24-Mar-2015 HONOLULU_The colorful memoir of a man who served time for drugs and spent time on the road with Creedence Clearwater Revival is the grand prize winner of the Pacific Rim Book Festival.
“Banquet of Consequences: True Life Adventures of Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll” by Jake Rohrer (Inkwater Press) tells the true-life adventures of an author who tells a no-apologies tale of his wild life in drugs, prison and music. It’s alternately humorous, serious, and vivid, but always compelling, and winds up with a happy ending for the hero.
Rohrer and other winners of the competition will be honored at a private reception on March 31 at the Moana Surfrider Hotel in Honolulu. The event will be preceded by a daytime festival at the hotel featuring top authors and publishers from Hawaii and the Pacific Rim discussing today’s publishing issues in the region.
Other winning books in the competition.
WILD CARD
WINNER: “Fibromyalgia and Other Chronic Painful Conditions” – Dr. Jeffrey Loomer
RUNNER-UP: “Law of the Desert Born” – Louis L’amour, et. al
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“All About China” – Allison Branscombe
“South of Good” – Randall Reneau
“Shattered Triangle” – William Messenger
“Murder in the Haunted House” – Carol Lee Owen
“The Lazarus Conspiracies” – Richard Rose
“Starlette Universe: Eva from E-Ville”- Kathy Johnson
“Tesseract Twin Flame” – Vicki Ebeling
“Center of Attention” – Deborah Clifton Mitchell
GENERAL FICTION
WINNER: “Sighing Woman Tea” – Mark Daniel Seiler
RUNNER-UP: “The Wrong Side of Memphis” – Claire Applewhite
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“St. Louis Hustle” – Claire Applewhite
“The Saga of the Brothers Mountain” – Michael Mountain
“The Unraveling of Shelby Forrest” - Donna Friess
“Ohio 2029: Utopia Has Never Been So Wrong” – D.A. Winstead
“The Lion Trees Vol. I and II” – Owen Thomas
“Jackie” – Sam Newsome
“Status Quo” – Henry Mosquera
“Wantin” – Truth Devour
“Storm” – Sharyl Bales
“The Judas List” – A.G. Hayes
“Déjà vu of a Skeptic” – Ron Hughart
“Confronting Alien Realities” – John August
“Pickle to Pie” – Glenice Whitting
“Backseat” – Tom Wascoe
PHOTOGRAPHY/ART
WINNER: “Living Shells” – Charles Rawlings
RUNNER-UP: “Law of the Desert Born” – Louis L’Amour
BUSINESS
WINNER: “Edgy Conversations” – Dan Waldschmidt
RUNNER-UP: “Street Smart Selling” – Daniel Milstein
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“The Fracking Truth” – Chris Faulkner
BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
WINNER: “A Banquet of Consequences” – Jake Rohrer
RUNNER-UP: “Devil Dolphins of Silver Lagoon” – Michael Bennett
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“Red Tears” - Thanhhuong T. Nguyen
“Tears For My City” – Dean Dimitrieski
“First Captured, Last Freed” – Edward E. Hale/Helen Heightsman Gordon
“The Peace Angel” – Nola Hennessy
“In The Eyes of the Son” – Hans Brinckmann
POETRY
WINNER: “Nigger for Life” – Dr. Neal Hall
RUNNER-UP: “Volutions” – Suzanne Langford, editor
HONORABLE MENTION:
“Whose A&& Is That?” - Marylu Zuk
GENERAL NON-FICTION
WINNER: “Hollywood Clown” – Jason Lassen
RUNNER-UP: “The People’s Republic of Chemicals” – Chip Jacobs
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“Teaching Will” – Mel Ryane
“Eye To Eye Vol. 1-4” – Dr. Gloria Walther/Stuart Lichtman
“A Fox in the Family” – Jane King
“There Are No Goodbyes” – Gloria M. Rodriguez
“Building Better Humans” – David and Lisa Davoust
“Christmas in Heaven” – Cecelia Leeman
“The Capacity to Believe” – Marcus W. Williams
“Liberia: Emerging from the Shadows” – Wayne Schoenfeld
HEALTH/WELLNESS
WINNER: “Discovering Michael” – Michael James
SPIRITUAL
WINNER: “Exit Point – A Hidden Secrets Novel” – Alicia Sanftleben
RUNNER-UP: “Moa” – Patricia Stewart Shiu
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“Statue of Ku” – Patricia Stewart Shiu
“Human Natures of Animal and Spiritual” – Carroll Blair
“The Book of 528: Prosperity Key of Love” – Dr. Leonard Horowitz
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
WINNER: “The Crystal Waterfall” - Marcie May/Margaret Zerhusen
RUNNER-UP: “It Only Takes One Friend” - Robin Taylor Chiarello
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“Sparkle & The Light” – Ayn Cates Sullivan
“Curio, A Shetland Sheepdog, Meets the Cat” – Jeannette A. Griver
“Mutasia” Figley’s New Favorite Food” – Suzanne Cotsakos and Chelsea Menzies
“The Little Goat in Africa” – Deborah Smith Ford
“Higgledy Piggledy – A Tale of Four Little Pigs” - B. Seymour Rabinovitch
“Bucket Filling from A to Z” – Carol McCloud
“The Reluctant Witch” – Sally O. Lee
“Last Day of the Season…” – Ron Hughart
“Ride to the Stars” - Suzanne Gene Courtney
“The Thankful List” – Babette Jackson
SCIENCE FICTION
WINNER: “Peripheral Conflict” – S.C. Cobb
RUNNER-UP: “Sign of the Anasazi” – Marc Lieberman
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
“The Oil Man” – Leon Puissegur
“Premortal” – Damien Passmore
YOUNG ADULT
WINNER: “Sign of the Anasazi” – Marc Lieberman
RUNNER-UP: “A Tangled Web” - M.P. Zarrella
HONORABLE MENTION:
“Last Song of the Whales” – Mary Yamin-Garone
REGIONAL LITERATURE
WINNER: “Tropic of California” – R. Page Kaufman
RUNNER-UP: “The Place Beyond the Dust Bowl” – Ron Hughart
HONORABLE MENTION:
“Green Pearl Odyssey” – Reilly Ridgell
HOW-TO
WINNER: “My Funeral, My Way” – Angela Hope De Simone
COMPILATIONS/ANTHOLOGIES
WINNER: “Bending to the Trade Winds” – Reilly Ridgell
UNPUBLISHED STORIES
WINNER: “The Fly Strip” – Gwen Banta
HISTORY
WINNER: “Walking to Forest Grove” – Ken and Kris Bilderback
