Award
Winning!
These books have recently
won awards, and are especially
deserving of ongoing acclaim!
May 2025
Switching
Tracks: Out of the Trash by
Lena Gibson has won many awards:
2024
Reader's Favorite Awards Finalist – Adventure
2024
IndieReader Discovery Award Winner - Dystopian Fiction
2024
Maxy Awards Finalist - Sci-Fi & Fantasy
2024
PenCraft Fall Winner Science Fiction
2024
American Writing Awards-Finalist Science Fiction
2024
Best Book Awards Finalist - Science Fiction + Thriller/Adventure
2024
Eric Hoffer Awards: Montaigne Medal Finalist
2024
Eric Hoffer Awards: Honorable Mention eBook
2024
Eric Hoffer Awards: Grand Prize Shortlist
2023
Literary Titan Gold Award Winner
Read
our review in the March 2024 issue.
Gibson’s
The
Long Haul: Pursuit of Hope
won big, too::
2024
Reader's Favorite Awards Honorable Mention - Dystopia
2024
Literary Titan Gold Award Winner
2024
American Writing Awards Finalist - Science Fiction
Read
our review in the May 2024 issue.
Gibson’s
Aftermath:
Into the Unknown
won:
2024
Literary Titan Gold Award Winner
2024
American Writing Awards Finalist - New Age
Read
our review in the October 2024 issue.
Finally, her Rebels and Saints: Catching Freedom won the 2025 Literary Titan Gold.
April 2025
Shaken
by Jim Amber Chafin was
selected as a finalist for The Wishing Shelf Book Awards.
Read
our review in the March 2025 issue.
Out
of 591 fiction entrants,
George St. George’s
AI: Opening was the Grand
Prize Gold Award Winner.
Read
our review in the January 2025 issue.
Beautiful
and Terrible Things by S,M.
Stevens was named Best Literary Book of the Year by Indies Today on
February 12, and the Gold Winner in the LGBTQIA+ category of the 2024
Reader Views Reviewer’s Choice Awards.
Read
our review in the June 2024 issue.
Marika
Tatsumoto’s BLOSSOMS
ON A POISONED SEA received
Honorable Mention for the Freeman Book Awards.
Read
our review in the January 2025 issue.
March 2025
Chained
Birds by Carla Conti has
earned numerous awards
.
It’s a CIBA (Chanticleer International Book Awards) Nellie Bly Book
Awards Finalist.
.
A BestThrillers Magazine 2024 Book Awards Finalist.
.
An Independent Book Review 2024 Best Books We Read This Year winner
,
A December 2024 Literary Titan Silver Book Award Winner
Read our review in the November 2024 issue.
February 2025
The Adventures of Ruby Pi and The Aviation Girls: A Brief History of Flight, Nine Challenging YA Stories by Tom Durwood has earned a spot on the Bookworm’s annual “top ten best books of the year” in the category of historical fiction.
Read our review in the November 2024 issue.
Savanna’s Treasure by C. Behrens is now supported by a 3-page activity guide which has earned a Silver Medal in the 2015 Moonbeam Awards and is being marketed to libraries by the Self-e/Biblioboard (ebook version only).
Read our review in the December 2014 issue.
January 2025
Beautiful and Terrible Things by S.M. Stevens was a finalist in Shelf Unbound magazine’s 2024 Best Indie Book Competition. (Normally finalists and runners-up aren’t mentioned here; but considering that its editors only award one winner and five finalists across all genres, this is quite an honor.
Beautiful and Terrible Things also was a a finalist in the LGBTQ category of the 2024 American Writing Awards, won an Honorable Mention in the Fiction–Social Issues category of the Readers’ Favorite International Book Award Contest, and earned finalist ranking in the General Fiction category of the 2024 American Fiction Awards.
These are in addition to prior awards won and mentioned already in July 2024.
Read our review in the June 2024 issue.
December 2024
Dave J.
Andre’s Rem’s Chance won a Royal Palm Literary Award here
in Florida. It
garnered the Silver in its category, Blended Genre - Published.
Read our review in
the August 2024 issue.
Wayne L. Wilson’s
book The New Frontier was a 2024 medalist in the Moonbeam
Children’s Book awards in the category of Pre-Teen - Mature Issues.
November 2024
Kevin Chapman’s The Other
Murder won the Grand Prize in the CLUE Award competition
(Chanticleer Book Review) -- best mystery/thriller/suspense novel of 2023.
Read our review in
the October 2024 issue.
Leslie Rasmussen has
been exceptionally busy racking in awards for The Stories We Cannot Tell. NPR rated her novel The Book of the Day
in a recent interview. Additionally, she’s earned much acclaim:
2024 Next Generation
Indie Book Awards - FINALIST for Second Novel
2024 Reviewer's
Choice Awards - SILVER AWARD for General Fiction
Chanterelle Somerset
awards - SEMIFINALIST
Los Angeles Book
Festival awards - HONORABLE MENTION
Literary Titan
awards - GOLD MEDAL for Contemporary Fiction
Readers Favorite -
GOLD MEDAL for Realistic Fiction
Firebird Award –
FIRST PLACE in Women’s Fiction
Firebird Award –
FIRST PLACE in Friendship Fiction
Firebird Award -
SECOND PLACE in Women’s Issues and in Relationships
Read our review in
the October 2024 issue.
Wayne L. Wilson won a
silver medal from Moonbeam Children's Book Awards for his book The New Frontier.
October 2024
Bill Kovacs’s Reform the Kakistocracy received the 2021 Independent Press Award for Social/Political Change.
Read our review in the November 2020 issue.
August 2024
Carol E. Leutner’s Race Consciousness, A Personal and
Political Journey has won the prestigious 2024 New Generation
Indie Book Award in the
Memoir: History/Legacy category. This prize is given annually by
the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group, Inc.
Read our review in the December 2023 issue.
David Laszlo Conhaim’s All Man’s Land, 2nd Edition
was (in 2020, but awarded in 2021) the Finalist Best Novel in the Western
Writers of America Spur Awards and the “Maverick” Winner in the Will Rogers
Medallion Awards.
