To recognize authors making a positive impact with words, the Annual Goody Business Book Awards is now accepting 2023 Nominations with 25 new categories to expand options for writers. While many book awards highlight a social good category, the Goody Business Book Awards program honors 100% social impact books in 50 categories.
Any book published within 5 years (2019-2023) is eligible for the 2023 Goody Business Book Awards.
“With a sea of 48.5+ million books published on Amazon as Kindle eBooks alone, authors need to find new ways to stand out above the rest beyond being a bestseller, which includes becoming an Award-Winning Author,” explains Goody PR and Goody Business Book Awards Founder, Award-Winning Author and Podcast Host Liz H. Kelly.
When asked what changed, Kelly expanded, “Our author awards program still has 50 total book award categories, but added MANY new categories based on the most popular book award categories last year (i.e. Self-Help Memoir, Self-Help Inspiration and Leadership-Think Differently).”
More book award category options were added to recognize authors who wrote about their “life story.” For example, Autobiography, Biography, Personal Transformation, Motivation, Happiness, Diet and Exercise categories are new.
You can see what has been added in the two images below noted with a star next to the new category.
The goal is to amplify authors in their niche area of expertise to better attract potential readers, fans and clients. Our Book Award Categories are in these 8 subject areas:
Business (13 categories)
Entrepreneur (3 categories)
Health (8 categories)
Leadership (6 categories)
Marketing (4 categories)
Money/Wealth (3 categories)
Self-Help (11 categories)
Technology (2 categories)
When submitting a nomination, authors will also be asked HOW their book is improving lives. Kelly explains, “If your book is helping people live longer, improve their diet, be inspired, be a better leader, save money, buy a house, market their product better and/or other positive impacts, you should nominate your book for a Goody Business Book Award.”
Goody Business Book Awards – 2023 Nomination and Awards Timeline:
Now – September 30, 2023 – Book Award Nominations Accepted
November 15, 2023 – Award-Winning Winners/Finalists Announced
November 15 – December 31, 2023 & Beyond – Promote Award-Winning Authors
Over 100 Award-Winning Authors (50 Winners and 50 Finalists) will be announced by the Goody Business Book Awards by November 15, 2023, just-in-time for your holiday book promotions. The authors can then promote their awards on their front cover, website, social media, blogs, videos – and/or distribute a press release! And as the presenting sponsor and marketing agency, Goody PR will also actively promote the winners on similar platforms.
These unique business book awards can help authors increase awareness of their work, build credibility as a trustworthy thought leader, increase sales, and attract more raving fans and clients through the power of recognition. The Goody Business Book Awards logo is a hot air balloon with a book as the basket to symbolize the mission to “Uplift Author Voices” literally above millions of similar books.
NOMINATE BOOKS:
Anyone can Nominate a Book for the 2023 Annual Goody Business Book Awards.
ABOUT: The Annual Goody Business Book Awards are presented by Goody PR to “Uplift Author Voices” with 100% social impact book awards. Goody PR Founder, Award-Winning Author (“8-Second PR”) and Podcast Host Liz H. Kelly designed the Goody Business Book Awards program to amplify authors making a positive impact with words. This annual awards program is an extension of Goody PR’s Mission to “Magnify Good”.
Goody PR works primarily with clients who are Authors, Businesses, Business Professionals, Business Owners, CEOs, Founders, Entrepreneurs, Speakers, CEOs, Thought Leaders, Experts, and Causes. Goody PR has booked thousands of major media interviews, including on the TODAY Show, CNN, BBC World News, Pioneer PBS, NPR’s Marketplace, TIME Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, WOR 710 AM, Fast Company, and hundreds of local TV, radio shows and podcasts.
If you are an Award-Winning Author, these 8 new book promotion tips from Goody Business Book Awards with examples can help you magnify your book award news.
With 111 new Award-Winning Authors just announced on November 15, 2022, you can see how they are using these tips to boost their holiday and book marketing campaigns.
