HOLLYWOOD BOOK FESTIVAL NAMES ‘1968’ FOR TOP HONORS

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:


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:

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
  • Walter’s Warrior Worms - 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
  • Walter’s Warrior Worms - 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
  • 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