Author: Ann Hendricks
-
Celebrating the Foreword INDIES 2025 Book of the Year Finalist honor
•
Foreword sent us a nifty graphics package to customize up to celebrate our Finalist honor. Super-thrilled! A little blurb on Daughter of the Leopard will appear in their May/June issue, which goes out to thousands of librarians and will also be at the ALA conference.
-
Quarterfinalist at the BookLife Prize
•
We’re thrilled that Daughter of the Leopard, with its fabulous 10/10 Critic’s Report, was awarded Quarterfinalist in the 2025 BookLife Prize, memoir/autobiography category. Delightful, and an honor!
-
Foreword INDIES finalist!
•
Our second preliminary book contest result is in: finalist in the multicultural category in the Foreword INDIES. We’re again delighted. There are clearly many excellent submissions at this contest, and it’s an honor to be included. Further judging results will be announced in June.
-
Perfect 10/10 BookLife Prize Critic’s Report!
•
We entered Daughter of the Leopard in four different book contests that were open to indie/small press books. The first result we’ve gotten back is here: the Critic’s Report from the BookLife Prize Nonfiction (memoir) competition. What a fabulous Critic’s Report! We received a 10/10 in every category of analysis,…
-
Finally at our home library!
•
Daughter of the Leopard is finally at our local library system, KCLS. We went yesterday to visit the copy I had placed on hold, at Lake Hills, our cute small neighborhood library. This was deeply poignant: we both raised our kids from tiny going to this library! And now we…
-
More SPLS library branch book visits
•
In early January Monique again dragged me out from my still-recovering-from-pneumonia sickbed to go visit Daughter of the Leopard at two more Seattle Public Library System branches: Douglass-Truth and Rainier Beach. What a delight!! Well worth masking up and going out for.We also just got word that the copies have…
-
Seattle Public Library, Central book visit!
•
We made it just before Christmas to visit our first two local library copies of Daughter of the Leopard: both at Central branch in Seattle Public Library; one in holds and one in the stacks. What a treat! I was in the midst of pneumonia recovery and felt like absolute…
-
All formats now available!
•
We finally got the necessary tons of work done, and Daughter of the Leopard can now be ordered for individuals, bookstores, libraries, etc in all text formats. Ebook, regular paperback, regular hardcover, large print paperback, and large print hardcover. We’ll love to add an audiobook once the book is better…
-
Large Print Edition is available!
•
After many weeks of work, we have completed the necessary reformatting to offer Daughter of the Leopard in large print paperback. This was a priority for us, completed before offering any type of hardcover etc, as we really care about accessibility and have many beloved friends and contacts who appreciate…
-
October ebook sale!
•
In honor of the International Day of the Girl Child, Oct 11, we have put the ebook on sale 20% off, from USD $9.99 to USD $7.99. This sale price will hold all of October. Links: Amazon Kindle Apple Books Rakuten Kobo Google Play Books and finally, the UN International…