Author Edward Stanton Honored in 2017 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards: Novel Wide as the Wind Wins Silver Medal for Historical YA Fiction
The annual Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards contest promotes this philosophy of “book love” and recently announced this year’s medal-winning books, including Wide as the Wind (2016, Open Books Press) by author Edward Stanton. Jenkins Group congratulates the authors, illustrators, and publishers from the United States, Canada, and six countries overseas for their dedication to inspiring young people to read and to love books. - October 18, 2017
Author Edward Stanton Honored in 2017 Indie Book Awards: Novel Wide as the Wind Wins YA Category
Edward Stanton's stunning novel, Wide as the Wind (Open Books Press, 2016), is the winner of the Young Adult Fiction category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Wide as the Wind is the first novel to deal with the stunning, tragic history of Easter Island (Vaitéa). It could be described as quest fiction for all ages in the line of Tolkien’s The Hobbit, but it is set in the real world, not Middle-earth. - August 09, 2017
Jennifer Geist Named Publisher/Managing Editor of Pen & Publish, Inc.
On January 1, 2015, Jennifer Geist was named publisher and managing editor of Pen & Publish, Inc., and its two traditional-hybrid imprints, Open Books Press and Transformation Media Books. - February 18, 2015