“FIRST HIPPIE” BOOK, GINNY GOOD, WINS “BEST MEMOIR OF 2004” INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER AWARD (IPPY)

Monkfish Book Publishing Company is pleased to announce that Ginny Good by Gerard Jones has won the IPPY Award for Best Memoir of 2004. The IPPY, or Independent Publisher Book Awards, launched in 1996, are designed to bring increased recognition to the deserving but often unsung titles published by independent authors and publishers.

The awards ceremony took place this year at Book Expo in New York City on June 3, 2005. Agent Laura Strachan and Publisher Paul Cohen were on hand to receive the award on behalf of Gerard Jones.

 Ginny Good is Gerard Jones’ memoir of the Sixties which extends to his life today in Ashland, Oregon. Ginny Good, the central character around which Jones’ memoir revolves, was one of the irresistible  but ultimately tragic muses that inspired the Sixties cultural revolution in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury.

 Mr. Jones’ repeated failed efforts to find a publisher and/or agent for Ginny Good lead to his creating the “delightfully obnoxious” website Everyone Who's Anyone In Adult Trade Publishing, which the New York Times has called “one of the literary treasures” of the Worldwide Web. The website provides a free database of agents, editors and publishers in the US, Canada and UK along with Mr. Jones’s often feisty correspondence with many of them.

 Monkfish Book Publishing Company, Rhinebeck, NY www.monkfishpublishing.com

June 8, 2005