Page Turner Awards is delighted to announce our 2023 Book Award Finalists, shown in random order!
Please join us in congratulating these rising stars by leaving them a comment at the bottom of their finalist submission. Click 'see more' to read their submission. And you can also congratulate the writers in our forum.
Wherever you see duplicate faces, it's not a mistake, those writers are to be applauded for having more than one submission reach the finals! These authors will be in the running to win our Best Author Award or the Best Book Series Award.
Also browse through the list of Best Book Cover Finalists - these submissions are judged on the book cover, not the written submission.
Find finalists by adding a first name or surname into the search box below. Please only search by the author's name.
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Michele E. Gwynn for "SECTION 5"
Michele E. Gwynn is an award-winning Bestselling Author and former freelance journalist from San Antonio, Texas. She has worked in newspaper and contributed online to sites like Examiner.com, Yahoo Voices, and Salon.com. She has also worked as a senior editor for FashionErotica.com, written for Film
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Anne Allen for "The Inheritance"
Anne Allen lives in Devon but originates from Rugby. Finding early on in life that she loved the sea she spent most of her adult years moving from one coast to another. Her happiest time was spent in Guernsey where she lived for nearly 14 years and her books are all set on that beautiful island
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Nikki Auberkett for "Prax"
Nikki Auberkett is a cultural anthropologist, developmental editor, and overall passionate storyteller. With nearly 15 years of research and exploration into global folklore and mythology, biblical archaeology, and all things weird and unusual, she weaves her research and social science expertise
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A.R. Vagnetti Vagnetti for "Forgotten Storm (Storm Series Book 1) A Revised and Extended Edition"
A.R. Vagnetti is an American writer who grew up in the scalding Tucson desert. She does her best writing while camping, traveling, and on the beautiful shores of Lake Huron, where she is now blessed to spend her summers away from the Arizona heat. A.R. loves to transport readers into a fantastical
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Claire Merchant for "Dangerously Captivating"
Claire Merchant is an Australian author and storyteller. She is best known for her collection of fantasy, contemporary, and romance novels set in fictional South Coast. In 2019, Claire won ‘Top Female Author’ in the Fantasy and Romance categories as voted by The Authors Show.
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Nikki Auberkett for "Ithandryll"
Nikki Auberkett is a cultural anthropologist, developmental editor, and overall passionate storyteller. With nearly 15 years of research and exploration into global folklore and mythology, biblical archaeology, and all things weird and unusual, she weaves her research and social science expertise
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Matthew Corry for "Book"
Having grown up as the son of an English teacher, I'm no stranger to writing. I was in nine car crashes before I was fifteen, and after some serious injuries ended up quite secluded, and reading was, predictably, one of my favourite escapes - no doubt the influence of my mother. Having since taken a
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Kindrie Grove for "The Messenger From Myris Dar, Book One of The Stone Guardians"
I am a mid-career, multi-disciplinary Canadian creative working with fantasy and animal subjects through the mediums of cast bronze, oil painting, traditional drawing and novel writing. My work is play! Inspiration drives me and I move between projects and mediums as they require attention. My
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Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop Alsop for "DAUGHTER OF SPIES: Wartime Secrets, Family Lies"
Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop is the author of over 50 works of fiction for adults and children under the pen name Elizabeth Winthrop. These include the award-winning fantasy series, The Castle in the Attic and The Battle for the Castle as well as the short story, The Golden Darters, read on the
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Walt Larimore for "At First Light: A True World War II Story of a Hero, His Bravery, and an Amazing Horse"
Walt Larimore is a best-selling author who resides in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. He has written or co-written 41 books and over 1200 articles in dozens of publications. As an author, his books have garnered a number of American awards and his international writing awards include Page Turner
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E. C. Pecha for "When the Spider Strikes"
E. C. Pecha is an award-winning screenwriter, novelist, and all-around weirdo. She has devoured mystery books since she first learned how to read, immersing herself in the twisting plots and gasp-inducing surprises. Now, she is passionate about writing her own, including her debut novel When the
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Gina aka Angela Solomon aka Bardot for "The Life and Times of Angie Bardot"
I found myself thrown into the singles arena when my 36-year marriage failed without any knowledge of how to navigate my way through. The many pitfalls I experienced ranged from misery to mayhem with lots of laughter in between. I learnt the thing one must never lose sight of is their sense of
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Stephen Watts for "Searching for Charles: The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant's American Adventure"
The child of an Air Force family, Stephen Watts was born in West Germany. He is a direct descendant of Charles Watts. Stephen began organizing his family’s archive of genealogy files, tracing his lineage, and transcribing the Charles Watts correspondence in 1996. He has since found his family’s
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Alex Thornbury for "The Bridge to Magic"
Alex Thornbury is an award-winning author. She grew up in Cheshire UK, and developed deep love of history and fantasy thanks to the many castles she visited as a child. Though she grew up to be an Alchemist by trade, she never stopped fantasising about other worlds, dragons and epic battles. She has
Angela Fish for "The Fractured Globe"
Angela Fish is a writer who specialises in intergenerational communication, women’s writing and Welsh Writing in English. She gained her MPhil in Literature at the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales) in 1995 and became a principal lecturer there until 2009. From 2004 - 2009
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Liesbet Collaert for "Plunge - One Woman's Pursuit of a Life Less Ordinary"
Liesbet Collaert’s articles and photos have been published internationally. Born in Belgium, she has been a nomad since 2003 with no plans to settle anytime soon. Her love of travel, diversity, and animals is reflected in her lifestyle choices of sailing, RVing, and house and pet sitting. Liesbet
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Kathleen Stone for "Hey Jude"
Kathleen has been a freelance writer since 1999 and now writes full time. Her work has appeared in Doll World Magazine, Apolloslyre.com, The Lake County Journals, Trails.com; USA Today (travel), Livestrong.com (lifestyle), Essortment, eHow, Answerbag, Examiner.com, Suite101 and YahooVoices. She is
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Stella Harvey for "Nicolai's Daughters"
Stella Leventoyannis Harvey is a fiction writer whose short stories have appeared in The Literary Leanings Anthology, The New Orphic Review, Emerge Magazine and The Dalhousie Review. Her non-fiction has appeared in Pique Newsmagazine, The Question and the Globe and Mail. Signature Editions published
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Dianne Beeaff for "On Traigh Lar Beach"
Dianne Ebertt Beeaff has been a professional writer for many years beginning in the area of magazine journalism. She has had six books published, the latest being the short story collection On Traigh Lar Beach. She lives in Tucson, Arizona with her husband, Dan.
