To honor book geeks who truly love to read books, the Goody Business Book Awards announces a new Bookworm Wednesday with 3 ways to celebrate authors each week online.

Authors, publishers, agents, publicists, and fans are encouraged to participate by sharing their book passions and favorite authors using the hashtags #BookWormWednesday and #GoodyBusinessBookAwards.

In addition to participating in Bookworm Wednesday, you can Nominate Your Book published to this annual book awards program that has 50 categories in 8 genres (business, entrepreneur, health, leadership, marketing, money/wealth, self-help, and technology). Any book published within 5 years is eligible.

Goody Business Book Awards was created by Award-Winning Author Liz H. Kelly, who promotes authors via her Goody PR agency. She grew up in a house with a bookworm mother and explains, “Our mother taught English at our high school for decades, including teaching us. She loves to read more than anyone I know, and averages reading a new book a week.”

So whether you read a book a week, a month or a year, here are 3 ways you can participate in our new Bookworm Wednesday:

1. Encourage others to read by sharing WHY you love to read so much on Bookworm Wednesday.

If you are truly a book lover, you read as a part of your everyday life. Instead of spending hours watching re-runs on TV, you find quality time to read and learn new skills that advance your life and/or simply entertain with a compelling story.

In “Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be” by Jack Canfield, co-creator of the bestselling “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series”, shares his five “Big Ideas”.

In this book, Jack Canfield emphasizes, “You can lose the material things, but you can never lose your mastery—what you learn and who you become in the process of achieving your goals.”

And this benefit is WHY we love to read self-help books to learn and move forward, started the Goody Business Book Awards, promote authors, and created our new Bookworm Wednesday.

If you are looking for answers on how to be a better leader, start a business, build wealth, strengthen relationships, eat healthier, live longer, be a better marketer and/or help you fulfill your life dream, chances are very good that someone has written a book to help you.

2. Share your Favorite Books, and how they have changed your life on Bookworm Wednesday.

Do you remember reading a book that has been invaluable to your life? Do you have favorite books that you’re read more than once?

As a book geek, one of our life-changing reads has been “Sales Dogs: You Don’t Have to Be an Attack Dog to Explode Your Income” by Blair Singer.

In this invaluable book, the author explains how you can build relationships and sell using five different types of dog analogies. For example, you may be a Golden Retriever who closes sales based on trust, loyalty and relationships versus being a Bull Dog who aggressively makes cold calls all day. This book teaches you how to overcome objections by playing to your strengths with five-revenue generating skills.

3. Explain how a specific book entertained you for hours.

Can you think of a favorite book that you couldn’t put down? Have you ever continued reading a book at 2:00am because you just couldn’t wait to read what happens next? If yes, please post it on our Bookworm Wednesday on your social media channels.

One of our favorite all-time books is “The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit” by the Director and Writer Ron Shelton.

This entertaining book is about the backstory behind making one of the most famous baseball movies in history that starred Kevin Costner, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.

And while “Bull Durham” won many awards in 1988 for this romantic comedy sports film, Shelton uncovers these untold behind-the-scenes stories in this 2022 book. If you loved this classic, you’ll love the stories about how the award-winning director struggled to get this movie made and resolved cast conflicts.

When all goes sideways with the film, Shelton explains how he was able to save one of the most popular minor league baseball movies in history using his dry sense of humor, wit and help from Kevin Costner pitching it to investors that makes this mega bestselling book a page-turner.

So join us on Bookworm Wednesday each week by sharing your love for reading books, favorite books and stories about how a book has helped you.

Please post your favorite books, favorite authors, your WHY for reading books, and/or how a book changed your life on Bookworm Wednesday using #BookwormWednesday and #GoodyBusinessBookAwards. AND tag @GoodyBusinessBookAwards so we can re-share your post.

And if you or someone you know wrote a book that is positively helping others, you can Nominate Books for Goody Business Book Awards here using our easy 3-step process: https://goodybusinessbookawards.com/nominate-book/