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David Joiner is the 2024 International Rubery Book Award Winner in Fiction for his novel The Heron Catchers, published by Stone Bridge Press in late 2023. The novel is the second in a planned series of novels set in Ishikawa prefecture, and was also a finalist in the 2023 American Writing Awards, the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and the 2023 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. In January 2022, Stone Bridge Press also published his novel, Kanazawa, which was a finalist for the 2022 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. His debut novel Lotusland, originally published in 2015 by Guernica Editions, was re-issued in a revised edition in early 2025 and was also named a finalist for the 2025 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. ...more

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Lotusland a Foreword Reviews Finalist

This morning, Foreword Reviews released its annual list of finalists for best book of the year in various categories, and I'm honored to share that the reissue of Lotusland was among twelve books nominated for General Fiction. Winners will be announced in June, and I'm hoping for good news then!

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