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Animal & Pet
Incredibull Stella by Marika Meeks & Elizabeth Ridley
While recovering from a serious illness, Marika Meeks adopted an abandoned pit bull puppy and named her Stella. Together, they healed each other .
Publisher: Kensington Publishing
ISBN: 978-0806539461
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 119 W 40th Street, New York, NY, 10018, United States.
Email: splackis@kensingtonbooks.com
Award Level: GOLD Entry Type Standard
Man of the House: Life with the Lady at the End of My Leash by Mary Kiser
With a Marmaduke meets Carrie Bradshaw feel, Mary and Mac write about their loves, fears, and fear of love.
Publisher: Mac House Press
ISBN: 978-1733142915
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: mary.kiser81@gmail.com
Award Level: SILVER
The Year of the Dogs by Vincent J. Musi
From a labrador that likes opera to a tooting bulldog, Vincent Musi chronicled the character and personality of everyday dogs and compiled them into one gorgeous and captivating book.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 978-1452181929
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level:Honorable Mention
Art & Photography
Autobiography & Memoir
I AM...a character by PJ Colando
I call my short story fiction genre “loose with the truth” because there is always, always, always a kernel of truth in the fiction I flash.
Publisher: Pattis Press
ISBN: 978-1795525480
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 18721 Portofino Drive, Irvine, California, 92603
Email: talklady@sbcglobal.net
Award Level: GOLD Entry Level: Premium
Tracing the Desire Line by Melissa Matthewson
Tracing the Desire Line follows a writer’s journey of opening her marriage with her husband. The story—told through short memoirs, essays, lists, letters, and hybrid prose poems—is an intimate inquiry into one woman’s search for autonomy with detours into meditations on music, motherhood, religion, love, and wildness
Publisher: Split Lip Press
ISBN: 978-1076136138
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: Silver
Swell: A Sailing Surfer's Voyage of Awakening by Liz Clark
Captain Liz Clark spent her youth dreaming of traveling the world by sailboat and surfing remote waves. When she was 22, she met a mentor who helped turn her desire into reality. Embarking on an adventure that most only fantasize about, she set sail from Santa Barbara, California, as captain of her 40-foot sailboat, Swell, headed south in search of surf, self, and the wonder and learning that lies beyond the unbroken horizon.
Publisher: Patagonia
ISBN: 978-1-938340-54-3
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: Honerable Mention
Biography
Mind, Body & Spirit
STOKED: A Spiritual Journey from Employee to Lifestyle Entrepreneur by Greg Rex
In STOKED, entrepreneur Greg Rex uses his incredible “Mastery through Mentorship” formula to demonstrate how anyone can build a sustainable and profitable “for-benefit” business – one with the primary mission of having a positive impact on society.
Publisher: Merack Publishing
ISBN: 978-1949635225
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 7875 Highland Village Place, Suite B102-233 San Diego, CA 92129
Email: krista@merackpublishing.com
Award Level: GOLD Entry Level: Standard
The BUILD Framework® : A Heart-Based System for Personal and Professional Growth by John Peitzman
Do you feel a bit overwhelmed or unmotivated? Is passion or purpose missing from your daily routine? Do you want to reignite the drive to achieve personal and professional success. In The BUILD Framework®, Certified High Performance Coach™ John Peitzman (JP) offers you a blueprint to build a better future.
Publisher: Build Heart Publishing
ISBN: 978-0648345312
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: Silver
Wedding Bells After Fifty: We Got Married and So Can You! by Autumn Marie
Captain Liz Clark spent her youth dreaming of traveling the world by sailboat and surfing remote waves. When she was 22, she met a mentor who helped turn her desire into reality. Embarking on an adventure that most only fantasize about, she set sail from Santa Barbara, California, as captain of her 40-foot sailboat, Swell, headed south in search of surf, self, and the wonder and learning that lies beyond the unbroken horizon.
