AWARDS

• First Place: Best Unpublished Short Story, San Diego Book Awards — for By the Light of the Moon, a story about a moonshiner suspected of murder, 2017
• Gold Award, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Awards — for Murder Survivor's Handbook: Real-Life Stories, Tips & Resources (as editor), 2015
• Best Published Memoir, San Diego Book Awards — for Dare I Call It Murder?: A Memoir of Violent Loss, 2014
• The Big Stories: 2000s — San Diego Magazine named "Pop Goes the Bubble" (Sept. 2005) as one of its top 5 stories from the 2000s decade, saying: "Then-business editor Larry M. Edwards saw it coming in 2005, when he called the housing bubble a ticking time bomb in disguise." October 2013
• First Place: San Diego Book Awards — for unpublished memoir, Dare I Call It Murder?: A Memoir of Violent Loss, 2012
• Rhoda Ridell Award, San Diego Writers & Editors Guild, 2009
  (for contributions to the organization)
• Best of Show, Magazines — Series, San Diego Press Club, 2005
  (San Diego Magazine: "Preserving Paradise I, II, III" — team award)
• First Place, At-Large Reporting — Government Malfeasance, SDPC, 2005
  (San Diego Magazine: "A City in Crisis" — co-author, Rachel Laing)
• First Place, Magazines — Series, SDPC, 2005
  (San Diego Magazine: "Preserving Paradise I, II, III" — team award)
• First Place, Business Story or Series, Society of Professional Journalists, 2005
  (San Diego Magazine: "A City in Crisis" — co-author, Rachel Laing)
• Second Place, At-Large Reporting - Multicultural Coverage, SDPC, 2005
  (San Diego Magazine: "Southeastern Shall Rise Again")
• Best of Show, Magazine, SDPC, 2004
  (San Diego Magazine: "The City Hall Shell Game")
• First Place, Public Service/Consumer Advocacy, SDPC, 2004
  (San Diego Magazine: "The City Hall Shell Game")
• First Place, Investigative Reporting, SDPC, 2004
  (San Diego Magazine: "Bugs in the System")
• First Place, Science/Tech/Health, SPJ, 2004
  (San Diego Magazine: "The Quest for a Cure")
• First Place, Business/Real Estate, SPJ, 2004
  (San Diego Magazine: "How Now, Cash Cow?")
• Headline, Magazine, 2nd place, SPJ, 2004
  (San Diego Magazine: "How Now, Cash Cow?")
• Business Writing, Magazine, 2nd place, SPJ, 2003
• Sports Writing, Magazine, 2nd place, SPJ, 2003
• Sports Writing, Non-Daily Print, 2nd place, SDPC, 2002
• Online News Writing, The T Sector, 2nd place, SDPC, 2001
• Sports Writing, Magazine, 2nd place, SPJ, 2001
• Group-Produced News Web Site, 3rd place, SPJ, 2001
• Sports Writing, Magazine, 2nd place, SDPC, 2000
• Books (Award of Merit), Official Netscape Internet Business Starter Kit, SDPC, 1998
• Best of Show, Non-Daily Print, SDPC, 1997
• Best Business/Financial Writing, Non-Daily Print, SDPC, 1997
• Computer/High Tech, Open Print, 3rd place, SDPC, 1997
• Best of Show, Non-Daily Newspapers, SDPC, 1994
• Best Investigative Reporting, Non-Daily Newspapers, SDPC, 1994
• Best News Story, Non-Daily Newspapers, SDPC, 1994
• Best Investigative Reporting, Non-Daily Newspapers, SPJ, 1993
• Best News Story, Single Reporter, Non-Daily Newspapers, SDPC, 1990

Other Awards and Honors

Marketer of the Month and Marketer of the Year (AMY) awards from the American Marketing Association (San Diego Chapter) for the marketing program established for America's Cup On Line (as a partner in Events On Line) — 1995.

America's Cup On Line received several honors and peer recognition:

• Finalist in Best of the Net competition sponsored by GNN, 1995
• Magellan 3-Star Award (Photo section)
• Cool Site of the Day, January 10, 1995
• Spider Pick of the Week, 1995
• Nominated as Best Educational Web Site, 1995

The Sailing Site — recoginized as one of the top e-zines for 1995/96:

• Named to Best 1001 Web sites by PC Computing magazine
• Named to Best 500 Web sites by I-Way magazine