And if you are wondering, WHY would you want to tell everyone that you’re an Award-Winning Author? The answer is simple. Book awards can increase your book sales, build credibility as a thought leader, attract more media interviews, and help authors get more speaking gigs. So yes, you want to tell the world!
1. Send out a Press Release Announcement
One of the fastest ways to make your book award news go viral is to send out a press release using a news wire that gets picked up by multiple media outlets. For example, one of our Business – Philanthropy /Non-Profit, Award-Winning Authors Devin D. Thorpe (“Superpowers for Good”) sent out a press release announcing his award. Thorpe used EIN Newswire, contacted us for a quote, and it was picked up by ABC4 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and many others.
2. Add Book Award News to Your Website
To maximize your book SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as an Award-Winning Author, one of the best things you can do is post your award on your website. When some does a Google search for award-winning books in your subject matter, you want your book to be on top of their search results.
For example, “I Love Me More” Author Jenna Banks posted this banner on her website with Goody Business Book Awards recognition for her Self-Help – Memoir (one of the most popular and competitive categories) as a Finalist.
3. Publish Book Awards Seal on Your Cover
To stand out in a sea of 46 million+ authors on Amazon, Award-Winning Authors can also add the book awards seal to their cover. The seal is a visual that can help your book catch someone’s attention when scanning through books in a specific genre. For example, Goody Business Book Awards Winner and Finalist David E. Edey (“Executor Help”) tweeted this banner with the seal on the cover. His publisher, Friesen Press, also posted it on Instagram.
4. Share Your Award-Winning Author News in Banners
You can also share your new book award all over social media using banners. All Goody Business Book Awards Winners and Finalists were emailed custom banners to make it easier for them to share the good news.
For example, Award-Winning Author Michael Alcee @mike_drop_(“Therapeutic Improvisation”) shared a banner on Instagram to let his fans know that his book won the 2022 Goody Business Book Awards’ Health – Psychology category. Phillip Wilcoxposted a banner on LinkedIn about his book (“The Future is Autonomous”) winning the Technology – Future Tech and Innovations category. Jeffrey D. Korzenik (“Untapped Talent”) also tweeted that his book won multiple awards, and Art Dielhenn (“Get Out of Your Head, It’s a Mess In There”) posted that his book was Finalist in Health – Psychology using a banner on Instagram.
5. Post Custom Graphics on Social
Authors can also create a custom graphic, and then post it on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media platforms. Everyone was also sent the Goody Business Book Awards seals for Winner and Finalist, depending on their specific award.
Many Award-Winning Authors created their own graphics and shared their awards on Instagram, including: including the Rich Fettke (“The Wise Investor”, Money/Wealth – General – Winner), Batloul Ajlouni (“Ditching Success”, Self-Help Inspiration Winner), and Mark Berridge (“A Fraction Stronger”, Self-Help Inspiration Finalist).
6. Create a Custom Instagram Reels
Because Instagram is now prioritizing videos over photos, posting a Reel is another great way to promote your award-winning book news. In this case, make sure to use all the video features offered to add special effects, music, headlines, hashtags and more. From our 2022 winners, two authors really stood out using custom Instagram Reels, including:
Award-Winning Author @LuciGabel (“Eat To Lead”) that won the Health-Medical and Leadership – Think Differently categories.
Award-Winning Author @Lucy_Beato (“I Had Killer Boobs”) shared that her book was a Finalist for Self-Help – Memoir (one of the most competitive categories) using Reels.
7. Create a Custom Book Award Video
Award-Winning Authors can also create a video to share their book award with fans. YouTube is the second largest search engine behind Google, and is owned by Google so that is a great place to post videos to increase your SEO.
