The Advanced Writers and Speakers Association (AWSA) presented its 2008 Golden Scroll Awards for publisher, editor, fiction editor and member of the year in addition to the Lifetime Achievement Award on Sunday afternoon at the Rosen Centre in Orlando, Fla. The awards go to editors and publishing houses best demonstrating outstanding ministry partnerships with their authors.

The Golden Scroll Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to author and speaker Florence Littauer by AWSA President Linda Evans Shepherd and George W. Bush impersonator and author John Morgan.

"No other person within ICRS has contributed more of their life to helping develop the ministries of authors than Florence Littauer," Shepherd said.

This year's AWSA Golden Scroll Publisher of the Year Award went to Crossway Books. The Editor of the Year Award went to Philis Boultinghouse, senior editor at Howard Books, a division of Simon and Schuster, and Nick Harrison, senior editor at Harvest House Publishers, was presented with the Fiction Editor of the Year award.

The AWSA Member of the Year Award was presented to author Kathi Macias, who "always has time to encourage others," AWSA founder Shepherd said.

Shepherd said the number of attendees at the AWSA event was up by about 30, totaling around 140. Members of AWSA, an outreach of Right to the Heart Ministries, number more than 250 women authors who publish and speak nationally.