: Cultivating a Confident Look, Style, and Attitude | Candace Cameron Bure |
| Swearing Off Stars | Danielle M Wong |
| The Alphabet of Grief: Words to Help in Times of Sorrow | Andrea Raynor |
| The Balance Point – A Missing Link in Human Consciousness | Joseph Jenkins |
| The Daily Question: My Five-Year Spiritual Journal | WaterBrook Multnomah |
| The Dream of You: Let Go of Broken Identities and Live the Life You Were Made For | Jo Saxton |
| The Iron Citadel | Mitch Reinhardt |
| The Last Odinian | Alec Arbogast |
| The Measurements of Decay | KK Edin |
| The Memoirs of George Sperryhawke | Austin Smith |
| The Quantum Cartographer, Book of Cruxes | Kristen Keenon Fisher |
| The Rock of Sarraka: A Spirit Animal Adventure | Gary Karton |
| The Silver Rings | Samuel Valentino |
| The Silver Shoes | Jill G. Hall |
| The Suburb Woman | Janet M. Neal |
| The Temple of the Crystal Timekeeper | Fiona Ingram |
| The Third Woe | L. P. Hoffman |
| The Trinity Knot: releasing the knot of silence | DonnaLee Overly |
| The Weight of Living | Michael Stephen Daigle |
| TrumpCare: Lies, Broken… | John Geyman, MD |
| Tune Up: The Secrets of Mylin – Book I | Joe Klingler |
| Two Years of Wonder | Ted Neill |
| Unintended Consequences a Psychological Romance | Carmen McGuinness |
| Unstoppable: Challenge Accepted | Tariku Bogale |
| Waking up Safer? | Berend Mets |
| When God Made You | Matthew Paul Turner |
| When Your Affluence Fails How Low Does One Fall | Rev. Euclid Osborne |
| Where Did They go? | Katrina-Jane |
| White Trash | Alexandra Allred |
| Wordstruck! The Fun and Fascination of Language | Susanna Janssen |
| You Are You w/ foreword by Jennifer Finney Boylan | Lindsay Morris |
For more information, please visit: www.nycbigbookaward.com and to see the list of winners: https://www.nycbigbookaward.com/2018winners and the Distinguished Favorites listed here: https://www.nycbigbookaward.com/2018distinguishedfavorites.
Fierce, Funny, and Female has received multiple awards and accolades:
WINNER, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in Humor
WINNER, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in Women’s Studies
WINNER, 2017 National Indie Excellence Awards in Women’s Health
WINNER, 2017 Beverly Hills Book Awards in Women’s Issues
WINNER, 2018 Independent Press Award in Humor
WINNER, 2018 Independent Press Award in Women’s Studies
WINNER, 2018 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award in Humor
WINNER, 2018 New York City Big Book Awards in Women’s Studies
DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE, New York City Big Book Awards in Humor
FINALIST, 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in Memoir Overcoming Adversity)
FINALIST, 2017 National Indie Excellence Awards in Humor