All Things Book Awards

Keri Barnum of New Shelves Books answers your questions about books and publishing every Friday at 10 am ET. This week we were pleased to have Hannah Jacobson, the founder of Book Award Pro, on to talk about "all things book awards."

THIS WEEK ON FREE ADVICE FRIDAY:
0:00 - Intro
0:33 - The Book Award Pro Story
6:25 - Choosing the Right Awards for Your Book
10:11 - The Value of Book Awards
12:52 - Does It Matter Which Award You Win?
15:18 - Tips for Marketing a Book Award Once You Win
22:57 - How Many Awards is Enough?
25:16 - Budgetting for Book Awards
27:34 - The Ideal Time to Submit for Book Awards
31:45 - Book Awards for a Series
33:20 - Watch Out for Book Award Scams
36:13 - Awards That Offerr Free Submissions
38:30 - Indie vs Traditionally Published Books Award Submissions
40:36 - Award Opportunities World Wide
42:58 - Working with Your Publisher to Sumit for Book Awards
45:36 - Using Book Award Pro
55:00 - Get In Touch with Book Award Pro

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[bookawardpro]

Thank you so much for a great chat, Keri! It was an honor to join you for Free Advice Friday.

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I signed up for the second level after free essentials basically $15 a month
It's still super confusing. Book awards afterwards afterwards fifty bucks up to 150 to enter. They have narrowed them down? It seems like if I googled or chat GPT book awards business-to-business which are the best?

She's a good salesperson but so far I have not been impressed.

So far but the words pro doesn't seem to be any better or maybe even not as good? I would love to ask the founder on the free and essentials why is it substantially better than just what I mentioned before? I just started but so far I've been under whelmed.