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Winner of The 19th Annual National Indie Excellence® Award for Regional Fiction: Southeast. Stone by Stone The Saga of Stoneygate by Wendy S Simons.
LOS ANGELES, June 19th, 2025 — “The National Indie Excellence® Awards (NIEA), a long-standing leader in recognizing exceptional independently published books, is proud to announce the results of its 19th Annual competition. “Self-published, independent authors, and small to midsize publishers continue to impress with strong entries across every genre. Final decisions made by our jurors often come down to the narrowest of margins when selecting a single Winner per category. The Team at NIEA are proud to stand behind each awardee as representatives of Excellence in their craft and the enduring value of books in print today.”
— Doug Fogelson, NIEA President
Stone by Stone is a character-driven narrative with a rich emotional core. A family saga of lost hope, duplicity and perseverance begins with a lie overheard in 1927 that reverberates for three generations, culminating in its revelation in 2000. At the heart of it rests Stoneygate Estate, several hundred acres of woods, and pasture. Read more . . .
The Edgewater Trilogy.
Summers in a small lakefront town in Michigan. What could go wrong?
Truth is elusive within the fog of memory
In her debut novel, Simons suggests what we believe can be as much about choice as reality.
Set against the backdrop of cottage life on a small inland lake in Michigan, A Second Look is about two families and a community bearing up against loss and the unimaginable weight of horrific new allegations.
In 1960, two young boys drown in a marsh on a summer night. Though accepted as accidental, circumstances change a decade later when a stranger arrives asking questions. No one imagined a pedophile in their midst until someone comes looking for one. Suddenly, it’s all anyone can see. What they don’t see is the cover-up. Read more . . .
A haunting tale where past and present coexist, and love transcends time and space.
Janet has lived a life of indifference expecting to suffer the same dementia that destroyed her mother and grandmother’s lives. She is fifty, approaching the age when they were both hospitalized. When a mysterious inheritance finds her, she does the first truly impulsive thing in her life. She purchases a Victorian cottage on Mackinac Island in northern Michigan. Since she was a child, the house has stirred memories of a life she never lived. Read more . . .
It was a time when kids roamed untethered in a small Lake Michigan town
LOSING AUGUST In 1965, a mentally challenged young man from a dilapidated amusement park is found dead on a riverbank. His loss triggers a series of events that, by end of summer, will lead to the murder of another carnie from the park. The police chief finds himself torn between duty and conscience. Losing August is a coming-of-age story for four local kids as well as Edgewater, the small Lake Michgigan town they call home.