The San Francisco Book Festival is holding a FREE and open to the public daytime book fair and publishing seminar on Saturday, May 18, 2013 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, 450 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102.

The seminar is focused on developments in the fast-changing world of independent and mainstream book publishing, and anyone with an interest in the field is urged to attend. Authors and publishers will be exhibiting their works and we will have special readings scheduled throughout the day.

For more information:

• visit www.sanfranciscobookfestival.com or
•  reach us at SanFranciscoBKFest@sbcglobal.net or
•  call 323-665-8080

The 2013 DIY Music Festival is being presented in partnership with Hunnypot Unlimited, a multifaceted music publishing, artist representation, marketing and film/ television placement organization specializing in discovering and cultivating fresh music talent (www.hunnypotunlimited.com).

Joining Loeb will be Pretty Little Demons and Gal Musette, the winners of the DIY Music Festival annual competition for the world’s top independent music acts. They will appear at a private industry showcase for music supervisors and publishers on March 8 in Hollywood.

Loeb launched her career in 1994 with the song,“Stay (I Missed You)”, which was the closing music to the film Reality
Bites. Among her five studio albums is the Grammy-nominated “Firecracker.”

She has since appeared in numerous film, television, voice-over and children’s recording projects, and authored a children’s book.

Pretty Little Demons consists of Lydia Night and Marthy Murphy. The duo are 12 years old and 10 years old, respectively and wrote 5 of the songs on their debut recording, released this month with production by Ethan Allen (BRMC, Donita Sparks, Gram Rabbit).

Gal Musette is 14-years-old and has been a songwriter for several years. In honor of the Magnetic Fields album “69 Love Songs,” she decided to write and record 70 love songs. She played her first show just six months ago and to date has written 40 songs toward her goal of 70.

For More Information:
DIYConvention@aol.com
323-665-8080

LOS ANGELES _ Inspiring poetry that examines a man’s struggle for dignity and acceptance is the grand prize winner of the 2012-2013 Los Angeles Book Festival.

Dr. Neal Hall’s “Nigger for Life” reflects the author’s painful, later life discovery that in “unspoken America,” race is the one thing on which he is first judged and measured. The book examines Dr. Hall’s deep sense of betrayal, yet offers clarity and inspiration while considering a topic often considered taboo. Dr. Hall will be honored at a private reception on Friday, March 8 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood.

Other winners in the competition:

POETRY

WINNER: Nigger for Life – Neal Hall

RUNNER-UP: A Lot to Say, Sumthin To Talk About – Mschell

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• But By the Chance of War – Richard C. Lyons
• If Dreams Come True – Noorah Deen
• A Conscious Guide to Daily Living – Amna Ahktar and Kiran Kaur

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY

WINNER: We Became Mexican-American – Carlos B. Gil

RUNNER-UP: Inside Linda Lovelace’s Deep Throat – Darwin Porter

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Leaving Early – D.F. Waitt
• Freeways to Flip-Flops – Sonia Marsh
• Pure Moxie – Leda Sanford
• Among the Silent Giants – Sharon Porter Moxley with Susan Dregey
• Prague: My Long Journey Home – Charles Ota Heller
• Charlie & Me – Harriet Bronson
• Maidin Iron – Ana Padilla
• Aisha: The Wife, the Companion, the Scholar – Resit Haylamaz
• The Cassius Clay Story – David Coleman
• Flute in the Marching Band – Gwen Simon Gain
• Eagle Rock: Growing Up Rich in Idaho – John David Rose
• A Woman of Interest – Cindy Zimmerman
• The Last Chalkline: The Life and Times of Jack Chevigny – Jeff Walker
• A Tale of Survival – Grace Flores-Hughes
• Across from the Alley Next Door to the Pool Room – Janice L. Booker
• Walking Home – Sarah Cortez
• Clay Hills and Mud Pies – Annie Mary Perez

SCIENCE FICTION

WINNER: The Death of Eve – Shaun Penney

RUNNER-UP: Falling
From Eden, Inc. – Ross Wright

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• The Mercury Vapor Lamp Experience – Howard J. Levinson
• Grapeshot & Demons – Vincent P. Scully