Publisher: AMS Books
ISBN: 978-1948792080
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: Honerable Mention
Business & Career
WE CAN: The Executive Woman's Guide to Career Advancement by Robin Toft
Through her own inspiring journey from employee to powerful female executive, Robin Toft couples the wisdom she gleaned at the boardroom table as an executive with over a decade of experience in executive search as Founder and CEO of the award-winning Toft Group.
Publisher: Merack Publishing
ISBN: 978-1949635034
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 7875 Highland Village Place, Suite B102-233 San Diego, CA 92129
Email:
krista@merackpublishing.com
Award Level: GOLD Entry Type Standard
Tiger by the Tail: 99 Secrets to Tame and Master Your Business by Marty Park
Tiger by the Tail is for every entrepreneur that got past the startup phase only to find the challenges got worse. In this book, Marty shares the ideas, secrets, and tools to be a tiger tamer and master entrepreneur.
Publisher: Merack Publishing
ISBN: 978-1544505299
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 7875 Highland Village Place, Suite B102-233 San Diego, CA 92129
Email: krista@merackpublishing.com
Award Level: SILVER Entry Type Standard
YOU GOT THIS: Everything You Need to Master Authentic Public Speaking by Lisa Kleiman
Lisa Kleiman is a speaking consultant with a passion for communication. She has coached hundreds of individuals and facilitated classes, workshops, and seminars across the globe. In You Got This, she shares her secrets about stepping out in front of any group and successfully delivering your message with clarity, confidence, and authenticity.
Publisher: River Grove Books
ISBN: 978-1632992321
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 13104 Polvera Ave San Diego, CA 92128
Email: kleiman.lisa@gmail.com
Award Level: Honorable Mention Entry Type Standard
Children’s Picture Book (0–3 years)
Children’s Picture Book (4–7 years)
Young Reader (middle grade): Fiction (8–12 years)
Young Reader (middle grade): Nonfiction (8–12 years)
Teen (young adult): Fiction (13–18 years)
Teen (young adult): NonFiction (13–18 years)
Coffee Table Book
Cookbook
Craft, Hobby, Home & Garden
Education
My Two Cents: Taking the Care Out of Health Care by Antonio Paulo Pinto
The book includes over a dozen ideas on fixing and improving Obamacare! Ideas to lower premiums, lower deductibles, and even to address Prescription drug pricing and availability, and the hospital system closure crisis! The book is an insider’s view that describes the powerful potential and broken promises of Obamacare, offering a realistic, actionable, and solution-oriented plan to address the affordability of health insurance plans and affordable access to the health care system.
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 978-1642378948
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: GOLD
Eventology: The Science Behind Nonprofit Fundraising by Darren Diess & Michelle Gilmore
In Eventology, Darren Diess and Michelle Gilmore skillfully combine the art, science, and math of event fundraising to create a comprehensive resource guide to help you flawlessly execute a successful fundraising event and build long-term donor relationships that equate to sustainability for your cause.
Publisher: Merack Publishing
ISBN: 978-1949635188
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 7875 Highland Village Place, Suite B102-233 San Diego, CA 92129
Email: krista@merackpublishing.com
Award Level: GOLD Entry Type Standard
Top Students, Top Parents: A Manual for Parents Who Want to Help Their Children Become All They Can Be by Kathleen Burns
Millions of parents are frustrated because they know their children can do better, yet they don’t know how to help them. All children have the potential to be Top Students! Parents just need to know how to prepare their preschool child for formal learning, then give them the help and support they need to succeed while in school.
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 978-1642372601
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: SILVER
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Popular Fiction
Redesigning Happiness by Nita Brooks
Witty, sharply-observed, and warmly wise, Nita Brooks’ debut novel tells the heartfelt story of a suddenly successful single mother who finds her perfectly-designed, fame-bound life upended by a surprise from the past . . .
