Full Results Listing by Category

Special Awards

Winner – Book Cover Design-Non-Fiction
Title: History Lessons:  A Memior of Madness, Memory, and the Brain
Author: Clifton Crais
Publisher: The Overlook Press

 

 

Winner – Book Cover Design-Fiction
Title: The Wilds
Author: Julia Elliott
Publisher: Tin House Books

 

 

 

Winner (Book Cover Design-Children Picture Books)
Title: Jasper John Dooley:  Not In Love
Author: Caroline Adderson
Illustastor:  Ben Clanton
Publisher: CreateSpace

 

 

 

Young Adult General

Winner – Young Adult
Title: Creepy Friends – Volume 1
Author: Ronnie Stich
Publisher:   Ronnie Stich

 

 

 

Finalist – Young Adult General 
Title: Twin River II-Have Weapons Will Travel
Author: Michael Fields
Publisher: iUniverse

 

 

 

 

Young Adult Fiction

Winner – Young Adult Fiction
Title: The Great Good Summer
Author: Liz Garton Scanlon
Publisher: Beach Lane Books

 

 

 

Finalist:  Young Adult Fiction 
Title: Wherever You Go
Author: Pat Zeitlow Miller
Illustrated: Eliza Wheeler
Publisher: Little Brown Books for Young Readers

 

 

Suspense

Winner – Suspense
Title: Aunt Dimity and the Summer King
Author: Nancy Artherton
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing

 

 

 

Finalist – Suspense
Title: Neighing with Fire
Author: Kathryn O’Sullivan
Publisher: Minotaur Books

 

 

 

 

Spirituality

Winner – Spirituality
Title: A Map of Heaven
Author: Eben Alexander M.D.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

 

 

 

Finalist – Spirituality
Title: Godspeak
Author: Larry Joseph, Sr.
Publisher: iUniverse

 

 

 

 

Short Stories

Winner – Short Stories
Title: Prism
Author: Roland Allnach
Publisher: All Things That Matter Press

 

 

 

Finalist – Short Stores
Title: Whimsey and Spice
Author: Isaac M. Flores
Publisher: iUniverse

 

 

 

 

Non-Fiction

Winner – Non-Fiction
Title: The Half Has Never Been Told
Author: Edward Baptist
Publisher:  Basic Books

 

 

 

Finalist – Non-Fiction
Title: The True American
Author:  Anand Giridharadas
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

 

 

 

 

 Self-Help

Winner – Self-Help
Title: Jewels of Truth
Author:  Ivan A. Pozo
Publisher: iUniverse

 

 

 

Finalist – Self-Help
Title:  Our Journey with Prostate Cancer
Author:    Judith Anne Desjardins  LCSW, BCD, MSWAC
Publisher: Spirit House Publishing

 

 

 

 

Science Fiction

Winner – Science Fiction
Title: Wolf
Author: Simon Inges
Publisher: Gollancz

 

 

 

Finalst – Science Fiction
Title:  Girl at Midnight
Author:  Melissa Grey
Publisher: Delacorte Press

 

 

 

 

Romance

Winner (Romance)
Title: Elle
Author: Emma Mars
Publisher: Harper Perennial

 

 

 

Finalist (Romance)
Title: Breaking Love
Author:  MJ Summers
Publisher:  Gretz Corp

 

 

 

 

Religion

Winner (Religion)
Title: Still Standing: On the Word of God
Author:  Sheila P.  Watkins
Publisher:  iUniverse

 

 

 

Finalist (Religion)
Title: The Second Coming of Jesus Christ
Author:   David L. Toney  
Publisher:  Westbow Press

 

 

 

 

Poetry

Winner (Poetry)
Title: Facing the Circle
Author: Carroll Blair
Publisher: Aveon Publishing

 

 

Finalist (Poetry)
Title: Inspirations  and Emotions
Author: Hunter Dan
Publisher: iUniverse

 

 

 

Health

Winner – Health
Title:  Get Me Through Tomorrow
Author:     Mojie Crigler
Publisher:  University of Nebraska Press

 

 

 

Finalist – Health
Title:  Don’t Tell Her to Relax
Author:  Zahie El Kouri
Publisher:   BookBoaby

 

 

 

 

Humor

Winner (Humor)
Title:   The Gullwing Odyssey
Author:   Antonio Simon, Jr.
Publisher:   Darkwater Syndicate, Inc

 

 

Finalist -Humor
Title:  So Complicated
Author:   Rumki Chowdhury
Publisher:  iUniverse

 

 

 

