BOOK CONTESTS – IMAGE MAKERS By C. Hope Clark
Contests are everywhere for short stories, poetry and essays. One almost has to wrack his brain to name others. But to a novelist or book-length author, such competitions are rare; for self-published writers they are practically nonexistent. Everyone knows that using "award-winning" after one's name may make someone take notice. But where does one find book contests? Not many people award self-publishing authors, but the few that do, do it quite well. …