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Why It’s Important to Enter Book Award Contests

September 18, 2014 by Sonia Marsh 4 Comments

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Some authors claim it’s a waste of money to enter book contests, but I don’t agree with them.

Whether you like it or not, readers look up to authors who have been nominated for Awards, and I think it’s important to try as many ways as possible to become “visible” in this competitive ocean of indie authors.

Why it’s important to enter Book Award Contests

  • To stand out from the competition
  • To get recognition 
  • To have a Press Release sent out to the media
  • To land an interview or a newspaper article
  • To get further media attention while attending the Awards Ceremony
  • To get your photo taken and use it for promotion
  • To add it to your Amazon Author Page
  • To try and get a photo taken standing next to a celebrity at the Awards Ceremony
  • The organization also promotes the winners (SEE BELOW)

My goal is to help you enter a few contests and I am very proud to announce that my memoir,  Freeways to Flip-Flops: A Family’s Year of Gutsy Living on a Tropical Island received the Gold Medal at the Readers’ Favorite Awards.  I look forward to attending the Awards Ceremony at the Regency Hotel, Miami, Florida, on November 22nd, 2014. Photos will of course be posted on my site.

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Click on photo to see the 5-Star Review

Readers’ Favorites state the following:

“We have posted your review on Barnes & Noble and Google Books. Your book must be currently listed on these sites for us to post your review there.

We have also posted your review on our Facebook, Twitter,Google Plus and Pinterest pages. You will notice we created a special sentence with #hashtags for each of your social posts to help them get noticed. You may want to include the hashtag we created for your book title in future social posts to link them to your review and help build a trend for your book.

Amazon does not allow professional review companies to post in their Customer Reviews section. Instead, they have created an Editorial Reviews section where they want you to post excerpts from your professional reviews, which you can do through your Amazon Author Central Account.”

 

So why not enter the Readers’ Favorites, 2015 Award Contest. You have 195 days left.

Click here to enter

I know many of you have read my memoir, and I am getting ready to write another one. I have applied to join the PEACE CORPS and shall keep you posted when I get my interview and find out which country they are sending me to for 27-months of my life.

 Here are the list of Awards I’ve received to help you contact these organizations and submit your own books to them. BEST OF LUCK to you. Keep being GUTSY!

(CLICK HERE FOR TO SEE MY AWARDS LIST


Next Thursday, September 25th, COME BACK TO READ ABOUT THE  BIG ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT “MY GUTSY STORY” BOOK LAUNCH PARTY ON NOVEMBER 1st, 2014.

NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS

Get Published in our 3rd

“My Gutsy Story®”Anthology in 2015

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES HERE

 

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Click on cover to go to Amazon

Benjamin Franklin Digital Awards Solver

 2013 Benjamin Franklin Honoree Winner

International Book Awards Finalist 2014

2014 International Book Awards FINALIST

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2014 WINNER of the PARIS BOOK FESTIVAL

 We just won our 4th Award for the Anthology. 

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT ABOUT OUR AWARDS.

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  1. Carol Bodensteiner says

    September 18, 2014 at 3:41 pm

    I agree with you, Sonia. The award and attending publicity are one way to help stand out from the crowd. As a reader, I admit to looking twice at books that have an award medallion on the cover. I look forward to seeing you at the awards program in Miami. I will consider the event a success if I have my picture taken next to you.
    Carol Bodensteiner recently posted..The Invention of Wings – Review – Historical FictionMy Profile

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    • Sonia Marsh says

      September 21, 2014 at 3:43 pm

      Carol,

      So glad that we finally meet. I didn’t realize that you would be there as well, and what a kind comment about taking a photo with me. It’s wonderful to have our photos taken together and to chat in person. See you soon.
      Sonia Marsh recently posted..Why It’s Important to Enter Book Award ContestsMy Profile

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  2. Inge Bird says

    September 18, 2014 at 5:08 pm

    You are so right Sonia and to add to your thought, it just plain fun! We won’t know if we can win unless we try.

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    • Sonia Marsh says

      September 21, 2014 at 3:42 pm

      So true Inge. It’s fun to try and then you forget you submitted as it takes months to hear back. Then maybe a nice surprise.
      Sonia Marsh recently posted..Why It’s Important to Enter Book Award ContestsMy Profile

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