PenCraft Book Awards 2025 Honors Three Women Authors in Historic Milestone

The 9th Annual PenCraft Book Awards announced its top three winning books of 2025, recognizing authors Heather G. Harris, Barbara Pronin, and Katherine Fabrizio for their outstanding literary achievements. This year marked a historic milestone as all three top positions were filled by exceptional women authors, each receiving a monetary award, formal certificate, and commemorative gold seals to celebrate their significant literary wins.

Heather G. Harris, a top-100 Amazon best-selling fantasy author, won for her urban fantasy novel "Glimmer of the Other" and is also the recipient of the prestigious Best Book of the Year award. Harris, who works full-time as an author, began her journey as a student at a Liverpool university where she took up skydiving and met her future husband. Her vivid imagination fuels storytelling filled with vampires, dragons, and strong heroines, balancing her writing career with raising three children while constantly generating new book ideas.

Katherine Fabrizio received the Best Nonfictional Book of the Year award for "The Good Daughter Syndrome." As a licensed psychotherapist with over three decades of clinical experience, Fabrizio dedicates her career to helping daughters of narcissistic, borderline, and emotionally immature mothers break free from lifelong patterns of guilt, self-doubt, and emotional entanglement. Drawing from personal experience as both a daughter and mother of two grown daughters, her work empowers women to rediscover their identities and live authentically.

Barbara Pronin's "Winter's End" earned the Best Fictional Book of the Year award. The highly accomplished author has earned praise from best-selling writers like Mary Higgins Clark, Tony Hillerman, and Faye Kellerman, having authored eight mysteries (three under the pseudonym Barbara Nickolae), two non-fiction books, and hundreds of magazine articles. Her diverse background includes work as an actress, probation officer, journalist, and substitute teacher, experiences that have enriched her storytelling. Born in Brooklyn, she earned degrees in communications and drama from California State College and maintains a passion for creativity whether writing, reading, solving crosswords, or playing piano.

The PenCraft Book Awards serve as a benchmark for recognizing literary excellence through a rigorous judging process that reviews over 1,000 entries annually. This comprehensive evaluation identifies and honors the finest literary accomplishments across genres, acknowledging the skill, creativity, and impact of winning books and their authors. The organization's mission focuses on inspiring and entertaining while giving every author a fair chance at recognition, with Editor-In-Chief David Hearne stating that the awards help authors get their books noticed and sold while introducing talented authors and their extraordinary stories to the world.

PenCraft Book Awards was created to address the injustice of excluding authors based on their publisher or expensive entry fees, leveling the playing field to allow all authors to compete equally. From its inception, the organization has supported authors worldwide and remains committed to finding new methods to assist and acknowledge creative work. The awards represent not just personal achievement but also a commitment to the craft that inspires the literary community, with each author's journey reflecting a unique blend of passion and talent that makes this recognition a powerful celebration of their contributions to contemporary literature. More information about the awards can be found at https://pencraftaward.com.