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Editorial Book Review:

By BL Ritchey

World of Worlds insists you pay attention. This book is not a single story; it is a collection of fifteen short stories spanning four continents, each one a small, stubborn world that refuses tidy answers. From the first pages you know you are in the hands of someone who has seen the places he writes about and will not let you off the hook with easy sympathy.

Reading it is a physical thing....

2025-2026 ACCOLADES FOR DRINKING FROM THE STREAM

1. Literary Global Book Award for Fiction: Winner — Thriller-Adventure 2025
2. Literary Titan Silver Book Award 2026
3. Pinnacle Book Achievement Award: Best Book — Literary Fiction Fall 2025
4. Chrysalis/BREW Reader’s Choice Award 2026
5. The Bookish Reader’s Pick Award 2026
6. Independent Press Award: 2026 Distinguished Favorite — Action-Adventure
7. International Firebird Book Award: First Place Winner — Thriller
8. Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence: 2026...

2025 Incipere Winners

Thriller

First Place - Drinking From the Stream - Richard Sacks

Adventure

Third Place - Drinking From the Stream - Richard Sacks

Historical

Third Place - Drinking From the Stream - Richard Sacks

https://www.koehlerbooks.com/author-richard-sacks-hauls-in-over-10-awards/

https://theworldsbestmagazine.com/2026/02/16/richard-scott-sacks-on-travel-language-and-writing-fiction-from-global-encounters/

Richard Scott Sacks on Travel, Language, and Writing Fiction from Global Encounters

“I’ve been to 80 countries and speak four foreign languages.”
– RICHARD SCOTT SACKS

Richard Scott Sacks has a background in U.S. diplomacy and has used his experiences abroad to inform his fiction. His language proficiency, cultural immersion, and decades spent travelling are all evident...

2025-2026 ACCOLADES FOR DRINKING FROM THE STREAM

1. LITERARY TITAN GOLD BOOK AWARD
2. BREW Book Excellence Award 2026 for Political Fiction
3. Pencraft Award for Literary Excellence — 2026 Winter’s Best Book Winner Fiction - Adventure
4. International Firebird Book Award — First Place Winner / Thriller Category
5. Independent Press Award — 2026 Distinguished Favorite / Action-Adventure
6. 2026 The Bookish Reader’s Pick Award
7. 2026 Chrysalis/BREW Reader’s Choice Award
8. Fall 2025 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award —...

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Author Interview - Richard Scott Sacks

Sometimes great events touch us deeply.

Drinking from the Stream follows two young men in 1971 who are on the run and attempting to escape their pasts by traveling to East Africa, where their personal reckonings unfold alongside violence. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?

In June 1972 when I was twenty-two years old and hitchhiking across Africa I was sitting in a student cafeteria at the University...

January 29, 2026

*****

Drinking from the Stream follows two young Americans, Jake and Karl, whose chance meeting turns into a long, hazardous journey across East Africa in the early 1970s. What begins as flight, Jake from a violent past in Louisiana, Karl from ideological and emotional dead ends in the United States, becomes immersion. As they move through Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and beyond, their personal reckonings unfold alongside coups, ethnic violence, and the aftershocks of...

award #9 for DRINKING FROM THE STREAM

2025-2026 ACCOLADES FOR DRINKING FROM THE STREAM

1. BREW Book Excellence Award 2026 for Political Fiction
2. Pencraft Prize — Best Book for Fiction - Adventure
3. International Firebird Book Award — First Place Winner / Thriller Category
4. Independent Press Award — 2026 Distinguished Favorite / Action-Adventure
5. 2026 The Bookish Reader’s Pick Award
6. 2026 Chrysalis/BREW Reader’s Choice Award
7. Fall 2025 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award — Best Book / Literary Fiction
8. 2026...

BY RICHARD SCOTT SACKS

Best Book Winners for the 2026 Winter PenCraft Seasonal Book Awards

Best Book for Fiction - Adventure

2025-2026 ACCOLADES FOR DRINKING FROM THE STREAM

1. Pencraft Prize — Best Book for Fiction - Adventure
2. International Firebird Book Award — First Place Winner / Thriller Category
3. Independent Press Award — 2026 Distinguished Favorite / Action-Adventure
4. 2026 The Bookish Reader’s Pick Award
5. 2026 Chrysalis/BREW Reader’s Choice Award
6. Fall 2025...

1. International Firebird Book Award — First Place Winner / Thriller Category
2. Independent Press Award — 2026 Distinguished Favorite / Action-Adventure
3. 2026 The Bookish Reader’s Pick Award
4. 2026 Chrysalis/BREW Reader’s Choice Award
5. Fall 2025 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award — Best Book / Literary Fiction
6. 2026 Literary Titan Silver Book Award
7. 2025 Literary Global Book Award for Fiction — Winner / Thriller-Adventure Category

January 7, 2026

The Bookish Magazine

The Bookish, The Bookish Awards

Drinking from the Stream by Richard Scott Sacks

What would follow you across continents if memory weighed more than luggage? Drinking from the Stream by Richard Scott Sacks explores that strange burden—discover how by reading the full review.

Drinking from the Stream by Richard Scott Sacks

Genre: Fiction

Sub-genres: Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Political Fiction

Themes: Moral choice, friendship, displacement, accountability...

Book Review: “Drinking from the Stream” by Richard Scott Sacks
By Mary Jones
JAN 8, 2026 #book review, #dailyprompt, #featured, #Friendship, #moral choice, #Political violence, #Reader Review, #the chrysalis brew project

What would you carry across continents if the weight wasn’t luggage but memory? Drinking from the Stream by Richard Scott Sacks explores that question—read the full review to follow where it leads.

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Award-winning news

Hi Richard Sacks,

We are honored to share the news that your book has been announced a winner in Independent Press Award. Congratulations!

The following information was provided by Independent Press Award:

Congratulations! Your book has placed as a "Distinguished Favorite" in the Independent Press Awards.

Attached are the digital seals, and your book cover with the seal attached. Permalinks, sample press release, digital certificates and banners will be sent to you by the award...

Congratulations!

Your book has been chosen as one of the NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winners for Fall 2025.

We have a Pinnacle Award Winners page on our website that you can visit at

Fall 2025 Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards

Thanks again for doing a great job on your book.

Happy New Year!

Al

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We are proud to present you with the Literary Titan Book Award. Following the recent review of your book through our Book Review Service, it was automatically entered into our Literary Book Award competition. Your book deserves extraordinary praise, and we are proud to acknowledge your hard work, dedication, and writing talent. Start telling the world that you're an award-winning author because we will be!

Literary Titan Silver Book Awards

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January 1, 2026
Drinking from the Stream is an ambitious, deeply considered novel that blends personal reckoning with historical awareness in a way that feels earned and authentic. Richard Scott Sacks writes with confidence and authority, grounding the book in lived experience and intellectual curiosity, and that combination gives the narrative a strong sense of credibility. The novel asks the reader to stay engaged emotionally and intellectually, and it...

DRINKING FROM THE STREAM follows two young men on the run from themselves. The story is set in the early 1970s, a time of violent upheavals when the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Vietnam War marked a generation. Jake, a Nebraska kid turned Louisiana roughneck, flees the guilt of a killing on an oil rig. Karl, a disillusioned American student at Oxford, escapes the wreckage of the sixties and a painful relationship. Their paths cross. Together they jump on a plane to explore East Africa...