Publisher: Kensington Publishing
ISBN: 978-1496721921
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 119 W 40th Street, 21st Floor New York, NY 10018
Email: NPerez-Hernandez@kensingtonbooks.com
Award Level: GOLD Entry Level: Standard
Outlaws by Allen Cody
Outlaws is a collection of mythic tales transporting the reader from the depths of the sea to the stark western deserts, introducing pirates and warrior chiefs and modern-day fugitives.
Publisher: SeaStory/Kdp
ISBN: 978-1936818518
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 400 Whitehead St #580 Key West Key West, FL 33041
Email: allencodyt@yahoo.com
Award Level: SILVER Entry Type Standard
Float Plan by Rob Hiaasen
Will Larkin teaches algebra and has been married 2.92 years (he never rounds off). He has no children, two friends and one dog. His life is perfectly routine until he loses his wife, job, dog, boat and even his freedom all in one spectacularly hard year.
Publisher: Apprentice House Press
ISBN: 978-1-62720-200-8
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: Honorable Mention
Fiction: Action/Thriller
Hawke's Target by Reavis Z. Wortham
Judge. Jury. Executioner. One man is taking the law into his own hands. His targets are criminals who slipped through the justice system. From California to Texas, this relentless avenger hunts down the unpunished and sentences them to death.
Publisher: Kensington Publishing
ISBN: 978-0786041800
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 119 W 40th Street, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Email: splackis@kensingtonbooks.com
Award Level: GOLD Entry Type Standard
Total Mayhem by John Gilstrap
In bestselling author John Gilstrap’s ticking time bomb of a thriller, freelance operative Jonathan Grave penetrates a terrorist cell to stop the detonation of total mayhem on home ground . . .
Publisher: Kensington Publishing
ISBN: 978-0786039821
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 119 W 40th Street, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Email: splackis@kensingtonbooks.com
Award Level: SILVER Entry Type Standard
Guarding Savage: A Peter Savage Novel by Dave Edlund
Following the brutal abduction of a friend, Peter is drawn into a sinister scheme, fueled by century-old animosity, which threatens peace in the Pacific. .
Publisher: Light Messages Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-61153-243-2
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: Honorable Mention
Fiction: Historical
Babylon Laid Waste: A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols by Brigitte Goldstein
Alerted by a letter from Berlin that her grandmother may be alive in a Jewish hospice there, Misia Safran, a former refugee living in New York, is determined to follow the lead and return to her native Germany.
Publisher: BookLocker
ISBN: 978-1644387696
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 1050 George Street, 3L New Brunswick, NJ 8901
Email: bmgold2@optimum.net
Award Level: GOLD Entry Type Standard
The Viking Priest: A Saga of Fate, Faith, Adventure, and Love by Linda Kay Dahlen
By AD 1000, feared and fierce Norse explorers had sailed as far as present-day Canada, bringing with them an exchange of goods and customs, technology and theology. At a time when Christianity was rapidly replacing ancient Norse religion and culture, one young convert, Brand, affects history in more ways than he could have ever expected.
Publisher: Beaver’s Pond Press
ISBN: 978-1-59298-775-7
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: SILVER
In the Company of Like-Minded Women by Elaine Russell
In the Company of Like-Minded Women explores the complexities of bonds between sisters and family at the start of the 20th century when women struggled to determine their future and the “New Woman” demanded an equal voice. Three sisters are reunited in 1901 Denver following a family rift many years before. Each sister faces critical decisions regarding love, work, and the strength of her convictions. The success of Colorado women in gaining the right to vote in 1893–twenty-seven years before the passage of national suffrage–and their continued fight for women’s rights, provides the background as the story unfolds.
Publisher: Belle Histories
ISBN: 978-1-73249-940-9
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: Honorable Mention
Fiction: Mystery & Suspense
Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline
Allie Garvey is heading home to the funeral of a childhood friend. Allie is not only grief-stricken, she’s full of dread. Because going home means seeing the other two people with whom she shares an unbearable secret.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
ISBN: 978-0525539667
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: GOLD
The Gallows Green Killer by Frances Lloyd
Rosemary and Dick Brown move into a beautiful, secluded house on Gallows Green in the idyllic Somerset village of Lullington Barrow. It seems like a dream come true. But is it too good to be true?
