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I write children’s books, I’m a secondary school English teacher and I just did an 200 school book tour of England, so I thought I’d mix the three things up and organise for the children’s books to be judged by the children in the schools I just visited. The adult books, not so much my forte, will be assessed by members of established reading groups who know a good book when they read it.
This bit is very important. This is only my second year doing this and I’m not promising chests of gold, and I very much doubt Oprah will be knocking on the doors of the winning authors. But I do promise your books will be read cover to cover and judged by children and adults who love reading, and the entry fee will be used to cover the costs of running the Award plus a prize or two for all the finalists.
I also thought 75 dollars to over 120 dollars (90 odd quid) to enter a book award
was a gigantic rip-
he.
Also, every entrant will be given feedback, whether they win or not, and, if you do do well in this Award, you can publicise your success in any way you see fit. I just discovered many of the independent book awards in America charge a licencing fee if you wish to publicise the fact you won! Cheeky or what!?
Hi, my name is Billy Bob Buttons (my pen name, my real name is Edward Trayer) and
my children’s novels have been independently published in the UK. I do pretty well
but I’m so fed up of entering my books in American book awards. They cost a fortune
and I doubt many of the books even get opened. So I decided to set up my own book
award for independent and self-