For the past seven years, SparkPoint Studio’s hybrid publishing imprints—She Writes Press and SparkPress—have swept the indie book awards season, taking home more book award finalist and winner accolades than any other indie publisher. As of January 2022, both imprints are already on track to sweep the awards season once again for the seventh year in a row.

In summer 2020, She Writes Press and SparkPress collectively hit over 1000 award and finalist titles! Now, She Writes Press and SparkPress titles have reached the landmark of over 1,700 award and finalist titles collectively with the 2022 indie awards seasons.

So far, highlights from 2022 include 336 winner and finalist titles:

  • 3 winners in the Literary Titan Book Awards: The Sound of Wings by Suzanne Simonetti; The Lockhart Women by Mary Camarillo; Ice Out by Susan Speranza
  • 2 winners in the Nonfiction Book Awards: Involuntary Exit by Robin Merle; Saint Hildegard by Susan Garthwaite
  • 5 finalists in the Sarton Book Awards: America Calling by Rajika Bhandari (Memoir); Bless the Birds by Susan Tweit (Memoir); The Sound Between the Notes by Barbara Linn Probst (Contemporary Fiction); Finding Napoleon by Margaret Rodenberg (Historical Fiction); Dovetails in Tall Grass by Samantha Specks (Historical Fiction)
  • 1 winner in the Feathered Quill Book Awards: Ninety-Nine Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill (Silver Award in Memoir/Biography)
  • 1 Semi-Finalist in the 2021 Kindle Book Awards: After Happily Ever After by Leslie Rasmussen (Literary Fiction)
  • 3 winners and 12 distinguished favorites in the Independent Press Awards:
    • 3 winners: Em’s Awful Good Fortune by Marcie Maxfield (Contemporary Novel); The Parrot’s Perch by Karen Keilt (Memoir); and The Sound of Wings by Suzanne Simonetti (Women’s Fiction)
    • 12 distinguished favorites: The Sound of Wings by Suzanne Simonetti (Book Cover Design—Fiction); After Happily Ever After by Leslie A. Rasmussen (Contemporary Novel); Butterfly Awakens by Meg Nocero (Inspirational/Motivational); Leading for Justice by Rita Sever (Leadership); Match by Amy S. Peele (Medical Thriller); Fatherless, Fearless, Female by Mary Charity Kruger Stein (Memoir); Shooting Out the Lights by Kim Fairley (Memoir); Twice a Daughter by Julie Ryan McGue (Parenting & Family); What’s Not True by Valerie Taylor (Romantic Comedy); On Traigh Lar Beach by Diane Ebertt Beeaff (Short Stories); My Famous Brain by Diane Wald (Visionary Fiction); Ski Weekend by Rekotk Ross (Young Adult Fiction)
  • 4 winners in the 2022 Reader Views Literary Awards: The Sound of Wings by Suzanne Simonetti (Overall Grand Prize Silver Award in Fiction and Gold Award in General Fiction/Novel); After Happily Ever After by Leslie A. Rasmussen (Silver Award in General Fiction/Novel); Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill (Bronze Award in Memoir/Autobiography/Biography); Ski Weekend by Rektok Ross (Bronze Award in Young Adult)
  • 7 winners and 17 finalists in the 2021 Foreword INDIES Awards
    • 7 winners: My Famous Brain by Diane Wald (Bronze Winner in General); Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrom (Silver Winner in Religious Adult Fiction); Em’s Awful Good Fortune by Marcie Maxfield (Silver Winner in Humor); The Sensitive One by Susan Frances Morris (Gold Winner in Autobiography & Memoir); Saint Hildegard by Susan Garthwaite (Honorable Mention in Religion); A September to Remember by Carole Bumpus (Bronze Winner in Travel); Dovetails in Tall Grass by Samantha Specks (Bronze Winner in Historical Adult Fiction)
