
How to Launch an Author Awards Program at Your Library
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For many reasons, up until now librarians have ignored the nearly half-million self-published books available for purchase. This book details how to find and promote librarian-curated, self-published books, covering every step in the process-from assembling a committee and recruiting judges to soliciting submissions, handling the nominated authors, judging the entries, and promoting the contest and contest winner.
Written by the founding members of the Soon-to-be-Famous Illinois Author Project, the first librarian-curated award for self-published works, this book shows you how to use the process outlined by these library marketing professionals to run a successful author awards program. You can also apply their proven methods and tools to evaluate self-published books written by local authors that you are considering adding to your collections.
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Elizabeth Clemmons is the public relations coordinator at Gail Borden Public Library District in Elgin, IL.
Stam and Clemmons are recipients of a 2015 John Cotton Dana Award-the most prestigious award given by the American Library Association-for their efforts on the Soon to Be Famous Author Project.
Inhalt
- Cover page
- Halftitle page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface: What is the Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project?
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Break Away from Normal-Get Going on Soon to be Famous: The Why Chapter
- 2 Project Formation
- 3 Getting Others Involved in the Project
- 4 Communicating with Authors, Accepting Submissions, and the Polar Vortex
- 5 Judging the Nominated Books
- 6 The Final Three and the Big Announcement
- 7 Promoting the Winner (or Almost Famous)
- 8 Going Forward
- Afterword
- Appendix A Project Timeline and Documentation
- Appendix B Writing a Book Review
- Appendix C Library Marketing Guidelines and Resources
- Appendix D Creating a Marketing Plan for Your Author Contest
- Appendix E A Short History of Self-Publishing
- Appendix F The FirstSoon to be Famous Illinois Author-The Movie
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors
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