Read our review in the July 2024 issue.
A.L. Hawke’s Witch Mirror was given an Editor’s Choice
Award of Literary Excellence from Reader’s House in London, and printed in
Reader’s House Magazine, issue 44.
Read our review in the July 2024 issue.
Jeffrey Levin’s Deep Cover received a Literary Titan Gold
Book Award.
Read our review in the July 2024 issue.
Laurie Kaye’s Confessions of a Rock ‘n Roll Name-dropper is
a 2023 Writers Digest Award Winner.
July 2024
Rebecca Ann Nguyen’s
The 23rd Hero won a bronze medal Reader’s Choice Award for
Best Adult Book.
Read our review in
the June 2024 issue.
Read our review in the June 2024 issue.
May 2024
Tricia D. Wagner ‘s Sun Child of the Moor placed as an honorable mention in the YA
Fiction category within the Royal Dragonfly Book Awards, through Story
Monsters:
https://www.storymonstersbookawards.com/royal-dragonfly-winners/royal-2023
Read our review in the September 2023 issue.
Robert Emery’s Megastar was
chosen as a finalist in the Book Excellence Awards.
April 2024
Bruce Whitacre
(author of Good Housekeeping) had his
crown sonnet on the culture of violence win the
March 2024
Bill Harvey’s The
Message and Mind Magic:
Doorways into Higher Consciousness both won Silver Awards, and
his Pandemonium: Live to All Devices won the Bronze Award at the
International New Age Trade Show from the Coalition of Visionary Resources
(COVR).
Read our review of The Message in the April 2023
issue.
Virginia Watt’s Echoes
from the Hocker House won a
Bronze, the Feathered Quill Book Award.
December 2023
Bruce Whitacre's The
Elk in the Glade was a finalist in this year's Best Book Awards from
American Book Fest. It it also placed second in Contemporary Poetry at The
BookFest Spring 23.
Read our review in
the November 2023 issue.
Lynne Kolze's Please
Write won a Silver Medal from the Living Now Book Awards.
August
2023
Patrick Weil's The Mazatlan Showdown is a semi-finalist in the 2023 Adventure Writers Competition sponsored by the Clive Cussler family. The Mazatlan Showdown is now also a finalist for best action adventure in the 2023 Killer Nashville Claymore Award contest.
Read our review in the June 2023 issue.
Jody
Sharpe, author of the novella 20 Moon Rd. An Angel’s
Tale received First Place in the National Communications
Contest for NFPW (National
Federation of Press Women. .
Read our review in the July 2023 issue.
Jill MacLean's Arrows of Mercy has been nominated for the Whistler Independent Book Awards, sponsored by The Writers’ Union of Canada “to recognize excellence in Canadian self-publishing.”
Read our review in the July 2023 issue.
July
2023
Rob
Tucker's The Discontent of Mary Wenger,
Paper Dolls, Book 1 won the Somerset Chanticleer
fiction finalist award.
Read our review in
the April 2022 issue.
Mali Apple and Joe
Dunn's Wild Monogamy has won the
Independent
Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal: Sexuality/Relationships.
Read our review in
the June 2023 issue.
Linda Ulleseit's The River Remembers
has won two awards:
2023
BRONZE MEDAL
for Historical Fiction from Independent Publisher Book Awards
2023 FINALIST for
Multicultural Fiction from Next Generation Indie Book Awards
April
2023
A
Merry Life
by Sarah Bransonwas
the 2022 Indie Author Project (partnered with the Library Journal)
adult
fiction winner for the Connecticut region. It was also finalist in both
action/adventure and science fiction from the Independent Author
Network Book
of the Year 2022. And most recently it was named the winner in science
fiction
through the 2022 Kindle Book Awards and its cover was named
finalist.
Read
our review in
the May 2022 issue.
Create
Destruction
by Ryan A. Kovacs was nominated as a finalist for the 2022 Indies
Today novel competition and earned the 2023 Gold Literary Titan Award.
Read
our review in
the March 2022 issue.
Edgar winner Art Taylor's ingenious short story appearing in
Edgar
& Shamus Go Golden "The Invisible Band" has been
nominated
for an Agatha Award for best short story. The Agatha is conferred by
Malice
Domestic a literary society celebrating traditional mysteries.
Read
our review in
the March 2023 issue.
Hayley
Reese Chow's Odriel's Heirs was the winner of the
2020
Florida Author Project, a Literary Titan Gold Award Winner, a Wishing
Shelf
Book Award Finalist, and the 5th place finalist in the 2021 Book
Blogger Novel
of the Year Awards. The Gatekeeper of Pericael is
a B.R.A.G.
Medallion Honoree, a 2022 Book Blogger Novel of the Year Award
Semifinalist,
and 2021 Page Turner Finalist. .
March
2023
David
J. Muchow,
PLC's The 7 Secret Keys to Startup
Success won a Kirkus Star in January.
Read
our review in
the February 2023 issue.
Kaleb
Thompson's Peace
in the Midst of the Storm has earned numerous wards:
- New York Best Sellers
Award (Gold Medal Winner for
Religion and Spirituality)
-San
Francisco Book Festival Award (Honorable Mention for
Poetry)
-Los
Angeles Book Festival Award (Honorable Mention for
Poetry)
-Literary
Titan Book Award (Silver Medal Winner for Poetry)
-International
Book Award (Finalist for Religious Poetry)
-Global
Book Award (Finalist for Religion and Spirituality)
-American
Writing Awards (Finalist for Poetry and Spirituality-2
categories)
-Page
Turner Awards (Winner for Poetry)
-Royal
Dragonfly Award (1st place in the
ebook category of Religion and Spirituality)
-Firebird
Book Awards (2nd place for
Spirituality)
-Feathered Quill Book
Awards (2nd place for
Religion/Spiritual)
Read
our review in
the February 2023 issue.
