BBNYA – The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award 2023

Hey everyone!
Today, I wanted to talk to you all about BBNYA (The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award) 2023, which some of you may have already heard about through Twitter or Instagram.

Everything You Need To Know:

This is the fourth annual Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award, in association with The Folio Society & The Write Reads. It is a competition for indie authors (both self-published and published by small indie presses). Exciting, right?

The contest will be judged by a large and diverse panel of book bloggers from all around the world, including myself, and I am so grateful to not only be a part of the panel, but to also be a team leader. The panel will put the books through several rounds of judging based off a wide set of criteria. As each round goes by, we will have book bloggers announce the results – until finally we announce our finalists. After further intensive reviewing, we will choose our favourite and declare it the ‘’Book Bloggers Novel of the Year’’!

Our goal is to give underappreciated, lesser known authors a chance to make themselves known without being overshadowed by the big names, but also show the world the power of book bloggers!

The Prizes:

Due to the huge success of previous years, this year, the prizes are bigger and better than ever before! I am also very honoured to be providing custom bookmarks for the finalists for the 2nd year in a row!

Author Prizes:

1st Place:

A 1000 euro cash prize.*
An ‘Ultimate Blog Tour’ from TheWriteReads.
A 100 pound/dollar/euro gift card for The Folio Society.*
A BBNYA 2023 winner’s trophy.
Twelve promotional bookmarks custom-designed to your book by BookmarksByDanni.
A ‘Winner‘ BBNYA 2023 badge designed by Jenniely.

2nd Place:

A 250 euro cash prize.*
A ‘Standard Blog Tour’ from TheWriteReads.
A 100 pound/dollar/euro gift card for The Folio Society.*
Twelve promotional bookmarks custom-designed to your book by BookmarksByDanni.
A ‘Finalist‘ BBNYA 2023 badge designed by Jenniely.

3rd Place:

A 100 euro cash prize.*
A ‘Standard Blog Tour’ from TheWriteReads.
A 100 pound/dollar/euro gift card for The Folio Society.*
Twelve promotional bookmarks custom-designed to your book by BookmarksByDanni.
A ‘Finalist‘ BBNYA 2023 badge designed by Jenniely.

4th and 5th Place:

A ‘Standard Blog Tour’ from TheWriteReads.
Twelve promotional bookmarks custom-designed to your book by BookmarksByDanni.
A ‘Finalist‘ BBNYA 2023 badge designed by Jenniely.

6th to 15th Place:

A ‘Mini Blog Tour’ from TheWriteReads.
Twelve promotional bookmarks custom-designed to your book by BookmarksByDanni.
A ‘Finalist‘ BBNYA 2023 badge designed by Jenniely.

16th to 65th Place:

A ‘Micro Spotlight Tour’ from TheWriteReads.

INTRODUCING: BBNYA Cover Competition Winner

A 100 euro cash prize to be split between author and artist*

Ultimate Blog Tour: A 15-20-day tour with 60-100 bloggers participating

Standard Blog Tour: A 10-day tour with 25-50 bloggers participating

Mini Blog Tour: A 5-day tour with 10-20 bloggers participating

Spotlight Tour: A 1 day tour with circa 10+ bloggers ‘spotlighting’ the book

Any and all prizes are per novel, not per author. If a novel has more than one writer, they have to share their novel’s prize among themselves. Length (in days) of blog tours are negotiable, the number of bloggers per tour are approximations, actual numbers may vary. Reviews on blog tours are from real people and are honest (i.e some reviews may be negative). Spotlights consist of a blogger posting the cover, blurb, buy links etc of the book on their blog and boosting for exposure across their social media platforms. Promotional banners for blog tours and spotlights provided by TheArtsyReader

*The cash prize will be awarded as Paypal balance. Other safe money transfers may be discussed at the time of awarding the prize.

*Additional prizes may be announced during the sign up period or throughout the year.

*Currency of Folio Society gift cards will depend on your location.

Prizes For The BBNYA 2023 Panel:

Prizes for the BBNYA panel for 2023 are being dramatically increased with an exclusive panellist only 20 euro giveaway each and EVERY week commencing in June 2023 and running for the duration of the 2023 contest.

Additionally at the end of each judging round (three rounds) we will be raffling out a 100 pound/euro/dollar Folio Society voucher between panelists who have fulfilled their judging duties for that round.

AUTHORS – ENTER HERE!

BLOGGERS/REVIEWS – JOIN THE PANEL HERE!

For more information, and full terms and conditions, visit the BBNYA WEBSITE, and keep and eye on the official twitter page for updates!