    • 17 finalists: Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrom (General Adult Fiction); Nostalgia Is Heartless by Sarah Lahey (Science Fiction); The Happiness Thief by Nicole Bokat (Thriller & Suspense); America Calling by Rajika Bhandari (Autobiography & Memoir); You’ll Never Find Us by Jeanne Baker Guy (Autobiography & Memoir); Irma’s Passport by Catherine Ehrlich (Biography); Awaken to Your Calling by Randi Benator (Career); Odyssey of Ashes by Cheryl Krauter (Grief/Grieving); The Good Widow by Jennifer Katz (Grief/Grieving); Heart Radical by Anne Liu Kellor (Multicultural); No Spring Chicken by Francine Falk-Allen (Travel)
  • 2 finalists in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition: Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash by Tammy Pasterick; The Lockhart Women by Mary Camarillo
  • 4 winners, 11 finalists, and 5 honorable mentions in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards
    • 1 winner, 4 finalists, and 5 honorable mentions in the Category section:
      • 1 winner: Paper Airplanes by Tabitha Forney (General Fiction)
      • 4 finalists: Ice Out by Susan Speranza; Nostalgia Is Heartless by Sarah Lahey; The Book of Calm by Nancy G. Shapiro; When the Red Gates Opened by Dori Jones Yang
      • 5 honorable mentions: After Happily Ever After by Leslie A. Rasmussen (Commercial Fiction); Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill (Memoir); One Pound, Twelve Ounces by Melissa Harris (Memoir); These Walls Between Us by Wendy Sanford (Memoir); Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash by Tammy Pasterick (Historical Fiction)
    • 2 winners and 3 finalists of the da Vinci Eye
      • 2 winners: The Book of Calm by Nancy G. Shapiro; You’ll Never Find Us by Jeanne Baker Guy
      • 3 finalists: One Pound, Twelve Ounces by Melissa Harris; When the Red Gates Opened by Dori Jones Yang, What They Didn’t Burn by Mel Laytner
    • 1 winner and 4 finalists of the First Horizon
      • 1 winner: Paper Airplanes by Tabitha Forney
      • 4 finalists: Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash by Tammy Pasterick; Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill; One Pound, Twelve Ounces by Melissa Harris; These Walls Between Us by Wendy Sanford
  • 2 first-place winners in the 2022 BookFest Book Awards: Butterfly Awakens by Meg Nocero (Non-Fiction: Self-Help – Inspiration, Motivation & Transformation); Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill (Non-Fiction: Memoirs)
  • 2 winners and 3 finalists in the 2021 Sarton Book Awards:
    • 2 winners: Bless the Birds by Susan Tweit (Memoir); The Sound Between the Notes by Barbara Linn Probst (Contemporary Fiction)
    • 3 finalists: America Calling by Rajika Bhandari (Memoir); Finding Napoleon by Margaret Rodenberg (Historical Fiction); Dovetails in Tall Grass by Samantha Specks (Historical Fiction)
  • 1 winner in the 2022 London Book Festival: Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill
  • 10 winners in the Firebird Book Awards: The Moon Always Rising by Alice C. Early (First Place in Cross Genre; Magical Realism; New Fiction; Women’s Fiction); So Happy Together by Deborah K. Shepherd (First Place in Marriage, Third Place in New Fiction; Relationships); First Date Stories by Jodi Klein (First Place in Short Stories, Second Place in Relationships, Third Place in New Nonfiction)
  • 5 winners and 2 finalists in the in the Book Excellence Awards
    • 5 winners: Hippie Chick by Ilene English (Women’s Non-Fiction); Ice Out by Susan Speranza (Fiction); The Sound of Wings by Suzanne Simonetti (Friendship); Love in Any Language by Evelyn LaTorre (Multicultural Non-Fiction); Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill (Memoir)
    • 2 finalists: My Famous Brain by Diane Wald (Fiction); Em’s Awful Good Fortune by Marcie Maxfield (Fiction)
  • 22 winners in the IPPY Awards:
    • Gold Medals: The Liability of Love by Susan Schoenberger (Popular Fiction); The Artist Colony by Joanna FitzPatrick (Mystery); Fifty First Dates After Fifty by Carolyn Lee Arnold (Sexuality/Relationships); Sugar Birds by Cheryl Bostrom (Best First Book – Fiction); Blooming in Winter by Pamela Valois (West-Pacific – Best Regional Non-Fiction); Attachments by Jeff Arch (Best Adult Fiction E-Book)
    • Silver Medals: My Famous Brain by Diane Wald (Visionary/New Age Fiction); When the Red Gates Opened by Dori Jones Yang (Autobiography II – Coming of Age/Family); You’ll Never Find Us by Jeanne Baker Guy (Autobiography III – Personal Struggle/Health Issues); In Our Blood by Caitlin Billings (Parenting); Anarchy in High Heels by Denise Larson (Women’s Issues); Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash by Tammy Pasterick (Mid-Atlantic – Best Regional Fiction); All’s Fair and Other California Stories by Linda Feyder (West-Pacific – Best Regional Fiction); The Long-Lost Jules by Jane Elizabeth Hughes (Popular Fiction)
    • Bronze Medals: Match by Amy S. Peele (Mystery); Heart Radical by Anne Liu Kellor (Multicultural Non-Fiction); America Calling by Rajika Bhandari (Creative Non-Fiction); Seeing Eye Girl by Beverly J. Armento (Autobiography II – Coming of Age/Family); Awaken to Your Calling by Randi Benator (Self Help); Paper Airplanes by Tabitha Forney (Best First Book – Fiction); In the Aftermath by Jane Ward (Great Lakes – Best Regional Fiction); The Lives of Diamond Bessie by Jody Hadlock (Historical Fiction)
  • 1 winner in the Human Relations Indie Book Awards: Fifty First Dates After Fifty by Carolyn Lee Arnold (Gold Winner – Motivational Memoir, Silver Winner – Inspirational and Personal Relationship Memoir)
  • 4 winners in the Nautilus Book Awards: Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrom (Silver Winner in Fiction / Large Publisher); The Sound Between the Notes by Barbara Linn Probst (Silver Winner in Fiction / Large Publisher); These Walls Between Us by Wendy Sanford (Silver Winner in Memoir / Large Publisher); Saint Hildegard by Susan Garthwaite (Silver Winner in Religion-Spirituality / Western Traditions)
  • 7 winners and 32 finalists in the International Book Awards
    • 7 winners: Twice a Daughter by Julie Ryan McGue (Parenting & Family); Where Do You Hang Your Hammock? by Bella Mahaya Carter (Business: Writing/Publishing); Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrom (Fiction: Cross-Genre and Fiction: Inspirational); All’s Fair and Other California Stories by Linda Feyder (Fiction: Short Story); When the Red Gates Opened by Dori Jones Yang (History: General); Fifty First Dates After Fifty by Carolyn Lee Arnold (Women’s Issues / Women’s Studies)
    • 32 finalists: Long Shadows by Abbie Cutter (Best Cover Design: Fiction); Attribution by Linda Moore (Best New Fiction); Estelle by Stewart Henley (Best New Fiction); Twice a Daughter by Julie Ryan McGue (Best New Nonfiction,  Nonfiction: Narrative, and Women’s Issues / Women’s Studies); Untethered by Laura Whitfield (Best New Nonfiction); Sugar Birds by Cheryl Grey Bostrom (Fiction: General and Fiction: Literary); Nostalgia is Heartless by Sarah Lahey (Fiction: Cross-Genre and Fiction: Science Fiction); Waterbury Winter by Linda Stewart Henley (Fiction: General); Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash by Tammy Pasterick (Fiction: Historical); The Artist Colony by Joanna FitzPatrick (Fiction: Historical); The Sound of Wings by Suzanne Simonetti (Fiction: Literary); Del Rio by Jane Rosenthal (Fiction: Mystery/Suspense); Ice Out by Susan Speranza (Fiction: Visionary); Finding Grace by Maren Cooper (Fiction: Women’s Fiction); Mt. Moriah’s Wake by Melissa Norton Carro (Fiction: Women’s Fiction); Em’s Awful Good Fortune by Marcie Maxfield (Humor/Comedy/Satire); In Our Blood by Caitlin Billings (LGBTQ Nonfiction); Fifty First Dates After Fifty by Carolyn Lee Arnold (New Age: Nonfiction and Nonfiction: Narrative);  Prohibition Wine by Marian Leah Knapp (Nonfiction: Creative); Butterfly Awakens by Meg Nocero (Nonfiction: Inspirational); Shooting Out the Lights by Kim Fairley (Parenting & Family)
