Awards

WINNER – Grand Prize

2026 IndieReader Discovery Award for Fiction:
The Tale of the English Templar

WINNER – Silver

2025 Foreword INDIES Awards War and Military Fiction

Bridge to Tomorrow: Cold Victory

Book Excellence Awards

• Best Biography – Envoy of Jerusalem – 2017
• Best Medieval Fiction – Defender of Jerusalem – 2016
• Finalist – Historical Fiction – Cold Peace -2024
• Finalist – Historical Fiction – Moral Fibre – 2023
• Finalist – Military Fiction – Where Eagles Never Flew – 2021
• Finalist – Historical Fiction – The Emperor Strikes Back – 2020
• Finalist – Historical Fiction – Last Crusader Kingdom – 2018

Chanticleer International Book Awards

• Chaucer Award for Historical Fiction before 1750: The Tale of the English Templar – 2025
• Hemingway Award for 20th Century Wartime Fiction – Moral Fibre – 2023
• Shorts Award for Short Stories, Novellas and Collections – Grounded Eagles – 2022
• Hemingway Award for 20th Century Wartime Fiction – Where Eagles Never Flew – 2020
• Chaucer Award – The Emperor Strikes Back – 2019
• Chaucer Award – Rebels against Tyranny – 2018
• Chaucer Award – Envoy of Jerusalem – 2017
• Chaucer Award – Defender of Jerusalem – 2016

Feathered Quill Book Awards

• GOLD – Historical Fiction – Cold Peace – 2023
• GOLD – Historical Fiction – The Emperor Strikes Back – 2020
• GOLD – Spiritual/Religious Fiction – Envoy of Jerusalem – 2017
• SILVER- Spiritual/Religious Fiction – The Emperor Strikes Back – 2020
• SILVER – Historical Fiction – Rebels against Tyranny – 2019
• SILVER – Spiritual/Religious Fiction – Defender of Jerusalem – 2016
• BRONZE – Spiritual/Religious Fiction – St. Louis’ Knight – 2015
• FINALIST- Wartime and Military Fiction – Where Eagles Never Flew – 2021

Foreword INDIES Book Awards

• FINALIST – Military Fiction – Traitors for the Sake of Humanity – 2021
• HONORABLE MENTION – Military Fiction – Envoy of Jerusalem – 2017

Global Book Awards

• GOLD – Political Thrillers – Cold Victory – 2025
• GOLD – 20th Century Fiction – Moral Fibre – 2024
• SILVER – War & Military Fiction – Where Eagles Never Flew – 2022
• BRONZE – Historical Fiction – The Tale of the English Templar – 2025
• BRONZE – Historical Fiction – Cold War – 2024

Historical Fiction Company Book Awards

• Honorable Mention – Wartime Fiction (Hemingway) – Cold War – 2024.
• Runner-Up for BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 – Cold Peace
• GOLD – Wartime Fiction – Cold Peace – 2023
• SILVER – Wartime Fiction – Moral Fibre – 2023

IndieBRAG Medallions

• Tale of the English Templar
• Cold Victory
• Cold War
• Cold Peace
• Moral Fibre
• Grounded Eagles
• Where Eagles Never Flew
• Traitors for the Sake of Humanity
• The Emperor Strikes Back
• Rebels against Tyranny
• The Last Crusader Kingdom
• Envoy of Jerusalem
• Defender of Jerusalem
• Balian d’Ibelin: Knight of Jerusalem
• A Peerless Peer

Independent Press Awards

• WINNER – Political Thriller – Cold Peace – 2024
• DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE – Military Fiction – Moral Fibre – 2024
• DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE – Military Fiction – The Emperor Strikes Back – 2020

Readers’ Favorites Book Awards

• GOLD – Christian Historical Fiction – Rebels against Tyranny – 2019
• GOLD – Christian Historical Fiction – Envoy of Jerusalem – 2017
• SILVER – Political Thriller – Cold Peace – 2023
• BRONZE – Christian Historical Fiction – The Emperor Strikes Back – 2020
• SILVER – Christian Historical Fiction – Defender of Jerusalem – 2016
• FINALIST – Military Fiction – Where Eagles Never Flew – 2021

Other Literary Awards

• Eric Hoffer Award – FINALIST – Last Crusader Kingdom – Historical Fiction –  2019
• National Indie Excellence Awards 2025 – FINALIST – Cold War – Military Fiction – 2025
• Shelf Unbound – NOTABLE INDIE – Moral Fibre – 2023
• Maincrest Media Awards for: Cold War, Cold Peace, Moral Fibre, Grounded Eagles, and Where Eagles Never Flew
• M.M. Bennetts Award – SILVER – Defender of Jerusalem – Historical Fiction –  2016