For the second time in two years, Jason Offutt’s horror novel, “The Girl in the Corn,” received an Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Gold Award. The 2022 award celebrated the audiobook version of the novel; the 2023 award honors Offutt for writing the best independently-published horror novel of 2022. 

The IBPA awards ceremony took place May 5 in San Diego. Publisher of “The Girl in the Corn,”(and of Offutt’s 2020 sci-fi comedy “So You Had to Build a Time Machine”), CamCat Books, earned four gold awards and three silver. This marks the second year in a row CamCat Books was the biggest winner in the awards contest for the best independently published books.

“The Girl in the Corn” is available at CamCat Books.

For a list of this year’s Gold and Silver Benjamin Franklin awards, go to: https://www.ibpabenjaminfranklinaward.com/2023-winners.

The 2023 awards ceremony also marked the Independent Book Publishers Association’s 40th anniversary.