Authors, publishers and good bookstore people — revelers all — partied tonight in the Gold Room at the Biltmore downtown for the 2006 Southern California Booksellers Association awards. Carolyn See, Janet Fitch, Denise Hamilton, Tod Goldberg and Jonathan Kirsch were in the room and didn't get plaques, which should tell you something about the competition. Kudos to the winners:

Fiction — Literacy and Longing in L.A., Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack (Delacorte Press).

Non-Fiction — Mexican Days: Journeys Into the Heart of Mexico, Tony Cohan (Broadway).

Mystery — The Fallen, T. Jefferson Parker (William Morrow).

Children's — Snapshots: The Wonders of Monterey Bay, Celeste Davidson Mannis (Viking Juvenile).

It's the third SCBA award for Parker, the first for everyone else. You can see the full list of finalists here.

Also this weekend: The Asian American Journalists Association's Trivia Bowl.

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