MEDIA CORNER

Media Contact:

James & Lynda O'Connor
O'Connor Communications
333 Warwick Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045
Phone: (847) 615-5462
jimo@oconnorpr.com

BAREBOW! Wins a Top OWAA Award
Posted Sunday, 6/20/2010 – 3:00pm

Last week, in Rochester, MN, at the annual conference of the Outdoor Writers Association of America, Dennis Dunn's book, BAREBOW!, won its third award of the year. The author was there in person to accept the Second Place Award for the Book Category in the yearly Excellence in Craft contest.

As in the case of the earlier, First Place Award received from the Northwest Outdoor Writers Association, the award carried a modest monetary prize, as well.

"I’m truly honored," said Dunn, "because this is a very keen, national competition. It certainly justifies the solid three years and four months I spent writing the book."

BAREBOW! BOOK WINS TWO AWARDS
Posted Monday, 05/24/2010 - 6:10pm

Dennis Dunn's unique coffee-table book, BAREBOW! An Archer's Fair-Chase Taking of North America's Big-Game 29, received the First Place Award (Book Category) in the annual Excellence in Craft Competition of the Northwest Outdoor Writers Association.

Dunn was present earlier this month in Seeley Lake, MT, at NOWA's annual conference, to accept the award in person and to present a Seminar titled: "Hunting: Vicious or Virtuous? How to Educate the Non-Hunting Public".

This award came on the heels of another award bestowed on Dunn's book during the previous month. The popular hunting-and-fishing website, BULLS & BEAVERS, announced in mid-April that it was giving BAREBOW! its "Best of the Best Award" for 2010 in the book department.

At about the same time, the book was blessed with a fine Editor's Review published in the May 2010 Issue of OUTDOOR LIFE Magazine. To read the "Best of the Best" posting on the Bulls & Beavers website, the following link will take you there: www.bullsandbeavers.com/best-of-the-best/awards/

BAREBOW! was officially released on National Hunting and Fishing Day, Sept. 27, 2008, with a book-signing for the author and artists at the National Visitors Center of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation in Missoula, Montana.

Here's what Jim Slinsky, host of the nationally-syndicated Outdoor Talk Network has to say about BAREBOW!:

"In my business I've had the opportunity to review dozens of hunting books a year - for more than a decade. There has never been a book like 'BAREBOW!' and probably no one will ever duplicate it. I cherish my copy. It is a breathing piece of hunting history, and by that I mean it transcends our perception of both present and past. In other words, it is so extraordinary in the present, we need not wait for time to establish it as a part of history."