2026 Golden Writer Award

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Searching for a deeper spiritual connection can be a life-changing quest. But where do we find a God alive and active in the complex tapestry of our lives? In ordinary living, by everyday people. Through a rich narrative of story-telling God Quest – God Discovered in Everyday Places leads to hidden...

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When a soldier impersonates his dead friend to uncover the truth behind a 15-year-old murder, he never expects to fall for the friend’s sister, or to be drawn into a dangerous web of smuggling, revenge killings, and village secrets that could destroy them all.

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Before the body count rises, her newfound powers are needed to find a man who’s controlling vengeful skeleton ghosts and messing with the minds of her magical neighbors. And also, to stop an evil entity from killing again. Without ruining her manicure.

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In Walking Over Wet Paint, a guarded, emotionally reserved editor in vintage togs collides with a charming oncologist in the wake of her mother’s terminal illness, forcing both to re-evaluate their emotional defenses, past patterns, and ideas of permanence.

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A DCI with chronic OCD and a dark past must solve five murders in the corrupt world of dog showing to prove he is worthy of promotion. The trouble is he's afraid of dogs.

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I feel like a cabbage, there must be more to life than home, children and domesticity? The NHS was calling me back after ten years, but who would want to be a nurse? So here it is, the bare and naked truth of nursing. Bums, boobs and basic truths.

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The mysterious resident of an ancient Scottish Castle, embark on a perilous quest to save the spirit guide of a well-known psychic, when a ghost hunting show hosts a live event on Halloween.

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In 1936 Seattle, an actor is having the time of his free-wheeling life, until he meets the woman of his dreams, who won’t let anything get in the way of her acting career. When her twin brother turns up dead, together they unearth a horrific set of murders, and a perpetrator who is untouchable.

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An inspirational story of love and war based on the true account of Makorongo, an East African serviceman who became a prisoner of war to the Japanese but was repatriated by Hans-Werner, his boyhood friend, before America bombed Tokyo in WWII and returned to the girl he left behind.

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In Seattle, 1935, a young girl right out of high school, falls in love with a glamorous older man, entering into a world of elegant gowns, cocktails, and dancing. But when he grows more controlling and violent in his pro-Nazi group, the Silver Shirts, she runs away with the help of an actor (Max)...

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While investigating a criminal mastermind based in the Caribbean, HSI Agent Ryder stumbles across a mysterious woman fleeing her private island villa and flying under the radar. Unwittingly sharing the same ruthless enemy, the secrets they keep from each other leave them both on the edge of peril.

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John Hopkins, a young Irish-American, believes he is worth more than his humble upbringing, so he tries for a job working for George Pullman, industrialist, who is building a futuristic city for his workers. At first, the two men hit it off, but when Pullman’s workers try to unionize, the two men...

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If another version of you warned that your life was about to be sabotaged, would you listen? Berlin author Elena Kugel receives an email from “Elena 12,” claiming to be her from a parallel universe. She ignores it until her unpublished manuscript appears under another name. As her past is erased and...

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A 66-year old Senior Engineer at ToneDef Communications learns he’s been the victim of social engineering and has inadvertently passed highly classified military radio specs to the enemy. Worse still, the attack was perpetrated by his long-time lover.

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When Jonathan Todd risks his wife's dowry to start a cotton printing business in 1754 Scotland, he begins a multi-generation family dynasty. His progeny will expand with a steam invention and other investments, including one in Vermont. The family will surmount business and personal challenges.

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Inspired by the true life mystery of the missing 411, a selection of seemingly random people disappear in the National Parks across the USA. Finding themselves drawn into a dimension inhabited by horrific creatures, they must join forces to navigate this world and find a way back home.

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When sixteen-year-old Lizzie, living in a retirement community with her grandmother, needs to get into college, her stress escalates first by being stalked and later being ensnared in an online attack with compromising photos--and she has no control over any of it. Wisdom awaits her among seniors.

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Making the same mistake twice is careless, even if your last blunder occurred six hundred years ago. At least in the twentieth century, you don't have to wait till your rotten husband dies to be set free.

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When a neural wellness system begins rewriting human thoughts, its creator fakes his death to stop it—while his wife, still under its influence, must reclaim her mind before she’s replaced by a weaponized copy of herself.

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Alma cannot cope with new widowhood, and the family minister takes her son, Robert, into his home. Reverend Charles helps the boy cope with grief and abandonment and teaches the family how to forgive and heal. It is the family that he will one day call his own.

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Heather is forty two and desperate to escape her small, tight world controlled by Mother, so bravely finds a path to trust in the outside world. And in herself.

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