The greatest challenge for ebook authors, both fiction and nonfiction, is getting them known. Known, read, loved, and recommended to others. This is the best publicity: “word of mouth.” The predicament is finding readers interested in your subject. Judges for the Global Ebook Awards select the categories of books in which they have an expertise and want to read. They are avid readers who voluntarily come to your ebook.
Enter now:
Being nominated for an ebook award multiplies your investment three ways.
1. More reviews for your book.
Judges range from book bloggers to book reviewers, librarians, book club & reading circle members, publicists, book shepherds, as well as professional critics and subject-matter experts in the category they prefer.
Many of the more than 250 judges need material for their (category) blogs and many will review your book at Amazon, B&N.com, Midwest Book Review, etc. See the list of judges at List of Judges
2. Six promotional projects.
Once your ebook is accepted into Nomination, you will receive a promotional project each week for six weeks. These projects will show you where to publicize your book’s nomination and how to track the results. You can use these publicity ideas and projects for this and all future ebooks.
3. Nominated “sticker.”
Bring attention to your ebook by placing a Nominated sticker in your blog, website, emails, etc.
Being accepted into Nomination into the Global Ebook Awards is a stepping-stone to more publicity. Reviews and publicity projects multiply your investment and maximize publicity for your book.
Your ebook will benefit from this fabulous publicity system for just $79 per ebook, per category. Enter now. Entering Your Ebook
Accepting entries: Now, from ebook authors and publishers.
Eligibility: Ebook released anytime on or before March 11, 2012.
Application deadline: March 12, 2012 (midnight Pacific Time).
The Second Annual Global Ebook Award ceremony will be held in gorgeous Santa Barbara on Saturday, August 18, 2012. To see what happened in 2011, go to Award Ceremony 2011
The Global eBook Awards are designed to help you achieve these publicity goals. The Awards are more than a “sticker” they come with a built-in publicity machine. Submitting your eBook for a Global Ebook Award is a publicity investment. Your ebook deserves this exposure.
Dan Poynter’s Global Ebook Awards is a division of Para Publishing LLC of Santa Barbara.
Maralyn Dennis Hill, The Epicurean Explorer, was born to travel and tell the tale. From local cuisine to Michelin Star, simple to gourmet, Maralyn enjoys it all. Discovering flavors, spices, and trends worldwide, from Bocuse d’Or to being a judge at the Turks & Caicos Conch Festival, Oregon Chocolate Festival and others, or interviewing chefs, she is intrigued by all aspects of spa and culinary tourism. As a professional food, wine and travel writer, through guest spots on monthly radio shows, to being editor and contributor to over eight publications, print and online, she reaches several million on a continual basis, domestically and internationally. Maralyn’s years of writing incentive programs and meeting planning expanded her talent for digging below the surface for the unusual. She thrives on discovering different cultures and customs and feels it’s the best geography lesson ever. Also, she derives great satisfaction applying her organizational development skills. She has co-authored three books and hosted a television show for Time Warner Cable from 2002 to 2006. She is past president of The International Food Wine & Travel Writers Association (12-2008 to 12-2012) and continues as a board member and co-chair of the Conference and Media Trip Committee. Maralyn is always ready to explore different flavors of various cultures and share their tale. People she meets along the way are the best part.