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Los Angeles Book Festival Announces 2025 Awards

Headline Books Titles Win Nine Awards!

LOS ANGELES_The 2025 Los Angeles Book Festival, which honors the best of the world publishing community, announces awards.

Titles were judged by a panel of publishing industry experts, who looked for general excellence, the author’s passion for telling a good story, and the potential of the work to gain a wider audience in the worldwide market.

Headline Winners Are:

GENERAL NONFICTION:

RUNNER-UP: Mission Out of Control – Dr. Charles Camarda

MEMOIR:
HONORABLE MENTION: The Undiscovered Showman – Wayne Olivieri

GENRE-BASED:
HONORABLE MENTION:  A Life Saving Bullet – Krista Beggan

CHILDREN’S BOOKS:

RUNNERS-UP:

  • A Kindergarten Story – Tammy Donahue
  • Autumn is Calling – Jan Thornton Jones

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • Polka Dots and Tater Tots – Melinda Chambers
  • Popcorn the Squirrel – Rusty McQuade
  • The Sock Monster – Nathanael Stump

HOW-TO:

WINNER: Becoming Semi-Famous – Burke Allen

Top Honors go to Author Nikki Nash for Collateral Stardust: Chasing Warren Beatty and Other Foolish Things (Sibylline Press). Her world of musicians, actors, conspiracy theorists, political fundraisers, and alcohol-fueled parties hosted by her unconventional trombone-playing father and politically radical mother come to life in this work.