The second annual eLit Awards are a global awards program committed to illuminating and honoring the very best of English language digital publishing entertainment. The 2011-12 eLit Awards were created as an industry wide, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the electronic publishing industry. The contest is presented by Jenkins Group Inc., a Michigan-based book publishing and marketing services company that has operated the popular Independent Publisher Book Awards contest since 1996. The eLit Awards celebrate the ever growing market of electronic publishing in the wide variety of reader formats. Hail the revolutionary world of e-books and join the awards program that’s highlighting the best in electronic reading entertainment!

Visit the eLit Awards online entry page: https://secure.independentpublisher.com/secure/elit/entry.php

Eligibility
Publishers and authors worldwide creating electronic books written in English and created for the global marketplace are eligible for entry in 64 different e-Lit categories. Titles published with a 2011 or 2011 copyright or that were released between January 1, 2011 and January 17, 2012.

How to Enter
Entry fees are designed to save you more money the earlier you enter.
Early-bird entry #2 – September 1, 2011 – November 30, 2011 – $70 per title, per category (Save $10)
Regular entry – December, 2011 – January 16, 2012 – $80 per title, per category

Visit the eLit Awards online entry page: https://secure.independentpublisher.com/secure/elit/entry.php

Award Categories
1. Fine and Performing Arts (Music/Dance/Cinema/Theater/Photography)
2. Architecture
3. Popular Fiction
4. Literary Fiction
5. Short Story Fiction
6. Anthologies
7. Fantasy/Science Fiction
8. Historical Fiction
9. Horror
10. Multicultural Fiction
11. Mystery/Suspense/Thriller
12. Religious Fiction
13. Romance
14. Erotic Fiction
15. Erotic Non-Fiction
16. True Crime
17. Children’s Books (7 & Under)
18. Children’s Books (All ages)
19. Juvenile/Young Adult Fiction
20. Juvenile-Young Adult Non-Fiction
21. Essay/Creative Non-Fiction
22. Autobiography/Memoir
23. Biography
24. Aging/Death & Dying
25. Animals/Pets
26. Business/Career/Sales
27. Cookbooks
28. Current Events I (Political/Economic/Legal/Media)
29. Current Events II (Social Issues/Public Affairs/Ecological/Humanitarian)
30. Current Events III (Foreign Affairs/Military)
31. Education/Academic/Teaching
32. Environment/Ecology/Nature
33. Finance/Investment/Economics
34. Gay/Lesbian
35. Gift/Holiday/Specialty
36. Health/Medicine/Nutrition
37. Graphic Novel/Drawn Book – Humor/Cartoon
38. Graphic Novel/Drawn Book – Drama/Documentary
39. History
40. Home & Garden
41. How-To (Crafts/Hobby/Industrial Arts)
42. Humor
43. Inspirational/Spiritual
44. New Age/Mind-Body-Spirit
45. Parenting (Child Care/Family)
46. Poetry
47. Popular Culture
48. Psychology/Mental Health
49. Sports/Fitness/Recreation
50. Reference
51. Religion (Eastern/Western)
52. Science
53. Self Help
54. Sexuality/Relationships
55. Transportation (Automotive/Aviation/Railroad, etc.)
56. Travel – Essay
57. Travel – Guidebook
58. Women’s Issues
59. Writing/Publishing
60. Best Book Multi-media Produced
61. Best Book Website
62. Best Author Website
63. Best use of Audio/Aideo
64. Best Book Trailer

About the Awards
The contest is presented by Jenkins Group, a Michigan-based book publishing and marketing services company that has operated the popular Independent Publisher Book Awards contest since 1996.

Jerrold Jenkins, Founder and CEO of Jenkins Group, Inc. says, “The electronic book market is growing exponentially and the eLit Awards are here to recognize and honor the very best of this emerging format.  The faster we move, the faster we want our information and entertainment.  E-books are giving us the ability to add growing variety of books to every aspect of our life. We want to be here to watch it grow and celebrate the best the format has to offer.”

To learn more about the eLit Awards and see the 2010 winner’s list visit: www.eLitAwards.com
Learn more about Jenkins Group at http://www.BookPublishing.com

Questions? Call or email: Andrew Parvel
1.800.644.0133 x 1004
aparvel@bookpublishing.com

The eLit Awards are owned and operated by:
Jenkins Group 1129 Woodmere Ave. Suite B Traverse City , MI 49686 ~  231.933.0445

Dan Poynter, Founder of the Global eBook Awards, announces that the second annual program

is now accepting entries.

