2012 Hollywood Book Festival Award

 

Tom Kirkbride was awarded with an "Honorable Mention" for Book I, Gamadin: Word of Honor at last week's Hollywood Book Festival Awards Event at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, CA. Though he wasn't able to receive his award in person, his daughter, Lara Kirkbride accepted the award on his behalf. Thanks to Jeff Romeo for the great photos and also to Maria Groschup-Black, of Sunbelt Publications, for her encouragement to enter the competition.

Gamadin Book Series is Accelerated Reader approved!

Tom Kirkbride is very honored to announce that the Gamadin Book Series has been accepted in the nationwide Accelerated Reader (AR) reading list, and quiz production has already begun. This is wonderful news because students reading any of the the Gamadin volumes can now earn credit toward their grades. We will keep you apprised as to when the quizzes are available. Great thanks to the teachers and librarians who contacted AR regarding Gamadin, and made this possible!

On a side note, we also just found out that Larry Niven's Ringworld series has also been added to the AR listing. The series is a longtime classic science fiction favorite of Tom's!