Today, Goldmill Group is pleased to announce that the acclaimed memoir, Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead, by Chicago author Christian Picciolini, has been recognized as a finalist in the 18th annual Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards. Here is the complete list:
https://indiefab.forewordreviews.com/finalists/2015/
Each year, Foreword Reviews shines a light on a select group of indie publishers, university presses, and self-published authors whose work stands out from the crowd. In the next three months, a panel of more than 100 volunteer librarians and booksellers will determine the winners in 63 categories based on their experience with readers and patrons.
"The 2015 INDIEFAB finalist selection process is as inspiring as it is rigorous," said Victoria Sutherland, publisher of Foreword Reviews. "The strength of this list of finalists is further proof that small, independent publishers are taking their rightful place as the new driving force of the entire publishing industry."
"It's a great honor for my book to be chosen," said Christian Picciolini, author of Romantic Violence. "I know it will help me get my book out there to those who might need to learn the same lessons I did."
Foreword Reviews will celebrate the winners during a program at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando, FL in June. We will also name the Editor's Choice Prize 2015 for Fiction, Nonfiction and Foreword Reviews' 2015 INDIEFAB Publisher of the Year during the program.
About Romantic Violence: At 14 years old, Christian Picciolini, a bright and well-loved kid, had been targeted and trained to spread a violent racist agenda, quickly ascending to a highly visible leadership position in America's first neo-Nazi skinhead gang. Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead is a poignant and gripping cautionary tale that details Christian's indoctrination when he was barely a teen, a lonely outsider who, more than anything, just wanted to belong. From fierce street brawls to drunken white power rallies, recruitment by foreign terrorist dictators to riotous white power rock music, Picciolini immersed himself in racist skinhead culture, hateful propaganda, and violence. Ultimately Christian began to see that his hate-filled life was built on lies. After years of battling the monster he created, he was able to reinvent himself. Picciolini went on to become an advocate for peace, inclusion, and racial diversity, co-founding the nonprofit Life After Hate, which helps people disengage from hate groups and to love themselves and accept others, regardless of skin color, religious belief, or sexual preference. www.romanticviolence.com
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