The Awards Categories & Prizes

CHOOSING A CATEGORY

There will be four categories open to both fiction and non-fiction children's books, plus two categories for adult books.

Category 1

Pre-school picture books

Category 2

Books for 6 – 8 year olds

Category 3

Books for 9 - 12 year olds

Category 4

Books for Teenagers

Category 5

Books for Adults (fiction)

Category 6

Book for Adults (non-fiction)

The books can be hardback, paperbacks or ebooks. If your book is an e-book, no problem, send us a digital file (preferably PDF) and we can print it off this end.

PRIZES

Everbody who enters gets:

1. Feedback from the judging. See our examples of the feedback, Example 1, Example 2, Example 3.

2. An honest Amazon and Goodreads review based on the readers' comments. We will check with the author/publisher first to check they want the review.

3. A catchy quote for the back of their next book or reprint

Plus, the finalists and winners will get:

1. A two year's listing on this website.

2. A certificate (it's super-cool!).

3. They will be included in a Press Release going out to every literary magazine we can think of.

4. The finalists will be promoted on www.goodreads.com ($500 budget)

5. A logo to put on the cover of their next book or reprint.

6. The adult category winners will be promoted on Goodreads.

7. Self published books which get through to the finals will be passed on to a select list of publishers (see Supporters). Fingers crossed, they might wish to publish the book or be interested in the author's next book.

8. All publishers/authors whose books get through to the finals will be entitled to a 50% discount off website design fees from webreger.com to help promote their books through their own online website we will then link your name in the finals list to your website. Domain & Hosting must be supplied by webreger.com for discount to apply. Example book Website

9. The Gold, Silver and Bronze children category winners will be listed in the Blind Children UK catalogue.

10. The GOLD WINNERS in Category 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 will be promoted on The Fussy Librarian. www.thefussylibrarian.com

STOP PRESS

Prolific authors may enter lots of books, if they so wish.