Passion for Place: Community Reflections on the Carmel River Watershed, designed and co-edited by Carmel Valley artist Paola Fiorelle Berthoin, has tied for third-place honors in the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards’ nonfiction category for the West-Pacific region.
The "Ippy Awards," as they're called, have been honoring "the deserving but often unsung titles published by independent authors and publishers" since 1996, according to the website.
Berthoin made the book a financial reality with help from her Kickstarter contributors: 53 backers who kicked in $4,506 toward the book's $36,000 printing costs.
The book features stories, poems and essays by 44 Carmel River Watershed and Central California writers, plus paintings, photographs, drawings, and a CD of natural sounds and interview excerpts.
"They are organized from the headwaters and source of the Carmel River, through the valley, and out to the lagoon and ocean," Berthoin writes on the book's Kickstarter page, "taking the reader on a virtual experience of the Carmel River Watershed."
Berthoin will travel to New York City to accept her award on May 29.
Passion for Place (200 pages plus CD, $49.50) can be purchased at passion4place.net and from selected retailers.
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