To support all Winners and Finalists, the Goody Business Book Awards created a new Playlist on the Goody PR YouTube Channel, and is sharing a video a day for all 45 categories over the next six weeks. We got this idea after attending the Midwest Emmys® in Minneapolis, where our Goody PR client’s 20 minute Pioneer PBS story won a regional Emmy®, and then the host tweeted individual videos by category! You catch watch the Goody Business Book Awards YouTube Playlist that lists all related videos together, so fans can watch them one after another.
8. Create a ‘Breaking News’ Video with an Online Panel
In addition to the promotion tips above, the “Pulling Each Other Along: 31 Inspirational Stories about Human Kindness” Award-Winning Authors posted a celebration video with a panel discussion on their Facebook page about their book winning the Self-Help-Inspiration category. Award-Winning Authors Todd Civin, Doug Cornfield, Dave Stevens, and Dave Clark, announced the “Breaking News” with back stories on “Pulling Each Other Along”.
During this video panel, the Award-Winning Authors reflect on the inspiring stories in the book, and praise Todd and Doug for putting it all together. During this discussion, Todd Civin explains; “What I keep thinking about Dave is, this is the equivalent to an Emmy® in my world, so I’m only six behind you” (followed by LOLs). Dave Clark added that their book team was also happy to get some good news in South Florida after the hurricane. And then Doug Cornfield added, “It was truly a privilege to work on this book with Todd because you got to meet so many great folks.”
If your book won a book award recently, make sure you share your breaking news everywhere online using these eight promotion tools and tips! It’s way too easy to become an Amazon bestseller today by telling your friends to all buy your book on the same day. Getting a book award is much more of an honor because it means your book stood out and was selected by a panel of judges. So don’t even hesitate telling the world that you are an Award-Winning Author. And check out our FULL LIST of 2022 Goody Business Book Awards Winners and Finalists for more ideas!
The 2022 Annual Goody Business Book Awards Winners and Finalists announces the FULL LIST of 111 Award-Winning Authors in 45 categories.
With hundreds of nominations from around the world, these book awards winners are being presented to 100% Social Impact books by Goody PR to shine a light on outstanding books and add value to the author’s brand as a thought leader and to their book marketing campaigns.
This summary is a RECAP. You can also view Award-Winners and Finalists pages for each category that lists the authors, book cover, HOW their words are helping others and links to their books.
All Award-Winning Authors were selected by a panel of marketing and communications judges based on their book quality and impact. Some of the most popular Goody Business Book Awards categories have multiple Winners and Finalists because there were so many well-written and game changer books.
These Goody Business Book Awards Winners and Finalists are not ranked, and it is considered a tie for all recognized if there is more than one in any of these 10 genres.
Winner – No Permission Needed: Unlock Your Leadership Potential and Eliminate Self-Doubt – By Tissa Richards
Finalist – Write to Influence!: Personnel Appraisals, Resumes, Awards, Grants, Scholarships, Internships, Reports, Bid Proposals, Web Pages, Marketing, and More – By Carla D. Bass Colonel, USAF (Ret)
Finalist – Your Amazing Itty Bitty Guide to Being TED-Worthy: 15 Essential Secrets of Successful Speaking Based in Human Neurobiology – By John K. Bates
Winner – How to Start a Successful Food Truck Business: Earn Full-time Income on Autopilot with a Profitable Mobile Food Business Even if You Got Zero Experience (A Complete Guide for Beginners)- By Walter Grant, Andrew Hudson
Finalist – Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones – By James Clear
Winner – The Business Side of Restaurants: How Intelligent Restaurant Business Entrepreneurs & Investors Can Lead, Win and Make More Money in Life – By Clifford K. Bramble
Finalist – Traveling Tribes: Your Next Gig As a Travel Influencer – By Jeff Gayduk
Winner – Veil Not Fail: Protecting Your Personal Assets from Business Attacks – By Garrett Sutton, Esq.
