Lesa Holstine, Book Editor for the Glendale Daily Planet,
 just won the Spinetingler Award for 2009 as Best Reviewer.

 Spinetingler is an online e-zine, specializing in crime fiction. This is the second year for the awards, voted on by readers of the magazine.

Holstine was nominated for Best Reviewer, competing with Ali Karim, Larry Gandle, Karen Chisholm, and Glenn Harper. She was recognized for her blog, Lesa's Book Critiques, at http://lesasbookcritiques.blogspot.com.  Holstine is not only Book Editor of the Glendale Daily Planet, but also a reviewer for Library Journal.


Publishers Note:  Lesa is our esteemed addition to the Glendale Daily Planet and we  congratulate her on this award she has received! 

Her work here is a subset of her blog activities as here we concentrate on books about AZ, by AZ authors,  or authors that Have come to speak at the Velma Teague Library here in Glendale.  

Her work here is just the start of what  she offers.   See all of it at her award winning Blog!  --Ed Sharpe

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