A Search for Family
Honorable Mention
2016 Hollywood Book Festival

Murray Lee Eiland Jr Matt Martin is a Hollywood star from another era. He employs Los Angeles private detective Bart Northcote to locate his estranged daughter. His daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom. Can Bart find the culprits before it is too late?

Rise Up!
Runner-up
2016 Hollywood Book Festival

Connie Marie Harris The never-before-told true story of a group of multi-racial, multi-denominational pastors in a Katrina-ravaged New Orleans. Not unlike Old Testament times, odds were stacked against them in such an impossible way that the outcome would seem completely hopeless and utter defeat inevitable were it not for God. With division so deep within…

There Is Always More to Say
Honorable Mention
2016 Hollywood Book Festival

Lynda Young Spiro Soho 1984: Two people meet unexpectedly and their worlds are changed forever. The lives of the couple are chronicled through marriage, fleeting moments and snatched time together. There Is Always More To Say is a passionate account about a connection between two people that never ends.

37 Seconds
Honorable Mention
2016 Hollywood Book Festival

Stephanie Arnold The first near death experience written where intuition told her she was going to die months before she did. No one believed it would ultimately save her life.

Behind The Mask
Honorable Mention
2016 Hollywood Book Festival

Dana Ridenour An idealistic FBI agent working on her first undercover assignment becomes to close to one of the domestic terrorists she seeks to expose in this thrilling FBI crime novel.

Melting Bones
Honorable Mention
2016 Paris Book Festival

Julie A. Pujol Karel Free of Cancer after six surgeries, I could say that I felt melting away but of an incredible joy. Everything was beautiful, I was alive and I have a deep gratefulness for my family and friends. They were all part of my healing process, so much love could not be hidden…

The God Conception
Honorable Mention
2016 New York Book Festival

Anissa Clay When fifteen-year-old Delilah Danton undergoes an experimental procedure, she is able to see her future. After her mother dies and she is removed from her abusive father’s clutches, millionaire William Burns and his family adopt her and provide her with opportunities unavailable to her biological family. With this support, Delilah uses her natural…

Of Rats and Men
Honorable Mention
2016 New York Book Festival

Todor Bombov This is a really creepy book, right from the first page. I mean that as a compliment. Todor Bombov taps right into our deepest primal fears and then multiplies them by hundreds, thousands, millions. Rats the size of sheep?! One shudders at the thought, again and again. -Pamela Jaye Smith

A Flor de Piel
Runner-up
2016 Los Angeles Book Festival

Author:Julie A. Pujol Karel “A Flor de Piel” was born from my fight against Cancer. There was so much that I wanted to share, as the title say “Over my Skin”. I wrote of the wonder of true love, since I had friends and families expressing that sentiment through actions not just words. I became…

Secrets on Tobacco Road
Honorable Mention
2016 New York Book Festival

Danielle Siler The Devereux plantation on Tobacco Road is haunted by a lifetime of forbidden affairs, devious plots and secret blood ties that will bind three families in misery, deception and murder for generations to come. The story begins in New Orleans in the mid 1800s just before the Civil War. The patriarchs of two…