And the Winners for 2012 are...

2012 Whitney Award Winners

(most but not all of these books are sold in our store -- any books by LDS authors are able to receive an award, not just those sold by the distributors and publishers we work through)

 

Best Young Adult Speculative Novel

EVERNEATH By Brodi Ashton
 

Best Young Adult General Novel

AFTER HELLO By Lisa Mangum
 

Best Middle Grade Novel

THE FALSE PRINCE By Jennifer A. Nielsen
 

Best General Novel

THE RENT COLLECTOR By Camron Wright
 

Best Historical Novel

MY LOVING VIGIL KEEPING By Carla Kelly

 

Best Romance Novel

EDENBROOKE By Julianne Donaldson

 

Best Mystery/Suspense Novel

CODE WORD By Traci Hunter Abramson

 

Best Speculative Novel

THE HOLLOW CITY By Dan Wells

 

Best Youth Novel of the Year

THE FALSE PRINCE By Jennifer A. Nielsen

 

Best Novel by a New Author

EDENBROOKE By Julianne Donaldson

 

Best Novel of the Year

THE RENT COLLECTOR By Camron Wright

 

Lael Littke: LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Carol Lynch Williams: OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

What were your favorite LDS books in 2012?

Have you read any in 2013 that you would nominate for a Whitney Award?

Leave a comment below to share with us!!!
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LDS Book Finalists for 2012

Hi, everyone!

We at Beehive Books are currently working on reading the book finalists for the 2012 Whitney Awards.  I am reading the romance finalists, and my mom has read almost all of the finalists from all of the categories--isn't she amazing?  Soon she and I we will be casting our vote on which book from each category should win.  Which of these are your favorites and why?  Post your comments here on our blog or on our Facebook or Twitter pages. 

I copied and pasted the information below from the Whitney Awards website.  These are all of the finalists for 2012.  (Here is a link to this info on the Whitney Awards website: http://whitneyawards.com/wordpress/2013/02/09/2012-finalists/.)

It will be so exciting to see who the 2012 Whitney Awards winners will be!!!

2012 Finalists

The 2012 Whitney Awards Gala will be held on May 11, 2013, at the Provo Marriott

General

Dancing on Broken Glass	Paige	The 13th Day of Christmas	A Night on Moon Hill	The Rent Collector
Ka Hancock*	Annette Lyon	Jason F. Wright	Tanya Parker Mills	Camron Wright

Historical

Espionage	My Loving Vigil Keeping	Spinster’s Folly	The Five Books of Jesus	Within the Dark Hills
A. L. Sowards*	Carla Kelly	Marsha Ward	James Goldberg*	Sian Ann Bessey

Romance

Lady Outlaw	Of Grace and Chocolate	Smart Move	Twitterpated	Edenbrooke
Stacy Henrie*	Krista Lynne Jensen*	Melanie Jacobson	Melanie Jacobson	Julianne Donaldson*

Mystery/Suspense

Banana Split	Code Word	Deadly Undertakings	Line of Fire	Tres Leches Cupcakes
Josi S. Kilpack	Traci Hunter Abramson	Gregg Luke	Rachel Ann Nunes	Josi S. Kilpack

Speculative

City of the Saints	Flight From Blithmore	Earthbound	The Hollow City	The Penitent
D. J. Butler	Jacob Gowans	Theresa Sneed	Dan Wells	C. David Belt

Young Adult—Speculative

Demons	Destined	Endlessly	Everneath	Feedback
Heather Frost	Aprilynne Pike	Kiersten White	Brodi Ashton*	Robison Wells

Young Adult—General

After Hello	Finding June	The Space Between Us	The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back	V is for Virgin
Lisa Mangum	Shannen Crane Camp	Jessica Martinez	Sariah Wilson	Kelly Oram

Middle Grade

Case File 13: Zombie Kid	Epic Tales of a Misfit Hero	Freakling	Palace of Stone	The False Prince
J. Scott Savage	Matt Peterson*	Lana Krumwiede*	Shannon Hale	Jennifer A. Nielsen

*Of these finalists, the following titles are also eligible for Best Novel by New Author 2012:
Dancing on Broken Glass by Ka Hancock *
The Five Books of Jesus by James Goldberg *
Lady Outlaw by Stacy Henrie *
Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson *
Everneath (Everneath, #1) by Brodi Ashton *
Espionage by A.L. Sowards *
Freakling by Lana Krumwiede *
The Epic Tales of a Misfit Hero by Matt Peterson *
Of Grace and Chocolate by Krista Lynne Jensen*