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Paris Book Festival Announces 2024 Awards!

Headline Titles Win 14 Awards

PARIS_The 2024 Paris Book Festival completed judging entries from around the globe for its 2024 competition. Entries from major publishers, independent publishers and self-published works in the following categories: non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children’s books, cookbooks, compilations/anthologies; young adult, how-to, photography/art, unpublished stories, business, poetry, memoir, spiritual/religious, travel and the wild card (anything goes!) were excellent this year.

Entris were judged by a panel of publishing industry experts using the following criteria:  General excellence and the author’s passion for telling a good story and the potential of the work to gain a wider audience in the worldwide market.

A novel set in the Vietnam War era has been selected for top honors at the 2024 Paris Book Festival, which celebrates the best of international publishing. Author Dennis Torres’ There Are No Good Giants is the story of soldier Ben Kovner, who is sent to Vietnam and discovers there is more to war than combat – people still go to work, get married, and raise children, only do so without any expectation of a tomorrow.

Other winners in the competition:

GENERAL FICTION:
WINNER: There Are No Good Giants – Dennis Torres
RUNNERS-UP:The Ledger – Steven Manchester

  • The Invitation – Clare Fryer
  • Zarathustra’s Journey – Nanette V. Hucknall
  • At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf – Tara Ison

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • The Forger of Marseille – Linda Joy Myers
  • Iron Blood – Jolene D. Campbell
  • Running Stop Signs – A Natalie North Novel – Nancy Mangano
  • Loving Leopold – Diane Ramsay
  • The King’s Assassin – Ed Cannon
  • The Calamity of Desire and Other Stories – Judith Dancoff
  • Second Life – James Sniechowski
  • The Penitent – A. Keith Carreiro (Zoom Into Books Author)
  • Lissette in the Spring – Rod Sanford
  • The Bard and his Sister-in-Law – Lopamudra Banerjee
  • Resurgius, A Sex Comedy – E.M. Schorb
  • Careful What You Wish For – Roger C. Douglas
  • The King’s Death – Ed Cannon
  • Second Term – J.M. Adams
  • The Falcon and the Shaikhs – John Dragonetti (Headline Books)
  • The Lost Canvas – Julie D. Simmons
  • Comes Around – Tony C.D. Hylton (Headline Books)
  • The Good Barrister – Diane Ramsay
  • ROTH – Jonas Romano Weiss
  • Esteban: Love’s Irony – Fish Nealman
  • Vanished! – Roberta Samuels
  • Spectral Guidance – Laurie A.M. Ludtke
  • Toxic Sphere: Volume 3 – C.N. Sky
  • Heart in the Jungle: Mountain City – Fred Lauver
  • Under the Radar – Peter Cumyn
  • Welcome to Superhero School – Gracie Dix
  • A Kiss in Kashmir – Monica Saigal
  • A Forward Motion – Sherrie Lynn
  • Forever, Now – Haleh Shahrzad
  • Driving for Justice – Justin K. Kojok

GENERAL NONFICTION:

WINNER: The Singularity of Hope – Dr. Sam Sammane

RUNNERS-UP:

  • The Business Artist – Adam Boggs
  • Morocco, A Remembrance of Childhood – James B. Farmer
  • Hardy’s Heroes – Rick A. Shockey (Headline Books)
  • Cuba, your children cry! – Otto Iglesias
  • The Unlocked Leader – Hortense le Gentil

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • An Unknown Angel’s Gift – Cherie S. Blackwell
  • Divorce is Not A Destination – Lisa Summerour
  • Solo Passage – Glenda Goodrich
  • The Power of the Hollow Bone – Phoenix Rising Star
  • The Magnificence of the 3 – Timeout A. Taumua
  • AmeriCANS Who Made America: 18th Century – Richard V. Battle (Headline Books)

MEMOIR:

WINNER: A Cup of Tea on the Commode – Mark Steven Porro

RUNNERS-UP:

  • Higher Love – Anne Kiehl Friedman
  • Protecting Mama – Léonie Rosenstiel
  • Karma and Kismet – Michael Shandler
  • Cuba, your children cry! – Otto Iglesias
  • Shattered – Jenell M. Jones, M.Ed.


HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • French Lessons – Roberta Samuels
  • Island to Icon: The Many Lives of Bob Denver – Dreama Denver (Headline Books)
  • Still the Soul Survives – Pamela Goldstein
  • Living with Trauma, Finding the Light Again – M. Struemph
  • The Race Horse – Vicki Rees Kendall

TRAVEL:

WINNER: Higher Love – Anne Koehl Friedman

RUNNER-UP: Sunrise Over South Africa – Joseph Kuhn Carey

YOUNG ADULT:

WINNER: Worldwide Crush – Kristin Nilsen

RUNNERS-UP:

  • Seaside Magic and the Binding Curse – Vianlix-Christine Schneider
  • The Boy Who Earned His Magic – Lynn H. Elliott
  • Mira and the Magic Pond – Zahra Omar Shansab (Headline Books)
  • Dawn of Legends – Matt Dragovits (Headline Books)

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • eMortal – Steve Schafer
  • Rogues of the Crosslands – John Daze
  • Botheration Part One: The Missing Link – Vito DiBarone
  • A Remarkable Marketable You – Jes Petion

BUSINESS:

WINNER: The Value Equation – Christopher H. Volk

RUNNER-UP: Briefly Speaking – Deborah Shames

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • The Powerful Publicity Prescription – Lilian Sue
  • The Start of All Things Good – Danielle Billetz-Reppert

CHILDREN’S BOOKS:

WINNER: A Kindergarten Story – Tammy Donahue (Headline Books)

RUNNERS-UP:

  • A Tree for Me – Tasha-Nicole Terani
  • Blue Lobster Visits the Eye Doctor – Robin Taylor-Chiarello
  • Together – Jere Silber
  • Little Joe and the Big Rain – Mike Darcy
  • Sammy’s Voyage to a New Home – Debra Siraco

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • The Gnomes of Fibberton – Becky Bell
  • Spectrum Fairies – Diana Atehortua
  • Autumn is Calling – Jan Thornton (Headline Books)
  • Magic Pasta – Diana Pishner Walker (Headline Books)
  • The Wonderful Attic of Dreams – Ebenezer Makinde
  • My Favorite Letter – Susan Gilpin
  • Calico Zebra – Julie Bray

WILD CARD:

WINNER: The Plowman’s Plight – E.A Rivière

RUNNERS-UP:

  • Little Fortified Stories – Barbara Black
  • The Bard and his Sister-in-Law – Lopamudra Banerjee

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • Toxic Sphere: Volume 3 – C.N. Sky
  • The Real Resident Aliens – Dr. Raymond A. Keller (Headline Books)

BIOGRAPHY-AUTOBIOGRAPHY:

WINNER: Cuba, your children cry! – Otto Iglesias

RUNNER-UP: Silencing the enemy within – Marsha Rene

SPIRITUAL/RELIGIOUS:

WINNER: Unlocking The Secrets of the Book of Enoch – Rick Wehrle

RUNNERS-UP:

  • Songs for the Spirit/Canciones para el Espiritu – Robert Giron
  • Higher Love – Anne Koehl Friedman
  • Finding Eden – J.P. Kerwin (Headline Books)
  • The Name I Choose – Holly Brough
  • Rogues of the Crosslands – John Daze

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • The Mind Traveler: Warrior of Shaka – Viveck Rai Marwa
  • Light of Darkness – Ebenezer O. Makinde
  • Cryptic Blood – Don Stansberry (Headline Books)
  • Raging Fire of Love – Kelly James Clark
  • Naciones Estelares – Dr. Beatrix Czeizel, Anikó Greskó
  • Politics of Being – Thomas Legrand
  • The Power of the Hollow Bone – Phoenix Rising Star
  • Hopeland – Ebenezer O. Makinde

POETRY:

WINNER: Rise: An Inspired Book of Dreams – Ebenezer Makinde

RUNNER-UP: Sunrise Over South Africa – Joseph Kuhn Carey

HONORABLE MENTION:

  • Eternal Love – C. Peggy Atoche

COMPILATIONS/ANTHOLOGIES:

WINNER: 1968: A Primer for Understanding Baby Boomers – Rick Robinson (Headline Books)

RUNNER-UP: Naughty Nonsense, Lascivious Limericks and Much More – David Ellis

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • Losers: Short Stories – Katarzyna Adamus
  • A Collision with Purpose – Dr. Laxley W. Stephenson
  • Words to Breathe By – James Richard Hansen

HOW-TO:

WINNER: Slow Burn Entrepreneur – Michael Weber

RUNNERS-UP:

  • Holistic Retirement Planning – Ron Missun
  • What’s Eating Our Kids? – Julie A. Wendt
  • This Is How We Heal from Painful Childhoods – Ernest Ellender, PhD
  • Take a Shot at Happiness – Maria Baltazzi

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • The Doctor’s Voice – Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli
  • The Start of All Things Good – Danielle Billetz-Reppert
  • The Power of the Hollow Bone – Phoenix Rising Star
  • UnEarthing YOU – Dr. Laxley W. Stephenson

UNPUBLISHED:

WINNER: The Third Estate: Secrets of the Manor – Debbie Berlin

ROMANCE:

WINNER: A Perfect Miracle – Katrina Alexander

RUNNER-UP: Sweet Love – Sherry Jackson