Bara Seal, and Emily too
Honorable Mention
2018 Hollywood Book Festival

Tom Beal and illustated by Elea Paybins When Emily and her friend Bara Seal sneak away from home on a rainy day, searching for fish, they have no idea that they’re about to embark on a whirlwind, worldwide tour. Thanks to a dancing cat, kind strangers, and the magic of poetry, they return safely home….

Mistress Suffragette
Winner
2018 Paris Book Festival

Diana Forbes Sex and Suffrage collide in the International Award-Winning Debut Novel, Mistress Suffragette. During a glittering age when a woman’s reputation is her most valuable asset, a young suffragette must decide whether to compromise her principles for love, lust, and the allure of an easier life.

Love Over Lattes
Runner-up
2018 Paris Book Festival

Diana Hicks RoIn this sexy, contemporary debut set in the sizzling Southwest, recent college graduate gets more than she bargained for when she accepts the help of a hot as hell CEO fighting to keep his company. “Hicks’ first installment of her Desert Monsoon series is confident and assured with strong storytelling, nuanced characters, and…

FLOWERCHILDREN
Honorable Mention
2018 New York Book Festival

BRIGITTE BROCATO The FLOWERCHILDREN book is a beautifully illustrated children’s book by author/illustrator Brigitte Brocato. The book is an introduction to the color theory, creating secondary colors from primary colors. It is also a book about kindness and friendship

HOME
Winner
2018 San Francisco Book Festival

Adam Leitman Bailey Home takes children on a journey using their own eyes to see the colorful adventure of visiting many different places to live while providing a touching story about family and love.

A Jann Plan: Creative Origins Advocacy/Teach Peace and Creative Accountability
Honorable Mention
2018 San Francisco Book Festival

Hon. Gregg K. Jann A Jann Plan’s introduction is about holding value for the vulnerable in changing or reforming an aspect of our capitalist economy. We can set up financial trusts to protect from Seize the Day economics for our persons with disabilities, the too young, or dependent elders, both just there and those who…

Through Smoke-Teared Eyes: The Vietnam War I Fought
Winner
2018 San Francisco Book Festival

Johnny F. Pugh Desperate to understand his PTSD-induced nightmares, the author revisits the time when he was a soldier in South Vietnam. He takes us through Agent Orange-blackened jungles and booby-trapped, sniper-infested rice paddies, sharing the terror and outrage he felt fighting in a war that made no sense.

Van Goghing Gregg: Recovery Toward Love
Honorable Mention
2018 Los Angeles Book Festival

Gregg K. Jann A hero by Man and Policy, Author Gregg K. Jann submitted his contest application as fire was raging toward downtown in the North Bay Fire Strike of October 2017. Stopping the fires at the school district boundaries where he served election 10 years prior in community safety and non-violence Character Education helped…

Role Reversal How to Take Care of Yourself and Your Aging Parents
Runner-up
2018 Florida Book Festival

Iris Waichler Role Reversal blends Iris Waichler’s personal experience caring for her beloved father with her 40 years of expertise as a licensed clinical social worker and patient advocate. Role reversal offers invaluable information on a variety of key caregiving topics. This book has won 6 major book awards. This book also offers the reader…

WHERE IS EMMA BUTLER’S LIFE PLAN?
Winner
2017 London Book Festival

JULIA WILMOT An inspiring, thought provoking and humorous story of angelic guidance, free will and the plans we set ourselves before we are born – only to be forgotten at the moment of our birth. A spiritual romcom and thoroughly charming tale of romance, love and angels.