Fighting for Justice
Honorable Mention
2023 Hollywood Book Festival

Paulette J. Buchanan Many religious frauds have severe mental illness, and many commit crimes against individuals and society. Why are so many crimes in general not prosecuted? Why don’t we have a functioning mental health system? How does this lawlessness affect each one of us? Fighting for Justice offers answers and solutions.

Benjamin Weiss and the Divine Prophecy
Runner-up
2023 Hollywood Book Festival

J.A. Robertson Benjamin, a twelve-year-old Jewish boy, writes a report on the case of the children who have been going missing from his hometown for sixty-five years. He and his two friends, Grady and Miriam, desperately hope to find and save the next victim.

Eleonora and Joseph. Passion,Tragedy, and Revolution in the Age of Enlightenment
Winner
2023 Hollywood Book Festival

Julieta Almeida Rodrigues As the novel opens, aristocratic Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel pleads with the High Court of Naples to be beheaded instead of hanged like a criminal. One of the leading revolutionaries of her time, Eleonora contributed to the establishment of the Neapolitan Republic, based on the ideals of the French Revolution. Imprisoned in 1799…

FALLING STARS
Runner-up
2023 San Francisco Book Festival

Julie Rogers Tommy Lucas needs a bone marrow transplant to live but believes he’s a vampire. His mom, June, is an oncologist. Tommy reads an e-zine about Claudius Fallon, a dhampyre seeking his own cure in 1939. The quest leads to an artist who struggles with his love for June—for he is Fallon.

Trail Magic: Lost in Crawford Notch
Honorable Mention
2023 Hollywood Book Festival

M.H. Sullivan A coming of age story about a teen babysitter, Angie Jackson, who loses her charge, 4-year-old Melanie, in the White Mountains wilderness of northern New Hampshire and discovers the meaning of community.

The Soul Machines
Honorable Mention
2023 Hollywood Book Festival

Alexandru Czimbor Be a Better Manager is a no-fluff actionable guide to transition into a supervisory role and become someone others clamor to follow. Three young men’s quiet lives are thrown into chaos when they discover a long-lost artifact that has a devastating effect on people’s minds. Murders, insanity, and suicide wreak havoc in the…

Be a Better Manager in Five Minutes a Day
Honorable Mention
2023 Hollywood Book Festival

Dominic McLoughlin Be a Better Manager is a no-fluff actionable guide to transition into a supervisory role and become someone others clamor to follow. In Be a Better Manager in 5 Minutes a Day, you’ll find: 10 methods for developing people to catapult the department from good to great 5 ways to grow communication that…

Bailey Speaks!
Winner
2023 San Francisco Book Festival

Mary Calvert Bailey Speaks! is for all children who are learning English! It is a delightful children’s story about a boy teaching his dog to talk with “golden nuggets” provided on each page for the parents to learn why each activity is important for their child’s expressive language development!

Gummy Worms for Fishing
Honorable Mention
2023 New York Book Festival

Chan Blue Mac and his twin sister Roni are affectionately named after, you guessed it, MacaRoni and cheese; one of my favorite southern cuisine! Mac and Roni are fraternal twins that are excited to have learned the fundamentals of reading. Now they read to learn about everything, especially in the sophomore release, Gummy Worms for…

Can You See If I’m A Bee?
Runner-up
2023 San Francisco Book Festival

Melissa Garrick Edwards Children learn all about bees in a rhyming, whimsical way. Informative about bees and other insects that mimic them. A playful way to teach why bees are important and what can save them from extinction.