The “It Looks Like a Million” Book Design Award will focus on the aesthetics of a book published by a Kansas Authors Club member. The book will be judged on cover design, interior formatting and design, and over-all look and feel of the book. Starting in 2018, an award of $100.00 will be given to a KAC member according to the rules printed below. Sponsor for the “It Looks Like a Million” Book Award is Mr. Mark Wolfson.
“It Looks Like A Million” Book Design Award
Award Winners
2023 Alistur the Magnificent, by D.L. Winter, Great Bend, KS, D6
2022 Janey Olsen, Famous Artist of the Beach, by H.C. Friesen, Manhattan, D4
2021 The Big Quiet: One Woman's Horseback Ride Home, by Lisa D. Stewart, Prairie Village, D2
2020 Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The Improbable Career and Remarkable
Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker,
by Chuck Warner, D2
2019 The Real Education of TJ Crowley, by Grant Overstake, Wichita, D5
2018 The Modern Bachateros, by Julie A. Sellers, Atchison, D1
2017 Crossing Kansas with Jim Morrison: Poem, Lindsey Martin-Bowen, D2
Paladin Contemporaries
2016 To Leave a Shadow, Mike Graves, Emporia, D2
Book Design - Tracy Million Simmons, Emporia, D2
Award Winners
2023 Alistur the Magnificent, by D.L. Winter, Great Bend, KS, D6
2022 Janey Olsen, Famous Artist of the Beach, by H.C. Friesen, Manhattan, D4
2021 The Big Quiet: One Woman's Horseback Ride Home, by Lisa D. Stewart, Prairie Village, D2
2020 Birds, Bones, and Beetles: The Improbable Career and Remarkable
Legacy of University of Kansas Naturalist Charles D. Bunker,
by Chuck Warner, D2
2019 The Real Education of TJ Crowley, by Grant Overstake, Wichita, D5
2018 The Modern Bachateros, by Julie A. Sellers, Atchison, D1
2017 Crossing Kansas with Jim Morrison: Poem, Lindsey Martin-Bowen, D2
Paladin Contemporaries
2016 To Leave a Shadow, Mike Graves, Emporia, D2
Book Design - Tracy Million Simmons, Emporia, D2