Publisher: Joffe Books
ISBN: 978-1789312317
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: SILVER
Antiques Ravin' by Barbara Allen
When a series of creepy crimes plagues an ill-fated Edgar Allan Poe festival, newly elected county sheriff Vivian Borne, along with her reluctant deputy daughter Brandy and spunky shih tzu Sushi, springs into action.
Publisher: Kensington Publishing
ISBN: 978-1496711410
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 119 W 40th Street, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Email: splackis@kensingtonbooks.com
Award Level: Honorable Mention Entry Type Standard
Fiction: Romance
Fiction: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Outlaws by Allen Cody
Outlaws is a collection of mythic tales transporting the reader from the depths of the sea to the stark western deserts, introducing pirates and warrior chiefs and modern-day fugitives.
Publisher: SeaStory/Kdp
ISBN: 978-1936818518
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 400 Whitehead St # 580 Key West, Key West, Florida, 33041
Email: allencodyt@yahoo.com
Award Level: GOLD Entry Type Standard
Carnival Panic by Catori Sarmiento
Candy makes the PonPon Bunnies sweet. Be careful if they’re angry. And watch out for traps! These are the dangers of competing in the Carnival Panic game show, a ruthless competition that tests the chosen competitors with mental and physical struggles. In order to claim the substantial monetary prize, the winner must solve a series of room puzzles and succeed in entertaining the fickle masses.
Publisher: Corvus Quill Press
ISBN: 978-1513649740
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 98 Sirocco Drive Apt.2, Minot ND 58704
Email: cartori.sarmiento@hotmail.com
Award Level: SILVER Entry Type Standard
Tales from Mushroom Manor by Joplin James Patras
Our friends from Mushroom Manor are back! The evil, sorceress elf, Leona, has finally risen into power! After nearly destroying Firefly Forest, she now has her sights set on conquering the rest of the Lands of Morada! Our enchanted pals separate into two different groups, hoping to find a way to stop her before their time runs out! .
Publisher: The Search for Ferante
ISBN: 978-1986031752
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 811 East 2nd Street, Sterling IL 61081
Email: joplinjames@gmail.com
Award Level: Honorable Mention Entry Type Standard
Finance
Graphic Novels
Poetry
Leadership
LGBTQ
Health & Fitness
The Healing Powers of Superfoods: A Complete Guide to Nature' Favorite Functional Foods by Cal Orey
Infused with heartwarming stories and inspiring legends, The Healing Powers of Superfoods will take you to a world of wellness that starts at home with our favorite foods from Mother Nature—enjoyed in a new way with an exciting twist!
Publisher: Kensington Publishing
ISBN: 978-0806538983
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 119 W 40th Street, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Email: splackis@kensingtonbooks.com
Award Level: GOLD Entry Type Standard
Diabetes Head to Toe: Everything You Need to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment, and Living with Diabetes by Rita R. Kalyani, MD, MHS; Mark D. Corriere, MD; Thomas W. Donner, MD; Michael W. Quartuccio, MD
Diabetes Head to Toe is an invaluable resource for anyone living with diabetes. It includes everything you should know about the disease―straight from the experts. The authors, all doctors who specialize in diabetes care, offer simple explanations and essential advice on all things diabetes.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2648-8
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: SILVER
The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy: The 30-Day Plan to Lose Weight, Feel Great, and Live Lectin-Free by Dr. Steven R Gundry MD
Readers learned the surprising truth about foods that have long been regarded as healthy. Lectins—a type of protein found in fruits, vegetables, legumes, dairy, and grains—wreak havoc on the gut, creating systemic inflammation and laying the groundwork for disease and weight gain. Avoiding lectins offers incredible health benefits but requires a significant lifestyle change—one that, for many people, can feel overwhelming.