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Paresh Patel for "MAYA MYSUN & The World That Does Not Exist"
PM Perry is an aspiring new author who lives and works in London, where he divides his time between writing, working, and spending time with his family. Surprisingly he writes both fiction and non-fiction books. ‘Maya Mysun &; the World that does not Exist' is his first novel based on a children’s
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Maggie Smith for "Truth and Other Lies"
In a career that’s included work as a journalist, a psychologist, and the founder of a national art consulting company, Maggie Smith has added novelist to her resume with the publication of her debut, Truth and Other Lies, in March 2022. In addition to her writing, Maggie hosts the weekly podcast
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Stella Harvey for "The Brink of Freedom"
Stella Leventoyannis Harvey is a fiction writer whose short stories have appeared in The Literary Leanings Anthology, The New Orphic Review, Emerge Magazine and The Dalhousie Review. Her non-fiction has appeared in Pique Newsmagazine, The Question and the Globe and Mail. Signature Editions published
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Jenny Lewis for "Beginnings"
Jenny is a fantasy and romance author who lives in a city filled with dragons, woodland where the fae hang out, on an airship home to a crew of sky pirates and, sometimes, on the outskirts of Bristol in England. She believes in love at first sight and got married in a zoo. Wherever she is, there is
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Joe Costanzo for "Geodysseus"
Joe (Giuseppe) Costanzo was born in Pedivigliano in the mountains of Calabria in Southern Italy, a town not unlike the fictional Roccamonti in his novel Restoration. Both of his grandfathers were so-called “birds of passage” who frequently traveled back and forth between Italy and America and were
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Emma Carter for "Slaying Monsters Dodging Doughnuts "
Emma was born in a small town in South Wales and now lives in Derbyshire with her two children, a cat who likes nothing more than jumping on her laptop when she is working, and her scruffy but adorable dog who melts everyone’s heart. Emma has always been passionate about helping others, which led
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D. Liebhart for "House on Fire"
D. Liebhart is the developer of the amazingly effective How to be an Unsuccessful Novelist program. One: At fifteen, cultivate infatuation of iconic performer (Think: Bowie, but anyone unattainable will suffice). Analyze lyrics to the exclusion of other pursuits, like say homework. Set goal of
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Genevieve Jenner for "Chocolate Cake for Imaginary Lives"
When Genevieve Jenner was six years old, she liked to play dress up and write stories, and she wanted to be a mermaid. She has finally accepted that being a mermaid isn't the most secure career option, but the other two things have remained constant. Genevieve lives near Bude in North Cornwall.
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Lauren Braden for "Casting Shadows"
L.R. Braden is the bestselling author of the Magicsmith urban fantasy series, the spin-off novel Demon Riding Shotgun, and several works of short fiction. Her writing has won the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Sci-fi/Fantasy, the First Horizon Award for debut authors, the Imadjinn Award for Best Urban
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Harker Jones for "Until September"
Harker Jones holds a degree in written communication and literature from Eastern Michigan University. He has written two novels (including the Amazon #1 best-seller “Until September”) and seven screenplays. His short thriller “Cole & Colette” won the Get It Made Short-Form Screenplay Competition and
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James Wadsworth for "The Ark Project: The Clone Paradox"
J.W. Elliot is a professional historian, martial artist, canoer, bow builder, knife maker, woodturner, and rock climber. He has a Ph.D. in Latin American and World History. He has lived in Idaho, Oklahoma, Brazil, Arizona, Portugal, and Massachusetts. He writes non-fiction works of history about the
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Rita Baid for "39 Plus One"
Ragh Bir’s family arrived in the UK in the early 1960’s. Born in the Summer of Love, in Slough, Berkshire, she found growing up in a family with a strict Indian father challenging to her free-spirited nature. Her Indian upbringing was neither traditional, nor, contemporary, and she found herself
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Ralph Jones for "Welcome to Winkdale"
I write comedy and journalism, and have been published in places like The New Yorker, The Guardian, and Sunday Times Magazine. I have written two books - Welcome to Winkdale and How to Skim a Stone - and my comedy has been shortlisted for awards like the Writers' Guild Award and the BBC Writer's