| 12/21/07 Double Edge Press Title Nominated for Prestigious DWAA 2007 Maxwell Award |
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December 21, 2007
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Double Edge Press Title Nominated for Prestigious DWAA 2007 Maxwell Award
Ceilidh’s Quest, a Double Edge Press title by Gail MacMillan, has received a
nomination for the DWAA’s (Dog Writer’s Association of America) prestigious
Maxwell Award.
The DWAA has been around since 1935 and was born in the Westminster Kennel
Club’s meeting room. Its writing competition is world famous and receives
thousands of entries each year. MacMillan has had the honor of having the
Maxwell Award bestowed upon her twice for previous works. If her 2007
nomination concludes with a win, it will be her third Medal.
Ceilidh’s Quest is MacMillan’s fourteenth published book. She has won numerous
awards for her writing, including the North Shore Writers Literary Competition
(Vancouver, BC) in 2006 for her essay Promise Pending which was later aired
nationally on CBC Radio. Her short story A Chance to Care received honorary
mention in the Christian Writers Literary Contest (Edmonton, Alberta). One
judge described her writing as reminiscent of "Where the Red Fern Grows" and
"Old Yeller". Her most previous Maxwell Award was for her dog book Biography
of a Beagle which won Best in the Fiction Category at the DWAA in New York in
2002.
Her work has appeared in Outdoor Canada, Saltscapes, Eastern Woods and
Waters, Gun Dog, Dogs in Canada, Dog World, Dog Fancy, Camping Canada,
Canadian Yachting, Seaports and the Shipping World, Dogs USA, Reader’s Digest
Travel Books, The Retriever Journal, and Just Labs as well as a number of other
publications.
She signed on with Double Edge Press in 2006 and Ceilidh’s Quest was
subsequently released in February 2007. She has an additional title under option
with the publisher which is expected to be picked up and released in 2008.
Rebecca Melvin, CEO of Double Edge Press comments on the DWAA nomination,
“I’m not surprised. Her work is beautiful, engrossing and really touches the
heart. We were happy to add her work to our catalog and anticipate having
many years of collaboration with her.”
For more information on Gail MacMillan, you may visit her website at
http://www.gailmacmillan.com
For more information on Double Edge Press, visit http://doubleedgepress.com