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PRESS NOTICE: For Immediate Release
DPA ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE SECOND ANNUAL "DIGITAL QUILL" AWARDS
Birmingham, Alabama - December 6, 1993: The Digital Publishing
Association, the first and only trade organization for the
electronic publishing industry, today announced the winners of
the Second Annual "Digital Quill" Awards for Excellence in
Electronic Publishing.
The Quill Award competition, originating in 1992, was open to
all authors and publishers, regardless of DPA membership status.
The only requirement was that the materials submitted for
judging must have been previously published in electronic
format. Submitted materials must have either been uploaded to an
online system or distributed on disk for reading by computer as
digital materials.
In making the announcement, Ron Albright, President of the DPA,
said "This volume and quantity of this year's entries clearly
show that digital publishing is 'alive and well' at the
grassroots level. While the industry press shows that the "big
players" are just sticking their toes in the electronic
publishing waters, the grassroots authors and publishers are
already swimming about in the waters. This year's Quill entries
were an amazing array of quality works that are pushing
'paperless publishing' to the limit of their imagination and
skills. It is clear to the DPA that 1993 was a 'breakthrough'
year for digital publishing and that the industry is poised to
take off in the next 12 months." The Quill Awards are awarded
during the DPA's annual November "Digital Publishing Month"
activities. Additional acitivites are planned during the month
to publicize the electronic publishing industry to both the
computer and literary consumer.
The winners for the existing categories are as follows:
Award Categories:
Serial Publication - a weekly, monthly or otherwise
regularly-scheduled publication that has been issued for at
least 6 months (or at least 3 editions) available prior to July,
1993. This category included both fiction and non-fiction
magazines and newsletters.
First Place - Ruby's Pearls (Del Freeman, Editor)
Second Place - WonderDisk (Walter Gammons, Editor)
Third Place (TIE) - Smoke & Mirrors (Lucia Chambers, Editor)
Randon Access Humor (Dave Bealer, Editor)
Short Story - a single original story appearing either alone or
as part of an anthology or magazine and published in digital format.
First Place - "Kent's Place" (Fictional Series; Del Freeman,
Editor from "Ruby's Pearls" electronic magazine
Second Place - "How To Roll A Perfect Cigarette" - Jeffrey Osier
Third Place - "The Dirt Eaters" - Richard Cox
Fiction Book - an original (eliminating reprints of the
"classics" in digital format) fiction work. Minimum: 30,000 words.
First Place - Vamp! (Larry Blasko)
Second Place - The Angel of Death (Bruce Gilkin; FloppyBack, Inc.)
Third Place - Eternal Man (Vernon Davis)
Non-Fiction Book - an original non-fiction book in digital format.
Length: 35,000 words minimum.
First Place - Civil War Computer Archive (Bob Patterson)
Second Place - Prism Guide (Gary Smith)
Third Place - Financial Survival (Vernon Davis)
Publishing software - a software program (Shareware or
traditionally marketed) designed for publishing text and/or
graphics and facilitating their distribution and viewing.
Nominations will be accepted from users as well as original
authors.
First Place - DART (Ted Husted)
Second Place - ReadRoom (Michael Gibbs; Exhibit A Communications)
Third Place (Tie) - Orpheus (Rod Willmot)
HyperRead Generator (David Leithauser)
Miscellaneous - a niche to encompass poetry, graphic
collections, comics, CD-ROM and other publications outside the
standard categories.
First Place: NEWSBYTES Archives (Newsbytes Staff; CD-ROM)
Second Place: "It All Comes Down to ___" (Robert Kendall)
Third Place: "Mack the Mouse" (Don Lokke)
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