January 14 , 2015
Joe Fair's Vietnam memoir "Call Sign Dracula" is the Sunbury Press Book of the Year for 2014. Other Sunnies announced.
Mechanicsburg, PA -- Joe Fair's heart-felt memoir of his time as a Black Scarf in the Big Red One in Vietnam, Call Sign Dracula, was the top-selling book for Sunbury Press in 2014, taking the Author of the Year Sunny as well as the top nonfiction book. Alan Mindell's The Closer, about a baseball pitcher past his prime making a comeback, was the top fiction book for the year. Sherry Knowlton won the Sunny for Emerging Author of the Year thanks to her debut thriller novel Dead of Autumn. Following is a recap of Sunbury Press Sunny Awards over the years:
SUNBURY PRESS AUTHOR of the YEAR | |||
2014 | Joe Fair | Call Sign Dracula | History |
2013 | Mike Campbell | Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last | History |
2012 | Joe Farrell & Joe Farley | Keystone Tombstones Volume 1 | History |
2011 | Guy Graybill | Prohibition's Prince | History |
2010 | Guy Graybill | Prohibition's Prince | History |
SUNBURY PRESS NONFICTION BOOK of the YEAR | |||
2014 | Joe Fair | Call Sign Dracula | History |
2013 | Mike Campbell | Amelia Earhart: The Truth at Last | History |
2012 | Joe Farrell & Joe Farley | Keystone Tombstones Volume 1 | History |
2011 | Guy Graybill | Prohibition's Prince | History |
2010 | Guy Graybill | Prohibition's Prince | History |
SUNBURY PRESS FICTION BOOK of the YEAR | |||
2014 | Alan Mindell | The Closer | Sports Fiction |
2013 | John Cressler | Emeralds of the Alhambra | Historical Fiction |
2012 | Preston Nuttall | The Amish Rebel | Historical Fiction |
2011 | Charles Godfrey | The Final Charge | Historical Fiction |
2010 | Chris Fenwick | the 100th human | Metaphysical Fiction |
SUNBURY PRESS EMERGING AUTHOR of the YEAR | |||
2014 | Sherry Knowlton | Dead of Autumn | Thriller Fiction |
2013 | Anthony Julian | Pit Bulls | Pets |
2012 | Jess Steven Hughes | The Sign of the Eagle | Historical Fiction |
2011 | Joe Farrell & Joe Farley | Keystone Tombstones Volume 1 | History |
2010 | Thomas Malafarina | 13 Nasty Endings | Horror Fiction |