Congratulations to the finalists in the 2014 San Diego Book Awards, among them some writer friends, as well as two books I edited.
Books I edited . . .
Accidental Immigrants by David Ward — Unpublished Memoir
Water Shock by Milton Burgess — Published SciFi, Fantasy & Horror
Writer friends . . .
The Genie Who Had Wishes of His Own by Margaret Harmon — Published Anthology/Short Story Collection
Empty Places by Martin Roy Hill — Published Mystery
License to Lie by Terry Ambrose — Action, Suspense, & Thriller
Freedom’s Hand by Mike Sirota — Action, Suspense, & Thriller
The Moon Daughter by Zoe Ghahremani — Published General Fiction
My book, Dare I Call It Murder?: A Memoir of Violent Loss, is a finalist in the Published Memoir category.
I served as a judge for the Unpublished Fiction category and am pleased to note that my top picks are finalists.
Good luck to everyone.
The Twentieth Annual San Diego Book and Writing Awards will be held on Saturday, June 21, 2014, 6-10 p.m. Author Mark Clements will be master of ceremonies.
Polishing Your Prose 
Looks as if I might add Water Shock to my collection. Cadillac Desert, Rivers of Empire, The Ripple Effect; The fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century. The first two are classics, and the third is very new and very informative. It appears that Water Shock add new information.
Tom,
Yes, Water Shock draws from the earlier works, which are nonfiction, and takes it to the future to a “perfect storm” of natural and man-made disasters the combine for catastrophic consequences.
Larry