The winners of the 2017 San Diego Book Awards were announced at an awards ceremony held on June 10th, at the Sheraton La Jolla Hotel. The winners in each category are:
BUSINESS
Andy Newborn for “Coffee Spanish for Coffee Buyers”
GENERAL NONFICTION
Nicholas Clapp for “Virginia City”
SCIENCE
Jeff Moore for “Aloes & Agaves in Cultivation”
SCI-FI/FANTASY
Marie Andreas for “The Glass Gargoyle”
SUSPENSE
Neal Griffin for “A Voice From the Field”
YOUNG ADULT
Dominic Carrillo for “The Improbable Rise of Paco Jones”
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Kathryn Cloward and Samantha Prince for “Kathryn the Grape’s Kindness Confetti”
CHILDREN'S NONFICTION
Rosemary Wood for “Samurai”
MEMOIR
Lee Silber (“Sunshine”) and Penelope James (“Getting Rid of Ian”)
CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Eric Peterson for “The Dining Car”
GENERAL FICTION
Tammy Greenwood for “Where I Lost Her”
HISTORICAL FICTION
George Berger for “Four Nails”
HISTORICAL ROMANCE
Regan Walker for“To Tame the Wind”
GENERAL ROMANCE
Robert Richard for “Autumn Breeze”
SPIRITUAL/INSPIRATION
Naomi Lake for “Bone Tales”
COOKBOOK
Jean-Paul Weber for “A Promenade Through Jean-Paul’s Kitchen”
MYSTERY
M. Lee Buompensiero for “Summerland”
HISTORY
C.S. Purdy for “The Equine Legacy”
SELF-HELP/PSYCHOLOGY
Shelli Cosak for “Your Living Legacy”
SHORT STORIES
Patricia Benke for “Qudeen the Magnificent”
MILITARY/POLITICAL
Jay Stout for “Hell’s Angels”
POETRY
Marianne Smith Johnson for “Tender Collisions.”
The best-in-show Geisel Award went to Priscilla Lister for “Take a Hike,” which is a guide to trails in San Diego County. The prize for best unpublished work went to Aida Dennehy, for her novel, “In the Shadow of the Prophet.”
Congratulations to all of the winners!
