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Conducted annually, the independent publisher book awards honor the years best independently published titles from around the world. West publishing showing 116 of results default sorting sort by popularity sort by average rating sort by latest sort by price. This years contest drew almost exactly 5,000 entries from 49 u. Nine days later, we won another gold medal, this time at the next generation indie book awards. Along the x axis is time, and on the y axis is the count of editions published. Buy power of attorney form pack first by richard dew isbn. Independent publisher independent publisher book awards living now book awards axiom business book awards illumination book awards elit book awards 1129 woodmere, suite b, traverse city, mi 49686 800. However, an author shouldnt be forced by any publisher or any companyside publishing lawyer or entertainment attorney to sign away the electronic right, digital right, or any other rights that the author would rather keep particularly rights which the author never specifically intended to shop to the publisher in the first instance. The list is supplied as information for authors and self publishers interested in pursuing awards and citations as a means to their own publishing goals. Here are the gold, silver and bronze medalists in our 83 national categories. Each years medalists celebrate their win at the moonbeam awards ceremony in traverse city, michigan, which is held in conjunction with the traverse city childrens book festival, an annual event that brings childrens book authors, publishers, illustrators, and children together to celebrate reading and childrens books.
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