FPA President’s Book AwardsIn 2005, then-President Dinah Arnette wanted to celebrate and honor FPA’s 25th anniversary. She chose to establish the FPA President’s Book Awards, a competition open only to FPA members in good standing. In 2011 the FPA Board Members chose to open the awards to the public. This year's winners will be announced at the 2012 FPA President's Book Awards Banquet on Saturday evening, Nov. 5, at the Helmsley Sandcastle Hotel in Sarasota. To register for the banquet, click here.
2012 President’s Book Awards Call for SubmissionsFlorida Publishers Association is pleased to announce the guidelines for this year’s President’s Book Awards, which recognizes book publishing excellence and creativity in both content and production. Submit your 2011 and 2012 titles (up until deadline)
in the following categories:
Autobiography/Memoir e-book Adult Fiction Adult Nonfiction Young Adult Fiction Young Adult Nonfiction Children’s Fiction Children’s Nonfiction Children’s Picture (Read to Me) Book Cover Design Poetry Book Business Book Florida Fiction Book for Adults Florida Fiction Book for Children Florida Nonfiction Book for Adults Florida Nonfiction Book for Children Coffee Table Book Fantasy/SciFi How-To/Self-Help Humor The following category cannot be “entered”: The President’s Pick is chosen from all entries by FPA President Chris Angermann. FPA reserves the right to reassign entries to categories for which they are best suited, as necessary. When a category receives fewer than three entries, the books will be reassigned to other categories or returned with payment to the entrant.
Eligibility Current FPA members (publishers, self-publishers, authors and illustrators) and writers who are Florida residents can enter books. If you aren’t sure whether or not your membership is current, email Ellen Valladares to find out. A renewal discount rate of $75 is being offered for those who want to renew at the same time they enter books. Only books published in 2011 and 2012 (up to the deadline) will be considered. The year must be printed on the copyright page (or elsewhere within the book). Only bound books are considered for entry. We will not accept old bound galleys, F&Gs or marked review copies. In fact, the interior of the book should contain no stray markings or stamps. Such markings/stamps can render a book ineligible. Past FPA President’s Book Award winning titles are not eligible for entry. FPA Board Members are able to enter books in the awards competition. The president may not choose his own book for President’s Pick but is otherwise eligible to enter his company’s titles.
The Judges All entries will be considered by the three judges in each category. The judges are not paid; instead, they are rewarded for their service by being allowed to keep the entries. Do NOT mark your entries. No notes to the judges, nothing scrawled on the cut edge of the paper. Marking or stamps can render a book ineligible. Florida librarians will serve as judges in all but the design categories. Three professional book designers will serve as design judges. Under no condition will entries be returned. The judges are advised to keep the entries, or, failing that, donate them to their library, a women’s shelter or children’s center.
The Awards This year, FPA will award one Gold Medal and up to two Silver Medals in each category. These winners will be announced by email and listed on the FPA website in September. At the FPA 2012 President’s Book Awards Banquet (location and date to be announced in June) medalists will be honored for each category, and the President’s Pick will be announced and honored. Both Gold and Silver Medalists will receive a medal and an awards certificate. They will also receive 500 “Winner” stickers (gold for for Gold Medalists and silver for Silver Medalists). President’s Pick will receive a medal and 1,000 stickers. Additional stickers may be purchased for $49 per roll. Medalists will be displayed (and its marketing materials disseminated) at no cost to the publisher in the FPA booth at both the 2012 FAME (Florida Association for Media In Education—school librarians) and the 2013 FLA (Florida Library Association) shows. An FPA-issued award-announcement press release will sent to the author or publisher for release to print and broadcast media. To Enter In a well-secured package (no one package over 30 lbs, please), send: ___ four copies of each title for each category entered (this means that if you enter one book in three categories, you’ll send a total of 12 books -- 3 for the judges, one for President's Pick). ___for e-books, if it is a print only conversion title, send 6 printed pdf versions of the book. If it contains interactive visual and audio files, please send 4 discs with the digital file. ___ a cover letter (on your letterhead) with your entries noted, and a declaration of the categories in which you have entered each title. Please also indicate if you have included an additional $75 for membership renewal. ___ $60 for each category entered. (This means that if you entered one book in three categories, you’ll send a check for $180, plus any renewal amount.) Please make your check or money order payable to FPA or Florida Publishers Association and attach it to your cover letter. ___ a disk of the book’s cover in high resolution. (You should put this in a padded envelope so it doesn’t get broken inside the box. By high resolution, we mean at least 300 dpi., and we can accept either RGB or CMYK images in a JPG format. Please do not send in the native format. No drop shadows, please.) Marketing materials, newspaper articles, personal notes and other promotional items will be thrown away, so please do not include them. Send only your cover letter with a check attached and the books. Please send your entry(ies) with delivery confirmation so you will know when they arrive. Within Florida, Media Mail (U.S. Postal Service) packages will arrive in 1–3 days. Priority Mail (U.S. Postal Service) packages (including those great flat-rate boxes) usually arrive in one day. Outside of Florida, Media Mail times vary up to a week, and Priority Mail can take as long as three days. It is unnecessary to go to the extra expense of sending via delivery service, such as UPS or FedEx, unless you are sending on a day that is very close to the deadline of June 4. Send your copies, cover letter and disc with the cover to: President’s Book Awards FPA President Chris Angermann 5430 Colewood Pl Sarasota, FL 34232
Deadline for Entries Deadline for receipt of entries is Monday, June 4, 2012. No exceptions. Books postmarked that day, but arriving later will not be considered. Past WinnersView the previous years' winners! 2011 Winners and Finalists2010 Winners and Finalists2009 Winners and Finalists (see FPA Bookstore)2008 Winners and Finalists (see FPA Bookstore)2007 Winners and Finalists (see FPA Bookstore)2006 Winners and Finalists (see FPA Bookstore)2005 Winners and Finalists (see FPA Bookstore) |