February
2023
The
Historical
Fiction Company has chosen Bob Van Laerhoven's "The Shadow Of The
Mole" as the winner in the "Historical Literary" category of its
2022 HFC Book Of The Year contest.
Read
our review in
the August 2022 issue.
Saralyn
Richard's Bad Blood Sisters won the
silver medal
in the Readers Favorite contest in the category of Fiction-Intrigue,
and is
short-listed in the Chanticleer CLUE award contest.
Read
our review in
the March 2022 issue.
January
2023
Tom Durwood's Ruby Pi and the Geometry Girls received 5 stars and the “Highly Recommended” award of excellence from The Historical Fiction Company
His
Ruby Pi and the Math Girls received
4.5
stars from The Historical Fiction Company.
Read our reviews in
the December 2022 issue.
The
Lonely Toadstool
by Kristin
Addington Culpepper won the 5 Star Readers' Favorite Award.
Read
our review in
the December 2022 issue, and also note this book's appearance as the
December
Pick of the Month.
Fall
to Pieces
by Becky Flade won the 2022 RONE
Award for best thriller/suspense.
December
2022
Michael
J. Bowler's Shifter won a 2022 Gold
Medal from
Readers’ Favorite.
Read
our review in
the May 2022 issue.
His
I Know When
You're Going to Die won a Gold Medal in the Thriller category from
Readers’
Favorite in 2020.
Read our review in the February 2020 issue.
Angel
A. has been
busy garnering a host of awards for Mary
Poser. These include:
2017
Foreword
Reviews Indies Book of the Year Award Finalist
2018
American
Fiction Awards Winner.
2018
Best Book
Awards Winner
2018
NYC Big Book
Award Winner
2018
International
Book of the Year Finalist
2018
Paris Book
Festival Runner-Up.
2018
Readers'
Favorite Finalist
2018
Independent
Author Network Book of the year Finalist
2018
London Book
Festival Honorable Mention
2018
BookViral
Millennium Book Awards Long List
2018
New Apple Book
Awards Official Selection
2018
Body, Mind,
Spirit Book Awards winner
2019
Independent
Press Award winner
2019
New York Book
Festival winner
Read
our review in
the September 2017 issue.
Zoe
Tasia's Kilts and Catnip was a
finalist for the
2019 National Readers’ Choice Awards and a semi-finalist for the 2019
Ozma Book
Awards.
Read
our review in
the March 2019 issue.
Bob Van Laerhoven's The
Shadow of the Mole is a
finalist in the Best Thriller
Awards 2022, Historical Fiction category, from BestThrillers.com.
November
2022
Ellen
Dee Davidson's WIND
just won a 4th award! 2022 Moonbeam Silver for pre-teen fiction (along
with
Readers’Favorite Gold, Mom’s Choice Gold, and Readers Choice Silver.
Read
our review in the March 2022 issue.
Deirdre
Fagan's Find a
Place for Me won bronze in the 2022 Living Now Awards aging/death and
dying
category: https://livingnowawards.com/158/2022-medalists.
Read
our review in the October 2022 issue.
Debra
Westgate-Silva's Bethlehem
Barn is a bronze medal recipient in the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards.
September
2022
Tammy's
Toolbox's Dusty
and Friends Coloring and Activity Book is a
recipient of the prestigious Mom's
Choice Awards® (MCA).
Dusty
and Friends is also the proud recipient of
two first-place awards in the 2022 Purple Dragonfly Children's
Book Awards.
Read
our review in the August 2022 issue.
Will Pepper's You Will
Know Vengeance is currently a nominee for Best Thriller -
Outstanding
Creator Awards. Previously, it won 3rd place in the Best First Chapter
Contest
(9 Minute Book Reviews) and was awarded Finalist in the Readers' Choice
Book
Awards.
August
2022
Read our review in the May 2022 issue.
June
2022
Read our review in the March 2022 issue.
May
2022
The
First Unibear by
Kathleen J. Shields has won a Pinnacle Book
Achievement Award
as well as the Red Ribbon Award from the Wishing Shelf Book Awards UK.
Read our review in
the April 2022 issue.
The
Essence of
Nathan Riddle by
debut author J.
William Lewis has been named among the winners of this year’s Feathered
Quill
Book Awards, sponsored by Feathered Quill Book Reviews, a preeminent
online
book review. It was awarded the Silver Medal in the Adult Fiction
category of
the 2022 Feathered Quill Book Awards.
Read
our review in the June 2021 issue.
Valentine
to Faith by
Victoria Foyt has
won the Reader Views' Literary Awards Gold Medal in the Romance
category and
the Readers' Favorite Silver Medal in the Romance - Contemporary
category, and
is currently a finalist in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards.
Read
our review in the March 2022 issue.
March
2022
Pride’s
Children:
PURGATORY by
Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt was named the 2021 Best Contemporary
Book.
Read
our review in the April 2018 issue.
Prince
Ewald the
Brave by
Dylan Madeley received the 2021 Distinguished Favorite
mention at the NYC Big Book Awards.
Read
our review in the February 2022 issue.
Under
the Elm by
Richard Flanders
was a ’Finalist’’ in the memoir/autobiography category for
2021 for the
American Writing Awards.
Read
our review in the March 2022 issue.
Under
the Elm by
Richard Flanders
was a ’Finalist’’ in the memoir/autobiography category for
2021 for the
American Writing Awards.
Read
our review in the March 2022 issue.
Bob Van Laerhoven's Alejandro's
Lie was
awarded Best Political Thriller of The
Year in the Best Thriller Book Awards from bestthriller.com in November
2021.
February
2022
Still
the Night Call by
Josh Senter was named "one of their BEST
INDIE BOOKS of 2021” by Kirkus Reviews.
Read
our review in
the January 2022 issue.
Lisa
Towles' Hot House won a GOLD
Literary Titan
Award.
Read our review in
the January 2022 issue.
War
in the Mountains
by Jimmy Askew
received a "Starred Review" in BlueInk Reviews.