  • 7 winners and 16 finalists in the 16th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards
    • 7 winners: Final Table by Dan Schorr (Literary Fiction); Attachments by Jeff Arch (Regional Fiction: Northeast); Ski Weekend by Rektok Ross (Teen Fiction); The Field House by Robin Clifford Wood (Biography: Historical); Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash by Tammy Pasterick (Historical Fiction); You’ll Never Find Us by Jeanne Baker Guy (Memoir); Where Do You Hang Your Hammock? by Bella Mahaya Carter (Writing & Publishing)
    • 16 finalists: Final Table by Dan Schorr (Political Thriller); Attachments by Jeff Arch (New Fiction); The Long-Lost Jules by Jane Elizabeth Hughes (Women’s Fiction); Where Do You Hang Your Hammock? by Bella Mahaya Carter (Self-Help: General); My Famous Brain by Diane Wald (New Fiction and Visionary Fiction); Twice a Daughter by Julie Ryan McGue (Parenting & Family); Nostalgia is Heartless by Sarah Lahey (Science Fiction); Paper Airplanes by Tabitha Forney (Women’s Fiction and Literary Fiction); The Sound Between the Notes by Barbara Linn Probst (Women’s Fiction); Hope is a Bright Star by Faith Fuller Wilcox (Grief); Butterfly Awakens by Meg Nocero (Inspiration); Em’s Awful Good Fortune by Marcie Maxfield (Marriage); These Walls Between Us by Wendy Sanford (Multicultural Non-Fiction); Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill (Memoir)
  • 1 finalist in the U.S. Selfies Book Awards: Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill (Autobiography/Memoir)
  • 1 winner in the Illumination Book Awards: Saint Hildegard by Susan Garthwaite (Gold Medalist in Spirituality)
  • 15 1st Place winners and 20 finalists in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards
    • 1st Place winners:
      • CYGNUS Book Awards: Nostalgia Is Heartless by Sarah Lahey
      • CHAUCER Book Awards: The Lines Between Us by Rebecca D’Harlingue
      • CLUE Book Awards: Match by Amy S. Peele
      • CHATELAINE Book Awards: What’s Not Said by Valerie Taylor
      • DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards: Ski Weekend by Rektok Ross
      • NELLIE BLY Book Awards: When the Red Gates Opened by Dori Jones Yang
      • GOETHE Book Awards: Winter’s Reckoning by Adele Holmes, M.D.
      • Military & Front Lines Book Awards: Fly Safe by Vicki Cody and The World Looks Different Now by Margaret Thomson
      • MYSTERY & MAYHEM Book Awards: Cold Snap: A Viking Cat Mystery by Codi Schneider
      • HEARTEN Book Awards: Butterfly Awakens by Meg Nocero
      • SERIES Awards: Medical Murder Mystery by Amy S. Peele (1st place in Murder Mysteries)
      • JOURNEY Book Awards: Fortunate Daughter by Rosie McMahan and The Art of Losing It by Rosemary Keevil
      • SOMERSET Book Awards: The Sound Between the Notes by Barbara Linn Probst
  • 4 winners and 12 finalists in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards: 
    • 4 winners: Where Do You Hang Your Hammock? by Bella Mahaya Carter (Writing/Publishing (Non-Fiction)); The Art of Reassembly by Peg Conway (Parenting/Family (Non-Fiction)); The Artist Colony by Joanna FitzPatrick (Regional (Fiction)); The Long-Lost Jules by Jane Elizabeth Hughes (Mystery)