Publisher: Harper Wave
ISBN: 978-0062911995
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: Honorable Mention
History
Humor
I AM...a character by PJ Colando
I call my short story fiction genre “loose with the truth” because there is always, always, always a kernel of truth in the fiction I flash.
Publisher: Pattis Press
ISBN: 978-1795525480
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 18721 Portofino Drive, Irvine, California, 92603
Email: talklady@sbcglobal.net
Award Level: GOLD Entry Type PREMIUM
The Reluctant RV Wife by Gerri Almand
Follow a reluctant wife and her excited husband through two humorously-conflicted years of RV travel. He wanted to go; she wanted to stay. They both learn, grow, and change as a new level of freedom evolves.
Publisher: Sunbury Press
ISBN: 978-1620061473
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: SILVER
Strange Crime: Oddball Crimes, Capers, Plots, Laws, and More by Editors of Portable Press
Loaded with dozens of entertaining and amusing articles about actual crimes, this latest book from Portable Press will definitely leave you scratching your head. Dumb crooks, celebrities gone bad, unsolved mysteries, odd laws, and more—Strange Crime has plenty of stories that will make you ask yourself, “What could they possibly have been thinking?” This easily portable paperback book is ideal for readers on the go. Take it to school, to work, to jury duty!
Publisher: Portable Press
ISBN: 978-1-68412-277-6
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: Honorable Mention
Inspirational/Motivational
Multicultural
Nature & Environment
Novella (Single work of fiction between 17,000 & 40,000 words.)
Parenting & Family
Political & Public Policy
Professional & Technical
Psychology
Reference
Regional
Religion
Science
Self-Help
Social Issues/Current Events
Sports & Recreation
Travel
Love in the Eye of the Storm: Hurricane Irma, Saint Martin & Togetherness by Billy Nahn
A timeless and gripping true story about a couple celebrating being free of breast cancer as well as a belated honeymoon on a Caribbean Island only to be periled by one of the largest hurricanes in modern history. Love, friendship, survival and gracious luck all come into play during this harrowing ordeal.
Publisher: William J Nahn
ISBN: 978-0578533377
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 15206 North Palmetto Lane Fountain Hills, AZ 85268
Email: billy@nahnsense.com
Award Level: GOLD Entry Type Standard
Columbus Uncovered: Fascinating, Real-Life Stories About Unusual People, Places & Things in Ohio's Capital City by John Clark
A long-lost, world-class amusement park … huge replicas of the world’s biggest wonders … a 1903 stage play with eight galloping horses. Columbus has had its share of odd attractions over the years. And scandals, too – the fake drug that led to the formation of the Food and Drug Administration … the 19th century pharmacist who loved to sunbathe nude atop his castle … the early visit of an airship that led to a riot. And many curiosities are still with us today – a neighborhood with 50 Frank Lloyd Wright-style homes … a blind, high school marching band … a company that makes burglar-proof burial vaults. Columbus Uncovered reveals dozens of the most-unusual chapters in our city’s history. You’ll find them all fascinating.
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
ISBN: 978-1619845664
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: SILVER
Excess Baggage: One Family's Around-the-World Search for Balance by Tracey Carisch
Tracey Carisch thought she had it all. As a wife, mother, and successful executive, she seemed to be living the modern American dream. But one night, a panic attack sent her tumbling into an existential crisis and questioning everything about her life. That’s when she and her husband made a decision that shocked their family and friends: they sold everything they owned, pulled their three young daughters out of school, and became a family of wandering globetrotters.
