January 14 , 2014
Mike Campbell is the Sunbury Press Author of the Year for 2013 — Other “Sunnies” winners announced
Mechanicsburg, PA -- Mike Campbell's thoroughly researched solution to the Amelia Earhart mystery, Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last, was the top selling book for Sunbury Press in 2013, taking Sunny awards for overall sales and for the nonfiction category. Karim El Koussa's Jesus the Phoenician, questioning the origins of Jesus Christ, was a close second. The Sunny for the top fiction book of 2013 went to John Cressler for his Emeralds of the Alhambra. Anthony Julian, author of Pit Bulls, won Emerging Author of the Year. Following are the top books for 2013:
| SUNBURY PRESS - Bestsellers for 2013 (by Revenue) | |||
| Rank | Title | Author | Category |
| 1 | Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last | Mike Campbell | History |
| 2 | Jesus the Phoenician | Karim El Koussa | Christian |
| 3 | Hour 30 | Brandon Musgrave | Medical Memoir |
| 4 | Emeralds of the Alhambra | John Cressler | Historical Fiction |
| 5 | Pit Bulls | Anthony Julian | Pets |
| 6 | The Sign of the Eagle | Jess Steven Hughes | Historical Fiction |
| 7 | Winter of the Metal People | Dennis Herrick | Historical Fiction |
| 8 | Keystone Tombstones Volume 2 | Joe Farrell & Joe Farley | History / Biography |
| 9 | Keystone Tombstones Volume 1 | Joe Farrell & Joe Farley | History / Biography |
| 10 | "Patsy!" - The Life and Times of Lee Harvey Oswald | Douglas Brode | HIstorical Fiction |
| 11 | There Is Something About Rough and Ready | Lawrence Knorr, et al | History |
| 12 | Keystone Tombstones Civil War | Farrell, Farley & Knorr | War Biography |
| 13 | Of Guilt and Innocence | John Scanlan | Police Procedural |
| 14 | Five Drops of Estrogen | Nirmal Joshi | Biography / Memoir |
| 15 | Rockabilly Rebel: Known and Unknown Stars I've Known | Mack Allen Smith | Music |
| 16 | In the Shadow of a Mountain | Susan Daigneault | War Biography |
| 17 | Linnea's Kitchen: Yummy Ayurvedic Recipes and Life Lessons | Linnea Jepson | Cookbook |
| 18 | Raising Monarchs | Sue Fox McGovern | Self-Help |
| 19 | The Closer | Alan Mindell | Literary Fiction |
| 20 | That Night at Surigao | Ernest Marshall | History |