2014 RPLA Awards List Handout
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2014 Royal Palm Literary Awards PUBLISHED BOOK OF THE YEAR Deadly Drifts by M. W. Gordon (Thriller/Suspense) Maxwell Hunt was a Florida law professor and is in a federal protection program as fly fishing guide Macduff Brooks, living in Montana and Florida. He cannot escape his foreign assailants, who doubt that he died. A client is killed on his drift boat, and his cabin is rigged with bombs. He taught international law for 42 years, traveling extensively for the State Department. Changing focus, he stopped teaching and become a fly fishing guide dividing his time between Florida and Montana. He works with Project Healing Waters taking combat wounded disabled vets fly fishing. PRE-PUBLISHED BOOK OF THE YEAR Sacred Ashes by Lloyd R. Agee (Mainstream/Literary) This is a generational conflict between youthful idealisms’s blind pursuit of justice versus an older generation more concerned with status and legacy. His short fiction has appeared in several regional publications in the Midwest including Indiana University’s Creative Writing Publication THE DAHRIS CLAIR MEMORIAL AWARD The Silver Bullet by Jennie Jarvis (Screen Play) The best superhero in a city full of superheroes yearns to be a regular guy, but a new supervillain threatens to destroy everyone he loves if he doesn't stop him. Jennie Jarvis, a co-owner of 5writers.com, has appeared in Writer’s Digest Magazine and The Florida Writer. She teaches screen writing at Full Sail University and has an MFA in Creative Writing. BOOK-LENGTH FICTION Fantasy (Published) Historical Fiction (Published) FIRST PLACE Eternal Night by Jade Kerrion. A horror story set in an SECOND PLACE eighteenth century domed city transforms into a post-apocalyptic Glimpse of Sunlight by Leona D. Bodie and GE Gardiner. fantasy where technology shrouds the truth. Could humanity’s Why did Jonathan Dickinson leave Port Royal, Jamaica for demons actually be its saviors? Philadelphia, and more importantly, why did he leave his dazzling riches behind? SECOND PLACE Children of Path The Kell Stone Prophecy Book One by Dana Historical Fiction (Pre-Published) Trantham. A boy on the run. A young woman torn between FIRST PLACE power and morality. A felid who must die to live. Who will wield Salt Cedars in Winter by D. J. Niko. A king’s humble nature the kell stone and rule the Ruud? leads him to build an empire. But when passion and arrogance creep into his soul, everything collapses to ruin. Fantasy (Pre-Published) SECOND PLACE FIRST PLACE King’s Ransom by William Speir. An English Navy frigate is sent The Jaguar Key The Eternals: Book One by Kate Maier writing on a secret mission to the Americas to stop French and Spanish as Katherine Starbird. Preoccupied with evading a sadistic treasure fleets from reaching Europe and funding the coming war stalker, Rosamond the Jaguar Goddess becomes entangled with against England. feuding Eternals in a web of revenge that can only end in death. Will it be hers? Horror/Dark Fantasy (Pre-Published) FIRST PLACE SECOND PLACE Flocked: Birds of a Feather by Peggy Kassees. Nellie, once Out of the Ashes by Jennie Jarvis. A phoenix in human form kidnapped, abused, and left for dead, is now a Promethean down to attempts to escape a monster from her past in order to reconnect her DNA. Able to change from gargoyle to human at whim, she’s with a beloved friend. The past, however, isn’t ready to let her go. ready to kick butt. THIRD PLACE Birds of a Feather by Evergreen Lee. Beauty is a witch, but Humor/Satire (Published) doesn't know it, and the beast was never human. FIRST PLACE The Gullwing Odyssey by Antonio Simon, Jr. When an unusual assignment sends Marco overseas, he finds himself stranded in General (Published) foreign lands. With the help of his friends, he becomes the hero he FIRST PLACE strove not to be. Baseball’s Archives by Jack L. Hayes. This book is filled with interesting and exciting stories from the past. Back then, the game SECOND PLACE was real, tough and personal. It was the profoundly American Dead in Boca by Miriam Auerbach. Harley-riding, wisecracking pastime! female private eye Dirty Harriet hunts for a lonely hearts scam artist who may – or may not – have bulldozed a south Florida SECOND PLACE builder. Alborada: a poetic memoir across cultures by Nylda Dieppa. Autobiographical collection of narrative and lyrical poems telling a story of familial love, culture shock, divorce, and the emotional Humor/Satire (Pre-Published) and spiritual healing symbolized by the dawn of a new day. FIRST PLACE The Short Ride by Jean Axtell Nelson. A nine-year-old girl spots her mama hopping on the back of a caboose and struggles to justify General (Pre-Published) her