Watchdog Nation has received the following communiqué:

We are writing with some fabulous news. Your book — Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong — has been named the Winner in the Social Change category of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Congratulations!

Your achievement will be published at www.IndieBookAwards.com.

Additionally, your book will be listed as a Winner in the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards catalog which will be distributed at Book Expo America in New York later this month to thousands of attendees including book buyers, library representatives, media, industry professionals, and others.

Once again congratulations from all of us at Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group and the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

Here is a complete list of the 2009 Winner and Finalists:

SOCIAL CHANGE

• Winner

  Dave Lieber’s Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong

  by Dave Lieber

  Yankee Cowboy Publishing

• Finalist

  An Unlikely Family: Voices of Ethiopian and American Youth Who Are Turning Tragedy Into Hope

  by Ben Beisswenger, Christopher Beisswenger, Margaret Eldred, Zoe Dmitrovsky, Meron Foster, Carolynne Krusi

  Anemeone Publishing

• Finalist

  Audrey on Nantucket

  by Audrey Obremski

  BookSurge

• Finalist

  Autism ABC

  by Dr. Sherry L. Meinberg

  BookSurge

• Finalist

  Business Revolution through Ancestral Wisdom

  by Tu Moonwalker and JoAnne O’Brien-Levin, Ph.D.

  Outskirts Press

• Finalist

  Great Peacemakers: True Stories from Around the World

  by Ken Beller and Heather Chase

  LTS Press

• Finalist

  Negotiating with Giants: Get What You Want Against the Odds

  by Peter D. Johnston

  Negotiation Press

• Finalist

  No More Mr. Nice Guy

  by James Alston

  BookSurge

• Finalist

  Saints in the City

  by Andie Andrews

  Outskirts Press

• Finalist

  The Thinking Person’s UFO Book

  by Gordon Chism

  Avenue Design, Inc.

• Finalist

  The Third Basic Instinct: How Religion Doesn’t Get You

  by Alex S. Key

  BookSurge