Media and Awards

Awards

• Figure Eight won the 2020 Midwest Book Awards Winner in the Mystery/Thriller category, awarded by the Midwest Independent Publishers Association.
• Spider Lake won the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards Winner in the Mystery category.
• Spider Lake won the 2021 Midwest Book Awards Winner in the Cover Design category, awarded by the Midwest Independent Publishers Association.
• Spider Lake was named a finalist for the 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Best Second Novel.
• Bough Cutter won gold in the 2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards for Great Lakes Region Best Fiction.
• Bough Cutter won gold in the 2024 Mystery/Suspense: Procedurals category of the American Legacy Book Awards 
• The Northern Lakes Mystery series (Books 1-3) was named a finalist for the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Best Fiction Series.
• Musky Run won gold in the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards for Great Lakes Region Best Fiction.
• The Northern Lakes Mysteries (Books 1-4) tied as winner of Best Fiction Series in the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

 

Press Coverage

• Portage Daily Register "Brown Bag Series returns to Portage Center for the Arts for winter, spring" by Nicholas Walczak, Jan 23, 2024
• Wisconsin State Journal "Madison author Jeff Nania's third Northern Lakes Mystery cuts into the rural drug problem" by Gina Kittner, 8-8-21
• Wisconsin State Journal “Northwoods novels from Portage man explore crime, wetlands and the occasional muskie” by  Barry Adams, 10-4-20
• Wisconsin State Journal “Portage author, Jeff Nania, shows off one of his many restored wetlands” by Barry Adams, 9-30-20
• Portage Daily Register “Lewiston resident wins first place award for debut novel” by Nicole Aimone, 7-22-2020 
• Sawyer County Record “Nania’s ‘Figure Eight’ wins Midwest Book Award,” 7-8-2020 
• Madison Magazine “Jeff Nania Restores Wetlands, Writes Mysteries” by Doug Moe, 1-6-2020
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Three Wisconsin books and a calendar to consider as gifts this season” by Paul Smith, 12-14-19
• Portage Daily Register “Author to visit Readers Realm,” 11-14-19
• Columbus Journal “Columbus Books and Beer features mystery novelist” by Valerie Biel, 11-11-19
• Sawyer County Record “Author’s Night features mystery close to home” by Marty Zych, 5-17-2019
• Peninsula Pulse “‘Art of Water III’ in Algoma, May 3-5” by Door County Pulse, 4-23-2019
• Wisconsin Outdoor News “Readers following Nania’s first book” by Tim Eisele, 3-8-2019
• Richland Center Observer “Wisconsin Author to Speak at Ocooch Books”  by Jean Birkett, 2-14-19
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “Here are four outdoors-related books with a Wisconsin flavor to consider as holiday gifts” by Paul Smith, 12-9-2018

 

Broadcast media 

• Conservation Starts With Us with Jeff Nania (Hour 2), Todd Allbaugh Show, Jan 24, 2024
• Outdoors Radio Interview with Dan Small, April 13, 2023
• The Morning Show, WRCO Radio,  March 2023
  
• Outdoors Radio Interview with Dan Small, December 7, 2022
• Madison Book Beat, WORT Radio, 5-9-22
• The Morning Show, WRCO Radio Interview, 7-14-21
• My World and Welcome To It with Rex Owens, 103.5 The Sun, 9-7-20
• The Larry Meiller Show, Wisconsin Public Radio, 3-5-2020
• The Morning Show, WRCO Radio, 2-14-20
• WRLS–FM Radio Interview, 5-17-2019
• WRCO Radio Interview, 2-14-19