Andrea Harrison Caleb, a self-centered King Crab leader of the Shellfish does not want to face that his shellfish subjects are struggling to survive in the polluted ocean. He learns a valuable lesson about the importance of sharing and caring when his friends take up the cause to try and find a solution to heal…
Everything is an Event A Step-by-Step GuideHonorable mention
2025 San Francisco Book Festival
Marinda Freeman If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed when planning an event, extraordinary event planner Marinda Freeman is here to take you from feeling stressed and unprepared to at ease and confident as she shares the secrets to planning memorable events. This comprehensive guide is enriched with over 130 vibrant photographs and illustrations.
Karma Redirected: How Did They Let You Become a Teacher?Runner Up
2025 Los Angeles Book Festival
Mike Morris A series of tales chronicles Mo’s emergence into the world as well as his seemingly pointless meandering. After allowing the world to nurture and mold Mo’s meanness, a rotten kid blossoms, hated by teachers. In an ironic twist, Mo becomes a middle school teacher, and karma is transformed into mission.
The Ruthless DukeHonorable mention
2025 London Book Festival
Sandra Gharabaghli What are you willing to risk for love? Emma risks it all. Theirs was a love born in passion and forged in sacrifice. The Duke and Duchess are both spies but neither knows the other’s occupation. Emma creates an elaborate ruse to free her husband from a French dungeon.
You Are So Much More: Truths Shared by SpiritHonorable mention
2025 Los Angeles Book Festival
Laura Muchmore Chronicles the journey through the life of an ordinary woman who, in seeking to better understand herself, her relationships and her path, was provided a glimpse into realms beyond conventional understanding while in past life regression sessions. The messages received were not just for her, they were meant for all of humanity.
Endless Fall of NightWinner
2025 Los Angeles Book Festival
J. M. Erickson Based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the year is 2126, in an age of imperialism, classism, and capitalistic expansion where racism is commonplace, slavery exists, and a minority of people are in absolute power on Planet Earth and, if unchecked, will spread to the Martian colonies
BERunner Up
2025 London Book Festival
Will Espero BE is a collection of prose and poetry written over several decades. They embrace my experiences and journeys in a life filled with hope, dreams, love, heartache, achievement, success, and regret. BE is a poem in the book with a social message, as our world is transformed in historic ways.
The Undiscovered ShowmanWinner
2025 London Book Festival
Wayne b Olivieri A trip up the rock and roll ladder filled with advice, success, disappointment, betrayal, sex, drugs and encounters with top industry executives and celebrities, including a revealing 17 -year close friendship with one of the worlds biggest rock superstars.
Thunderstroke: A Poetry Memoir Inspired by a True StoryWinner
2025 Los Angeles Book Festival
Terence Ang A Poetic Triumph: Thunderstroke powerfully captures the emotional aftermath of a stroke through vivid, heartfelt poetry. Poetry is a work of art and this book is artfully written in a way that is brilliant
Blackbird BluesHonorable mention
2025 Los Angeles Book Festival
Jean K. Carney Set against the background of illegal abortion and child abandonment in the 1963 Chicago world of civil rights and interracial jazz, Mary Kaye O’Donnell, an eighteen-year-old Irish-American aspiring jazz singer, struggles with an unwanted pregnancy in light of her faith, her music, and her mentor Sister Michaeline’s 1940s diary.