Historical Fiction

Winner (Historical Fiction)
Title: Anna’s Bear: 5 days of Moral Conflict and Pursuit, Nazi Germany, 1939
Author:  O.W. Shumaker
Publisher:  Amazon Digital

 

 

Finalist (Historical Fiction)
Title: ‘290’  A Novel of the American Civil War
Author:  Donn  Wonnell
Publisher:   Brail Books LC

 

 

 

New Fiction

Winner (New Fiction)
Title:  Saga of the Diver – Volume One: Skeletons
Author:  Holden Gerrig
Publisher:  HydraGaea Books

 

 

Finalist (New Fiction)
Title:  Deep Blue Saloon
Author: Thomas Courtney Click
Publisher:  Ten Speed Press

 

 

 

Occult Fiction

Winner (Occult Fiction)
Title:  A Child’s Guide to Heresy
Author:  Kendrew Lascelles
Publisher:  Amazon

 

 

 

Finalist (Occult Fiction)
Title:  Skullcap
Author:  Steve Burgauer
Publisher:  iUniverse

 

 

 

Fiction

Winner – Fiction
Title:  Still Life
Author:  Louise Penny
Publisher:  Minotaur Books

 

 

 

Finalist  – Fiction
Title:  Shaytan   
Author:  David S. Arthur
Publisher:   Brighton Publishing

 

 

 

Fantasy

Winner- Fantasy
Title:  Prairie Fire
Author:  E.K. Johnston
Publisher:  Carolrhoda Books

 

 

Finalist – Fantasy
Title:  The Queens and Kings of the Seas
Author:  P.  Kristen Enos
Publisher:  CreateSpace

 

 

 

Thriller

Winner  – Thriller
Title: Night Shadows: A Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD Mystery/Thriller
Author:  Theodore Jerome Cohen
Publisher:   TJC Press

 

 

 

Finalist – Thriller
Title: Death of a Guru
Author: Doug Greenall
Publisher: Zahlien Publishing

 

 

 

Psychiatry/Psychology

Winner – Psychiatry/Psychology
Title: Frozen Tears
Author: Margaret  Irving
Publisher: Amazon Digital

 

 

Finalist – Psychiatry/Psychology
Title:  Myself
Author:   Leigh Santoro
Publisher:  iUniverse

 

 

 

 

Christian Mystery Thriller

Winner – Christian Mystery Thriller
Title:  The Lost Prophet
Author:   James  B. McPike
Publisher:  CreateSpace

 

 

 

Finalist – Christian Mystery Thriller
Title:  A Most Unlikely Spy
Author:   Linda R. Rich
Publisher:  CreateSpace

 

 

 

 

Christian Fiction

Winner – Christian Fiction
Title:  The Deer Effect
Author:   Susan Wingate
Publisher:  CreateSpace

 

 

 

Finalist – Christian Fiction
Title:  Harmattan
Author:   Michael Jackson
Publisher:  Columbia University Press

 

 

 

 

Children’s Books

Winner – Children’s Book
Title:  The Sorrow of a Crescent Moon
Author:   J. Wagoner
Publisher:  CreateSpace

 

 

Finalist – Children’s Book
Title:  Super Fly:  The World’s Smallest Superhero!
Author:  Todd H. Doodler
Publisher:  CreateSpace

 

 

 

Children’s Picture Book 5 & Younger

Winner – Children’s Picture Book 5 & Younger
Title:  Winnie and the Red Winniebago
Author:  Lisa Domney
Publisher:  CreateSpace

 

 

Finalist – Children’s Picture Book 5 & Younger
Title:  The Little Parrot
Author:  M. Anu Narasimhan
Publisher:  Mascot Books

 

 

 

Children’s Picture Book 6 & Older

Winner – Children’s Picture Book 6 & Older
Title:  She Yelled…I Screamed: She Pulled My Hair
Author:  Tracy Leshay
Publisher:  again AGAIN Books

 

 

Finalist – Children’s Picture Book 6 & Older
Title:  Banana Chronicles
Author:  Timothy Bower
Publisher:  Fast Turtle Publishing

 

Business

Winner – Business
Title:  The Ultimate Guide to Consulting – In the Networked Age:  A Step-By-Step Guide to Starting Your Own Consulting Firm
Author:  John Watson
Publisher:  CreateSpace

 

 

 

Finalist – Business
Title:  Smart Money
Author:  Andrew Palmer
Publisher:  Basic Books

 

 

 

Biography

Winner – Biography
Title:  Kidnap in Crete
Author:  Rick Stroud
Publisher:   Bloomsbury USA

 

 

 

Finalist – Biography
Title:  The World Between Two Covers
Author:  Ann Morgan
Publisher:   Liveright