Get noticed. Enter your book in our 6th Annual PenCraft Book Award competition.
Book award contests provide a great way to secure more events, earn more distribution opportunities, and secure more media. Awards help you gain exposure for your work, and exposure is what drives book sales. Book awards show that you are serious about your writing endeavors. Someone has to enter your book, however, to win. Award-winning authors tend to be more successful in selling more books.
Since quality is a core value in what readers want, your PenCraft Book Award attest to that. Take yourself seriously. Being an author requires that you become a master at your craft. It means being competent at the things you do, constantly honing and developing your skills in every way possible. When you take yourself seriously, so will others. Your awards help you stand out and inspire others. Great things can happen when you set yourself up to be noticed as an author to be watched.
A sampling of a few of the great publishers whose books have won PenCraft Book Awards over the past few years. Winning books have been published by big name publishers, self publishers and many small presses.
WildBlue Press author Anne K. Howard won a Best Book of the year award for His Garden: Conversations with a Serial Killer
Tredition author Lisa M. Hutchison's book IRON ANNIE AND A LONG JOURNEY won 1st Place PenCraft award
Sunnyslope Press author Philip Derrick's book Facing the Dragon won a 1st place PenCraft award
CaseMate Publishing author Marcus A. Nannini won a Best Nonfiction Book of the Year with Left for Dead at Nijmegen
Pink Umbrella Publishing's Isabella Murphy won 1st place PenCraft award for From Dark to Light
Tantor Media author Kishan Paul won PenCraft Best Book of the Year award with her novel The Second Wife
Kharis Publishing's author, Stephen D'Angelo won 1st Place for "A Single Day of Peace"
Koehler Books published Chris Leibig’s PenCraft Award-winner Almost Mortal
Rosewind publisher's Lindy Miller won 1st place with Aloha With Love
She Writes Press's Meg Nocero won 1st place with Butterfly Awakens
Vesuvian Media Group published 1st place winner, Death by the River by Alexandrea Weis
BMG author Eric Brotman won PenCraft 1st place book award with Don't Retire - Graduate!
Post Hill Press author Jeffrey Stephens won 1st place for Fool's Errand
Thread Book Published Margarita Gokun Silver's 1st place winner I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Other Immigrant Tales)
Warleigh Hall Press - Alice McVeigh won 1st Price for Susan A Jane Austen Prequel
Luminare Press's author Meghan Caughey book Mud Flower won a PenCraft 1st place book award.
Black Rose Writing's Rick Treon won 1st place for his book Deep Background
