Near Somewhere
Honorable mention
2015 Paris Book Festival

Author: Edward Cozza Actors, bartenders, doctors, musicians, writers, winemakers, & cads. Southern California,New York City. Connections with complications. Foreword by Chef Dean Fearing. Winner-Beverly Hills Book Awards-New Fiction.

Singular Acts of Endearment
Honorable mention
2015 San Francisco Book Festival

Author: Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé Singular Acts of Endearment is an epistolary novel, Jasmine Lee-Heschel’s correspondence dipping into ideas of illness and mortality, nature and literature, and all kinds of love from the edifying, tentative, furtive to ruinous. Described by Valerie Sayers as “utterly engrossing”, Frank Stewart has called it “narrative by a true storyteller”.

Nerve: a novel
Honorable mention
2015 Beach Book Festival

Author: S. R. Skelton Jesse fantasizes about living the romantic, beat life. He wants to travel the world and feel the wind of real adventure on his face. When he meets Maya, raised by nomadic hippies, he thinks he’s found a lifeboat to carry him from the dull to the sublime. He is thrilled when…

FRESH MEAT
Honorable mention
2015 San Francisco Book Festival

Author: B. Bentley Summers Three people tied together by a history of slavery, murder and torture are about to come together in an unexpected way: Old Soj, a woman with supernatural powers, psychopathic Warden E.J. Jones, and a teenage boy named Punk. Evil is coming face-to-face with evil.

Poetry In Motion
Honorable mention
2015 Paris Book Festival

Author: Gary Aleks Poetry In Motion contains selected poems pertaining to the intricacies of life, such as our common misconceptions about the world we live in, the darkest days of distress, and the path towards spiritual healing; leaving this world behind amidst the journey.

Tarzan Wore Chaps
Honorable mention
2015 Paris Book Festival

Author: Woody Barlow Tarzan Wore Chaps is a book for the young and the young at heart. Come romp dark alleys, and play hide-and-seek in a world before terrorism when children ruled the night.

Life’s Choices
Runner-up
2015 Paris Book Festival

Author: Paul Turk Carlos Delgado is an ex-inmate who faces a return to prison after being charged with a serious crime. Lourdes Castillo is 18,single and faces her own challenges after she discovers she is pregnant. How will each of them respond to the choices in their life?

Sex, Love and DNA
Winner
2015 Great Southeast Book Festival

Author: Peter Schattner Can 21st-century molecular biology answer age-old questions about the human experience? Written in language that anyone can understand,“Sex, Love and DNA” uses stories of people and animals to show how the amazing new world of molecular biology is revolutionizing our understanding of what it means to be human.

Blind Influence
Honorable mention
2015 Paris Book Festival

Author: Linda Riesenberg Fisler Nicole is blind to the circumstances which place her at the center deceit, murder, power plays and conspiracies. British Agent Sean Adkins is tracking a cold-blooded assassin: aka the Serpent. Sean will stop at nothing to get revenge. Senator Jenkins uncovers a conspiracy but will he reveal what he knows?

A Journey to Success
Honorable mention
2015 Paris Book Festival

Author: Sarah King Throughout her life Sarah has seen and experienced many emotionally turbulent situations and it made her think how we all affect each other . As her life unfolds magical help appears from a higher power that makes her realize there is more to life than she ever thought possible when growing up…