ForeWord Book of the Year Awards

Win $1,500 in Cash!

Outskirts Press will enter your 2008 Outskirts Press book
into the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards.

Only English language and Spanish language books with a copyright date of 2008 are eligible for this year’s awards, the Outskirts Press deadline for which is November 15, 2008.

If your book is eligible, you may order this submission service from your Marketing Screen in your author’s center. Outskirts Press will handle everything for you, including:

  • the award submission fee
  • registering your book with ForeWord Connections
  • sending them 2 copies of your book
  • accurately and completely filling out 2 entry forms (one for
    each judge)
  • shipping and handling costs of your book to the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards judges.

 

ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards were established to bring increased attention from librarians and booksellers to the literary achievements of independent publishers and their authors. Our awards process is unique because we ask a jury of our readers, librarians and booksellers, to select their top categories as well as choose the winning titles. Their decisions take into consideration editorial excellence, professional production, originality of the narrative, author credentials relative to the book and the value the book adds to its genre.

TO ORDER: Access the Marketing Screen in your Author’s Center and choose ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards.

2008 DEADLINE: November 15, 2008

 All finalists and winners will be notified via email. Finalists are announced by April 2009. Winners in each category and overall for fiction and non-fiction will be announced at the Book Expo of America. First, second, and third place winners will be awarded in each category. A $1,500 cash prize will also be awarded to Best Fiction and Best Nonfiction as determined by the editors of ForeWord Magazine. ForeWord Magazine reserves the right to withhold an award in any category should submissions not meet criteria outlined by editorial and professional production standards mentioned above. All cash prizes are solely at the discretion of ForeWord Magazine.

Winners and finalists will also be featured in ForeWord Magazine and in a special issue of the Outskirts Press e-mail
newsletter
, and this blog.

Category Listings:

Adventure and Recreation

Anthologies

Architecture

Art

Autobiography/Memoir

Biography

Body, Mind and Spirit

Business and Economics

Career

Children’s Picture Book

Cooking

Crafts and Hobbies

Education

Environment

Essays

Family and Relationships

Fiction (General, Historical, Horror, Literary, Mystery, Religious, Romance, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Translations)

Gay/Lesbian, Fiction, Nonfiction

Graphic Novel

Health

History

Home and Garden

Humor

Juvenile (9-12 yrs), Fiction, Nonfiction

Music

Nature

Parenting

Performing Arts/Drama

Pets

Philosophy

Photography

Poetry

Political Science

Popular Culture

Psychology

Reference

Regional

Religion

Self-Help

Sports

Travel, Essays, Guides

True Crime

Women’s Issues

Young Adult (12+yrs), Fiction, Nonfiction

 

Once you have published a book, one of the coolest things you can do is start winning awards for it.

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