January
2022
Life
Rolls Along
by Linda
Nielsen received the Hollywood Book Review Excellent Merit
Award and a
Readers Favorite 5 Star Review from Readers' Choice.
Read
our review in the December 2021
issue.
Ann
Grayson's Gotham Kitty received
the Silver Book Award in 2021 from The
Literary Titan Book Awards.
Read
our review in the December 2021
issue.
Ian
Conrey's Haeland's
Ballad received a gold medal from Literary Titan for
the month of
December.
Read
our review in the December 2021
issue.
Danielle
de Valera's Those
Brisbane Romantics was a runner-up in the Australian
nationwide competition, The Xavier Society Literary Award, in
1967. Later
drafts were shortlisted for the Varuna/Byron
Bay Writers' Festival
Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2011, and internationally for the
University of
Exeter's Impress prize in 2012.
December 2021
Barbara King's The Apple King won the CT Author Project award for adult fiction, sponsored by the Indie Author Project.
Read our review in the May 2021 issue.
Lori
Robbins' Murder
in Second Position
won the Next Generation Indie Award for Best Mystery, was a finalist
for a Silver Falchion, and is currently on the short list for a
Mystery & Mayhem Book Award.
Her
previous book, Lesson
Plan for Murder,
won the Silver Falchion for Best Cozy Mystery.
Read
our review for Murder
in Second Position
in the November 2021 issue.
Read our review of Lesson Plan for Murder in the November 2017 issue.
Nico Griffith's Pandora's Lockbox was the Creative Nonfiction Winner in TCK Publishing's Short Story Awards, 2021.
Read our review of Pandora's Lockbox in the November 2021 issue.
Leonard Krishtalka's The Camel Driver was named one of the "14 best crime, mystery and thriller books of November 2020" by Mystery Tribune magazine (November 2020 issue).
Read our review of The Camel Driver in the December 2021 issue.
His book The Body on the Bed was named as one of the "15 best crime, mystery and thriller books of September 2021" by Mystery Tribune (September, 2021 issue).
Read our review of The Body on the Bed in the September 2021 issue.
November
2021
Kayla
Lowe's OF LOVE
AND DECEPTION won a Gold Award in the New Adult Fiction category of Dan
Poynter’s Global Ebook Awards.
October
2021
Irene
Wittig's ALL
THAT LINGERS was awarded a Silver Medal for Historical
Fiction, 2021
Global Book Awards, and Honorable Mention, Kops-Fetherling
International
Book Awards 2021.
Read
our review of All
That Lingers in
the September
2020 issue.
Her
THE BEST THING
ABOUT BENNETT was chosen as a Discovery book by Reedsy, and was given 5
star
reviews by Reedsy and Readers Favorite.
Read our review of The Best Thing About Bennett in the September 2021 issue.
Loretta Goldberg's The
Reversible Mask was
a Finalist in the 2021 National Indie
Excellence Book Awards and was Recommended by the US Review of Books
Read our review of The Reversible Mask in the September 2021 issue.
Charlotte Stuart's Shopping
Can Be
Deadly made
the long list for the Chanticleer Mystery and Mayhem
contest.
Read our review of Shopping Can Be Deadly in the September 2021 issue.
September 2021
Bill
Amatneek's Heart
of a Man won
the BAIPA Cover Design Contest in
January 2021:
https://baipa.org/bill-amatneeks-heart-of-a-man-mens-stories-for-women-win-baipa-cover-design-contest/
Read our review of Heart of a Man
in the August 2021 issue.
Maria
Ereni Dampman's
The Governor's Daughter was
just
awarded the Literary Titan Gold Award, their highest
award for
excellence.
Read our review of The Governor's Daughter in the August 2021 issue.
Arthur Hoyle's Mavericks,
Mystics and Misfits was a Finalist in the 2020 National
Indie Excellence
Book Awards.
Read our review of Mavericks, Mystics and Misfits in the August 2021 issue.
August
2021
Jenny Jaeckel's Boy, Falling was a finalist in Historical Fiction in the 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Our review of Boy, Falling appears in the July 2021 issue.Judith
Krischt's End of the Race was a
finalist (best in
category) for the Chanticleer reviews' Somerset Award for
Literary/Mainstream
fiction, 2020. The the Chanticleer Somerset Award results are
here: https://www.chantireviews.com/2020/10/01/somerset-book-awards-for-the-best-contemporary-and-literary-novels-2019
Rain
Story's Guns
& God: Lines in the Sand won Finalist in the Crime
Fiction genre in the
National Indie Excellence Awards. Here is the link: https://www.indieexcellence.com/15th-annual-finalists
Our review of Guns & God: Lines in the Sand appears in the July 2021 issue.
July
2021
Tushar Choksi's Piercing
Human Experience won the 15th
Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards
(NIEA) in philosophy. Look under the philosophy section
for the mention
here:
15th
Annual Winners | National Indie Excellence Awards | California
Our review of Piercing
Human Experience appears in the
April 2021 issue.
Sandra
Montanino's The Weight of Salt has
been racking up the book awards, the
latest being a silver award from the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Read our review
in the December 2020 issue!
June
2021
M.S.P.
Williams' Listen
Mama won the ReaderViews, 2021 Reviewer's Choice Silver Award
as seen here:
https://readerviewsarchives.wordpress.com/2021/01/07/reviewwilliamslistenmama/
Read
our review in the May 2021 issue.
May
2021
Cam Lang's The Concrete Vineyard won a gold award from Literary Titan (https://literarytitan.com/2021/04/02/literary-titan-book-awards-april-2021/).
Read our review of her book in the April 2021 issue.
Harry
Old, author of Operation Bluebird, won a Literary
Titan Gold
Award.
Read
our review of his book in the April 2021 issue.
April 2021
Phillip B.
Chute's book Stocks, Bonds & Taxes recently
won the 2021 Informational
Category in Feathered Quills Book Awards https://featheredquill.com/feathered-quill-book-awards-2021-winners/and
the 2020 Non-Fiction winner of N.N. Light's Book Heaven Book Award https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/post/2020-nnlight-book-award-winners.
