2024 FINALISTS & WINNERS
FIRE 2024 Book Awards
FINALISTS!!
​2024 Psychology — Find Your Happy Place — David Bossert
2024 Suspense / Thriller — Murder by Storm — Russell Little
2024 Young Adult — Forever Boy — Michael J. Bowler
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Embers 2019-2023 Book Awards
FINALISTS
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2023 Suspense / Thriller — Insidious Dragon — Marc Liebman
2023 Fantasy — Runes of the Dokkrsdottir — Bjorn Leesson
2022 Historical Fiction — Ghost of the Rio Grande — Don A. Holbrook
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HONORABLE MENTION IN DESIGN
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Best Overall Fiction Book Design
2022 HISTORICAL FICTION — Ghost of the Rio Grande — Don A. Holbrook
Best Overall Nonfiction Book Design
2024 BUSINESS — Briefly Speaking — Deborah Shames & David Booth
Best Fiction Cover Design
2023 FANTASY — Runes of the Dokkrsdottir — Bjorn Leesson
Best Nonfiction Cover Design
2023 MEMOIR — Light Come out of the Closet — Roger Leslie
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2024 FIRE GOLD MEDAL AWARD FINALISTS
2024 BUSINESS — Briefly Speaking — Deborah Shames & David Booth
2024 FANTASY — The Untold Prophecy — Jonni Jordyn
2024 SUSPENSE / THRILLER — Murder by Storm — Russell Little
2024 SELF HELP — From Wall Street to the White House and Back — Anthony Scaramucci
2024 PSYCHOLOGY — Find Your Happy Place — David Bossert
2024 ROMANTIC FICTION — Threadbare — Jane Loeb Rubin
2024 YOUNG ADULT — Forever Boy — Michael J. Bowler
2024 LGBTQ+ — No Stranger Christmas — Roger Leslie
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2024 EMBERS GOLD MEDAL AWARD FINALISTS
Years 2019 - 2023
2023 FANTASY — Runes of the Dokkrsdottir — Bjorn Leesson
2023 SUSPENSE / THRILLER — Insidious Dragon — Marc Liebman
2023 MEMOIR — Light Come out of the Closet — Roger Leslie
2023 YOUNG ADULT — Necromancer’s Sorrow — David F. Balog
2022 SCIENCE FICTION — Inertia — Mark Everglade
2022 HISTORICAL FICTION — Ghost of the Rio Grande — Don A. Holbrook
2022 GENERAL FICTION — Between February and November — Patti Lee
2021 YOUNG ADULT — Uncle Zwizzler’s Circus Galaxica — CC Rosenquist
2020 PARENTING & FAMILY — The Art of Story Keeping — Tamra McAnally Bolton