Publisher: She Writes Press
ISBN: 978-1-63152-411-0
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: Honorable Mention
Fiction Cover Design: Small Format (5″ x 8″ or smaller)
Fiction Cover Design: Large Format (larger than 5″ x 8″)
Non-Fiction Cover Design: Small Format (5" x 8" or smaller)
Non-Fiction Cover Design: Large Format (larger than 5″ x 8″)
Cover Design: Children’s
Interior Design: Fiction
Interior Design: Non-Fiction
Interior Design: Children’s
Legacy Award: Fiction
Peace of Evon by Dorothy Tinker
When deities take mortal form, Chaos abounds!
Ferez Katani, young king of war-torn Evon, never expected to learn that the dangerous criminal known as the Ghost is actually James Caffers, a boy younger than himself. But when given the chance to travel anonymously with the strange youth in the hopes of finding peace for his country, Ferez accepts wholeheartedly. After all, it’s only for a season.
Publisher: Balance of Seven
ISBN: 978-0991083985
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 917 Stone Trail Drive Plano, TX 75023
Email: dtinker@balanceofseven.com
Award Level: GOLD Entry Type PREMIUM
The Dust Will Answer by Richard Risemberg
1978: The wave of gentrification has yet to break over downtown Los Angeles, and vast swathes of the warehouse district lie nearly abandoned next to the city’s concrete-clad river. Lenny Strasser, a straight-arrow with a taste for shady places, plunges into that world to discover that sometimes the only distance between two points is a very crooked line.
Publisher: LuLu
ISBN: 978-1312984677
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 648 1/2 S. Burnside Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036-6809
Email: rickrise@earthlink.net
Award Level: SILVER Entry Type Standard
The Lost Tide: Playing with Fire by David Tenenbaum
The wave-chasing saga continues as the Maryland scientists come face to face with an extinction level event.
Publisher: KDP
ISBN: 978-1699044735
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 629 Baker Rd Apt. 104 Virginia Beach, VA 23462
Email: Tenenbaum@gmail.com
Award Level: Honorable Mention Entry Type Standard
Legacy Award: Non-Fiction
Kem Weber: Mid-Century Furniture Designs for The Disney Studios by David A. Bossert
David A. Bossert celebrates and details the form and function of this unique mid-century furniture and the impact it had on the Disney animation process over the decades.
Publisher: The Old Mill Press
ISBN: 978-1732602007
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 25641 Shaw Place Stevenson Ranch, CA 91381
Email: bossert.dave13@gmail.com
Award Level: GOLD Entry Type PREMIUM
Stories from the Middle Seat: The Four-Million-Mile Journey to Building a Billion Dollar International Business by R.F. Hemphill
Sharing letters he sent to his father during his years of traveling the world building—and then saving—a multi-billion dollar company, Bob Hemphill’s Stories from the Middle Seat recounts the funny, unique, and sometimes outlandish parts of international business.
Publisher: Strelitzia Ventures
ISBN: 978-0991298518
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: SILVER
Lawyers Decoded: Essential Knowledge for Saving Money and Reducing Legal Hassles by Melody A. Kramer, Esq.
In this groundbreaking work, Melody Kramer uses her 20+ years as a trial lawyer to untangle the mysterious world of lawyers, giving you the inside scoop on why lawyers are the way they are, why they think and act the way they do, and how to use that information to empower your working relationships with them. This easy-to-read book is filled with real-life stories and helpful “hacks”—practical tips you can use right away to save money, save time, and reduce stress.
Publisher: Legal Greenhouse Publishing
ISBN: 978-1732201200
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 4010 Sorrento Valley Blvd. Ste 400 San Diego, CA 92121
Email: melodyannkramer@gmail.com
Award Level: Honorable Mention Entry Type premium
Legacy Award: Children’s/Middle Grade/Young Adult
Hookity-Tookity-Tah by Antonio Mugica and Hermann Mejia
Written in verse, Hookity-Tookity-Tah is a wizard baker boy who uses his cooking magic to rid his town of a bullying dragon.