He also was recently added to Book Authorities list of beginner tax law
books. https://bookauthority.org/books/beginner-tax-law-books
Read our review
of Stocks,
Bonds & Taxes in
the November 2020 issue.
James Hockenberry's Send the Word won first place (for action) in the Book Excellence Awards; it is short listed in Chanticleer Book Contest (Historical Fiction, post 1750 - haven't heard further), and it won a gold in the Elite Choice Awards.
Read our review
of Send
the Word in the
April 2021 issue.
March 2021
A.G. Russo's Only Our Destiny has been selected as a finalist for the New York City Book Awards.
Read our review of Only Our Destiny in the August 2020 issue.
February 2021
Sherry V. Ostroff's Caledonia has won two awards so far: the Indie Diamond Book Award - First Place Adult Fiction and the IndieBrag Medallion Award. The book also has made it to the Long List for the Chaucer Award for pre-1750 historical hovels .
Read our review of Caledonia in the June 2019 issue.
January 2021
Said Hasyim's Have a Peak At This won several awards. It was the winner of Best Book Award 2020 in Health - Alternative Medicine and the Silver award winner of Literary Titan Book Awards, 2020.
Read our review in the December 2020 issue.
December 2020
C. G. Fewston's Little Hometown, America won several awards: it was the GOLD Winner in the 2020 Human Relations Indie Book Awards for Contemporary Realistic Fiction, and the FINALIST in the SOUTHWEST REGIONAL FICTION category of the 14th Annual National Indie Excellence 2020 Awards (NIEA)
Read our review in the November 2020 issue.
Reform the Kakistocracy by Wiliam Kovacs won the Bronze award given by the Nonfiction Book Awards given out by the Nonfiction Authors Association (https://nonfictionauthorsassociation.com/reform-the-kakistocracy/).
Read our review in the November 2020 issue.
PINTO!-Based Upon the True Story of the Longest Horseback Ride in History by Margie Evans has been busy earning numerous awards:
Book Excellence Award - 1st Place
Purple Dragonfly Award - 1st Place
Chanticleer Book Awards, Gertrude Warner Middle-Grade Award - 1st Place in Category
Equus Film and Arts Festival - Winner
American Fiction Awards - Finalist
Eric Hoffer Awards - Finalist
Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Finalist
Feathered Quill Book Awards - Bronze Medal
Readers' Favorite Book Awards - Bronze Medal
Read our review in the December 2019 issue.
November 2020
Julie Gianellloni Connor's Savoring the Camino de Santiago won an eLit silver medal in the travel category. The award judges the overall excellence of the book. The cover was awarded a gold star for excellence in the July contest held by The Book Designer website.
Read our review in the November 2020 issue.
Susan Miura's Signs in the Dark won a bronze medal in the Young Adult Fiction category of the Readers' Favorite 2020 awards
Read our review in the November 2020 issue.
Khawaja Azimuddin M.D. earned two acclaims for his book The Boy Refugee:
Houston Chronicle: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Carrasco-A-tale-of-resilience-on-World-Refugee-15353532.php
The Asia Society: https://asiasociety.org/texas/houston-author-spotlight-dr-khawaja-azimuddin
Read our review in the November 2020 issue.
October 2020
Mary Choy and Michele Kaufman's Healthcare Heroes: The Medical Careers Guide won a Silver Medal in the 2020 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards in the Non-Fiction: Occupational category: https://readersfavorite.com/2020-award-contest-winners.htm#healthcare-heroes
It was also named a 2020 International Book Awards Finalist in the categories of Young Adult: Nonfiction and Business: Careers: http://www.internationalbookawards.com/2020awardannouncement.html
Read our review in the September 2019 issue: Healthcare Heroes .
Irene
Wittig's All
That Lingers
was chosen as one of the Best Indie Books of September by Kirkus.
They awarded her a Starred Review as well:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/best-indie-books-september/#all-that-lingers
Read our review in the September 2019 issue: All That Lingers .
September 2020
Michael
Polelle's The Mithras Conspiracy, was moved up
from semi-finalist to the finalist category in the mystery genre of the
Royal
Palm Literary Award Competition sponsored by the
http://www.internationalbookawards.com/2020awardannouncement.html
Heather
Siegel's The King & The Quirky won first place in
the Women’s Issue category of The Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
The
King & The Quirky
July
2020
A
A Freda's Sam and James: A Test of Will
was named best thriller of 2020 by
Pacific Book Review.
Sam
and
James: A Test of Will
June 2020
Linda Naseem's Eden was a Gold Winner in the 2018 Human Relations Indie Book Awards in the category "Historical Realistic Fiction." It was also a 2018 Finalist in the Drunken Druid Book Awards.
Read our review in the May 2020 issue.
M.J. Polelle's The Mithras Conspiracy won a 2020 Eric Hoffer Book Award Gold Seal for Category Finalist.
Read our review in the December 2019 issue.
Geraldine Brown Giomblanco's memoir Geraldina & the Compass Rose has earned a number of awards this spring:
2020
Winner - Romance - Eric Hoffer Awards
2020
Winner - First Horizon - Eric Hoffer Awards
2020
Finalist - Inspirational - Next Generation
Indie
Awards
2020
Finalist - Relationships - Next Generation Indie
Awards
2020
Finalist - Romance - Next Generation Indie Awards
2020 Grand
Prize Short List - Eric Hoffer Book Awards
Read our review in the December 2019 issue.
May 2020
Cynthia Greenwood's Deciphering Shakespeare's Plays won a first prize (Gold) award for Reference last June, from Foreword INDIE book reviews:
Read our review in the April 2020 issue.
February 2020
Nancy
Cohen's Writing the Cozy Mystery: Expanded Second Edition has earned
the following awards:
Gold
Award Winner in the Royal Palm Literary Awards
Gold
Medal Winner in the President's Book Awards
First
Place Winner in TopShelf
Magazine
Book Awards
Agatha
Awards Finalist
Finalist
in the IAN Book of the Year Awards
Murder
on the Beach Mystery Bookstore Bestseller List
Website:
https://nancyjcohen.com/writing-the-cozy-mystery-expanded-second-edition/
Read our review in the October 2018 issue.
