Renny Russell - Awards
Animist Press is proud to announce Rock Me on the Water was a finalist in the  2008 Benjamin Franklin Award for the Nature and Environment category. The Benjamin Franklin Awards are sponsored PMA, the Independent Book Publishers Association, and celebrate excellence in editorial and design for titles published in 2007. Judges for the Benjamin Franklin Awards come from all areas of the industry: major newspaper and trade media reviewers, bookstore and library buyers and reviewers, non-competing publishers, artists and writers who serve the industry. One judge writes of Russell's book: "GREAT! This one stays on my permanent-forever bookshelf." From ForeWords founder and publisher Victoria Sutherland: "These carefully chosen titles affirm our notion that the best ideas in written form are coming from the independent press community, and that with some distinction will find a broader audience among the reading public." |
Rock Me on the Water was first runner-up in the 2009 Eric Hoffer Book Award in Memoir Category. |
 Animist Press won the New Mexico Book Award in the "Nature and Environment" Category with their book Rock Me on the Water. |