Spring Cedars is honored to announce that Looking Back At Ninety, by Daniel Tyler, is an esteemed finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. After evaluation by a group of judges, the book was chosen as one of the top six books in the Memoirs (Historical/Legacy) category.

Each year, the NGIBA brings in judges with long standing careers in the publishing industry to read and evaluate the submitted books.

"The Next Generation Indie Book Awards is the largest International awards program for indie authors and independent publishers. In its seventeenth year of operation, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards was established to recognize and honor the most exceptional independently published books in 80+ different categories, for the year, and is presented by Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group in cooperation with Marilyn Allen of Allen Literary Agency (formerly the Allen O'Shea Literary Agency).”

All of the proceeds from submissions into the competition go back into the author community through the awards handed out to the grand prize winners. Both the winners and finalists are given the opportunity to help grow their reach and share the outstanding works submitted to the contest with a larger audience.

Daniel Tyler has lived an eclectic life. From his childhood in Pennsylvania to retirement in Colorado, he has enjoyed the privileges that accompany good family, solid health, reasonable smarts, and financial security. Although educated mostly away from home, Daniel was greatly impacted by time spent working on his father’s Crystal River Ranch in Carbondale, Colorado. Figuring out how to be self-sufficient, how to fix things, how to deal with unexpected trauma, and how to lead others were lessons that had incalculable value later in life. As an instructor pilot in the United States Air Force, this work experience was applied to teaching student pilots. When he left the USAF, he continued to pursue these interests over a forty-year career at Hawaii’s Punahou School, Albuquerque Academy, and Colorado State University. As a historian at CSU, he developed a passion for writing and published several books on water rights and development in the American West. In 2022, he wrote about his ancestors’ legacy in Buck’s County, Pennsylvania. Looking Back At Ninety recounts Daniel’s personal journey that started in 1933.