Headline Titles Win Awards!
SAN FRANCISCO_ The judging is complete and announcements made for the 2025 San Francisco Book Festival Awards! The entries were varied, well written, and showed excellence in all categories.
The San Francisco Book Festival considers non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children’s books, compilations/anthologies, young adult, how-to, cookbooks, science fiction, business, history, wild card, gay, photography/art, poetry, unpublished, technology, memoir and spiritual/religious works. There is no date of publication restriction.
Submitted works are judged by a panel of industry experts who look for general excellence and the author’s passion for telling a good story and the potential of the work to reach a wider audience.
A look behind the curtain at the world of online manipulations is the top book of the 2025 San Francisco Book Festival, which honors the best books of the spring.
Headline winners in the competition:
SCIENCE FICTION:
HONORABLE MENTION: Northfield Saga 4: Storm Break – Calvin B. Fisher
CHILDREN’S BOOKS:
RUNNERS-UP: A Kindergarten Story – Tammy Donahue
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Popcorn the Squirrel – Rusty McQuade
The Wild of Wonderful West Virginia – Don Stansberry and Jackson Middle School
MEMOIR:
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
GENERAL FICTION:
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
COMPILATIONS/ANTHOLOGIES:
RUNNER-UP: Island to Icon – Dreama Denver
Author Richard Ryan’s The Warrior’s Garden: Tools for Guarding Your Mind Against Big Tech (Lioncrest Publishing) asks the question, in a world dominated by screens and algorithms, who is truly in control?
The book posits that every time you pick up the phone, you’re being manipulated. With every site you visit and post you make, your behavior is being tracked. Your habits are sold to the highest bidder—and you’ve probably provided them with your uninformed consent.
Ryan unveils the hidden dynamics, and rather than a call to abandon all devices, this book is a challenge to recognize how platforms like YouTube and Facebook subtly shape behavior and monopolize attention. Richard guides you through a personal assessment of your digital habits, offering tools to reclaim your time and mental space.
Ultimately, The Warrior’s Garden empowers you to navigate the digital landscape with awareness and intention to become a conscious consumer of digital content.
See complete results here https://sanfranciscobookfestival.com/