FALLING STARS
Runner-up
2023 San Francisco Book Festival

Julie Rogers Tommy Lucas needs a bone marrow transplant to live but believes he’s a vampire. His mom, June, is an oncologist. Tommy reads an e-zine about Claudius Fallon, a dhampyre seeking his own cure in 1939. The quest leads to an artist who struggles with his love for June—for he is Fallon.

Trail Magic: Lost in Crawford Notch
Honorable Mention
2023 Hollywood Book Festival

M.H. Sullivan A coming of age story about a teen babysitter, Angie Jackson, who loses her charge, 4-year-old Melanie, in the White Mountains wilderness of northern New Hampshire and discovers the meaning of community.

The Soul Machines
Honorable Mention
2023 Hollywood Book Festival

Alexandru Czimbor Be a Better Manager is a no-fluff actionable guide to transition into a supervisory role and become someone others clamor to follow. Three young men’s quiet lives are thrown into chaos when they discover a long-lost artifact that has a devastating effect on people’s minds. Murders, insanity, and suicide wreak havoc in the…

Be a Better Manager in Five Minutes a Day
Honorable Mention
2023 Hollywood Book Festival

Dominic McLoughlin Be a Better Manager is a no-fluff actionable guide to transition into a supervisory role and become someone others clamor to follow. In Be a Better Manager in 5 Minutes a Day, you’ll find: 10 methods for developing people to catapult the department from good to great 5 ways to grow communication that…

Bailey Speaks!
Winner
2023 San Francisco Book Festival

Mary Calvert Bailey Speaks! is for all children who are learning English! It is a delightful children’s story about a boy teaching his dog to talk with “golden nuggets” provided on each page for the parents to learn why each activity is important for their child’s expressive language development!

Gummy Worms for Fishing
Honorable Mention
2023 New York Book Festival

Chan Blue Mac and his twin sister Roni are affectionately named after, you guessed it, MacaRoni and cheese; one of my favorite southern cuisine! Mac and Roni are fraternal twins that are excited to have learned the fundamentals of reading. Now they read to learn about everything, especially in the sophomore release, Gummy Worms for…

Can You See If I’m A Bee?
Runner-up
2023 San Francisco Book Festival

Melissa Garrick Edwards Children learn all about bees in a rhyming, whimsical way. Informative about bees and other insects that mimic them. A playful way to teach why bees are important and what can save them from extinction.

The Boy from Boadua
Runner-up
2023 San Francisco Book Festival

Patrick Asare A chronicle of Patrick’s improbable journey from a Ghanaian jungle to university in perestroika-era Soviet Union and later to America, where he has a rude awakening as an inner-city public school Russian and math teacher. The book is mainly about education, but includes discussions on race, class, culture, and geopolitics.

What Mae Brings: A Novel
Honorable Mention
2023 New York Book Festival

Melissa L. Berger “What Mae Brings” is a suspenseful story of 2 young women surviving their circumstances, taking the lead, and finding redemption through a series of tragic events, mystery, and family heartbreak. Sensitive, yet provoking, aggressive at times, yet deeply sentimental… with a shocking ending, it won’t leave you disappointed.

Fierce Geometry: Poems
Honorable Mention
2023 New York Book Festival

Mary Brancaccio Just as sand is etched by erosive wind and air, Fierce Geometry explores the forces that mark and shape a life. Brancaccio’s poetry travels the emotive back roads and roadside attractions of one woman’s lyrical journey through longing, love and loss. It’s a lyrical search for healing and rebirth.