Have you nominated your favourite 2019 reads for an INSPY Award? Nominations for our tenth annual awards close January 16, so hop to it!
Here are all the details from the INSPYs website…
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The Inspys were created to select and showcase books with the highest literary standards that grapple with the Christian faith and were designed to help readers in their search for the preeminent faith-inspired literature of today. This program is organized and judged by book bloggers who have considerable experience and knowledge of books published for both the CBA, general and INDIE markets.
If you haven’t nominated a book in the past year, please note, we’ve made a significant change to our nomination process. For you, the nominator, the rules remain the same, only difference you’ll note is the lack of a publicized long list. This is because the advisory board will be collecting our long list from the top 10 nominated novels in each category. So, even if you know someone else has nominated your favorite read of 2019 or you’re certain it’s already been nominated, go ahead and add your voice because that nomination could be the vote that gets the book into the top ten.
Once the task of the top 10 is calculated and complete, we will publicize our long list, which will be then narrowed down to three books and from there, the same judging process will apply. For more information on the changes, please refer to our announcement post.
Please read through our Nominating Refresher post, and the nomination rules before nominating.
The dates of eligibility include books published in print between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019. If a print book was released as an ebook prior to 2019, it is ineligible.
Books may be nominated in any of the following categories:
- Debut Novel
- General Fiction
- Contemporary Romance/Romantic Suspense
- Historical Romance
- Speculative Fiction
- Mystery & Thriller
- Literature for Young Adults
For more detailed description of categories please see the Revised Nomination Categories. If you’d like to read more about the nominating process, read our blog post with some tips on nominating the right books in their best categories. Pull out those lists and let’s begin!
The deadline to nominate a book is January 16. Winners of the tenth annual INSPY awards will be announced June 28, 2020.
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We look forward to your nominations. Besides nominating the best in faith-driven literature, another way to help today is to spread the word — blog about the INSPYs, tell your friends.
