LZ ANGEL NEWSLETTER Issue 1

LZ ANGEL NEWSLETTER Issue 1 - Volume 2 January 10, 2005 The American Authors Association Editor Bill McDonald

AAA 2004 Book Awards The AAA award committee is still making their final decisions on the winning books for 2004. Several thousand books were considered and narrowed down to just a few dozen. Now that committee will have to pick the best of the best and in some categories that is a very difficult task. The competition this year was highly competitive and it was very close on some books. The rest of the AAA Awards will be announced within the next two weeks in Issue Number 2 of this newsletter. The only awards that was decided upon were the following: The book cover of the year award to Joe Kline of Joe Kline Aviation Art www.joekline.com for his wonderful book cover of "Rattler One-Seven" by Chuck Gross. AAA GOLD BOOK COVER AWARD 2004 The book cover for *"A Brother Lost"* designed by Rebecca Johnson was the runner up in this category and was given The Silver Award for book cover design. Book was authored by Rob Pearce. AAA SILVER BOOK COVER AWARD 2004 AAA GOLD AWARD BEST SPORTS BOOK - 2004 The Yoga of Golf By Ron Mann, Ph.D. http://www.ronmann.com/coaching/index-2.html		The AAA GOLD AWARD BEST SHORT STORIES COLLECTION 2004 The Swan Tales of the Sacramento Valley By Andrew F. O'Hara http://flyingswans.tripod.com/ The AAA SILVER AWARD BEST SHORT STORIES COLLECTION 2004 Lily Love's Cafe Dreams And Magic Served Here (No book cover image available) A Collection of Short Stories by Various Authors published as a fund raiser for "Chicks In Crisis, Inc." The AAA GOLD AWARD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2004 The Pilgrim's France by James & Colleen Heater http://www.innertravelbooks.com/ AAA GOLD AWARD BEST POETRY BOOK - 2004 Redwood Wisdom Meditations For Daily Living by Judith Hurley Prosser (No book cover image available) AAA SILVER AWARD POETRY BOOK Be A Teller of Tales by Christine Irving (No book cover image available)