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New Mexico Book Association (NMBA) is the only statewide nonprofit serving all book professionals. We are passionate book people who have come together through our common interests to preserve, protect, and promote the book in all its forms. Our members include book creators, writers, editors, publishers, illustrators, librarians, booksellers, book designers, typesetters, printers, literacy advocates, agents, reviewers, and avid readers.

Founded in 1994, NMBA has been recognized as one of the country’s most active book associations. Our many services include professional development workshops, our Libro newsletter, monthly networking luncheons, New Mexico's Book World (a resource guide to the NM book community), a monthly online events calendar, opportunities to show and sell books at major book festivals and trade shows, and more. Please explore this site to see all that we do!

Last Year's Book Design Winners

The New Mexico Book Association is proud to announce the winners in this year's Southwest Book Design & Production Awards for Excellence. These awards recognize creativity and quality in book design and distinction in production. The awards help raise the bar and set standards of book excellence throughout the Southwest.

BEST OF SHOW
Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks:
William Quesenbury’s Overland Sketches
University of Oklahoma Press
David R. Murphy, Author
Julie Rushing, Designer
Emmy Ezzell, Production Manager
William Quesenbury, Artist
M. Farrell and D. Murphy, Photographers
Emily Jerman, Editor

SPECIAL MENTION - PRESIDENT’S AWARD
Bullet Trains to Yaks
Irony Press (NM)
Stan Biderman, Author
Janice St. Marie & Kathryn Minette, Designers
Janice St. Marie, Production Manager
Kathryn Minette, Photographer
Ellen Kleiner, Editor

COVER & JACKET DESIGN
Winner
Debut Novels by Seasoned Writers
Burning Books, Publisher (NM)
Multiple Authors
Michael Sumner, Design and Production

The Burning Books QUADRANTS SERIES is a boxed-set of pocket-sized debut novels by Robert Ashley, Sumner Carnahan, Thomas Frick, and L. K. Larsen. In addition to one novel, each author also contributes to Q+1: Short Works, which includes micro fictions, tall tales, absurdist
prose, and classic short stories.

Winner
Wild Horses of the West: History and
Politics of America’s Mustangs
University of Arizona Press
J. Edward De Steiguer, Author
Barbara Haines, Designer
Barbara Yarrow, Production Mgr.
Leigh McDonald, Art Director
Nancy Arora, Editor

Finalist
Randy Lopez Goes Home
University of Oklahoma Press
Rudolfo Anaya, Author
Tony Roberts, Designer
Emmy Ezzell & Anna Marie Rodriguez, Production
Emily Jerman, Editor

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