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The
Smart Book Lovers SIG and the Creative Writing SIG are proud to bring you the
2010 Sharp Writ Book Awards! |
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2010 Sharp Writ Unpublished Book Awards: Nominations & Guidelines
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Award Categories Nomination Form |
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Sign up for
the Sharp Writ fortnightly Newsletter for the latest news on the Awards |
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Sharp Writ Unpublished Book Awards Categories
Nonfiction -
Nonfiction books, including, but not limited to, history, biography, science,
nature, and cookbooks.
Fiction
(except romance) - books written in any popular genre or style of fiction except
romance and western. This includes, but is not limited to, Action and
Adventure, Family Saga, Historic, Humor, Horror, Inspirational, Political,
mystery, detective, Fantasy, Graphic novel and science fiction. We are not
accepting romance or Western books this year. Any Romance or Western books
submitted will be destroyed without notice since we do not have any qualified
volunteers for judging these two sub-genres.
Autobiography
& Memoirs - books which are autobiographical in theme,
or include personal memoirs, with or without imaginative reworking.
Young
People's Literature - books written for teen audiences
(fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and graphic novels are eligible).
Children’s
Literature - picture books or easy-readers targeted
towards children, which combine text and illustrations in telling the story
(fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books are all eligible)
1.
To
be eligible for the Sharp Writ Unpublished Book Awards, a manuscript must be
complete, edited, and in a state ready for immediate publication. This includes
manuscripts intended for self-publishing and distribution.
2.
Previously published books are not
eligible, nor are anthologies by multiple authors.
3.
Books
which contain sections previously published
are eligible as long as at least 50% of the content is new and never before
published.
4.
The
only exception to the 50% new content stipulation in Rule 4 is a collection of
short stories, personal essays or poetry where the individual stories, essays
or poems have been previously published in magazines one at a time over a
period of time but the collection is being published for the first time –
such collections are eligible.
5.
Unpublished
manuscripts may have been written in any country as long as the text is in
English.
6.
Books
translated to English from a foreign language as long as the English language
translation is submitted and both the original book and the translations have
been unpublished.
7.
For
entries submitted from outside US, the entry fee must be paid via Paypal in
United States Dollars (USD) or via a official check, cashier’s check or
money order).
8.
Final determination of eligibility will
be made by the Sharp Writ Book Awards.
The
Award winners will receive the following benefits:
1. One Grand
winner across all categories will receive a BOOK PUBLISHING PACKAGE from
Xlibris.com. The package includes being listed on Amazon.com for one year. The
lucky author who wins this publishing package will retain all rights to his/her
book, and can re-publish it anywhere else in the future. You can find out more
details about their publishing packages at their website (www.xlibris.com).
2. Runners-up
across all categories will receive up to three hours of assistance from the
Center of Artificial Imagination in getting a book published and distributed
through Amazon.com using their state of the art print-on-demand technology,
including one free copy of proof (participant pays for S&H and any
additional proofs at wholesale/ production cost)
3. Winner
in each category (Fiction, Non-Fiction, Memoir/Autobiography, Children and
Young adults will receive a certificate)
4. Prestige
associated with the recognition of your book by Smart Book Lovers and Creative
Writing SIG.
5. Exposure
of your book to worldwide members of Smart Book Lovers.
6. An
award/medal - there is a design competition being held among various designers
who are working on alternate designs for the award.
7. A
featured author interview or article in Expressions,
the quarterly newsletter of the Consortium of
Arts and Entertainment Special Interest Groups.
8. Winning
books will be showcased in a special section at Genius-Mall.com, the online
store operated by Smart Book Lovers.
9. 30%
discount towards advertisement in Expressions and Smart Book Lovers' website.
Nomination Guidelines
To
submit your manuscript
1. Download
a form by clicking here, fill it and fax it to 480 393 5591.
2. If
your manuscript is in either Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) form or Microsoft Word
(1997-2003) format, and the file size is less than 19.9 MB in size, email it to
“manuscript-entries
at book-lovers dot net” (click on the link or replace at by
“@” and dot by “.”)
3. For
manuscripts with file size larger than 20MB, 4 CDs must be mailed in each
containing a copy manuscript in Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word (1997-2003
compatibility format) must be submitted on CD, along with a copy of the Paypal
payment (or a check for the Administrative Fee made out to “A&E
SIGs”) to the address below.
4. You
can pay the Administrative fee by Paypal to “payments at book-lovers dot
net”. (Replace at and dot by symbols “@” and “.”)
If you do not have a Paypal account, but would like to pay by credit card, we
can email you an invoice with a link to a webpage for payment by credit card.
Please email us at “awards at book-lovers dot net” (replace at by
“@” and dot by “.”)
5. You
can also submit 4 printed copies of your manuscript – please note that
there is a discount for submitting your manuscript electronically.
6. CDs
and print copies of manuscripts will not be returned to the author..
7. The Administrative Fee for each
title entered are as follows (Checks must be made out to “A&E
SIGs”)
Administrative Fee
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Submission
Date |
Currency
Type |
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USD |
CND |
GBP |
EUR |
ZAR |
AUD |
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Before
6/30 |
50 |
50 |
40 |
42 |
360 |
60 |
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7/1
to 8/15 |
60 |
60 |
43 |
50 |
430 |
70 |
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8/16
to 9/15 |
70 |
70 |
47 |
58 |
500 |
80 |
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Note:
There is a $10 discount for submitting your manuscript via email & $5 for
electronic payment by Paypal. |
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A notation should appear on each check or in the comment field
for paypal payment indicating the title of the corresponding entry (or
indicating the number of total submissions and titles, in the case of multiple
entries).
8.
Each book must be submitted in only one of
the categories listed above. Final determination of the appropriate
category for each entry will be made by the Sharp Writ Unpublished Book Awards.
9. To be
eligible, Nomination
Forms and Administration/Processing fees must be received by 11:59 p.m. by the
dates given above.
10. There will be a $50
(USD) Penalty Fee assessed for a check returned for insufficient funds, and the
processing of your entry will be suspended until both the original
Administration and the Penalty Fees are paid via Cashier’s Check.
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Click
here to download the Sharp Writ Unpublished Book Awards Nomination Form 1.
A
pop-up window will ask you whether you want to open the file or save it to
your computer. Select the option that will save the document to your
computer.
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Selection
of the Sharp Writ Book Awards finalists and winners is made by panels of
volunteer judges who are members of the Smart Book Lovers and have actively
participated in the book reviews. Great care is given to ensure diversity of
background and experience on the panels.
If
you are a Member of Smart Book Lovers, and would like to be considered for one
of the judging panels, please email your name, membership ID (must be current),
a short bio and the genre you’re interested in judging to judges.query@book-lovers.net.
The
Book Awards judging process has two parts:
1. Preliminary Round:
Selection of the finalists, culminating at the end of July. Each of the
award categories has a panel of judges. The judges on these panels will
select a finalist within each award category around mid August. Please check
this website, or Sign up for the
Sharp Writ monthly Newsletter to learn which books made it to the final
round.
2. Final Round:
Winners for each category and the winner and runners up of the grand prize will
be announced around via the Sign up for the
Sharp Writ monthly Newsletter around middle of September.
The Sharp
Writ Book Awards is organized by Smart Book Lovers. All
judging is done by the volunteer judges carefully selected from Smart Book
Lover’s tier-1 reviewers.
Click here to see the biographies of the members of
the Judging Panel
Smart
Book Lovers
author.queries@book-lovers.net
Fax: 480-393-5591