Got news yesterday from Stackpole Books that The Self-Coached Climber is a finalist in the book competition at this year's Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. I do not know when the winners will be announced, but I will follow up with additional information later.
For anyone who does not know about the book. Dan and I started working on the idea together while I was still at USC, we actually got the contract to write it while I was finishing up film school. It was a monster project taking 3 years from when we wrote the initial outline to the time the book was published. The book is over 200 pages, in color and also has an 85 min. DVD to boot.
It has been very well received but not gotten as much attention as we would like so the potential award is a real blessing. This is the second time we have been considered for an award. Last year we were finalists for an National Outdoor Book Award, but we didn't win. Fingers crossed for Banff.
Here is the Amazon page for the book.
Update 10-26-07
Thanks to Jake and Jeni for the linking beta.
The publisher called this morning to talk about Banff and also mentioned that the Second Printing of the book will happen in January! yahoo!
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Congratulations and good luck as well! Keep us updated. Ü
Congrats! Hope you get it!
Hope this means the money starts pouring in!
Good luck!
Serena
Well, I never expected the money to exactly POUR in. But the first check went a long way to paying for the Susan Russell project. :-)
The Banff winners will be announced this weekend.
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