NEW ENGLAND BOOK FESTIVAL NAMES ESPN HISTORY FOR TOP HONORS


NEW ENGLAND_ The 2022 New England Book Festival has named a business memoir on the dominant media company in sports as seen through the eyes of its founder as the winner of its annual competition honoring the best of the holiday season.

Authors  Bill Rasmussen and Donald T. Phillips’ ESPN: One Giant Leap for Fankind (Headline Books) take home the top honors. The book offers a walk through sports history with the man who changed it, combining his personal journey with what was happening at the time in our country. ESPN was the first 24-hour, 7-days-a-week sports television network. Rasmussen, called “The Father of Cable Sports” by USA Today, he tells of the struggles, triumphs and innovations that made ESPN a force in sports journalism. He is aided in telling the story by Phillips, who has collaborated on books with Cal Ripken, Phil Mickelson and other sports greats.

Other winners in the competition:

BUSINESS:

WINNER: Be A Lion – Terry Blackburn

RUNNER-UP: The Value Equation – Christopher Volk

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • Prophecy Before Vision – James Michael Matthew
  • Ethical Profit – Samantha Richardson


GENERAL FICTION:

WINNER: Blood Before Dawn – Daniel V. Meier, Jr.

RUNNER-UP: The Outcast – Eve M. Riley

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • Bobby Truax – Denise Cassino
  • Pericles and Aspasia A Story of Ancient Greece – Yvonne Korshak
  • Unlike Any Other – Edward Londergan
  • When Angels Die – James Sniechowski
  • Heirs of Anarwyn – Torn – J.W. Elliot
  • To March or To Marry – Violet Snow
  • Secrets in the Mirror – Leslie Kain
  • Tale of the Raptor Men – John R. Cobb
  • A Field Within – T.C. Solomon
  • No Long Goodbyes – Pauline Hayton
  • Delphic Oracle, U.S.A. – Steven Mayfield
  • True Teryn – S.G. Blaise
  • Critical Corner – A Thomas Ballard Mystery – D.G. Stern
  • The Placeholder – Lynda Wolters
  • A Hundred Honeymoons: A Novel – J.S. Wilson
  • What We Never Say – Paulette Stout
  • Terror’s Sword – A Kyle McEwan Novel – Kevin Kuhens
  • On Harbor’s Edge 1912-1913 – Kate Hotchkiss
  • Paesidium: Shadows in the Wind Book One – McKinley Aspen
  • Because of the Night – Rue L’Hommdieu
  • The Color of Frost – Kasey Rogers
  • A Whisper in the Wind – Barry G. Kienzle
  • Nad of Nadide – Wagih Abu-Rish
  • Free Nina: The College Yeas – Edward “EJ” Mulraine
  • The Silence in the Sound – Dianne C. Braley
  • A Lady Newspaperman’s Dilemma – Eileen Joyce Donovan


REGIONAL LITERATURE:

WINNER: The Rise and Fall of Wapato Lake: - Ken Bilderback and Chris Bilderback

RUNNER-UP: Zen and Now – Dreama Denver

HONORABLE MENTION:

  • Shadow of the Gypsy – Shelly Frome

 

PHOTOGRAPHY/ART:

WINNER: Curves and Angles – Charles Rawlings



SPIRITUAL/RELIGIOUS:

WINNER: Whisper Angel – Ayn Cates Sullivan

RUNNER-UP:  Love to Tell the Story – Rev. J. Hardold McKeithen Jr.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • John The Harbinger – Natsuya Uesugi DuBois
  • Blayne Winkle and the Mysterious Scroll – Marybeth Boulton
  • Salt & Light: The Complete Jesus - Jonathan Geoffrey Dean
  • Something We Never Imagined – Douglas Wemple
  • Soul Genetic Code & Destiny – Ashley Ansara, DVM, PhD
  • What is Heaven Like? Richard R. Eng


CHILDREN’S BOOKS:

WINNER: Stand-in Santa – Stephen Roth

RUNNERS-UP:

The Hallo-Tween Tales – Steven Manchester
Mommy’s Blue Stilettos – Missy Brickman
Hopscotch The Horse – Kimberly Becker
The Adventures of Angel: A Kitten’s Story – Ross Alan Hahn
Into the Wind – William Loizeaux

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • The Parakeet That Wouldn’t Tweet – Chip Bock
  • Alpaca Ranch Fun – Jack Rotifer
  • Leo Learns to Meditate – Francesca Hampton
  • Alpaca Ranch Fun – Jack Rotifer
  • Kindergarten Chronicles 123 – Terance Shipman
  • Kindergarten Chronicles ABC – Terance Shipman
  • Have You Seen My Mom? – Amanda Zirzow
  • Fingerprints of God – Melanie Burgess
  • Back to the Beach – Dreama Denver
  • Magic Hotel – John Reimold
  • Claudia Builds a Bridge for Bruno – Diana Duncan
  • The Battle of the Blueberry Muffin – Cynthia van Heyde
  • Bubble Trouble – Alejandria Kate
  • The Silent Sunset – Mike Dorsey
  • Field Trip to the Farm – Terance Shipman
  • Monsters Love Secrets – Iris Shay Reese
  • The Secret Life of Santa’s Butterfly Elves – Rose Andria
  • The Butterfly Nebulae – Paisley Summer
  • The Adventures of C.W. Choices – Sandy Meeks
  • Penny and Maria the Donkey’s Journey to the Temple of Athena – Paula Andres
  • Small Nap, Little Dream – Talia Aikens-Nunez
  • Be Mindful of Monsters – Lauren Stockly


BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY:

WINNER: Relentless – Mitzi Perdue, Mark Victor Hansen

RUNNERS-UP:

If I Die Before I Wake – Eli Shaw
In Search of Tom Slick – Catherine Nixon Cooke
Breaking Down Vonnegut – Julia Whitehead

HONORABLE MENTIONS:


MEMOIR:

WINNER: A Head of Cabbage – Barbara Johnson

RUNNERS-UP:

Daughter of Spies – Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop
If I Die Before I Wake – Eli Shaw

HONORABLE MENTIONS:


GENERAL NON-FICTION:

WINNER: Enemy Territory – Francis Gary Powers & Walter Pfenninger

RUNNERS-UP:

Typhoon Honey – Kris Girrell & Candace Sjogren
American Gaslighting – Daniel Shyti
The Science of Getting Rich for Women – Sara Connell

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • The Five Elements of Relationships – Dr. Vicki Matthews
  • The Roots & Rhythm of the Heart – Krystal L. Demaine
  • Newburyport Clipper Heritage Trail, Vol. II – Ghlee E. Woodworth
  • From Half-Full to Overflowing – Paula B. Leeds
  • Judicial Mayhem – David M. Dorsen
  • If I Die Before I Wake – Eli Shaw
  • The Discerning Investor – Julie Jason
  • Non-Army Aggression – Laurence Kelly
  • Fighting for Justice – Paulette J. Buchanan
  • Surrender – Nicola Irvine
  • Is God Incompetent? – Geoffrey E.L. Bennett
  • Fighting for Justice – Paulette J. Buchanan
  • The World is Your Studio – Deborah McMahon Osterholtz
  • Grief The Beacon of Love – Carolyn Begley Daley
  • Mile Post 104 – Robert P. Wells


SCIENCE FICTION:

WINNER: The Covenant Protocol – J.W. Elliot

RUNNERS-UP:

Hierarchy of Blood – Jennifer Haskin
Proud Pada – S.G. Blaise

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • Reinception – Sarena Straus
  • The Northfield Saga: Stormrise – Calvin B. Fisher
  • The Adventures of Mahalia and Malcolm: The Robinsons – Terance Shipman
  • The Story of Humanity – Ishi Nobu


WILD CARD:

WINNER: Tosher – Adrian Winney

RUNNER-UP: Mindblown – WIN$OME

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • Blood Prophecy Three: Queen’s Ascension – Barb Jones
  • Headcase Book 1 – Shock & Denial – Chris K. Jones


YOUNG ADULT:

WINNER: Once Upon a Scare – Dr. Bon Blossman

RUNNER-UP: Shadow’s Voice – Natalie Johanson

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • Mindblown – WIN$OME
  • Freeze Frame - Tyler Beauchamp
  • Shadow’s Past – Natalie Johanson
  • Reinception – Sarena Straus
  • The Adventures of Mahalia and Malcolm: The Robinsons – Terance Shipman


COMPILATIONS/ANTHOLOGIES:

WINNER: ESPN: One Giant Leap for Fankind – Bill Rasmussen with Donald T. Phillips

RUNNER-UP: The Long and the Short of It – R.J. Stastny

HONORABLE MENTION:

  • If I Die Before I Wake – Eli Shaw


POETRY:

WINNER: Limerick Comics – Robert Hoyman

RUNNER-UP: An Imaginary Affair: Poems Whispered to Neruda – Diana Raab

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • Sonnets of Love and Joy – Paul Buchheit
  • Mental Health, Poetry, and I – Brendon Feeley
  • Poems from Heartlands – Dr. C.A. Buckley
  • Poetic Injustice – Jonathan Sure
  • Applauding Life – David A.J. Richards
  • A Brighter TOMORROW – Lori Schneider, MD


HOW-TO:

WINNER: The Visibility Mindset – Bernice Chao and Jessalin Lam

RUNNERS-UP:

99 Legal Tips – L. Scott Briscoe
The Human Paradox – Gilbert E. Mulley

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

  • The Essential Rules of Love – Phil Russotti
  • Peace in War – Lindsay Ann Fink
  • Made in America by AmeriCANS, not – Richard V. Battle


UNPUBLISHED:

WINNER: New York Stories – Yuri Kirie

RUNNER-UP: Walk in the Light – Paisley Summer