Carolyn Offers Contest Recommendation That Can Be Trusted

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To my SharingwithWriters Visitors and Subscribers:

I am a co-sponsor of this contest.  I love to recommend it because so many authors don’t trust contests and this one passes my test for value. WinningWriters.com has been around a long time. I have trusted their newsletter that publishes new contests (all of them vetted!) for a long time. Though the submission fee is not inexpensive it’s fair because it offers lots of value-added features to winners. And they are very generous with informations on their Twitter (@winningwriters) account, too.  And I get to see and read their winning books and know the quality of their winning books. AND, winning this prize (including honorable mention) gives authors a prestigious marketing advantage. 

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Best, Carolyn

A Great Contest for Your Self-Published or Hybrid-Published Book There are lots of contests for indie books. You can find them listed at the Alliance of Independent Authors and BookBubamong other places. Here is what makes our North Street Book Prize one of the best: Large cash prizes: $10,000 for the grand prize, $1,000 for each category winner. Bonus awards: Winners receive additional services from BookBaby, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, Book Award Pro, and Winning Writers to help market their books. Free gifts: All contestants receive four free gifts from our co-sponsors. Reasonable entry fee: $75 per book. Many other contests charge $85, $95, even $100+. No need to enter multiple categories: Choose one category for your book. If our judges feel it will do better in another category, they will reassign it. Flexible criteria: Submit books published in any year, on any self-publishing or hybrid-publishing platform. Pro-author attitude: Submit a non-qualifying book by mistake? A duplicate entry? We’ll refund your fee. Transparent: We have five judges. Read about them on our guidelines page. Lasting, in-depth publicity: With some contests, it’s hard to find out much about past winners beyond the author’s name and the book title. At North Street, we publicize our winners through our website, in our newsletter (50,000+ subscribers), and in our social media channels (including 135,000+ Twitter followers and 39,000 Facebook followers). Our contest archives feature critiques of the winning entries, excerpts from the books, and bios of the winners going back to the first contest in 2015. No nickel-and-diming: Some contests charge winners for things like award seals. We provide those for free. Recommended by industry leaders: The North Street Book Prize is recommended by Reedsy and the Alliance of Independent Authors. Winning Writers itself is one of the “101 Best Websites for Writers” (Writer’s Digest, 2022). Submit online via Submittable or by mail. Click to learn more about our contest.   Submit your book by June 30

Prefer to enter by mail?   Verify that your book fits into one of our categories, then mail your entry and $75 fee to Winning Writers, Attn: North Street Book Prize, 351 Pleasant Street Suite B PMB 222, Northampton, MA 01060-3998, USA. Please postmark your entry by June 30.

 Howard-Johnson is the multi award-winning author of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. She is also a marketing consultant, editor, and author of the multi award-winning #HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers including the multi award-winning The Frugal Book Promoter (https://bit.ly/FrugalBookPromoIII), now offered in its third edition by Modern History Press. She is also the author of” How to Get Great Book Reviews Frugally and Ethically.” She has two booklets in the #HowToDoItFrugally Series, both in their second editions from Modern History Press. “Great Little Last Minute Editing Tips for Writers” (https://bit.ly/LastMinuteEditsII) and “The Great First Impression Book Proposal” (https://bit.ly/BookProposalsII) are career boosters in mini doses and both make ideal thank you gifts for authors. The one on writing book proposals is also available as an Audio Book. “The Frugal Editor” (https://bit.ly/FrugalEditor), recently released in its third edition, is the winningest book in the series. Carolyn also has three frugal books for retailers including one she encourages authors to read because it help them understand what is needed to convince retailers to host their workshops, presentations, and signings. It is “A Retailer’s Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotions: How To Increase Profits and Spit in the Eyes of Economic Downturns with Thrifty Events and Sales Techniques” (https://bit.ly/RetailersGuide). In addition to this blog, Carolyn helps writers extend the exposure of their favorite reviews at https://TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com. She also blogs all things editing–grammar, formatting and more–at The Frugal, Smart, and Tuned-In Editor (https://TheFrugalEditor.blogspot.com). Learn more and follow for news on her new releases direct from Amazon at https://bit.ly/CarolynsAmznProfile.

Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the multi award-winning author of the HowToDoItFrugally series of books for authors and retailers. She was named Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by members of the California Legislature and was an instructor for UCLA Extension’s renowned Writers’ Program for nearly a decade. Learn more about her writer’s services at https://CarolynHoward-Johnson.com.