Imagine…

Your Ebook winning an award and:

&   Putting an official “sticker” on your Ebook cover, website, Amazon page, and promotion materials.

&   Getting buoyant feedback from judges with experience in your category of book.

&   A free listing in Publishing Poynters Marketplace offering copies of your book for reviews in prestigious ebook dealers’ sites such as Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, and others.

&   Being honored at an award ceremony in gorgeous Santa Barbara.

&   Media coverage for your book and you.

&   Winners and finalists will be listed on the official Global Ebook Awards site.

&   Winners and finalists will receive Global Ebook Award certificates attesting to their honor.

&   Winners will be announced to the media in news releases.

&   Discounts on video trailers for YouTube, Amazon and your website.

&   Discounts on other services for authors and publishers.

And much more…

To be successful, fiction has to get read.

To be successful, nonfiction has to be brought to the attention of its category audience.

Readers have to read your book, love it, and tell someone else.

This is “word of mouth.”

The Global eBook Awards are designed to help you achieve these goals. The Awards are more than a “sticker” they come with a built-in publicity machine.

Accepting entries: Now, from ebook authors and publishers.

Eligibility: eBook released anytime on or before March 11, 2012.

Application deadline: March 12, 2012 (midnight Pacific Time).

Award ceremony in beautiful Santa Barbara: Saturday, August 18, 2012.

See  http://globalebookawards.com/

This web site is not just about the Global eBook Awards. It is your resource for everything eBook.

Submitting your eBook for a Global Ebook Award is a publicity investment.

Your book deserves this promotion opportunity.

Sara Summers Stanton has raised three children and works as a high school teacher at the same school she attended growing up. Her 25 year marriage is showing cracks in the facade and now she’s dealing with breast cancer. In a rare moment of taking care of herself instead of everyone else, Sara takes a sabbatical and goes on the trip to Italy she has always dreamed of taking. This search for a more authentic life leads to Julia, a friend she hasn’t seen since they were inseparable as girls, nearly 30 years earlier. They reunite in Florence and their friendship continues where they left off, resulting in an unexpected attraction to one another that threatens to turn Sara’s already shaky world upside down. What do you do if you fall in love with your best friend? Sara’s inner conflict and subsequent choices reveal an unpredictable yet dynamic future for all the characters. Seeking Sara Summers is an emotional and lyrical novel, a timeless story about love, commitment and transformation.

You can purchase the book online from Smashwords in multiple eBook formats at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/114467.

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A true story about a smallish man and some big camels.A tale of friendship and trust lovingly illustrated by Linda Carter Holman.This story offers one a glimpse at the world of an often misunderstood creature — the camel.

Many people in the western hemisphere associate camels with arid desert areas.This is in fact only a partial truth. Camels can be found in various countries with varying climates around the world.This tale for children of all ages is one of friendship and trust, between one man and a camel.

You can purchase the book online from Smashwords in multiple eBook formats at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/116571.

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Have you ever thought of your faith as being on trial? Perhaps not! Help! The Devil is After My Faith, is a journey of how the enemy tempts us to get out of faith by using life’s disappointments as a catalyst to cause the People of God to become stagnant on the way to purpose. Faith is a precious commodity that the enemy is continually strategizing to rob us of its significance by way of hindering us from growing to the next level of faith. The trials and testings that we go through are the means by which the Devil uses to ensnare us to cause us to give up on our faith. Through reading and applying this biblical truth you will:

Discover that trials and testing are necessary to go onto the Next Level.
Recognize that the Devil wants you to give up on your faith.
Recognize that the Devil uses the disappointments of life to cause your faith to falter.
See that the enemy preys upon the believer to focus on the sin-consciousness or the act itself to get the believer outside of faith.

Faith is key to winning every trial that you will ever encounter during your Christian walk.

Help! The Devil is After My Faith, is a weaponry must have to defeat the enemy who is set against your destiny.

You can purchase the book online from Smashwords in multiple eBook formats at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/114937.

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The Earth never stood a chance. For forty-two minutes planet Earth fought off its destruction as best it could. Less than one percent of planet Earth survived. The planet is destroyed as what is left of humanity watches from afar in the vessels of their rescuers.

