Boston MA – New England Book Festival Announces 2023 Awards!! Congratulations to Headline Authors, Calvin Fisher, Winner for Best General Fiction for Storm Warning, Diana Pishner Walker Runner Up for Best Children’s Book, Magic Pasta, Angie Dixon, Honorable Mention for Best Children’s Book, The Snowman Project, and Lee Doty, Honorable Mention for Best General Fiction, An Equal Piece of Justice!!
The New England Book Festival celebrates the best books of the holiday season. Categories included non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, memoir, children’s books, young adult, how-to, cookbooks, science fiction, photography/art, poetry, gay literature, regional literature, spiritual, wild card (anything goes!), business books, unpublished stories and compilations/anthologies.
Submitted works were judged by a panel of industry experts using the following criteria:
1) General excellence and the author’s passion for telling a good story.
2) The potential of the work to reach a wider audience.
A novel approach to a biblical tale is the winner of the 2023 New England Book Festival, which honors the best of the holiday season.
Authors Jerry Lathan and Steven Manchester’s You Will Be Peter is an historical biographical novel. The spiritual yet modern work captures the three-year ministry of Jesus Christ through the eyes of Simon Peter, the Everyman who started a movement that lasts two thousand years. The story reads like a gripping, page-turning novel and illuminates an oft-told tale in a unique way.