Gabriola Island-based publishing company Fictive Press has had one of its books recognized by the Jewish Book Council.
Tucson Jo by award-winning Winnipeg author Carol Matas was recently named as a finalist in the children’s and young adult literature category at the 2014 National Jewish Book Awards.
Fictive Press publisher Morri Mostow said she wasn’t expecting Tucson Jo to be named as a finalist.
“It the equivalent in the Jewish book world of being nominated for an Oscar,” Mostow said. “It was totally unexpected. Especially for me as the publisher of a very new and small publishing company.”
Tucson Jo is about a teenage girl who is hesitant to support her father’s bid for mayor of Tucson, Ariz., in 1882. The book is inspired by Charles Strauss, the city’s first Jewish mayor.
The Jewish Book Council is a New York-based not-for-profit organization that actively promotes Jewish literature.
For more information, please visit www.fictivepress.com or www.jewishbookcouncil.org.
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