2019 Reader's Choice Contest Winners
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Gold Winner
Stories People Love
Different in content but connected by common themes of hope and love, Stories People Love, contains six fictional short stories of Crime, Adventure, and Love with real life lessons.
Silver Winner
How To Write For Success
Using her own experiences she focuses on the essentials of writing a book to which readers will gravitate.
Bronze Winner
Katashi Tales
Katashi Tales is a literary masterpiece that reveals fifteen hair raising stories and unheard fables from the human world and animal kingdom, as well as places of which you have never dreamed.
Gold Winner (Tie)
A gritty, emotionally-charged, mystery, Mrs. Fitzroy is a profound exploration of the lies we tell ourselves to survive
Gold Winner (Tie)
Poison Pen
Writing can be murder.
The Killer - Success had eluded him. The Victim - He has it all; fame, fortune and adoration. Three Authors - Can they overcome their phobias? The Detective - Instinct tells him something doesn't add up.
Silver Winner
Jacks or Better
Three dead men, all named Jack, are found in a boat in the middle of a small southern Ohio lake. They didn't know one another and none of them had a criminal past. So, why did they die?
Bronze Winner
A Tangled Web
Threats loom and a long-hidden secret is at risk of being uncovered as a man and a woman locked in an unwanted marriage find themselves embroiled in a tangle of destructive webs. Neither of them had expected this.
Gold Winner
Different in content but connected by common themes of hope and love, Stories People Love, contains six fictional short stories of Crime, Adventure, and Love with real life lessons.
Silver Winner
Hall Pass for Life
A Steamy tale of overcoming pain and finding romance. It’s never too late to find your happily ever after... A modern day Cinderella story.
Bronze Winner
Private Messages
Lillianna - or so long, my very existence teetered on the brink of death. Until, I meet him. Zane - I've been called a cold heartless bastard one too many times. And then I meet her.
Gold Winner
Aero trembled as she held the box sealed inside black paper. The dilemma was a difficult one – her mum had told her the box contained secrets she might not be ready for. Once she opened it, there would be no going back…
Silver Winner
Then Again: An Adventure in Time Travel
“Have you ever wished you could live your life over again? Or, to put it more succinctly: if you were offered the chance to go back to some point in your past and become your younger self, while still retaining all your accumulated wisdom and memories, would you choose to do so? And if you did, what point would you go back to, and what, if anything, would you change?"
Bronze Winner
Darkspire REaches
The wyvern has hunted for the young outcast all her life; a day will come when, after being rejected by civilisation and the tribes, she must at last face him..
Gold Winner
Using her own experiences she focuses on the essentials of writing a book to which readers will gravitate.
The book covers plotting, writing dialogue, narrative, building a story world, choosing a book title, writing the blurb, what an author should do before and after publishing, choosing categories, creating an author brand, book marketing, and most of all how to get sales and reviews.
Silver Winner
Navigating Family Court
Going to court can be scary. Going to court to decide custody of your child can be truly terrifying — there is so much at stake!
Bronze
Walking Over Eggshells
Walking Over Eggshells is an autobiography that tells the story of a mentally abused child, who married a "Walter Mitty" clone.
Gold Winner
Katashi Tales is a literary masterpiece that reveals fifteen hair raising stories and unheard fables from the human world and animal kingdom, as well as places of which you have never dreamed.
Silver Winner
Spike, The Not So Nice Dinosaur
Spike the dinosaur had not always been so nice. In fact, not too long ago, Spike was a bit of a mean dinosaur. He didn’t like to share, didn’t understand honesty and didn’t know how to say he was sorry.
Bronze Winner
Yoga Fox
Scaredy Fox hates his name. Watching girls doing yoga in the park gives him an idea on how to get a new name. Will the forest animals be impressed by a fox doing yoga? Will Scaredy Fox get a new name he can be proud of?
Gold Winner
The Truth Finder (Future Earth Book 1)
This is the story of Earth in the fifth millennium. Vrail has developed unusual powers. He uses his ability to read minds to locate dangerous criminals.