SPIRITUAL

WINNER: A Change of
Habit – Patty Ptak Kogutek

RUNNER-UP: You Were Not Born to Suffer – Blake Bauer

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Power and Illusion Religion and Human Need – David W. Wilbur
• Love & Impasse – Denise Richard
• The First Rose of Summer – Eileen K. Parsons
• Surfing on a Banana Peel – Brona Fanelle
• The Pearl of Great Price – Veronica Hughes
• Witnessing Conversations with Heaven – Susan H. Kastner
• God Was Holding My Hand – Rachel Arterberry
• I Am Here – Marcella Martyn
• The Fool – Dimitrios Papalexis
• Hope’s Ante – Thom Vines
• No Boxing Allowed – Nola Anne Hennessy

YOUNG ADULT

WINNER:The Legend of
Atticus Rex, Book 1: The Amulet – Philippe de Vosjoli/Santiago Jborra
R

UNNER-UP:
Sweetest Taboo – Eva Marquez

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Born, Not Raised: Voices from Juvenile Hall – Susan Madden Lankford
• The Ties That Bind – James Biery
• Super Cowboy Rides – Daris Howard
• Crossroads and the Himilayan Crystals – C. Toni Graham
• Faelorehn – Book 1 of the Otherworld Trilogy – J.E. Johnson
• The Sound and the Echoes – Dew Pellucid
• Leo’s Love Story – Robert Hensley

GENERAL NON-FICTION

WINNER: Exit
Laughing – edited by Victoria Zackheim

RUNNER-UP: Continental Divide: Wildlife,
People and the Border Wall – Krista Schlyer

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Far Distant Echo – Fred Marks and Jay Timmerman
• Just Tell Her To Stop – Becky Henry
• Meritage Divorce – Cheryl Nielsen
• American Guinea Pig – Terence Mix
• 35 Women Building Peace – Kaitlin Barker Davis/Emiko Noma
• Glass Half Full – Curtis E. Margo
• With and Without Her – Dorothy Foltz-Gray
• Oh Brother! – Cliff Fazzolari
• The 4-1-1 on Surviving Teenhood – Michele Sfakianos
• Anatomy of a Hustle – Cllinton E. Galloway
• Diabetes ABC – Dr. Sherry L. Meinberg
• Silent No More – Christine Orenic-Ward
• We Have Got it All Wrong – Dr. James R. Granger III
• Boozehound! Breaking a Thirty-Year Obsession – Eric C. Houghton
• Fire-Gazing, When Venus Transists the Sun 2004 and 20012 – Gail Dimitroff

SEQUELS:

WINNER: A Touch of Mortality – Vivian Ditzler

RUNNER-UP: The Blue
Amulet – MJ Roe

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• The Blade of Eve – Shaun Penney
• The Early Years – Kenn Joubert
• The Boy with Golden Eyes, Book Two – Marjorie Young
• In Her Heart – S. Marie

BUSINESS:

 WINNER: Not in the Club – Janet Pucino

RUNNER-UP: Empower Yourself for an Amazing Career – Blanca De La Rosa

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Do Not Invent Buggy Whips – Kenneth Thurber
• Systems Thinking Strategy – Jimmy Brown
• Financial Independence – Agbai Ina Obasi

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

WINNER: Last
Night I Swam with a Mermaid – Kimberly and Michael Muller

RUNNER-UP: Emmy Budd and the Flood – Jean Blasiar

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Curiosities – Mike Yamada/Victoria Ying with Jonathan Ying
• Hooligan Bear: A Special Day – Ian Toynton/illustrated by Andrea Dietrich
• Curio A Shetland Sheepdog and Friends – Jeanette A Griver
• A Moment of Quiet is Nothing to Fear – Christine Gardner/illustrated by
  Kristin Abbott
• Will You Fill My Bucket? – Carol McCloud and Karen Wells/illustrated by
  Penny Weber
• Golda: A True Story for Children of All Ages – Jeff Shelton
• Sparkle & The Gift – Ayn Cates Sullivan/illustrations by Belle Crow duCray
• How Hollyhocks Came to New Mexico – Rudolfo Anaya/Nicolas Otero/Nasario
  Garcia
• The Reindeer Chronicles – Michael McWade/illustrated by Ivan Earl Aguilar
• History’s Still a Mystery – Dell Brand
• The Adventures of Fifi & Noni – Kimberly Jacobs Muller/illustrations by Chad
  Attie
• 26 Poem-Stories About Animals – Tom Guy Pettit/Peter O’Malley Pierson
• Spirit of Meradoon – Margaret Douglas
• Marshall the Miracle Dog – Cynthia Willenbrock/illustrated by Lauren
  Heimbaugh
• Me, Watch TV? Michael Hickman
• I Love You, Little Bird – Jennaya Joy Monroe/Elyse Whittaker-Paek
• Story of Colours – Paul Raven/illusrated by Heather Cleland
• The Monkey and the Peanuts – Tokunbo Ifaturoti
• The Mombie – Tony Martin
• Aspey’s Adventures with Asperger’s – Michael Werner
• Henry & Tink: A Remarkable Romance – Cathy Conheim and BJ Gallagher
• All I Want – Chanz’e Witcher
• Sophia at a Royal Wedding – D.G. Flamand GENERAL FICTION

