"Slade" receives Reviewers' Choice Award

Selected as top book among the 24 category winners in Feathered Quill Book Awards

Feathered Quill Book Awards, one of the top book award contests for small press and independently published books, announced that Slade has received the Reviewers’ Choice Award.

According to Feathered Quill, the “award recipient is selected from the winners of all categories, based on review scores, cover design, and relevance to readers today.”

The contest has 24 categories, from children’s books to adult, fiction and nonfiction, and various genres. Slade took the Gold Award (first place) in adult fiction, announced last week, and this week picked up an additional award as the best overall book of the 24 category winners.

Comments from the Feathered Quill contest judges about Slade:

• Tragic and uplifting in one book.

• Excellent characters that are very well-written. Each has a purpose, no character “wasted.”

• The interview format of the book is different and intriguing — makes the book an interesting read.

• Such an interesting and creative way of writing a piece of fiction.

• I loved each charact…