Jennifer J. Lehr
Love’s Cauldron is a luminous hybrid memoir that fuses emotional healing, mysticism, and personal transformation. Through intimate storytelling and lyrical reflections, psychotherapist Jennifer J. Lehr, LMFT, reclaims her identity as a witch and healer, inviting readers on a journey from trauma to wholeness.
The Flame And The Sword Runner up
2026 London Book Festival
Sandra Gharabaghli Their love burned brighter than the flames from the forge and stronger than the steel of his sword. Her parents murdered, Elayne escapes becoming a blacksmith. Elayne sacrificed her freedom to free the man she loves from a dungeon and forges the bond of their eternal love.
Moo-Nay R U Monet? An Art Adventure at Charlie’s FarmHonorable Mention
2026 Los Angeles Book Festival
Loni Belle and J. E. Laufer Please pack up your imagination as I introduce you to whimsical adventure in discovering creativity, friendship, and art appreciation in Moo-Nay R U Monet?. It’s the first book in an eight book series that features Moo-Nay, a cow who paints with her tail, and wonders if the Impressionist artist…
Aventuras de Algodón: El gran deseo de MilaHonorable Mention
2026 Los Angeles Book Festival
Pali Bermúdez “Aventuras de Algodón: El gran deseo de Mila” is the Spanish edition of the Bunny Tails series, a heartfelt picture book that helps young children navigate big feelings as families grow, while celebrating love, connection, and the excitement of welcoming a new baby.
BeBe the Not-So Brave Butterfly Runner up
2026 Los Angeles Book Festival
Kimberly Robinson Book Blurb: BeBe the Not-So- Brave Butterfly is a tender, inspiring picture book about courage, coping with change, and finding your wings. When BeBe transforms from a caterpillar into a butterfly, everything feels different-and a little scary. Her favorite foods, her routines, even the way she moves through the world has changed. As…
Spirit Guides and Angels: Death and Taxes Winner
2026 Great Northwest Book Festival
Wayne Cesaro Not only a paranormal memoir, spiritual biography, or metaphysical testimony in the conventional sense, the book documents a life navigated by guidance, intervention, and synchronicity, and doing so with the quiet steadiness that didn’t set out to prove the mystical, only to narrate the undeniable. More than a memoir, a course in the…
Sword of Cho Nisi: Rise of the Tobian Princess Runner up
2026 Great Northwest Book Festival
Dianne Gardner (D.L. Gardner) Erika, the youngest daughter of a legendary king, aspires to be a warrior and follows her brother to war against the dark wizard. She accidentally kills a king during her first battle and that mistake costs the allegiance of an island whose magic her father’s kingdom needs to win the war….
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Winner
2026 Great Southeast Book Festival
Nicholas Lewis Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is the winner in the children’s book category at the Southeast Book Festival for 2026. In the book a young child expresses their fear of the dark as bedtime approaches and their imagination begins to run wild. Ultimately, they find comfort in their familiar surroundings and begin…
Changing Course GracefullyHonorable Mention
2026 Southern California Book Festival
Elaina Kelly Smith On paper, you’re successful. Inside, you’re on autopilot. This book offers a practical tool to help you quiet the noise of expectation. The PARQS Framework provides a brick-by-brick practice for disconnecting from “Remote Control Living” and navigating life’s pivots with greater self-trust.
The Blues Don’t Last AlwaysRunner Up
2026 Southern California Book Festival
ReGena Bell-Roberts The Blues Don’t Last Always is an uplifting spiritual and culturally rich collection of poetry and prose celebrating strength, healing and the beauty of Black resilience. Through reflections on struggle, survival, love, faith and liberation the text gives voice to the quiet strength that lives in us all.