Susan Reinhardt Wins International Publisher’s Award

Asheville publisher, Grateful Steps, is pleased to announce that Susan Reinhardt was awarded a bronze medal by the world’s largest international and regional book awards competition.

Reinhardt, Asheville’s beloved journalist, won an Independent Publishers Book Award in the Southeast Fiction category.

Her book, Chimes from a Cracked Southern Belle, demonstrates her skill as a writer and humorist. It achieves what would ordinarily be a literally impossible literary task, that of presenting a tragic heroine in a continuously amusing light while never forfeiting sensitivity to the Southern woman’s plight.

Conducted annually, the Independent Publishers Book Awards honor the year’s best independently published titles from around the world. The competition, launched in 1976, brings increased recognition to the deserving but often unsung titles published by independent authors and publishers.

A celebration party was held in New York city at the end of May, where Reinhardt was presented with a medal and certificate. She will also be recognized in major trade publications including Publisher’s Weekly and Shelf Awareness.

Chimes from a Cracked Southern Belle is published by Grateful Steps, an Asheville-based nonprofit, traditional, independent publisher located in downtown Asheville.

Chimes from a Cracked Southern Belle can be purchased at Grateful Steps Bookshop, and at Malaprops. It may also be ordered online at www.gratefulsteps.org, www.amazon.com, and www.barnesandnoble.com.

For more information about the book or its author, please visit www.susanreinhardt.com and follow her on Facebook at Susan Gambrell Reinhardt, or Susan Reinhardt Author. For more details please call Grateful Steps, (828) 277-0998.

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