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Keith
Steinbaum's You
Say Goodbye
has enjoyed the following accolades and awards:
FINALIST
in the international Book Excellence Awards competition
2020
TopShelf Book Awards nominee
HONORABLE
MENTION (top 8 placing among hundreds of entrants in the mystery
category) - for the international Readers Favorite competition
Top
5 star review - Readers Favorite
Top
4 star review - OnlineBookClub.org
Read
our review in the January 2020 issue.
* * *
Yancey
Williams's The
Resurrection of Jesus
has been chosen by The Book Bag, UK as one of their top ten published
authors:
Top
Ten Self-Published Books of 2019
http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=Top_Ten_Self-Published_Books_2019
July 2019
Andy
Wolfendons FISHERMANS COURT won first place in the 2018 Novel Opening
Chapter & Synopsis Competition, an international contest
run out of the UK by
Flash500. It was also an Editor’s Choice from Best Thrillers and Indie
Reader and a
winner of a 5-star silver seal from Readers’ Favorite.
Read our review in the August 2019 issue.
Linda Yoshida's HIGH FLYING won First Place for Suspense in the 2019 Independent Press Award.
Read our review in the July 2019 issue.
June 2019
Alan Kessler's The Butcher has received some award recognition: a semi-finalist in the 2018 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition and a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Montaigne medal given to the most thought provoking book.
Read our review in the May 2019 issue.
August 2018
Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher always loved New York. Last week, at the Awards Ceremony for the New York Book Festival, New York showed that it loves Debbie and Carrie, too. BEST BIOGRAPHY New York Book Festival, 2018.
Read our review in the June 2018 issue, of Danford Prince and Darwin Porter's Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds.
July
2018
All three Coin of Rulve books by Veronica Dale (Blood Seed, Dark Twin, and Time Candle) won the five-star silver seal from Readers' Favorite Book Review.
Read our review of Blood Seed in the February 2016 issue, here: Blood Seed: Coin of Rulve Book One
Read our review of Dark Twin in the January 2017 issue, here Dark Twin
Read our review of Time Candle in the February 2018 issue, here Time Candle
February 2018
Rose Stiffin's third novel, Groovin on the Half Shell, got HM in London International Book Festival.
Read our review of her book in the November 2017 issue, here: Groovin' on the Half Shell
Margie Kaptanoglu's Dreadmarrow Thief was a Novel-in-Progress Semi-finalist for the 2017 William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competitionl.
Read our review of her book in the January 2018 issue, here: Dreadmarrow Thief
Miantae Metcalf McConnell's Deliverance Mary Fields was featured as one of the Best New Books 2018 in O, The Oprah Magazine (http://www.oprah.com/book/best-new-books-january-2018-deliverance-mary-fields#ixzz54PHfaSjV).
Read our review of her book in the December 2016 issue, here:
Deliverance Mary Fields, First African American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier in the United States: A Montana History
THE NEW HUMANS, by futurist-visionary Charol Messenger, was the winner in the "Spiritual Awakening of Humanity" category of the 2017 Soul-Bridge Body-Mind-Spirit Book Awards of Europe.
Read our review of Charol's book, here: THE NEW HUMANS: Second Genesis
January 2018
Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince's book Rock Hudson Erotic Fire was designated, in November 2017, as BEST BIOGRAPHY from the 2017 Northern California Book Festival, and BEST BIOGRAPHY from the 2017 Southern California Book Festival.
Read our review of their book in the January 2018 issue.
December 2017
Charol Messenger's book THE NEW HUMANS: Second Genesis (Book 2 "The New Humanity" Series) won second place (the sole finalist) in the in the "body mind spirit," category of Book Excellence Awards in October, 2017. In 2016 her series also won international acclaim: First Place Winner - YOU 2.0 in personal growth and self-development, Second Place - Humanity 2.0 in spirituality (Book 1 "The New Humanity" Series, fourth award), and Second Place - The Power of Courage: My Story of Abuse in new nonfiction.
Read our reviews of her books:
The Power of Courage: An Uplifting Saga of Moving Beyond Abuse
Humanity 2.0: The Transcension
September 2017
Christina M. Pages has won the prestigious Eloquent Quill Award and the Gold Award from Children's Literary Classics for her children's novel Lucy in her Secret Wood.
Read the review of Lucy in her Secret Wood in our August 2017 issue, here:
John Arvai Off the Hook: A Christmas Ornament Adventure has won two honors: it was the Silver Medal Winner, Readers' Favorite International Book Contest, 2017 and also won the NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, 2017. It's really racking up the awards and mentions, winning the Grand Prize at the Holiday Book Festival, 2017; the National Indie Excellence Awards, 2017; Honorable Mentions as Foreword's INDIES Book Of The Year, 2016, at the Los Angeles Book Festival, 2017 and again at the Hollywood Book Festival, 2017; and enjoying 5 Stars as a Readers' Favorite, 2016.Read
the review of Off
the Hook in our
September 2017 issue, here:
Off
the Hook: A Christmas
Ornament Adventure
August 2017
Two books written by Danforth Prince and Darwin Porter have each won first place book awards. Lana Turner: Hearts and Diamonds Take All has won the Best Biography at the Beach Book festival, and in June of 2017, the judges at the San Francisco Book Festival honored Blood Moon’s overview of Lana Turner with the award of Best Biography, as well. Donald Trump: The Man Who Would Be King won Best Biography at the New York Book Festival. Previous honors bestowed in this book include wins from the both the Florida and California Book Festivals, each of which designated this as their respective “Best Biography of the Year.
Read the review of Donald Trump in our October 2016 issue, here:
Read the review of Lana Turner in our Biography section in the June 2017 issue here:
Biography & AutoBiography
Understanding the Alacran By Jonathan LaPoma is a finalist in the 2017 Florida Authors and Publishers Association President's Awards (contemporary/literary category).
