Golden Quill Award 2018 Semifinalists

Golden Quill Award Semifinalists

5/22/2018

The Semifinalists of our 2018
Golden Quill Award Contest

Congratulations to the semifinalists!
Well deserved!
We wish the authors success.
The judges of the contest and our team, Zita, Erika, and Denise.

Our mission with our Award Contests is to provide recognition and promotion to Indie authors.

Most contest organizers require a high entry fee, and they reject books with low rating and only a few reviews. In our opinion, most Indie authors, no matter how great their books are, can't afford effective marketing, therefore, their books are not found by readers and a lot of amazing stories remain unknown.

There are Award Contest that promise publishing deals to the winners. These are mostly scams, only a few big publisher conducts this kind of contest and they require unpublished books to enter.

There are those contests that require high entry fee and they offer cash prizes but in the fine print they states that the prize depends on the number of books entered.

Then, unfortunately, there are those contest that pay bestseller authors to put their names on the judges' list but the authors don't read and judge the books, only supply their names as a catch.

In our contests the judges are volunteer teachers, authors, and avid readers. Because they have social site profiles and belong to reading clubs, they wish to remain anonymous to avoid soliciting messages by authors asking for favors.

The judges rated the contest books on the scale of 0-10 by answering the questions below.
Is the story line engaging and interesting enough to make you turn the pages?
Is the protagonist's character well developed? (You can relate to it)
Is the antagonist character well developed? (You love to hate it)
Is the authors' writing style engaging and makes the story flow well
Does the story written for children carry a valuable moral message?
Is the formatting and or illustrations aesthetically pleasing?
Did you find the story idea original?
Is the plot well thought out and well developed? (no inconsistencies and flows well)
Satisfying ending (happy ending or not, did it leave you satisfied with the conclusion of the story?)

Prizes

The Semifinalist Badges will be emailed to the authors.
The following books in fantasy, paranormal, and sci-fi genres received 6 or higher rating (on the scale of zero to ten) from the judges.

The semifinalist books will be promoted on our website, the books will be added to our Featured Books genre pages and promoted in our June Online Magazine.
You can read our magazines HERE