For 2015
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: Micheal 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
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
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
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 Book
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: Live right