Accolades & Achievements

2025

• PenCraft Book Awards, First Place (Nonfiction - Business/Finance)

• Amazon Bestseller for Management Skills

• 2025 NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite (Entrepreneurship & Small Business)

• Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. (Colin C. Campbell) officially becomes the most-awarded book on entrepreneurship ever published.

• National Indie Excellence Award Finalist (Sports)

• Global Ebooks Award, Gold Medal (Non-Fiction)

• IPPY Awards, Business/Career/Sales Book of the Year

• Nautilus Book Awards (Silver Medal, Business & Leadership)

• Kirkus positive review

• Andy Awards Finalist (Business & Thought Leadership)

• Axiom Business Book Awards (Gold Medal, Entrepreneurship / Small Business)

• Book Excellence Awards (Winner, Entrepreneurship)

2024

• Global Book Award, Silver Medal (Education & Teaching)

• 2025 Global Book Awards Gold Medalist in Business Development

• 2x International Impact Book Awards winner (Best New Nonfiction)

• 2x Goody Business Book Awards winner (for Entrepreneurism and Startups categories)

• #1 Amazon New Release for Authorship Reference (Start With Story)

• NonFiction Book Awards (Gold Medal)

• Lucinda Literary Race to Query, First Place—Fiction

• American Legacy Book Awards Winner (Entrepreneurship category)

• IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Awards Silver Medalist (Business category)

• Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medalist (Non-Fiction category)

• National Indie Book Awards Finalist (Business Entrepreneurship category)

• Kirkus Starred Review (Top 6 Nonfiction title)

• Publishers Weekly - A-rated review

• Amazon New Release Bestseller (x5)

2023

• Audible #1 in Non-Fiction

• Amazon Bestseller (x3)

• Publishers Weekly - positive review

• Emerald Book Review - highly recommended

2022 and older

• 2020 - Amazon New Release Bestseller

• 2019 - Amazon New Release Bestseller (x2)

• 2018 - Amazon New Release Bestseller

• 2018 - Stage 32 Screenplay Competition Grand Prize Winner (Golden Girl)

• 2012 - Writing team for CalArts-produced opera by composer Charles Underriner IV (Prosper Springs)

• 2007 - B.A. English Literature, magna cum laude (University of North Texas)

• 2003 - TETA PlayFest, First Place (What Happened to the Lightning?)

• 2002 - TETA PlayFest, First Place (The Day Milly Died)

Note: Bolded items are personal awards/recognition. All others are for clients.