2024
Book of the year
The Unwelcomed
By Ron Felber
Bio & Memoir Winner
You’ll See
By Suzanne Groves
Bio & Memoir Runner-Up
Pizza Face
By Robert Bochnak
Bio & Memoir Finalists
Children’s Book Winner
An Unlikely Astronaut
By Astronaut Susan Kilrain
Children’s Book Runner-Up
Grandma’s House is Haunted
By Stephen G. Bowling
Children’s Book Finalists
General Fiction & NonFiction Winner
In the Shadow of an Irish God
By SD Barry
General fiction & Nonfiction Runner-Up
Solitude, Interrupted
By Bruce McDougall
General Fiction & Nonfiction Finalists
Historical & Adventure Winner
True Grace
By Karen E. Osborne
Historical & Adventure Runner-up
My Mary
By Dawn Beecroft Teetzel
Historical & Adventure Finalists
Horror & Suspense Winner
The Shadow of Banshee Hill
By Fionn Mac Meldrum
Horror & Suspense
Runner-Up
DIGGER
By Arjay Lewis
HORROR & Suspense FINALISTS
Inspirational & Self-Help Winner
Leaning into Curves
By Linda Sandel Pettit ED.D
Inspirational & Self-Help Runner-UP
Fearless
By Steve Johns
inspirational & self-help finalists
Literary & Humor Winner
The Last Bird of Paradise
By Clifford Garstang
Literary & Humor Runner-up
Madcap Serenade
By Dan Kopcow
LITERARY & HUMOR FINALISTS
middle grade & young adult winner
Girl Under Glass
by Ginny Rorby
Middle grade & Young adult Runner-up
Play it Back
By Vanessa Lopez Aziz
Middle Grade & Young Adult FINALISTS
Mystery & crime winner
Snow Country Lane
By Sarah Vail
Mystery & crime
Runner-up
RUN
By Christy Cooper-Burnett
MYSTERY & Crime FINALISTS
Romance & Women’s fiction Winner
Gift of Dreams
By Kelly Rose Saccone
romance & Women’s fiction
runner-up
What Happens in Montana
By Kim McCollum
Romance & Women’s Fiction FINALISTS
scifi & Fantasy winner
Magic by Any Other Name
By Alison Levy
scifi & Fantasy Runner-Up
From an Altar Beyond the
Horizon of Time
By Mark Browning
Scifi & Fantasy FINALISTS
Thriller Winner
Ghosts in the Glades
By Staci Andrea
Thriller runner-Up
Hemingway’s Treasure
By Mac Fortner
Thriller FINALISTS
