Unique Entry Fee
Finally, a book award contest where you don’t have to be a millionaire to enter! And it’s not even triple digits!
Announcing a first of its kind contest where the early bird actually does get the worm. Entry for the annual contest will change every month until no more entries are allowed.
January entries will set you back ten whole bucks!
Yup. You got it! $10.
In March the cost will be $15 and will go up $5 per month until December, topping out at a whole $60. You can enter as many categories as you want, as many books as you want.
Award Levels
Each category will result in a first, second, third and honorable mention award. There will be four awards per category. The contest is designed to find the very best, not simply books that are good or even excellent. Each book will be score with a unique internal rubric based on each individual book category. These scores/results will not be shared but are for internal use only.
Each winning book will receive:
Categories
There is a wide list of categories to choose from.
Categories include:
Picture books (birth to five)
Young Children (6-8)
Children (9-12)
Young Adult/Teens
*Adventure/Action
*Christian
*Fantasy
*Historical
*Literary Fiction
*Mystery
*Paranormal
*Romance
*Science Fiction/Dystopian
*Thriller
Adults
*Adventure/Action
*Christian
*Fantasy
*Historical
*Literary Fiction
*Mystery
*Paranormal
*Romance
*Science Fiction/Dystopian
*Thriller
Select the category that most closely matches your work. You can enter more than one category for each book and more than one book in the contest. For example, let’s say you have a romantic historical fiction novel for adults. You can enter once in the Romance category and once in the Historical Fiction category.
Here's where it gets really interesting. We will have a second-sub category for every category except picture books, young children and children for books overing "clean" content. Need a definition on clean content? Check out the contest FAQ.
Each category will have a first, second and third place as well as an honorable mention. Each work will be given a score by readers to determine if they will be a finalist. Finalists will be determined by an overall rank including plot, book and cover design, characters, etc.
All the Fine Print aka The Rules
The book/manuscript must have been published in 2017, 2018, 2019 or 2020.
Books that are self-published, published by small, independent or academic presses qualify. If you were published by a “big publishing house” we won’t hold that against you either. Everyone is welcome.
All work must be in English. Our readers and judges speak English as their primary language and as such, your book must be in English to participate.
Submission period for the 2020 award winners is January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020.
For clean categories:
Your work must be clean to be considered for the respective category. While this means something different to everyone, use this as a guide: no explicit sex scenes, no excessive violence. If you are graphically describing something typically covered by a bathing suit, it probably won’t cut it. Acts that take place behind bedroom doors are fine. We prefer no profanity or vulgarity but if you have one or two of the lesser words, we can probably overlook it. No F bombs. If you had to be told that, the clean writing probably isn’t for you.
The point and spirit of the award is to seek out and determine AMAZING and HIGH QUALITY content that is not only hard to put down, but clean as well. Can you have a best-selling novel without sex and swearing? I’m sure you can think of several multi-million dollar franchises right now that take advantage of those values: Harry Potter, Fablehaven, The Wheel of Time, Stormlight Archive Series, Star Wars, The Hunger Games, Maze Runner, The Alchemyst Series, Kingdom Keepers (and those are just the REALLY big ones that). There are so many talented, quality clean authors out there. We want people to be able to find YOU!
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