It’s Official Now!

I recently learned that the BEA (Book Expo America) had Barbara Streisand as their keynote speaker. Would have liked to have seen that. I suspect it will do wonderful things for her book sales.

Even though I didn’t attend, I’m excited about BEA. My recent placing as Finalist for Science Fiction in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards competition means my book will be in the catalog they hand out to 7500 book buyers, librarians, and publishers. This could be the big step up I need to get onto the national stage. Of course, I’m going to have to do a lot of work to keep the momentum going.

Maybe next year, I’ll be the one on the stage at BEA. I’ll gladly share it with Ms. Streisand, as long as they don’t ask me to sing. THAT would be truly embarrassing!

Clifford M. Scovell
Prison Earth – Not Guilty as Charged
http://www.prison-earth.com

Next Generation Indie Awards

In February, I decided to enter the Next Generation Indie Awards to see how my first novel, Prison Earth – Not Guilty as Charged would fare against the best of the best. The Indie Awards accepts books from independent book publishers or authors. To give some scale to this you must realize that there were over one-million titles published worldwide last year. Of those, more than 3/4s were by small publishers or self-published. That is a lot of competition.

Today I was informed that I am a finalist for the competition. Each genre has one winner and three finalists. According to the Next Generation Indie Awards web site, “Any books named a winner or finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards are considered the “cream of the crop” and are held in high regard.”

Now that’s got to make your head swell!