Finalist – The 7 Key Habits & Principles of Elite Entrepreneurs – Develop a Powerful Entrepreneurial Mindset and Transform Your Business – By Walter Grant
Winner – Notes to a Young Entrepreneur: Everything a High School Student Needs to Know About Turning an Idea Into a Successful Business – By Gary Nealon
Finalist – The Young Entrepreneur: How to Start A Business While You’re Still a Student – By Swish Goswami
Finalist – How to Start a Successful Food Truck Business – By Walter Grant and Andrew Hudson
What makes these book awards unique is that they honor 100% social impact books – and HOW the author’s book is helping others is highlighted next to their award on the Goody Business Book Awards – AWARDS pages by category.
Winner – Secrets of Space Clearing: Achieve Inner and Outer Harmony Through Energy Work, Decluttering, and Feng Shui – By Denise Linn
Finalist – Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain: The Personalized Path to Protect Your Memory, Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes, and Avoid Chronic Illness – By Bradley Bale
Winner – Leading Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Guide for Systemic Change in Multinational Organizations Kindle Edition – By Dr. Rohini Anand
Finalist – Untapped Talent: How Second Chance Hiring Works for Your Business and the Community – By Jeffrey D. Korzenik
Winner – Eat to Lead: Gain a High Performance Edge With Healthy Food Habits – By Luci Gabel
Winner – Marketer In Chief: How Each President Sold the American Idea – By Jason T. Voiovich
Finalist – I Thought You Knew… Confessions of a Chronic Assumer (and How You Can Stop Guessing Your Way Through Important Interactions) – By Ellen E. Patnaude
Finalist – To Be Honest: Lead with the Power of Truth, Justice and Purpose – By Ron A. Carucci
Winner – Write to Influence!: Personnel Appraisals, Resumes, Awards, Grants, Scholarships, Internships, Reports, Bid Proposals, Web Pages, Marketing, and More – By Carla D. Bass, Colonel, USAF (Ret)
Finalist – A Modern Guide to Public Relations: Unveiling the Mystery of PR: Including: Content Marketing, SEO, Social Media & PR Best Practices – By Amy Rosenberg
Winner – Write to Influence!: Personnel Appraisals, Resumes, Awards, Grants, Scholarships, Internships, Reports, Bid Proposals, Web Pages, Marketing, and More – By Carla D. Bass, Colonel, USAF (Ret)
Finalist – Marketer In Chief: How Each President Sold the American Idea – By Jason T. Voiovich
Winner – Exactly What to Say: For Real Estate Agents – By Phil M. Jones, Chris Smith, Jimmy Mackin
Finalist – 7 Step Blueprint to Passive Wealth: Property Management Made Simple – By Rob Chiang
Some of the popular book awards winners categories that received the most nominations included: Business – General, Self-Help – Inspiration, Self-Help – Memoir, and Leadership – Think Differently.
Winner – Build an Online Business In 24 Hours (Updated and Extended Edition): The Blueprint On How To Start An Online Business, As Side Hustle Or As Your Primary Occupation, In No-Time – By Shahram G. Maralani
Finalist – The Innovation Ultimatum: How six strategic technologies will reshape every business in the 2020s – By Steve Brown
Winner – Productize: The Ultimate Guide to Turning Professional Services into Scalable Products – By Eisha Tierney Armstrong
Finalist – Build an Online Business In 24 Hours (Updated and Extended Edition): The Blueprint On How To Start An Online Business, As Side Hustle Or As Your Primary Occupation, In No-Time – By Shahram G. Maralani
Thank you to the authors, publicists, publishers, agents, book experts, readers and fans who nominated books.
These book awards winners are for mostly non-fiction and some fiction books published within the last 5 years (2018-2022) by traditional publishers (St. Martin’s Press, HarperCollins Leadership, Hay House Inc., Page Two), independent publishers (Kogan Page, Tradecraft Books) and self-published.
Congratulations again to the 111 Award-Winning Authors for the 2022 Goody Business Book Awards Winners, and thank you for helping us Uplift Author Voices – one book at a time!
