Best Contemporary Romance Novel --- Kate Douglas for On Wings Of Love

Best Historical Romance Novel --- Denise Agnew for Love From The Ashes

Best Paranormal Romance Novel --- Melinda Rucker Haynes for The Eternal Trust

Best Romantic Suspense Novel --- Kate Douglas for Honeysuckle Rose

Best Mainstream Novel --- Vickie Delany for Whiteout

Best Anthology --- Loren W. Cooper for Lives Of Ghosts

Best Children's Book --- Nancy Coffelt for Fred Stays With Me

Best Historical Novel --- E.L. Noel for The Threshing Floor

Best Science Fiction Novel --- Dr. Bob Rich for Sleeper, Awake

Best Action/Adventure Novel --- Nick Mandilas for The Post Office

Best Thriller Novel --- Joan Hall Hovey for Nowhere To Hide

Best Horror Novel --- T.K Sheils for Butterfly House

Best Non-Fiction Book ---Karen Wiesner for Electronic
Publishing: The Definitive Guide 2000

Best Young Adult Novel --Jeff Strand for Elrod McBugle On The Loose
Best Fantasy Novel --- Megan Sybil Baker for Wintertide

Best Mystery Novel --- Ellen Anthony for Search For The Sun

Best Poetry Collection --- Lissa Mitchell for Just Something I Said

Best Inspirational Novel --- Deborah Milton for Joy To The World

Spectrum Award went to Trace Edward Zaber for Walk In Moonlight

The Florence Moyer Service Award went to Ginny McBlain, whose work for Epic is profound, incredible, and appreciated.
Plans are already being formed for the next Eppie Awards which will be held in March 2002 in Bellevue, WA, in conjunction with the EPIC Conference
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   Jeff Strand, locking in his permanent position as EPPIES emcee.
   Jeff is the 2001 EPIC Prez~~otherwise known as "the supreme ruler of all that is EPIC."


     Intrepid photographer Pam Ripling, who is obviously much better at her job than I am. Check out Pam's photos here.
Sitting behind Pam is Barbara Mary Johnson, EPPIE finalist and author of CYCLING TO THE SOURCE OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

     Betty K. and Linda Slater receiving "thank you" gifts from EPIC Prez Michele Bardsley for all their work on the EPPIES. Patricia White, who arranged for the awards, was not in attendance.

 Terry Sheils (T.K. Sheils) receiving his EPPIE for Best Horror Novel, BUTTERFLY HOUSE,
from Valerie Hardin.

     Anita Gustafson presents Melinda Rucker Haynes with her EPPIE for Best Paranormal Romance Novel --- THE ETERNAL TRUST


Connie Crow presents
Ginny McBlain with the Florence Moyer Service Award...and it's not NEARLY enough for everything Ginny has done to promote EPIC. CONGRATULATIONS, GINNY!



My critique partner, Kathy Awe/Kathryn North, and her husband, Ralph. I've always said, I've got the better partner of the two of us! I can never thank her enough.


No, not the Three Stooges...it's just Kathryn North, Pam Ripling and Kate Douglas...winding down after a wonderful evening.