  WINNER: Excuse
  Me For Living – Ric Klass

  RUNNER-UP The Length of the Leash – Gary D. Sproul

   HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Revealed – Mary Unruh Ballard
• Provacateur – Charles Martin
• The Law of Strings and Other Stories – Steven Gillis
• Hollywood Buckaroo – Tracy DeBrincat
• A Time to Cast Away Stones – Elise Frances Miller
• Funny Mummy – Merrie Lynn Ross
• A Beautiful Glittering Lie – J.D.R. Hawkins
• A Touch of Immortality – Vivian Ditzler
• Germaroon – Bill Fairbairn and George Atanga
• An Emperor Among Us – David St. John
• The Search for Zarahemla – Terry Neal
• Heaven or Hell – Roni Teson
• The Final Race – Oliver Chiapco
• Revealed – Mary Unruh Ballard
• Esoteric – Forrest Boston
• A Small, Perfect Place – Arnold Gordenstein
• Becoming Shamus – Elizabeth Curtisse
• A Thousand Bayonets – John Mark Harris
• The Seraph Contingency – Jennifer Fales
• Built to Order – Lou Ann Noble Hayford
• China Rising – Alexander Scipio
•  WILD CARD

  WINNER: The Art Dockuments –
  Carlton Davis

  RUNNER-UP: Flashblind – Paul Bernstein

  HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • Islands of Refuge – Jeff Munoz
  • Folsom Street Blues – Jim Stewart
  • Postcards Home – W.D. Mast
  • Vietnam Through Rose-Colored Glasses – Richard S. Rose
  • Blood of the Savior – Trisha Phan

   
   

  COOKBOOKS

  WINNER: Amalia’s Guatemalan
  Kitchen – Amalia Moreno-Damgaard

  RUNNER-UP: Eternally Gluten-Free – Dominick
  Cura

   

  HOW-TO WINNER: Claim Your Life – Boni Oian and Emily Sanderson

  RUNNER-UP:
  Serve It Up – Laura De Simone

  HONORABLE MENTIONS:

   

• This Girl Walks Into A Bar – Jordan Catapano/Jocelyn Dunn Muhlbach
• My Cat Won’t Bark! – Kevn Darne
• My Memoir Workbook – Marcia Rosen
• Have Fun and Get it Done – Jenee Dana
• Lemons, Lemonade and Life – Janet Thomas
•  PHOTOGRAPHY/ART

  WINNER: Dan
  Winters’ America: Icons and Ingenuity – Dan Winters

  RUNNER-UP: Robert Wilson’s
  Carousel Clover Ponies – Diane Myerson

  HONORABLE MENTION: Last Launch – Dan Winters

   

  GENRE-BASED

  WINNER: The Last Train West – Jean
  M. Prestbroten

  RUNNER-UP: Dream – Robbi Sommers Bryant

  HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • Revenge, Interrupted – T.L. Tucker
  • Too Much Blood – Jane Bennett Munro
  • Shattered Triangle – William Messenger
  • Deceptive Defender – Sue Darnell
  • Doubting Thomas – Christian Z. Nielsen

   

  COMPILATIONS/ANTHOLOGIES

   WINNER:
  No Character Limit: Truth & Fiction from WriteGirl – edited by Keren Taylor

   

  ROMANCE

  WINNER: The Battered Heiress Blues – Laurie Van Dermark

  RUNNER-UP: The
  Legacy of Deer Run – Elaine Marie Cooper

  HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Rules Get Broken – John Herbert
• Baby! Baby? Baby!? – Holly Kerr
• Flesh of Angels – J.A. Dennam
• Taming Liv – Laila Norum
• Grit and Grace – S. Marie

REGIONAL LITERATURE

WINNER: Hawthorne’s Redemption
– Gary P. Cranford

RUNNER-UP: Creek with No Name – Ken Bilderback/Kris
Bilderback