    • 13 finalists: The Art of Reassembly by Peg Conway (Memoirs (Overcoming Adversity/Tragedy)); Hippie Chick, Coming of Age in the 60’s by Ilene English (Best Cover Design (Non-Fiction)); Fish Heads and Duck Skin by Lindsey Salatka (Chick Lit (Fiction)); My Famous Brain by Diane Wald (General Fiction/Novel and Paranormal); Sugar Birds Cheryl Grey Bostrom (General Fiction/Novel); Mt. Moriah’s Wake by Melissa Norton Carro (Inspirational (Fiction)); Fifty First Dates After Fifty by Carolyn Lee Arnold (Memoirs (Other)); These Walls Between Us by Wendy Sanford (Memoirs (Other) and Social Justice); First Date Stories by Jodi Klein (Relationships (Non-Fiction)); The Treehouse on Dog River Road by Catherine Drake (Romance (Fiction)); Em’s Awful Good Fortune by Marcie Maxfield (Women’s Issues (Non-Fiction)); The Lives of Diamond Bessie by Jody Hadlock (Paranormal and Suspense); Ski Weekend by Rektok Ross (Young New Adult (Fiction, 17 Years and Up))
  • 1 honorable mention in the New York Book Festival: Untethered by Laura Whitfield (Biography/Autobiography/Memoir)
  • 1 winner in the Maincrest Media Book Awards: Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill
  • 7 winners in the Living Now Book Awards:
    • Gold Medals: Fifty First Dates After Fifty by Carolyn Lee Arnold (Relationships/Marriage); Feeling Fate by Joni Sensel (Aging/Death & Dying); Waterbury Winter by Linda Stewart Henley (General Fiction)
    • Silver Medals: Sidelined by Susan Salenger (Sexuality/Femininity);  Mother Lode by Gretchen Staebler (Living/Caregiving); Butter Side Up by Jane Enright (Health & Wellness)
    • Bronze Medal: Dear Dana by Amy W. Daughters (World Peace)
  • 2 honorees in the WILLA Literary Awards: The Lockhart Women by Mary Camarillo (Multiform Fiction); Ski Weekend by Rektok Ross (Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction)
  • 1 winner in the Maxy Awards: What’s Not True by Valerie Taylor (Romance & Women’s Fiction)
  • 14 honorees in the Readers’ Favorite Book Awards:
    • 1 Folio Literary Management winner: You’ll Never Find Us by Jeanne Baker Guy
    • 3 gold medals: First Date Stories by Jodi Klein (Non-Fiction – Anthology); Attachments by Jeff Arch (Fiction – General); Final Table by Dan Schorr (Fiction – Thriller – Political)
    • 2 silver medals: You’ll Never Find Us by Jeanne Baker Guy (Non-Fiction – Memoir); Em’s Awful Good Fortune by Marcie Maxfield (Fiction – Realistic)
    • 2 bronze medals: My Famous Brain by Diane Wald (Fiction – Visionary); Dovetails in Tall Grass by Samantha Specks (Fiction – Western)
    • 5 finalists: Waterbury Winter by Linda Stewart Henley (Fiction – General); The Blue Butterfly by Leslie Johansen Nack (Fiction – Historical – Personage); Threads of Awakening by Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo (Non-Fiction – Art/Photography); Untethered by Laura Whitfield (Non-Fiction – Grief/Hardship); One Pound, Twelve Ounces by Melissa Harris (Non-Fiction – Women’s)
    • 2 honorable mentions: Seeing Eye Girl by Beverly J. Armento (Non-Fiction – Autobiography); What They Didn’t Burn by Mel Laytner (Non-Fiction – Historical)
  • 2 gold winners in the eLit Book Awards: Paper Airplanes by Tabitha Forney (Literary Fiction); Attachmentsby Jeff Arch (Popular Fiction)
  • 5 winners and finalists in the American Fiction Awards:
    • 5 winners: He Gets That from Me by Jacqueline Friedland (Family Saga, General Fiction, and LGBTQ+ Fiction); Long Shadows by Abigail Cutter (Best Cover Design: Adult Fiction); The Lives of Diamond Bessie by Jody Hadlock (Cross Genre Fiction)
    • 7 finalists: Long Shadows by Abigail Cutter (General Fiction); Waterbury Winter by Linda Stewart Henley (Cross Genre Fiction); The Lives of Diamond Bessie by Jody Hadlock (Historical Fiction, Mystery/Suspense: Historical, and Women’s Fiction); Love in the Age of Dragons by Fatima R. Henson (Multicultural Fiction and Science Fiction: Post-Apocalyptic)
  • 8 winners and distinguished favorites in the  NYC Big Book Awards:
