‘Conversations with My Mother’ on Hoffer Award Short List!

We are pleased to announce that Conversations with My Mother: A Novel of Dementia on the Maine Coast is on the 2026 short list for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize, a and a first runner-up in the e-book fiction category, and a finalist for the First Horizon Award!

Conversations with My Mother explores the relationship of two siblings as they cope with their mother’s deepening decline and the impending sale of the family property to underwrite her care.

The Eric Hoffer Book Award was founded to honor freethinking writers and independent books of exceptional merit from small, academic, and independent presses. The 2026 Short List of finalists is an honored distinction of its own. Read the announcement here as well as the details of the First Horizon Award, which is for distinguished work by first-time authors.

Congratulations to author Ronald-Stéphane Gilbert!