Read the review of Dunderstanding the Alacran here:
Bette
Lee Crosby's book Silver
Threads won
the 2017 Indie Reader Next Generation Discovery Gold Medal for Chick
Lit and also won the 2017 International Book Award for Women's
Fiction/Chick Lit.
Read the review of Silver Threads here:
July 2017
Kathleen Dooler's book THE HOOK: Surfing to Survive a Shattered Family, Drugs, Gangs and the FBI is a finalist for the action-adventure category of the 11th annual National Indie Excellence Awards:
https://www.indieexcellence.com/11th-annual-finalists
Read
the review of Doler's book, here:
THE
HOOK: Surfing to Survive a Shattered Family, Drugs, Gangs and the
FBI
Miantae Metcalf McConnell's Deliverance Mary Fields, First African American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier in the United States: A Montana History is a finalist in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards, in the U.K.; the Adult Nonfiction Category:
https://www.thewsa.co.uk/finalists2016/
Read
the review of McConnell's book, here:
Deliverance
Mary Fields, First African American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier in
the United States: A Montana History
June
2017
Write to
Influence! By
Carla D.
Bass has been recognized as a Finalist (Career category) in the Next
Generation Indie Book Awards.
http://www.indiebookawards.com/
Read the review of Carla D. Bass's book, here:
May 2017
The Miller Family's book Soldier's Stories: A Collection of WWII Memoirs received the 2017 Ella Dickey Literacy Award.
The Ella Dickey Literacy Award is presented annually in honor of Marshfield’s first librarian, Ella Dickey. Dickey served in this capacity for over 50 years. The award honors national authors who have contributed to the preservation of history and was first presented in 2002 by the Webster County Literacy Council.
http://www.cherryblossomfest.com/WordPress/?page_id=310
Read the review of The Miller Family's book, here:
Soldier's Stories: A Collection of WWII Memoirs
Read the review of Death on Canvas, here:
January 2017
Rene Pineda's book THE ILLITERATE INVESTOR received the Canada Book Award 2016. The Canada Book Awards program recognizes and promotes Canadian author outstanding accomplishment. The Canada Book Awards is an ongoing book assessment program that honours Canadian authors regardless of when their books and/or eBooks were published.
Read the review of Rene Pineda's book, here: The Illiterate Investor
November 2016
1. Charol Messenger's books YOU 2.0, THE POWER OF COURAGE, and HUMANITY 2.0 have each received Book Excellence Awards. You 2.0: Higher Self Consciousness (Living Your Infinite Self) is a global winner in the category Personal Growth (one winner, one finalist, per category); The Power of Courage: An Uplifting Saga of Moving Beyond Abuse is the one finalist (i.e., 2nd place), globally, in the category 'New Nonfiction'; and Humanity 2.0: The New Humanity (expanded edition: The Transcension) is the one finalist" (i.e., 2nd place) in the category Spirituality.
https://www.
https://
Read the review of Charol Messenger's book, here: The Power of Courage: An Uplifting Saga of Moving Beyond Abuse
Read the review of Charol Messenger's book, here: Humanity 2.0: The Transcension
2. Darwin
Porter and Danforth Prince's Donald Trump:
The Man Who Would Be King, was the
runner up in the Southern
California Book Festival's 'Biography/Autobiography' contest.
www.
September 2016
1. Andrew
Diamond’s IMPALA has been named by Amazon as one of the top 10
mystery/thrillers of Sept, 2016:
amzn.to/2bM4w10
Read the review of Andrew Diamond’s book, here: Impala
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Nina Norstroms NOT A BLUEPRINT has beenhonored as an “Award-Winning Finalist” in the Self-Improvement: Relationships category of the 2016 Bookvana Awards, from a field of hundreds of authors and publishers.:
http://www.bookvana.com/2016awardannouncement.html
Read the review of Nina Nordstrom’s book, here: Not a Blueprint / It's the Shoe Prints that Matter
June 2016
Kenneth Eade's KILLER.COM has won "best legal thriller" in the 2016 Beverly Hills Book Awards:
http://www.beverlyhillsbookawards.com/4th-BHBA-Winners-and-Finalists.htm
May 2016
1. Neil Hansons PILGRIM WHEELS has won five awards:
· FIRST PLACE – Independent Publisher Living Now Book Awards
· WINNER – National Indie Excellence Book Awards
· SILVER HONOREE – Benjamin Franklin Digital Award
· SECOND PLACE – Great Southwest Book Festival
· SECOND PLACE – CIPA EVVY Awards
Read the review of Neil Hanson's book, here: Pilgrim Wheels
January 2016
http://www.newenglandbookfestival.com/winners2015.html
Read the review of Michael Bowler’s book, here:
November
2015
1. Jonathan LaPoma’s Developing Minds is a first place winner in the 2015 Stargazer Literary Prizes in the Visionary and Metaphysical Fiction category:
http://blog.
Read the review of Jonathan LaPoma’s book, here:
2. Janet Shawgo's Find Me Again won three awards at the Chanticleer Book Awards in Bellingham WA. First place Mystery/Mayhem Romance, First place Chatelaine Romance blended genre and Grand Prize winner Chatelaine Category for Romance.
Links:
http://www.
http://www.indiebookawards.
Read the review of Janet Shawgo's book, here:
October 2015
1. Jonathan LaPoma’s Developing Minds is a finalist in the 2015 Stargazer Literary Prizes in the Visionary and Metaphysical Fiction category:
2. Lynn Dempsey’s Colors! Take the Dog Out and Numbers! Take the Dog Out won Honorable Mention in the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards:
https://readersfavorite.com/
Numbers! was also a Finalist in the 2015 International Book Awards:
http://www.
3. Two of Vadim Babenko’s books won the Indie Excellence Awards this year: Semmant got the Science Fiction award, and A Simple Soul received the most prestigious Fiction-General award:
http://www.indieexcellence.
