My non-fiction military history book Kontum: The Battle to Save Vietnam won the Colby Award, which includes a $5,000 author's honorarium.
It was published by the University Press of Kentucky in September 2011. The award will be presented to me at the William E. Colby Military Writers Symposium at Norwich University in April 2013.
I am honored to announce the latest award for my book; How Can You Mend This Purple Heart.
The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation has selected the book for the 2013 James Webb Award for distinguished fiction dealing with U.S. Marines or Marine Corps life
Hope you'll stop by the new 'Meet Robert Stanek' website @ http://www.robert-stanek.com/. I’ve been writing stories for many years. Though I’ve always been a writer at heart, I never set out to be a writer. What I wanted to be, I didn’t know when I said goodbye to high school. What I wanted to do though, I knew that: I wanted to see the world—and so I did while serving my country in distant lands.
The Military Writers Society of America 2013 Conference will again be in Dayton, Ohio.
For more information, see:
http://www.mwsadispatches.com/node/1229
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