return, despite the relentless swirl of a small-town gossip. FIRST PLACE BABE by Elle Thornton. Seventeen year-old Edna Montague’s childhood memories put on flesh and darken as she searches for Mainstream/Literary (Published) her cousin Babe, who vanished six years earlier from Live Oak FIRST PLACE Lodge on the Florida coast. Jubilee’s Journey by Bette Lee Crosby. Two orphaned children undertake a perilous journey in search of family and find that even in the face of danger, love and their belief in each other conquers Historical Fiction (Published) all. FIRST PLACE SHARAVOGUE by Nancy Blanton. In 1649, an Irish barmaid Mainstream/Literary (Pre-Published) vows revenge against General Oliver Cromwell for destroying her FIRST PLACE village, but is swept away to a West Indies plantation and must Sacred Ashes by Lloyd R. Agee. This is a generational conflict fight her way back. between youthful idealisms’s blind pursuit of justice versus an older generation more concerned with status and legacy. 2014 Royal Palm Literary Awards Competition 2 Florida Writers Association Mainstream/Literary (Pre-Published) Continued Science Fiction (Pre-Published) SECOND PLACE FIRST PLACE Those Dark Places by Kate Newton. When ten-year-old Brett’s Angela’s Apple by Arthur M. Doweyko. What if guardian angels younger brother Timmy dies in a skating accident, everyone were real, but weren’t angels? And one fell in love with a human? blames their alcoholic father, but there’s more to the story, and And what if, together, they uncovered the greatest conspiracy ever Brett knows it, because she was there. to face humankind? Science Fiction (Pre-Published) continued SECOND PLACE SECOND PLACE Code Name Nanette by M. E. Dawson. When Joe Parker’s quest to identify his grandfather leads to Nanette,, a spy who served with Jenny Leigh 8 by Mike Arsuaga. Model Eight of the Jenny Leigh his grandmother during World War II, he’ll never see women the line is the gold standard for recreational androids but during a same way again. worldwide apocalypse she shows she’s more than another pretty face. Mystery (Published) FIRST PLACE Thriller/Suspense (Published) The Pastor and the Private Eye by T. H. Pine. This murder FIRST PLACE mystery delves into the dark side of human nature. Deadly Drifts by M. W. Gordon. Maxwell Hunt was a Florida law professor and is in a federal protection program as fly fishing guide SECOND PLACE Macduff Brooks, living in Montana and Florida. He cannot escape Dance of Deception by Trish Reeb. Grief-stricken over her best his foreign assailants, who doubt that he died. A client is killed on friend’s murder, a school counselor plunges into perilous waters in his drift boat, and his cabin is rigged with bombs. her quest to find the killer. A detective fishes her out along with the clues surfacing with her. SECOND PLACE Power Fade by Keith Gockenbach. Professional golfer Roy Gilbert wakes, dazed and defenseless, in the mangrove swamp of Romance (Published) the Everglades. Mystery and suspense are brought to the high- FIRST PLACE profile world of professional golf. Dreams of Perfection by Rebecca Heflin. A best-selling romance writer lives her very own Pygmalion romance when her latest THIRD PLACE carefully-crafted hero comes to life. Who could be more perfect for The Pill Game by Darryl Bollinger. After a chance encounter her? with an abused young girl, a reluctant Florida clinic manager risks it all to battle a prescription drug ring. SECOND PLACE Between the Lies by Alison Oburia. Cari Lopez is on the run with accountant Tristan Saunders, a man she’s just met who cheated the Thriller/Suspense (Pre-Published) Bulgarian mafia. No one can be trusted, and anyone can be bought. FIRST PLACE The Spies Among Us by Linda M. Reynolds. Following her Romance (Pre-Published) sister’s death in a mysterious explosion, a young computer expert FIRST PLACE is drawn into a web of treachery and deceit that threatens Boston Alien Attachments Book One by Stephanie Priestley. A human with a devastating terrorist attack. and an alien are tied by an undeniable bond, but he’s not happy about it and she’s not letting some alien voodoo decide her fate. SECOND PLACE Shark Fin Soup by Susan Klaus. A young man becomes an eco- Science Fiction (Published) terrorist when trying to save sharks from extinction. FIRST PLACE THIRD PLACE Waterproof by Amber Garr. In a post-apocalyptic world where A Lion in Spring by Kenneth R. Overman. An American writer water is scarce and dying of thirst is a reality, two deserters trapped in a Greek national crisis. A decayed body in an attic. Nazi discover that a fate once thought to hold their demise may actually legacy. North Korean weapons. Love, in one of the world’s most be the key to their survival.