He is a Truth Finder and explores the joys and dangers of his powers as he finds his place in a violent and unstable world.
Silver Winner
Imagine
A fierce wind and a blast of green light during a strange storm causes everything to change for Katharine Bowers and Becky Thatcher. The girls wake up in Oren, an entirely different realm than their earthly city. They meet Enalie, a fading magical presence who sets an incredible destiny before them… then simply disappears.
Bronze Winner
The Unborn Hero of Dragon Village
The day fire and ice erupt from the sky, everything changes forever for twelve-year-old Theo. He discovers that dragons are real when Lamia, a three-headed monster, kidnaps his sister. A witch and a talking magpie help him open the portal to Dragon Village, a land he knows only from myth, a place filled with terrifying creatures.
Silver Winner
The Dandelion Clock
Families torn apart by the Great War. When war is declared in August 1914, Bill, a farm boy brought up in a village on the Duke of Buccleuch’s Northamptonshire estate, is plucking up his courage to ask his sweetheart, Florrie, to marry him. Florrie has given up her dream of being a dancer to bring up her siblings and protect them from their violent and abusive widowed father. For her, marriage to Bill is love, escape, and protection: a dream to be clung to.
Bronze Winner (Tie)
Exits and Entrances (Written in Water Book 1)
The swinging sixties – a time of peace, love, violence and revolution. In 1962, as the Cold War erupts in sudden crisis over Cuba, Cordelia, Beatrice and Rosalind are fourteen. Dubbed by their English teacher the three witches from Macbeth, they have already recognised one another as outsiders, with no idea that their alliance will turn out to be a lifelong friendship.
Bronze Winner (Tie)
Saving Grace
Who poisoned Charles Petrie? With crowds flocking to the courtroom and the shadow of suspicion falling upon Grace in the shape of the hangman’s noose, could dashing young advocate, Daniel Morgan, save her?
Yoga Fox
Scaredy Fox hates his name. Watching girls doing yoga in the park gives him an idea on how to get a new name. Will the forest animals be impressed by a fox doing yoga? Will Scaredy Fox get a new name he can be proud of?
A Tangled Web
Threats loom and a long-hidden secret is at risk of being uncovered as a man and a woman locked in an unwanted marriage find themselves embroiled in a tangle of destructive webs. Neither of them had expected this.
Saving Grace
Who poisoned Charles Petrie? With crowds flocking to the courtroom and the shadow of suspicion falling upon Grace in the shape of the hangman’s noose, could dashing young advocate, Daniel Morgan, save her?
Two Face the World: Marry in Haste
Richard and Maria Book 2 - Richard and Maria's wedding is dreamily romantic, but both of them are still haunted by past rejections. Sinister letters and unwanted gifts arrive, and the more each tries to protect the other by keeping them secret, the heavier the burden of guilt and anxiety...
Kept in the Dark of Love and Lust
Can Braven and Misty outwit the cat shifter clan and survive the evil plot his ex-fiancé and the Alpha have orchestrated? Will Misty regain her lost childhood memories, and fight for the man she loves, embracing her new strange world or will she die this time for real?
Spectral State
After witnessing a terrible deed committed by a high profile target, a young misfit's conscience will not allow him to simply forget it as per instruction. Instead, he becomes determined to seek justice. However, following this path may cost him dearly.
The Curious Tale of Gabrielle
Young Adult Time Travel Fantasy. What If You Woke Up In Someone Else's Life? When Gabrielle moves to the small town of Envisage, she finds herself drawn to a hidden antique shop and its mysterious owner.
Where Carpets Fly
Fly for fun … fly for fear … fly for freedom … Restless teen Elina is bored of village life. When she starts magic lessons in the city, her only concern is exploring the sights with new school friend Kara. However, life takes a darker turn.
Congratulations to all of our finalists whether they received a medal or not. The competition was tough and all of our entries were amazing books by some great authors. Why not add them to your TBR list. And come back next year, so we can do it all again!
