Important information about copyright date eligibility: If you are purchasing this option the same year as the copyright date on your book, you are eligible. If you are purchasing it the year after your copyright date, check with our marketing department about your eligibility. If it is two years after your copyright date, you are no longer eligible for this contest.
With our optional ForeWord Book of the Year marketing service, available to order within your Author Toolkit, Outskirts Press will handle all the details of submitting your book to the awards for you, including:
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the award submission fee
- registering our book with ForeWord Connections
- accurately and completely filling out the required entry forms
- printing, shipping, and handling costs of your book to the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards judges.
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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.
All finalists and winners will be notified via email. Finalists are announced the following April. 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.
Winners and finalists will also be featured in ForeWord Magazine.
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