To help you increase your chances of winning book awards, here are three new author success secrets from the Annual Goody Business Book Awards.
We want you to stand out in a sea of 46+ million books on Amazon, and offer these helpful tips to ensure you win more book awards and elevate your brand as an author.
And with our final deadline coming up fast, don’t forget to Nominate Your Book to the Goody Business Book Awards here by September 30: https://goodybusinessbookawards.com/nominate-book/
So here are our top 3 Author Success Secrets for Winning Book Awards:
1. Publish a High Quality Book in sync with Your Author Brand
Because your book represents your author brand, it’s very important to publish a high quality book that supports your message and goals. Our judges are not only reading your book to see if the content is engaging, they are also looking at the title, book cover and social impact.
We recommend starting a book project by first writing an outline with the different chapter names. You can also draft your Introduction with the top ways you want to help readers. And then walk away, think about it, and then go back and revise it. Great writing is also about great editing, and so it’s important invest in an editor.
All of these writing exercises are top author success secrets to help you select a powerful book title and cover that are unique. Ask yourself, will your book title stand out, connect with your desired audience, and move your readers to buy?
The book cover graphics will also make a lasting first impression on book award judges. Please invest in a great book cover designer for your cover. For our “8-Second PR: New Public Relations Crash Course”, we chose a book designer who had done work for books by Random House. She charged twice as much as the other quotes, and it was so worth it.
And most importantly, ask people for feedback along your book writing journey. Show your outline, title and cover to friends, agents, publishers and even strangers in a coffee shop. You can also post potential titles and covers on social media, and ask people to vote. This feedback will directly impact your book sales, success and whether you win book awards.
2. Write thoughtful answer to: HOW is your book helping others?
Our second author success secrets tips is that the most important thing that our judges review is to the answer to our one question: HOW is your book helping others?
When you nominate your book, it’s an easy 3-step process, which includes 1. Uploading the book as a PDF, 2. Uploading the book cover as a jpeg, and 3. Answering this social impact question.
And because the Goody Business Book Awards are 100% social impact book awards, the HOW is the top thing the judges review. So take 5 minutes, go for a walk, and really think about the best way to explain your book’s mission in a short and concise paragraph.
You can Nominate Your Book in 1-50 categories in 8 genres, so write an answer that applies to the categories that you select. The eight genres include: Business, Entrepreneur, Health, Leadership, Marketing, Money/Wealth, Self-Help and Technology.
For example, if you’re nominating for the Leadership – Think Differently category, you should mention how your book helps people find new solutions or ideas.
And if you are nominating your book for the Health – Diet and Exercise category, you should elaborate on what specifically the book teaches people to help people live longer, lose weight, gain strength, and/or have more energy.
3. Encourage and Share Book Reviews
Our last author success secrets tips for winning book awards is to attract and share positive book reviews on your website and Amazon page. While our judges read the book, they also research to find out what other people are saying about your book.
Along with doing public relations campaigns and media interviews to encourage book sales, we encourage you to focus attention on getting honest reviews. You can submit your book to professional reviewers such as BookLife and Midwest Book Reviews, who will provide an objective book review of your work. We also recommended begging friends and family to write reviews.
And as a bonus author success secrets tips, when reading over your book reviews on Amazon, look at what people are saying about your book. Their feedback can help you answer our main question: HOW is your book helping readers?
Book awards are one of the best ways for authors to increase sales, fans and social impact. Use these author success secrets to win more book awards, attract more media interviews, reach more readers, and ultimately uplift your author brand above the competition.