Read the review of Vadim Babenko’s book here: Semmant
4. Kerry Dunnington’s Tasting the Seasons won several awards:
The
Benjamin Franklin award - best new redesign
The Eric Hoffer award - finalist in the general cookbook category
The National Indie book award - winner in the general cookbook category
The Green Book Festival award - honoring books that contribute to
greater
understanding, respect for and positive action on changing worldwide
environment.
Read
the review of Kerry Dunnington’s book Tasting
the Seasons on our Culinary Reviews page, second
down:
http://
5. Jeanne A. Jackson and photographer Craig Tooley’s Mendonoma: Sightings Throughout the Year has also won numerous awards:
Indie
Excellence Gold Award: http://indieexcellence.com/
Benjamin
Franklin Silver Award: http://www.ibpa-online.org/
Independent
Publishers Bronze Award: http://www.
Read the review, here: Mendonoma Sightings Throughout the Year
6. High on Low: Harnessing the Power of Unhappiness by Wilhelm Schmid has also won two awards: the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award for Self Help and the 2015 Living Now Book Award for Personal Growth:
2015 Living Now Book Award for Personal Growth
September 2015
1. Chris Madsen’s Rowdy has won several awards!:
Non Fiction Book Awards - Gold Medal Award Winner 4/15/2015
http://
IndieReader
Discovery - Award Winner Biography
5/6/2015
http://indiereader.com/irda/?
Clemens Medal
Recipient, from Association of Independent Authors
8/11/2015
https://www.facebook.com/
International Book Awards - Biography, Award Winning Finalist 5/21/2015
http://www.
Next
Generation Indie Book Awards
- Biography, Award Winning Finalist
5/7/2015
http://www.indiebookawards.
San
Francisco Book Festival
- Biography, Award Winning
Honorable Mention 5/13/2015
http://
New York Book Festival – Biography, Award Winning Honorable Mention 6/10/2015
http://newyorkbookfest.
Read the review of Chris Madsen’s book, here: Rowdy
2.
Michelle B.
Assor’s SNAYGILL:
Slithery Temptations is
a finalist in the category of Juvenile
Fiction in the 9th Annual 2015 National Indie Excellence® Awards
!: http://www.indieexcellence.
Read the review of Michelle Assor’s book, here: Snaygill: Slithery Temptations
August 2015
1. Karen Solomon’s Hearts Beneath the Badge has won several awards!:
2015
Non-Fiction Book of the Year - National Indie Excellence
Awards
http://www.indieexcellence.com/indie-results-2015-winners.htm
2015 Third Place Non-Fiction Book of the Year - American Public Safety Writers:
http://policewriter.com/wordpress/writing-competition-results-archive/
Read the review of Karen Solomon’s book, here: Hearts Beneath the Badge
2. William Peake’s The Oblate’s Confession has won four national awards!:
A silver award in the Benjamin Franklin Awards for "Best New Voice: Fiction
A National Indie Excellence Award in the category "Religion: Fiction
A second place finish (Catholic Novel category)
And a third place (First Time Author of a Book category) in the Catholic Press Association's Book Awards
Read the review of William Peake’s book, here: The Oblate's Confession
3. William Andrews’ Daughters Of The Dragon - A Comfort Woman's Story was atop Amazon's bestseller list for historical fiction/Japan for many weeks. Over 50k sold and still selling.
Read all about his award, here: http://www.indieexcellence.com/indie-results-2015-winners.htm The category is historical fiction.
Read the review of William Andrews’ book, here: Daughters Of The Dragon
July 2015
1. C. Behrens’ children’s story “Savanna’s Treasure” has won a B.R.A.G. Medallion® award! This Book Readers Appreciation Group Award is designed for new and self-published authors, to identify superior works. Some 50% of the books submitted fail to pass the initial screen and another 40% are subsequently rejected by the B.R.A.G. readers. Thus, only 10% of the books we consider are awarded a B.R.A.G. Medallion and are presented on their website as recommendations, making this a high honor indeed!
Read
all about the award,
here:
http://www.bragmedallion.com/
Read the review of C. Behrens’ book here: Savanna's Treasure
2.
Katy Pye’s
young adult saga “Elizabeth’s Landing” is a
multiple award-winning story, with numerous awards to its name!
Read all about the awards, here:
http://www.nautilusbookawards.
Mom's Choice Awards: Gold-Young Adult Fiction
Indie Book Awards: 2014 Category Winner-Children's/Juvenile Fiction
Writer's Digest Self-Published e-Book Awards: 2013 First in Fiction
Read the review of Katy Pye’s book here: Elizabeth's Landing
3. Randall Reneau’s Legend of War Creek snagged an Honorable Mention at the Hollywood Book Festival!
Read
all about it, here: http://www.
Watch for our review of his book in August’s issue!
4. “Love Triangle”, Blood Moon Productions’ overview of the early dramas associated with Ronald Reagan’s scandal-soaked career in Hollywood, has been designated by the Awards Committee of this year’s Hollywood Book Festival as Runner-Up to Best Biography of the Year.
Read
all about the award
and its winners, here:
http://www.
Read the review of Darwin Porter and Danford Prince’s title here: Love Triangle
June 2015
1. Anthony Elgin’s new book "The Alcatraz Rose" has been chosen as the winner in the 2015 "International Book Awards" in the Fiction, Mystery/Suspense category. This year’s awards program brought in over 1200 entries from 15 countries, the largest ever since the awards program’s inception, in 2009. In addition, the book was a finalist in the National Indie Excellence Book Awards and got an Honorable Mention in the Paris Book Festival.
Read all
about the
award, here: http://www.
Read the review of Anthony Elgin’s book here: The Alcatraz Rose
May 2015
John Anthony Brennans' new book "Don't Die With Regrets" has been chosen as the winner in the 2015 "Next Generation Indie Book Awards" Memoir section. An award ceremony and presentation will be held at the Harvard Club in Manhattan on Wednesday, May 27, 2015.
Read all about the award, here: www.IndieBookAwards.com
Read the review of John Anthony Brennan’s book here: Don't Die with Regrets