FPA President’s Awards Patricia Charpentier Wins Silver

ORLANDO, FL – Author and lecturer Patricia Charpentier won a silver award in the category of self-help/instruction for her book, Eating an Elephant: Write Your Life One Bite at a Time. This is the third award the book has won since its publication.  Eating an Elephant was a first place winner in both the Royal Palm Literary Awards and Global E-book Awards.

The Florida Publishers Association (FPA) presented its 2012 President’s Book Awards at the Helmsley Sandcastle Hotel on Lido Beach, Sarasota following the organization’s two-day Fall Ed-U-Conference, themed “From Pbooks to Ebooks: Publish, Promote and Profit.” Participants attended presentations by nationally-recognized book experts and successful independent publishers in Florida. 

“The award winners represent some of the very best books published by Florida writers and presses in the past year and a half,” said Chris Angermann, FPA President.

The competition’s 35 judges, consisting of 32 Florida librarians and three graphic designers, selected publishers and authors whose books represented the best in 20 categories.

Eating an Elephant is available for purchase at www.writingyourlife.org and www.amazon.com.