Did you write a book that is positively impacting lives and deserves recognition? Are your words helping people live healthier, build long-term wealth, start a company, learn something new, buy a home, and/or think differently about a topic? If yes, nominate it for the Annual Goody Business Book Awards that honors 100% social impact books and authors making a difference – with words.
Authors, publishers, agents, and fans can nominate any book published in the last 5 years by September 30th.
To illustrate how this book awards program was created to shine a light on authors making a difference, we want to explain the branding, important author questions for the judges, and highlight 5 social impact authors.
Social Impact Book Awards Seal
Uplifting Hot Air Balloon Logo – Our Goody Business Book Awards logo is a hot balloon to symbolize our mission to “Uplift Author Voices”. If you look closely, the basket in the logo is the shape of a book that the balloon is lifting above a crowd. Similar to how each patch in a balloon lifts up its’ passengers, each page in a book can tell a powerful story. All social impact authors are like balloon pilots driving a narrative. Our goal is to magnify business books that are positively impacting the world.
Author Impact Questions
WHY and HOW? – When anyone nominates a book, we ask two author questions to highlight their positive impact. In one paragraph each, authors will be asked to share WHY they wrote their book and HOW it is helping others. Each answer is limited to a maximum of 150 words. The judges will look closely at the HOW, and this answer will be featured for Winners and Finalists on the Goody Business Book Awards website and social media promotions.
5 Examples of Social Impact Books
Lastly, we want to highlight five social impact books from our bookshelf with HOW the author’s words positively improved our life, and many others. These examples are meant to give you ideas for books you could nominate for these business book awards.
What social impact books are on your bookshelf?
1. Little Voice Mastery: How to Win the War Between Your Ears in 30 Seconds or Less and Have an Extraordinary Life! (2nd Edition)
Author: Blair Singer
HOW this book helps others: “Little Voice” is the chatter in the six inches between your ears that turns you into a hero one minute and a dunce the next. The 21 proven techniques presented here will reprogram the “Little Voice” in your brain in 30 seconds. In “Little Voice” Mastery, Author Blair Singer delivers strategies and techniques that will give readers the ability to: Maintain power in any pressure situation and stop debilitating chatter in their brain so they can attract what they want – now.”
HOW this book helps others: “The Wealthy Spirit is the only book that offers an approach to achieving both spiritual and financial wealth. Through a series of daily affirmations that focus on the reader’s internal strength and capacity for change, this book will set them on a path toward personal enlightenment and wealth in body, mind, and spirit.”
HOW this book helps others: Bestselling Author Dan Buettner reveals how to transform your health using smart nutrition, lifestyle, and fitness habits gleaned from longevity research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities he’s identified as “Blue Zones”—those places with the world’s longest-lived, and thus healthiest, people, including locations such as Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula; Ikaria, Greece; and Loma Linda, California. This book is filled with moving personal stories, delicious recipes, checklists, and useful tips that will transform any home into a miniature blue zone, and is the ultimate blueprint for a healthy, happy life.
4. TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking
Author: Chris Anderson
HOW this book helps others: TED Talks helps readers create unforgettable speeches and changing people’s minds.Done right, a talk can electrify a room and transform an audience’s worldview; it can be more powerful than anything in written form. This “invaluable guide” (PublishersWeekly) explains how the miracle of powerful public speaking is achieved, and equips you to give it your best shot. There is no set formula, but there are tools that can empower any speaker.
Authors: Eric Yaverbaum, Ilise Benun, and Robert W Bly
HOW this book helps others: Public Relations for Dummies provides proven techniques that maximize media exposure for your business. When it comes to public relations, nothing beats good word of mouth. Want to get customers talking? This friendly guide combines the best practical tools with insight and flair to provide guidance on every aspect of PR, so you can launch a full-throttle campaign that’ll generate buzz — and build your bottom line.
