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My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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#774576 added February 11, 2013 at 1:17pm
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E-Book Awards: Are You Ready to Enter a Contest to Win One?

In pre-E-Book days, we respected the award-winners because we knew the awards by their titles: Pulitzer, Faulkner, Booker, Newberry, Edgar, award titles attached to major Publishers and magazines, etc.

Nowadays, I look at the offering of a book and the award-winner logo confuses me, especially if I have read the book and found it to be so-so or even below that. Funny, but there must be as many awards as e-books. I exaggerate, of course.

Curious, I ran a simple search and found out a few facts on why and how the awards are given.

Facts:

*Bullet* Most E-Book Awards have entry fees. around $70-150. This casts a different light on the process, and although I understand the cost problem, call me a liberal socialist all you want but I’m not comfortable with this.

*Bullet* What most of these awards can offer is exposure. Period. If-- with a one in a million chance--you’re lucky, some agent or publisher may come after you, as award sites alert the entrants; however, sometimes, this works, and hope is what writers must work with.

*Bullet* Unfortunately, a newly formed e-book publisher may have established an award for the publicity for itself rather than for the authors.

If you have a book you want to enter in an award-winning contest, it is a good idea to check the previous award winners, and better yet, read a few of the winning books.

If interested, here are the major award titles, most with websites.

*Bullet* Writers Digest Self-Published Book Awards
https://www.writersdigest.com/competitions/selfpublished

*Bullet* Eric Hoffer Award for Independent Books
https://www.hofferaward.com/HAbooks.html

*Bullet* eLit Awards
https://www.elitawards.com

*Bullet* Independent Publisher Book Awards
https://www.independentpublisher.com/ipland/IPAwards.php

*Bullet* EPIC’s eBook Awards
https://www.epicorg.com/competitions/epics-ebook-awards.html

*Bullet* Next Generation Indie Book Awards
https://www.indiebookawards.com

*Bullet* Next Generation Indie Book Awards
https://www.indiebookawards.com

*Bullet* Indies Choice Book Awards
http://bookweb.org/btw/awards/ICBA.html

*Bullet* The National Indie Excellence Book Awards
https://www.indieexcellence.com

*Bullet* Readers’ Favorite Annual Book Award Contest
https://www.readersfavorite.com

*Bullet* Kidwell-e Festival Ebook Awards (UK)
https://www.kidwellyefestival.com/ebook-awards.html

*Bullet* IndieReader Discovery Awards
http://indiereader.com/the-indiereader-discovery-awards-info

*Bullet* ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year Awards

*Bullet* Dan Poynter’s Global E-Book Awards
http://globalebookawards.com

*Bullet* USA News Best Book Awards
http://www.usabooknews.com/2013usabestbookawards/2012usabestbookawards.html

In addition to all of the above, e-media magazines and some of the bigger print-book awards organizations (e.g. James Beard) are opening up an e-book category in their awards programs.

I wish best of luck to those of you who are brave enough to self-publish or publish in some way. Although you are already winners for tackling the craft of writing, may you all win! *Smile*



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