Congratulations to CatholicFiction.net author and reviewer Ellen Gable Hrkach for being awarded the Gold Medal (First Prize) in the 2010 Independent Publishers awards for her novel, In Name Only. (Read our recent review here.) Way to go, Ellen!

Congratulations are also in order for CatholicFiction.net author and reviewer Christine Sunderland,whose novel Offerings won the Ippy Bronze Medal (Third Place) in the same category. Offerings hasn’t been reviewed here yet—it’s on your humble editor’s bedside book pile—but it is the sequel to Pilgrimage, which is reviewed here.

To see the award announcement, click here and scroll down to category 16, “Religious Fiction”.

To have two of our very own CathFic authors/reviewers make up two of the three medals in the 2010 Independent Publishers awards is a terrific honor. Fine work, Ladies!