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Private Lives: Stories edited by Kristine Somerville and Speer Morgan

Winner
Fiction: Anthologies
2022 Best Book Awards

"I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives," says Amanda, the sharp witted, razor-tongued heroine in Noel Coward's 1930s comedy of manners, Private Lives. While critics considered it a souffle of a play; audiences delighted in its central question: What if someone peeked behind the curtain and got a plain view of our lives? What looks ordinary and commonplace to the public might reveal something entirely different. The eleven stories in TMR Books anthology Private Lives: Stories takes Coward's skewed and skeptical worldview as its central theme. Many of the stories explore domestic upheaval and tension between our public and private selves and the often delightful and darkly comic chaos that ensues.

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Dewdrops by Dan Flanigan

Finalist
Fiction: Anthologies
2022 Best Book Awards

Finalist
Fiction: Short Story
2022 Best Book Awards

Dewdrops—The life and death struggles of a charismatic but tormented drug rehab counselor and his patients. Some Cold War Blues—A neighborhood snowball fight erupts into a thing as close to war as an 11-year-old American boy is likely to face.On The Last Frontier—Old and broke in Juneau with winter coming on . . .




Dragons Within: Embracing Her Fire by C. D. Lombardi, Chaz Beebe, D.B. Smyth, Jaumarro “Joy” Cuffee, JoAnne Turner, K. A. Moore, L. C. Jenkins, Lex Night, Nikolai Wisekal, Rachael Denessen, Sianyn Leigh, Ynes Malakova

Finalist
Fiction: Anthologies
2022 Best Book Awards

“People who only see the bad call us cursed. Now I have a chance to change that narrative.”

A noblewoman struggles to mind her manners when a pack of brutes manhandles her silks.

A strategist weighs the growth of her career against the fate of her humanity.

A deadly huntress questions her ability to serve as a kind, gentle leader.

Fearing execution, a sweet-natured jeweler hides a dark secret.

Journey into the world of Dragons Within and dance with a fire that flows through the veins of powerful women. Often viewed as evil and destructive, dragons lend their strength to aid their friends and loved ones. Similarly, certain traits in women are touted as unacceptable or taboo, but the women in this anthology claim those traits for their own good and the good of those around them.

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Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volume 2 by Patricia Miller

Finalist
Fiction: Anthologies
2022 Best Book Awards

Ghostly dreams, hidden tunnels, haunted hallways, devious secrets, and a seemingly unbreakable Chinese puzzle box make up the four mysteries in this collection, Mysterious Tales of the Unexplained, Volume 2. In The Spiral Staircase, 12-year-old Rylee helps her mom uncover the secrets beneath their old Victorian home. A ghostly haunt runs wild in a basement office in Scary Mary. Mable & Archie uncover illegal activities behind the murder of a fellow resident of Open Arms retirement home in A Puzzling Mystery. And 17-year-old Noah shows his 18-year-old brother and 3 of his friends how to ingeniously decipher clues surrounding a giant Chinese puzzle box in Mystery Weekend at Morehead Mansion.




The Dribble Drabble Review, I-V by Assorted Authors

Finalist
Fiction: Anthologies
2022 Best Book Awards

Finalist
Fiction: Short Story
2022 Best Book Awards

A print anthology featuring author work from around the world for issues one through five of the award-winning micofiction magazine: The Dribble Drabble Review.




Wisdom Anthology Plays and Screenplays by Women over 50 complied by ARTemis Arts

Finalist
Fiction: Anthologies
2022 Best Book Awards

An inspirational second act book for women in the arts, the ARTemis Arts Wisdom Anthology is the first-ever collection of plays and screenplays written by women over 50.

Much has been said about the need for diversity in the arts industry, but its deep-seated ageism is often overlooked. Opportunities are most often afforded to the same set of young, prodigious, and mostly male creators.

While these men default to a seasoned, wizened status as their careers mature, talented female artists often simply become . . . invisible.

The ARTemis Arts Wisdom Anthology is the antidote to women over fifty going unrecognized in the arts industry.

Inside you'll find fifteen works, all new, all unproduced, some ready for the stage, some for workshops, three for the screen, and all written by women of age who have faced severely limited opportunities to test, perform, or publish these works.

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