Outskirts Press has been very busy since I last updated this blog a few months ago (not counting the quick post I uploaded yesterday from our most recent e-newsletter). I will try to simultaneously bring you up to date and also stay current on new developments. Today I submitted my latest book SELL YOUR BOOK ON AMAZON to two different book award contests. Contests are a dime a dozen, so I'm trying one to see if we would be comfortable recommending our authors to it next year. It's the Best Books 2008 awards by USABookNews.com. Worth it? We'll see. The other I submitted to is the Benjamin Franklin Awards, sponsored by PMA. This is a well-known contest, although I still have my reservations about it, probably because their judges seem to have reservations about on-demand books (judging from the list of previous winners). But, ultimately, that tide will turn. It's just a matter of when.
Since we're discussing SELL YOUR BOOK ON AMAZON, it's also worth noting that in the previous months I submitted it to a number of other contests, too, including ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Years, and the one sponsored by Writer's Digest.
One last comment about SELL YOUR BOOK ON AMAZON. The month is was published, it reached #29 overall on the bestseller list on Amazon, and #2 in its category. It's nice when a book practices what it preaches.
About Me
- Brent Sampson
- I have been writing since I was six, and submitting books to old-fashioned publishers since I was in 9th grade. When I discovered Print-on-Demand, I published my first book with a POD company. I wasn't very satisfied with all the work they made me do. So I started Outskirts Press -- a better way to get published for any writer, author, or blogger. Online at http://www.outskirtspress.com