After nominating many clients for business book awards, we saw a need for a more comprehensive program focused on amplifying the social impact messages of authors. Book awards can also increase awareness of a book, raise an author’s credibility, increase sales, and attract more raving fans and clients.
All Award-Winning Authors can promote their award on their front cover, website, social media, blogs – and even send out a press release announcing the news! And P.S., the Goody Business Book Awards will be using many of the same platforms to promote the good that the Winners and Finalists are doing to make our world a better place.
So please join our mission and movement to “Uplift Author Voices” by nominating your social impact book, or your friend’s book by September 30. It’s an easy 3-step process that can be done in under 5 minutes here: Nominate Your Book.
To amplify authors making a difference with words, the Goody Business Book Awards announces that the final deadline to Nominate Your Book is coming up fast on September 30, 2022. With time quickly running out, authors should stop procrastinating and take action now by submitting their book to this annual awards program. And by becoming an Award-Winning Author, there are many benefits to being recognized as a thought leader in your industry.
Authors, Publishers, Literary Agents, Publicists and fans can nominate any book published within the past 5 years in 50 categories and 10 genres for Goody Business Book Awards.
With the deadline to nominate approaching, follow our book submission timeline:
Jan 1 – Sept 30, 2022 – Nominate Your Books – Deadline soon!
Nov 15, 2022 – Award-Winning Authors Announced – Great for holiday promotions
Nov 15 – Dec 31, 2022 & Beyond – Promote Award-Winning Authors
“With 46 millions books published on Amazon now (and growing every day), the Goody Business Book Awards goal is to help authors stand out as an Award-Winning Author. This 100% social impact book awards program will highlight each winner’s WHY and HOW they are helping others to add value to their publicity and book marketing campaigns,” explains Founder, Award-Winning Author, Publicist, and Podcast Host Liz H. Kelly.
To Nominate Your Book to the Goody Business Book Awards, below are the 3 easy steps that can be done in 5 minutes.
1. Select Your Book Category(s) – 50 options
2. Add Your Book Details – Book, Cover, and Author Why and How
3. Submit Payment and Wait for Judges to Announce Winners
Step 1 – Select Your Book Award Category(s)
Anyone can nominate a book for 1 or more of the 50 categories in 10 genres to help authors get recognized in their niche area. The ten subject areas include Business Books, Children’s Books, Entrepreneur, Health, Leadership, Marketing/Sales, Money/Wealth, Real Estate, Self-Help and Technology.
Step 2 – Add Your Book Details
To help the judges and book promotions, authors are asked to submit a book PDF, book cover image and answer 2 quick author questions (1 paragraph each) about their Author WHY and HOW their book is making a positive impact. These two questions are very important for the judging because the Goody Business Book Awards will recognize authors helping others (save money, be a better leader, lose weight, improve their health, start a company, buy a home, learn new tips, get educated, use technology and more).
Step 3 – Submit and Wait for Judges to Announce the Winners
The last step is to pay the submission fee that covers administrative costs via Square by September 30, 2022. And, then wait for the judges to announce the Winner and Finalist for each category by November 15, 2022, just-in-time for holiday book marketing promotions.
All 100 Award-Winners will be encouraged to promote their book awards by adding the awards-seal to their book cover, website, a press release, social media and/or blog.
In addition, the Goody Business Book Awards will promote all winners in a press release, website posts, digital media and more to maximize the reach and share the good news.
For anyone who wants to know more about how book awards can help authors, Kelly explains, “The top 3 author benefits include: 1. Increase Your Thought Leadership Brand, 2. Attract Mega Media Interviews and 3. Increase your Book Marketing and SEO (Search Engine Optimization).”
For all authors and anyone supporting writers, Goody Business Book Awards Founder Liz H. Kelly emphasizes, “Thank you for helping us shine a light on authors who are improving lives with words. Together, we can change the world – one author at a time.”