    • 3 winners: Em’s Awful Good Fortune by Marcie Maxfield (Contemporary Novel); Match by Amy S. Peele (Medical Mystery/Thriller); Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill (Memoir)
    • 6 distinguished favorites: Em’s Awful Good Fortune by Marcie Maxfield (Audiobook Fiction); Finding Napoleon by Margaret Rodenberg (Historical Fiction); Butterfly Awakens by Meg Nocero (Inspiration); Fatherless, Fearless, Female by Mary Charity Kruger Stein (Memoir); Ice Out by Susan Speranza (Visionary Fiction)
  • 1 winner in the Paris Book Festival: Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill (Biography/Autobiography/Memoir)
  • 4 honorees in the Top Shelf Awards:
    • 2 first place winners: Finding Napoleon by Margaret Rodenberg (Fiction – Literary); Indelible by Laurie Buchanan (Fiction – Crime)
    • 2 honorable mentions: On Traigh Lar Beach by Dianne Ebertt Beeaff (Fiction – Literary); Indelible by Laurie Buchanan (Fiction – Suspense)
    • 1 runner up: After Happily Ever After by Leslie A. Rasmussen (Fiction – Women’s)
  • 1 gold winner in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards: Love in the Age of Dragons by Fatima R. Henson (Young Adult Fiction – Fantasy/Sci-Fi)
  • 2 honorees in the Global Book Awards:
    • Gold medal: The Lives of Diamond Bessie by Jody Hadlock (Women’s Fiction)
    • Silver medal: The Lives of Diamond Bessie by Jody Hadlock (Mistral – Historical Fiction)
    • Finalist: All’s Fair And Other California Stories by Linda Feyder (Short Stories)
  • 1 winner in the Indie Author Project Regional Contest: The Lockhart Women by Mary Camarillo (California in Adult Fiction)
  • 4 honorees in the American Writing Awards:
    • 1 winner: Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill (Autobiography/Memoir)
    • 7 finalists: Butterfly Awakens by Meg Nocero (Autobiography/Memoir, Best Cover Design – Non-Fiction, Narrative Non-Fiction); So Happy Together by Deborah K. Shepherd (Best New (Debut) Fiction, Fiction – Women’s Fiction); The Lockhart Women by Mary Camarillo (Fiction – General, Fiction – Women’s Fiction)
  • 12 honorees in the Best Book Awards:
    • 1 winner: The River by Starlight by Ellen Notbohm (Legacy: Fiction)
    • 12 finalists: What’s Not True by Valerie Taylor (Fiction: Literary and Fiction: Women’s Fiction); Ice Out by Susan Speranza (Fiction: Visionary); Making the Rounds by Patricia Grayhall (LGBTQ+: Nonfiction); Promenade of Desire by Isidra Mencos (Finalist in Multicultural: Nonfiction); Ivy Lodge by Linda Murphy Marshall (Nonfiction: Creative); Does My Voice Matter? by Cynthia James (Spirituality: Inspirational); Tracing Inca Trails by Eddy Ancinas (Travel: Guides & Essays); Love in the Age of Dragons by Fatima R. Henson (Fiction: Science Fiction); Reign Returned by Katie Keridan (Fiction: Young Adult); A Stream to Follow by Jess Wright (Fiction: Historical); The Fun Master by Jeff Seitzer (Nonfiction: Creative)
  • 8 wins in the Outstanding Creator Awards: Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill (Grand-Prize 1st Place Winner of “Best Non-Fiction Book of Fall 2022”; Ranked #5 in “Top 25 Nonfiction Books of the Year”; 1st Place Winner in Autobiographies, Biographies, and Memoirs; 1st Place Winner in Audiobook; 1st Place Winner in Personal Growth; 1st Place Winner in Multicultural, Multi-Lingual, and Bilingual Books; 1st Place Winner in Women’s Non-Fiction & Women’s Issues; 1st Place Winner in Motivational and Inspirational Books (for Adults); Honorable Mention in “Best Villain”)
  • 1 winner in the Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Awards: Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill (Grand Prize Competition Winner)
  • 1 honorable mention in the Royal Dragonfly Book Awards: Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops by Allison Hong Merrill (Biography/Autobiography/Memoir)