Rosie’s Daughters an IPPY Book Award Finalist

Post #4 for Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett — Rosie’s Daughters

When Matilda and I finished writing and editing the 100th iteration (some days it felt like that) of our manuscript Rosie’s Daughters: The “First Woman To” Generation Tells Its Story, we thought we had something special. Telling the story of a generation of women through a collective memoir was, at the very least, different. Integrating the women’s memoir vignettes with our socio-cultural historical narrative was (we knew) very unusual.

Our real challenge was in the page layout: How to make several separate elements on a page work together to give the reader a rich experience without creating confusion. But by the time we saw our designer Rees Maxwell’s layout that combines vignettes, narrative, pictures, quotes and a timeline on a page spread we believed Rosie’s Daughters was truly novel.

A couple of days ago we heard from our publisher, Iaso Books (a division of Two Bridges Press), that Independent Publisher thinks we have something special too. We’re a finalist for an Independent Publisher Book Award (an IPPY) in the Women’s Issues category (#62).

Thank you for all the support, kind words and reviews. We’ll keep you posted on how Rosie’s Daughters does in the final judging.