About
The Independent Literary Awards are book awards given by literary bloggers. Lit bloggers write about books and literary related items. They are the fastest growing form of publicity in the literary world, though most are still independently run and do not receive compensation for their reviews or recommendations. All judges and panelists for theses awards are completely independent and do not receive compensation for reviews nor their work on the award board.
The Independent Literary Awards is currently in its inaugural year and will be presenting the winners for the 2010 calendar year in February of 2011. The genres that will be represented and receiving awards for 2010 are:
- GLBTQ
- Literary Fiction
- Mystery
- Non-Fiction
- Speculative Fiction
(In the future we hope to grow the list of genres represented.)
The process of the Awards:
1. Titles are collected via nominations by literary bloggers in each of the categories.
2. Nominated titles will be tallied and the top 5 nominated titles from each category will be placed on a Long List.
3. Long List titles will be read and voted on by the panel and the judges of each category.
4. The top 2 titles from the Long List will be placed on a Short List.
5. The winners from each category will be chosen by the judge and panel of each category from the Short List titles.
GLBTQ
If you have a book that you would like to nominate for the 2010 GLBTQ Entry List, you may add it below in the comment section.
In order to nominate please refer to the following:
* You must be a literary blogger; and a link to your blog must be provided so we can verify this. (You may not be the author, publisher, or publicist of the book you are nominating).
* Books nominated must have a 2010 release date.
* You may nominate a book that has already been listed (the books with the most nominations will be what we add to the Long List).
* You may nominate books in more than one genre, but only one per genre.
* Nominations close December 15, 2010.
More information here.
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