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A mysterious heavy padded envelope arrived in the mail. What could it be?

“I think I won an award!” Kent said.

Sure enough. We unwrapped the package and inside was a heavy silver medal with a blue ribbon, a booklet listing all the 2025 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and a sheet of stickers. It turns out We Ran Away to Sea was a FINALIST in the memoir category. This was not a high enough ranking to earn him an invitation to the awards ceremony that was held in conjunction with the American Library Association annual meeting in Philadelphia (wouldn’t that have been fun?), but we were pleased nevertheless.

We are done with entering book awards, although, I suppose we could consider entering a contest for an AI generated audio book, if there is such a thing.

We received nice review of the audio book (available through Amazon Audible) shortly after the audio book was published. We don’t know who CHS is, but thank you!

5.0 out of 5 stars Great adventure. Impressed with AI narrator.

As soon as the audiobook was available, I purchased it. Enjoyed going on this adventure with the authors. I learned sailing can be a lot of work. I was very impressed with AI narrator. — CHS

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2025

Impromptu video from France

We carried a copy of We Ran Away to Sea during our walk in France, but seldom remembered to take it out of Kent’s backpack. But one day as we walked along a canal, we did. The video is on TikTok.

You can also click on this photo to go to TikTok.