Here's what we've learned about the pros and cons
of book award contests:
Not exact matches
In general, schools and communities participate by organizing professional development opportunities to encourage collaborative planning between general and special educators, entering our national poster / essay
contest, organizing multicultural events and celebrations, issuing proclamations
of Inclusive Schools Week in their communities, giving
awards and recognition to educators and community members who are making a difference for students with disabilities, holding
book fairs, and writing letters - to - the - editor.
The Frugal Editor was also a finalist in the «How - to» category
of that same
contest» s Next Generation Indie
Book Awards.
Hidden Shadows is a Winner in the Fiction category
of the 2016 NABE Pinnacle
Book Achievement
award; Winner 2016 Global Ebook Awards, Popular Literature Fiction; Short - Listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accol
award; Winner 2016 Global Ebook
Awards, Popular Literature Fiction; Short - Listed for the Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and acco
Awards, Popular Literature Fiction; Short - Listed for the Eric Hoffer
Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accol
Award Grand Prize; finalist for the Eric Hoffer First Horizon
Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accol
Award; Honorable Mention, General Fiction, Eric Hoffer
Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accol
Award; Finalist, da Vinci Eye
Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accol
Award; Finalist, Debut category: WFWA (Women's Fiction Writers Association) Star
Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accol
Award Contest; Finalist, Literary Fiction, NIEA (National Indie Excellence
Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and acco
Awards); Finalist for the Will Rogers Medallion
Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and accol
Award in the Western Romance category; Finalist in the NERFA
contest (National Excellence in Romance Fiction
Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice Contest (Heart of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other awards and acco
Awards), sponsored by First Coast Romance Writers, for «Novel with Romantic Elements;» Finalist in the Long Contemporary category for the Aspen Gold Reader's Choice
Contest (Heart
of Denver Romance Writers) and Top Ten finisher, Best Other Novel, Predators & Editors Readers» Poll 2015 as well as other
awards and acco
awards and accolades.
The novel was a semifinalist in the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel
Award contest, the spring 2013 winner
of the ForeWord Firsts
contest sponsored by ForeWord Reviews, and was just named a literary fiction category semi-finalist in the Kindle
Book Review's 2014 Kindle
Book Awards.
Another marketing strategy I am trying (and I am brand new to all
of this) is entering my self published
book in several different book award contests such as the International Book Awards, the San Francisco Book Festival and the MWSA Book Review / Awa
book in several different
book award contests such as the International Book Awards, the San Francisco Book Festival and the MWSA Book Review / Awa
book award contests such as the International
Book Awards, the San Francisco Book Festival and the MWSA Book Review / Awa
Book Awards, the San Francisco
Book Festival and the MWSA Book Review / Awa
Book Festival and the MWSA
Book Review / Awa
Book Review /
Awards.
Our
awards were started back in 1996 when Small Press (the original name
of Independent Publisher) was hearing a lot
of criticism lobbed at major
book awards contests and was encouraged to produce its own «best
of the year» list.
Enter your
book in legitimate contest such as Readers Choice, Foreword Reviews Book of the Year, and the IPPY Awa
book in legitimate
contest such as Readers Choice, Foreword Reviews
Book of the Year, and the IPPY Awa
Book of the Year, and the IPPY
Awards.
Take a look at this article detailing a 2015
contest and its results for a clearer picture
of the correlation between a major - name
book award and the resulting increase in sales.
In 2010 we published a
book called The Beads
of Lapis Lazuli, by Doris Kenney Marcotte, which went on to win a 2011 EVVY
Award for Fiction and become a finalist for our
contest.
Enter any
book award contest only after careful consideration and review
of its reputation.
Congratulations to Dr. Webster, and I will look forward to the great exposure that gaining recognition in the Reader Views Literary
Award and Foreword Reviews» 2015 INDIEFAB
Book of the Year
Award contests will provide!
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The writer's digest self - publishing
book awards «
contest» is nothing more than a scam you pay to be a part
of.
From widely recognized and established
contests like the Writer's Digest International Self - Published
Book Awards to local contests being held for members of small writing groups, published authors have a daunting list of contests and awards to consider pur
Awards to local
contests being held for members
of small writing groups, published authors have a daunting list
of contests and
awards to consider pur
awards to consider pursuing.
Before last year's «Best
book of the Month»
contest, our December promotion was typically the
awarding of a free publishing package.
From honest and objective
book reviews,
contests,
book awards, and author interviews,
Books & Benches offers an array
of promotional opportunities for authors in addition to many chances for authors and readers to connect.
Writer's Digest Self - Published
Book Awards, this
contest requires an entry fee
of $ 100.
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Every year, Outskirts Press nominates less than 5 %
of the
books it publishes for submission to the Colorado Independent Publishers Association EVVY
Awards, an independent 3rd party
book award contest that is both competitive and «strict» (for lack
of a better word).
That
book only saw the light
of day (and won the Stephen Leacock
Award and CBC's Canada Reads
contest) because Fallis self - published first.
Only 99 cents Today: READERS» FAVORITE, 1ST PLACE GOLD MEDAL GRACE
AWARDS, 1ST PLACE WOMEN
OF FAITH WRITING
CONTEST, 2ND PLACE
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BOOK OF THE MONTH INDIEFAB FINALIST, RELIGIOUS FICTION
In the shameless self - promotion department, I was also just informed that JET has made it to the finals
of the Kindle
Book Review's annual
awards contest, with winners announced Oct. 1!
Headline
Books has offered to evaluate 10
of our
contest award - winners each year for possible publication by their company!
Several
of her novels were shortlisted for the Golden Quill
Contest, the National Readers» Choice
Award, the Best Indie
Books contest, and the RONE
Award.
And indeed this can be true, if the
contest is prestigious — the First Crime Novel
contest run by St. Martin's Press, for instance, where winning includes a
book contract, or the Golden Heart
Awards, a
contest for unpublished
book - length manuscripts conducted by the Romance Writers
of America.
Each
contest is a little bit different, but to give you an idea
of how judges will evaluate your
book, Hallberg offers up the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award judging criteria
book, Hallberg offers up the ForeWord Reviews
Book of the Year Award judging criteria
Book of the Year
Award judging criteria: 1.
If you placed in any year
of our International
Book Awards contest, you can access your
award seal / stickers and all other
award related materials by logging into your Author's Area and clicking the
Contest tab and following the link to your Contestant's Page.
brief bio
of author including previous
books published (including pseudonyms), sales history (number
of books sold to readers, not to publishers),
awards and
contests won.
This kind
of award is good for niche market
books that are out
of the box enough (like mine) to never win the other kind
of contest simply because they'd be lucky if the judges were their target reader.
And I was wanting to shout to the world that one
of my
books was a finalist in a
book award contest.
One
of the most hotly
contested categories
of the 2018 British
Book Awards is the Independent Bookshop
of the Year honor.