Hollywood Book Festival 2024 Names ‘1968’ As Top Book
HOLLYWOOD_An examination of the tumult during one of the most volatile years in U.S. history has been named the top book of the 2024 Hollywood Book Festival, which honors books worthy of further attention from the film, television, and gaming industries.
Author Rick Robinson’s 1968: A Primer for Understanding Baby Boomers (Headline Books) is a small-town deep-dive into one of the most significant and controversial years in American history.
Vietnam, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, civil rights, protests at home and abroad, Nixon versus Humphrey – all made 1968 a seminal year.
This book is a month-by-month look into 1968 with a lens of understanding how this year helped shape not only baby boomers, but all generations that followed.
Other winners in the competition:
CHILDREN’S BOOKS:
WINNER: Can We Get a Rhinoceros? – Christian Keung
RUNNERS-UP:
Hugo’s Adventure – Jeremy Ireland
Recipe for Adventure Series – Steve Burt
Nishka’s Golden Heart – Mel Kucenic
Bird, a Boy and a Big Adventure – Tanya Ney
Diary of a Martian: Earthbound – Stephen B. Haunts
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Lucy And The Rainbow – Karla A Spoonamore
She Who Walks Above The Trees – Jennifer Conklin
Little Joe and the Big Rain – Mike Darcy
The Adventures of Nicky & Charlie: Through the Sprinkler – Illustrated by Sarah Grace – Mia Vasquez
Alex Axoloti’s First Day of School – Angelrae Thompson
Gangster School – Kate Wiseman
Maxzyne Goes Aquamarine – Caroline Lee
Luca Meets Sonny – Roseanne Critelli
Sammy’s Voyage to a New Home: – Debra Siraco, Zareen Wilhelm
BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY:
WINNER: Hollywood Remembered – Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince
RUNNERS-UP:
On the Rocks – Maria C. Palmer/Ruthie Robbins
Cuba, your children cry! – Otto H Iglesias
An Amazingly Kind Universe – Peter David Wilder
CCNY Made: Profiles in Grit – Ronnyjane Goldsmith
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Welcome To California – Sandra Boszko
Mighty Joe Mui – Jeremy Durgana
Silencing the Enemy Within – Marsha Rene
The Race Horse – Vicki Kendall
GENERAL NONFICTION:
WINNER: 1968: A Primer for Understanding Baby Boomers – Rick Robinson
RUNNERS-UP:
Snow White Bites Hollywood – Janet Davidson
C’mon Get Happy: The Making of Summer Stock – David Fantle & Tom Johnson
The Invisible Girl, a Memoir – Yvonne Sandomir
What’s Eating Our Kids? – Julie A. Wendt
Here, Where Death Delights – Mary Jumbelic, M.D.
How Not to Make it in Hollywood – David Hern
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Welcome To California – Sandra LA Boszko
Near the Danube Bridge – Catherine Allen-Walters
Careful What You Wish For… – Roger C Douglas
Raging Fire of Love – Kelly James Clark
Time Served – T.L. Cromwell
What the Heal – Tia Warrick
Infinite Impact – Amber Vilhauer
When The Bell Rings – A Firefighters Journey – Robert Gass
Backstory: The Many Lives of Granville Johnson – Granville Johnson
Ms – Elaine Good
Captured By Their Past – Miguel Arrufat Millan
Fondly, Bob – Susan D. Stephenson
SPIRITUAL/RELIGIOUS:
WINNER: The Name I Choose – Holly Brough
RUNNERS-UP:
Hero for Hire: Joseph Son of Jacob, and the Four Pillars of Durable Power – Jon Joseph Tailly
The Antidote to Time – Peter David Wilder
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Naciones Estelares – Dr. Beatrix Czeizel,Anikó Greskó
The Magnificence of the 3 – Timeout A. Taumua
GENERAL FICTION:
WINNER: Zarathustra’s Journey – Nanette V Hucknall
RUNNERS-UP:
Synergy – Les Lo Baugh
Rock Bottom, Tennessee – Kimberly Nixon
Tears of the Aeon – R.F. Pina
Gone Missing – Steve Vannoy and Azul Terronez
Aziza and the Caves of Mars – Fred J. Lauver
Secrets of Ash – Josh Green
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
His Majesty’s Sailor and The Girl in the Blue Coat – Michael David Gilston
The Secret – Eve M. Riley
The Tender Silver Stars – Pamela Stockwell
The Dream Collector Book I – R.W. Meek
Death of a Mayfly – Ellie Leonard
Journey Into Darkness, – J. Arthur Moore
The Bard and his Sister-in-Law – Lopamudra Banerjee
The Hollywood Backlash Moon – Carolyn Summer Quinn
180 Days – Alfredo Botello
Ain’t NO Jazz in Kansas City – Bruce Rodgers
Saving Marina – Ines Ferrari Garcia
U-boat 931 Attack on America – Ian Thomas Gwilliams
