Roundfire author Peggy Payne has won a bronze IPPY for visionary fiction with her third novel, Cobalt Blue.

[caption id="attachment_366" align="alignleft" width="225"] Author Peggy Payne with her IPPY award[/caption]

Colbalt Blue is one of Peggy Payne’s three novels about the convergence of sexuality and spirituality. The previous Sister India was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Roundfire didn’t publish that one, but we’re excited about being able to attract writers with this kind of history to publish with CI imprints.

In Cobalt Blue, Artist Andie Branson is overwhelmed by a spiritual experience that at first turns disturbingly erotic. Compulsion, obsession, ecstatic redemption.  It’s a book that’s had excellent reviews, too...

“Beautifully intense.” Huffington Post

"...A pilgrimage...a scorcher."  StarNews

Cobalt Blue, says a Chatham County Line review, is "no “how-to book….It’s purer and bolder, a delineation of religious ecstasy — a description of how it feels, in all its illogic.”

Cobalt Blue is an engrossing story of the spiritual awakening of a painter ... Payne strips away the barriers to female passion; she entices  the reader to vicariously experience the artist’s hot and sensual fire.

--Barbara Hand Clow

The Liquid Light of Sex

IPPYs are Independent Publisher awards.  Eligible books were published in 2013 in English and were available in North America from small presses, major house imprints which were formerly small presses and still operate independently, self-published authors, and university presses. More information is available on the IPPY website http://www.independentpublisher.com/ipland/ipawards.php

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• eBook £6.99 || $9.99
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• Mar 29, 2013. 978-1-78099-807-7.
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• Mar 29, 2013. 978-1-78099-808-4.
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Find out more about Peggy Payne on her website. www.peggypayne.com

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