The Pilgrim Soul in You
Honorable Mention
2022 San Francisco Book Festival

Martin Mutka The Pilgrim Soul in You is the poignant narrative of Will Merritt, a bright college graduate who moves to San Francisco in the early ’80s for school. There he meets Laura McKenzie, a beautiful, young law student. Love proves to be the “miracle of sudden intimacy” in this breathtaking story.

Peace in the Midst of the Storm
Honorable Mention
2022 Los Angeles Book Festival

Kaleb Thompson Peace in the Midst of the Storm serves as a personal testament of becoming anew through consistent growth and being favored with great courage. This shows that regardless of our mistakes, life does not promise us that we will remain positioned in negativity. What we were in our pasts will not seep into…

Crow and a Red Feather
Honorable Mention
2022 Los Angeles Book Festival

Chellie Kew Imagine being in a world where the stars in the night sky are as an upside-down bowl spanning from horizon to horizon, and you are at the center, in your crushed jeep. Alone. Crow and a Red Feather is a story about survival, love, and courage, and about beating the odds. Written in…

All Purpose
Honorable Mention
2022 Los Angeles Book Festival

Apostolos P Kouroumalis Fragments, word salads-comprise the body of “All Purpose”-a collection of short stories and poems by TolyAK which sometimes delve into the paranormal, ethereal and eccentricities of everyday life and other’s from his time being homeless, including his father’s WW2 stories.

Hard Kill
Honorable Mention
2022 London Book Festival

Bill Eckel RoboCop meets the Great Escape. Eliminate the Fleshies! Controlled for 200 years by “soft kill” measures, the transhumans ruling Eris no longer need Fleshies to support them. “Hard kill” orders are given. One family wants to live. To do so, they must reach the surface for evacuation.

Flow Through Me
Runner-up
2022 Los Angeles Book Festival

Natalie N. Williams Flow Through Me is a poetry chapbook that embraces Natalie Nicole’s self-exploration of emotion through words. Journey with her as she looks at the ups and downs of childhood, building relationships, overcoming self-doubt, seeking God, falling in love, being a nurse, a wife… finding self, day by day.

Break the Chains of Dieting
Honorable Mention
2022 London Book Festival

David Medansky Break the Chains of Dieting provides HOPE for you to finally lose weight in a healthy manner without going on a diet and keep it off. It offers a simple, practical, step-by-step approach to healthy weight-loss without dieting through the lessons of fables, analogies, and short stories.

Releasing the Pain
Honorable Mention
2022 Los Angeles Book Festival

Michelle Moreno How many times do we allow ourselves to stop “living” due to a heartbreak? A failed marriage we invested so much time in? Death of a child or loved one? Financial struggles? We may allow our emotions, the hurt we feel, keep us captive, in bondage, but God is here to free us!…

To Make The Moment Last
Honorable Mention
2022 Los Angeles Book Festival

William E Thrasher The sixties gave rise to a whole new generation of music. Led by Barry Gordy’s Motown Records and AL Bell’s Stax Records, soul music was taking the nation by storm. Now, author William Thrasher, Jr,. the Jades saxophonist writes of the band’s time together in 1967-68.

Time and the Tree
Honorable Mention
2022 London Book Festival

Róisín Sorahan A modern fable about the nature of time and the quest for happiness. “A genre-busting masterpiece, full of pacy storytelling, wry dialogue and philosophical challenge…” – Declan Kiberd – Author, Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, and leading authority on modern Irish literature. “Time and the Tree by Roisin Sorahan truly…