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Noticias del Festival

Vol 3, #2: Festival News, Views, & Who's Who

April 2005

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Barnes & Noble Expands Their Sponsorship of Festival

Latino Book Awards Entries Approaching Record Levels

About the Producer

You Can Help

We are happy to present Issue 12 of Noticias del Festival. We hope you are enjoying these monthly newsletters. Latino Literacy Now appreciates your continued support of our efforts. Over the past 15 months that we have been sending this newsletter our subscriber base has grown considerably. More than 3,000 people now keep up to date on the Festival through this newsletter. Thank you for being involved. Your comments and suggestions are welcome.

Barnes & Noble Expands Their Sponsorship of Festival

Barnes & Noble Booksellers has been a sponsor at our Houston Latino Book & Family Festival since its inception in 2002. During the past three years they have hosted many authors for autograph sessions in their sponsor pavilion including Sandra Cisneros, Mar=EDa Antonietta Collins, Cheech Marin, Edward James Olmos, Giselle Blondet and George Lopez. Over the course of their three year involvement with the Festival, Barnes & Noble's insight into the reading tastes of the Latino community has grown. They displayed-and sold-considerably more children's books in 2003 than the previous year. In 2004 they spread out over 1,500 square feet of exhibit area to display the largest selection of books in English and Spanish in the Houston Festival's history.

After three years of successful events in Houston, Barnes & Noble is expanding their participation to include the Latino Book & Family Festivals in Los Angeles (October 22-23) and Chicago (November 12-13) as well as a return for the 4th Annual Houston Latino Book & Family Festival that kicks off our 2005 Festival Tour on October 1-2 at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

Thanks Barnes & Noble, it's great to be working with such an committed, concerned partner.

More About Sponsoring the Latino Book & Family Festival

Latino Book Awards Entries Approaching Record Levels

The deadline for entering the 2005 Latino Book Awards is April 1. Any publisher that needs a couple of extra days should call 760-434-4484 to discuss how they can still get their entries into the competition. Entry forms are available here. We are happy to announce that the number of entries for this year's awards is on a record breaking pace.
Entries will soon be sent to the judges. We are always looking for new, qualified judges for this competition. If you know of someone who would make a good judge please email to me at jim@LBFF.us listing their qualifications and if there is a particular genre that you feel they would be qualified to judge. The categories of competition are:
A. Children and Young Adult Books
1. Best Educational Children's Book - English*
2. Best Educational Children's Book - Spanish or Bilingual
3. Best Children's Picture Book - English*
4. Best Children's Picture Book - Spanish
5. Best Children's Picture Book - Bilingual
6. Best Young Adult Fiction - English*
7. Best Young Adult Fiction - Spanish or Bilingual
8. Best Young Adult Nonfiction - English*
9. Best Young Adult Nonfiction - Spanish or Bilingual
Bilingual books must be English-Spanish.
(*These books must be written by a Latino author or have a Latino theme.)
B. Nonfiction - English-language
In this category, nominations are open only to English- language books written by Latino authors or to books that have a Latino theme.
10. Best Arts Book (includes art, music or photography)
11. Best Biography (includes memoirs and autobiographies)
12. Best Business Book (includes career)
13. Best Cookbook
14. Best Health Book (includes wellness, nutrition and beauty)
15. Best History Book (includes political)
16. Best New Age Book
17. Best Self-help Book
18. Best Travel Book
19. Best Reference Book
20. Best Religious Book

C. Nonfiction -Spanish-language or Bilingual
In this category, nominations are open to all Spanish-language or bilingual books (to include translations). Bilingual books must be English-Spanish. 21. Best Biography (includes memoirs and autobiographies)
22. Best Business Book
23. Best Health Book
24. Best History Book
25. Best New Age Book
26. Best Religious Book
27. Best Self-help Book

D. Fiction - English-language
In this category, nominations are open only to English- language books written by Latino authors.
28. Best Adventure Novel
29. Best Drama (published)
30. Best Historical Fiction Novel
31. Best Mystery Novel
32. Best Poetry Book
33. Best Romance Novel

E. Fiction - Spanish-language
In this category, nominations are open only to Spanish- language books written by Latino authors.
34. Best Adventure Novel
35. Best Drama (published)
36. Best Historical Fiction Novel
37. Best Mystery Novel
38. Best Poetry Book (individual or collection)
39. Best Romance Novel

F. Design
In this category, nominations are open only to work by Latino designers, artists or photographers.
40. Best Cover Design
41. Best Cover Illustration
42. Best Interior - no illustrations or photographs
43. Best Interior - black and white illustrations or photographs
44. Best Interior - color illustrations or photographs

G. The Mariposa Award
This award is made to a writer who has achieved excellence with his or her first book. Nominations are open only to Latino writers.
45. Best First Book
More Information About The Latino Book Awards »

About the Producer

Festival producer Edward James Olmos has recently relocated to Vancouver to start production on his second season of Battlestar Gallactica, starring as Commander William Adama. With the current season winding down over the next couple of weeks look for new episodes on the SciFi Channel as soon as this Summer.
Mr. Olmos has also started initial planning on one of his dream projects that in Hollywood parlance can be considered to be in the "pre-production" stage. Based on true events that took place in 1968 during the Vietnam War, the project will bring to life the story of Master Sergeant Roy P. Benavidez and his courageous actions while under heavy fire. As most of you know, M. Sgt. Benavidez is the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for rescuing eight of his comrades while under heavy fire. Benavidez, a half-Yaqui Indian, half-Mexican orphan, fought his way out of the bigotry of South Texas to serve with the Army's elite - the Special Forces. In February, 1981, President Regan awarded him the Medal of Honor. If you are looking for the definition of courage, this story will take you on a journey that will guide you in the right direction. Mr. Olmos has spent over fifteen years developing and structuring this account of heroism. (Thanks to Leo Zamora at Olmos Productions for his input on this story.)
Look for updates on this project over the coming months in this section of Noticias Del Festival.

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