Tides of Blue – Sharon Brubaker
The Falcon and The Shaikhs – John Dragonetti
A Boundless Place – Pamela Stockwell
Deadpan – Richard Walter
Buried Relics – Don Helin
Second Life – James Sniechowski
The White Field – Douglas Cole
Mark of the Pteranodon – Mitzi S. Scotten
La Brigantessa – Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli
Manroot – Anne Steinberg
Flat – Neal Rabin
Resurgius, A Sex Comedy – E.M. Schorb
The Hit – Alex R Price
Hotel Victoria – Rony Jane
Toxic Sphere: Volume 3: Enemy Apparent – C N Sky
Phantom Reunions – Sal Nudo
A New York Collage – Virginia E. Escandor
The Killing of a Shadow – JF Hilley
Circuit Sweat – Rodney Hamright
The Twitter Gospels – David H. Parish
Forever, Now – Haleh Shahrzad
Driving for Justice – Justin K. Kojok
River for You and Me – Sherry Jackson
Ms – Elaine Good
HOW-TO:
WINNER: Holistic Retirement Planning – Ron Missun
RUNNERS-UP:
100 Livestreaming & Digital Media Predictions, Volume 4: – Ross Brand
Are You Ready? – Dr. Kimberly Harms
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
What, Why, Who, Where, How, When Plan – Yvonne Sandomir
What’s Eating Our Kids? – Julie A. Wendt
Booked: A Strong Start For Your… – Gloria Iatridis
WILD CARD:
WINNER: Misadventures of a Cryptid Hunter – Mike Kelso
RUNNERS-UP:
The Good Barrister – Diane Ramsay
Deputy While Immigrant: – Tom Peine
Into the Storm – D. J. Adamson
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
180 Days – Alfredo Botello
From Footlights to Flashlights – Gwyn English Nielsen
Toxic Sphere: Volume 3: Enemy Apparent – C N Sky
A Woman in Search Of… – Lynne Brightman Horn
Ireland’s Unparalleled Essence – Norbert G. Gomes
What’s Eating Our Kids? – Julie A. Wendt
Overcoming Anxiety and Depression – Lillyin Love
How the World Gets Done – πNag Ual (PiNag Ual)
Take a Shot at Happiness – Maria Baltazzi
Pursuit of Paradise – Thomas N. Smith
BUSINESS/TECHNOLOGY:
WINNER: The Value Equation – Christopher H. Volk
YOUNG ADULT:
WINNER: Erift’s Journeys: Secrets of The Sealed Forest – J.T. Tenera
RUNNERS-UP:
eMortal – Steve Schafer
Pretend – Jennifer Conklin
Hollywood High Chronicles Book Four – Melissa Velasco
Fake Out – Felicia Farber
Tunnels of Tyranny – Mary Harelkin Bishop
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Lizard Larson and the Time Keeper – Gary Natoli
Wizardry: Part 1 – Scott Crabtree
I Dream I Wake I Write – Jane Ruby
A Remarkable Marketable You – Jes Petion
SCIENCE FICTION:
WINNER: The Black Map – Aaron T. Brownell
RUNNERS-UP:
Being Human Human Being – Paul Black
The Dyodyne Experiment – James Doulgeris and V. Michael Santoro
Forgotten: A Stepping Stone To The Stars – Richard D. Bangs
eMortal – Steve Schafer
The Genesis Chair – William “Skip” Simonds
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
The Pilgrim – Part I – A. Keith Carreiro
Quantum Consequence – Mike Murphey
Toxic Sphere: Volume 3: Enemy Apparent – C N Sky
The Glitch – Julien Noble
Lizard Larson and the Time Keeper – Gary Natoli
Climate Dragon: – S W Lawrence
How the World Gets Done – πNag Ual (PiNag Ual)
ROMANCE:
WINNER: a perfect miracle: Jacobs Landing Series Book One – Katrina Alexander
UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS:
WINNER: The Third Estate Secrets of the Manor – D. R. Berlin
RUNNER-UP:
Home to Pick a Fight with a Killer – Granville Johnson
HONORABLE MENTION:
Moonlight Skull – Yurie Kiri
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
WINNER: Fake Out – Felicia Farber
GENRE-BASED:
WINNER: Blue Mountain Explosion – Don V. Hylton
RUNNER-UP:
The Photograph – Eve Riley
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Ava – Janet Perroni
Dawn of Legends: A Tale for Christmas Vol 2 – Matt Dragovits
The Fires of Fate – Joseph Waggoner
Needleneck – E. M. Schorb
The Fragility of Light – Heather S. Lonczak
Interview with a Sinner – M.M. White
Songs for the Deaf – Kenneth Alan Silver
Dreams and Illusions – Rebecca Olmstead
The Price of Passion – Artemios John Korkidis
The Pact – Lisa Darcy
What it Takes to Kill a Bull Moose – Michael Fedor
HISTORY:
WINNER: Dreamsville – Jon Burlingame
RUNNER-UP:
Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown – Annie Dawid
SCREENPLAYS:
WINNER: Second Life – James Sniechowski
RUNNER-UP: Mr. Perfect – Judith Sherven
SEQUELS:
WINNER: Esteban: Love’s Irony – Fish Nealman