Publisher: Multiple Personality Entertainment
ISBN: 978-9962552413
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: N/A
Email: N/A
Award Level: GOLD
Phoenix Award—Best New Voice: Fiction
Muderabilia by Carl Vonderau
Three decades ago, a madman committed thirteen unspeakable killings. Now they’ve started again, and his son is the sole suspect…
Publisher: Midnight Ink
ISBN: 978-0738761305
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 5031 San Aquario Drive San Diego, CA 92109
Email: c_vonderau@hotmail.com
Award Level: gold Entry Type standard
Seidon's Tale by Bill VanPatten
Following the lead of authors like Madeline Miller and Rick Riordan, who pen modern mythology-based fiction so well, Seidon’s Tale depicts Poseidon as a complex but kind-hearted god who loves his brothers and sisters almost to a fault.
Publisher: Input and More
ISBN: 978-1795053617
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 14510 Spyglass Circle Chowchilla, CA 93610
Email: aliasbvp@gmail.com
Award Level: SILVER Entry Type standard
Tales from Mushroom Manor: Book One: The Sorceress Returns by Joplin James Patras
Join Suzy Shortbread, Penelope Pringles, Francois Frog and the other friends from Mushroom Manor as they find themselves on an adventure of a lifetime! An epic battle between Dark and White magic is about to begin! Who will end up controlling all the Lands of Morada?
Publisher: KDP
ISBN: 978-1983899911
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 811 East 2nd Street Sterling, IL 61081
Email: joplinjames@gmail.com
Award Level: Honorable Mention Entry Type standard
A Former Life: An overview of two centuries 60 years in the making by Bill Cushing
A collection of poems by Bill Cushing, often referred to as the “blue collar” poet based on his previous years working at shipyards and various other blue collar jobs.
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
ISBN: 978-1635349382
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 1126 N Central Ave, 306 Glendale, CA 91202
Email: piscespoet@yahoo.com
Award Level: Honorable Mention Entry Type standard
Phoenix Award—Best New Voice: Non-fiction
6 Healing Questions: A Gentle Path to Healing Childhood Loss of a Parent by Madonna Treadway
Written for adults who have lost a parent or parents at an early age, Madonna shares her own story of loss, asks gentle questions, provides tangible tools, and easy-to-understand research.
Publisher: MCM
ISBN: 978-0988888227
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 2400 5th Ave. #325 San Diego, CA 92101
Email: madonnatreadway@mac.com
Award Level: GOLD Entry Type PREMIUM
Almost Like a Professional: My life and career as a West Texas musician by Cary C Banks
Cary Banks traces his long journey down the lost highway of the music business with stories that are often funny but many times poignant.
Publisher: Bankonit Music LLC
ISBN: 978-0578561813
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 1622 56th St Lubbock, TX 79412
Email: carycbanksmusic@aol.com
Award Level: SILVER Entry Type standard
Memories in Dragonflies: Simple Lessons for Mindful Dying by Lannette Cornell Bloom
A touching and soulful memoir that gracefully uncovers the beauty that is often lost within the dying process, Memories in Dragonflies is a beautiful portrait of what it means to be human and a gentle reminder to enjoy every moment, because even the simplest ones bring lasting joy.
Publisher: She Writes Press
ISBN: 978-1631524691
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: 7514 Girard Avenue #1-238 La Jolla, CA 92037
Email: Lannetteb@gmail.com
Award Level: Honorable Mention Entry Type standard
Phoenix Award—Best New Voice: Children’s/Middle Grade/Young Adult
Merged by Jim & Stephanie Kroepfl
Seven of our country’s most gifted teens will become Nobels, hosts for the implantation of brilliant Mentor minds, in an effort to accelerate human progress. But as the line between what’s possible and what’s right, draws ever blurrier, the teens discover everything has a cost.
Publisher: Month9Books
ISBN: 978-1948671347
Purchase Link: Amazon
Address: P.O. Box 153, 133 Alpine Circle Grand Lake, CO 80447
Email: jimandstephbooks@gmail.com
Award Level: GOLD Entry Type PREMIUM