Unfortunately for humanity, the Earth has been handed quite a harsh existence. The planet began as a toxic and radioactive dumping ground for many of the sentient species of the galaxy. Humanity formed as a by-product of the reaction between those waste materials and certain basic protein chains. Because of this, humanity is generally looked down upon as being inferior to all other species. Even those that rescue the humans and accept them among their own ranks do not truly accept them.

The only things the new allies of the humans know about them is what has been downloaded from Earth’s internet or pulled from the airwaves as broadcast signals around the planet. This is what causes the aliens to believe that Earth’s most important and renowned leaders are… pop stars. Because they appear so much in human media, it only stands to reason that they must be important leaders. As such, the humans’ new allies appoint three of them which survived to represent the human race to their council.

This leaves humanity’s only hope for survival in the hands of those whom are woefully unprepared. A few of the survivors have military experience, some are engineers and others are entertainers. Humanity will need to band together and help their allies do the same or all of them will die at the hands of the Goraan Empire. The Goraan have never been defeated, and as their empire continues to roll forward, what is left of humanity will have to find a way.

You can purchase the book online from Smashwords in multiple eBook formats at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/116269.

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“The Corruption of Michael Levitt” is a rollicking ride through life seen through the eyes of Michael Levitt–Harvard Law School graduate and survivor of his Long Island childhood.

It’s a story of a bright but naïve guy who, while trying to make it in this world is, with the best of intentions, gradually corrupted by the universe in which he exists.

As Michael moves from the high pressure life of an associate in a prestigious New York law firm to the uncharted playground of Miami, the reader is caught up in Michael’s personal and professional fast times. Readers will follow Michael through the maze that becomes his life—underworld business dealings, sex, drugs, friends and enemies, and ultimately murder- enjoying his perceptive, often hilarious view of his own situation.

Michael Levitt’s universe is populated by flawed characters and aberrant behavior. The novel is a great read for anyone who just started out anywhere…For anyone who is a lawyer or knows, likes or hates lawyers… Anyone who wants to lose themselves in a decade long saga of hope, ambition, angst, sex, friendship and betrayal…For those who appreciate complex schemes and scams and enjoy laughing at the strangest circumstances…For People who enjoy an intelligent, entertaining and engrossing read and want a book they can’t put down.

The story, while totally unique, feels something like a John Grisham/Woody Allen Odyssey.

You can purchase the book online from Smashwords in multiple eBook formats at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/116510.

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When a once proud and honorable man, who has been reduced to an appalling and pathetic existence, witnesses an act of violence, the warrior within is re-ignited… And all Hell breaks lose.

Part “Sin City,” part “Taxi Driver,” part God knows what… “Red Monkeys” (a 32,000 word, VERY gritty novella) puts a bag over your head and drags you into the seediest of urban underbellies.

Through a shocking 1st person narrative, we are launched into the sick world of a broken, desperately alcoholic, degenerate anti-hero. His existence is a drunken, fragmented, roller coaster of humiliation that gives new meaning to “hitting rock bottom.”

Haunted by his tragic past, and teetering on the edge of oblivion, he literally “stumbles” upon an event that will change his life forever. Tapping into something long dead within his soul, his heroic nature is resurrected. His surprising metamorphosis brings him face to face with the absolute scum of the Earth. Unfortunately for them, they stand in the way of: The Mission.

Tirelessly driven by his burning need for Justice and Redemption, he transforms into a cold-blooded vigilante. But is he Savior or Monster, or both?

This is the story of the darkest of flawed heroes. His surprising moral conscience compasses him through a depraved world on a disturbing, gripping, gut-wrenching journey. Will it end with his salvation, his death, or both?

*WARNING: Extremely graphic and disturbing imagery. If you’re not sure you want to go there- Please, don’t even read the first sentence. Seriously.

But for those that can stomach it, it’s a helluva ride that you’ll never forget.

You can purchase the book online from Smashwords in multiple eBook formats at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/101421.

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Rumours and whispers of a cure have reached Mara’s ears and hope that has been denied for so long begins to grow once more. But, if she is to find the cure, to help Sebastian, she must face down a whole new set of dangers.

A sadistic army General who’s hatred knows no bounds.

A brilliant scientist whose love for his lost wife drives him to madness.

And a new pack of Nevermores . . .

You can purchase the book online from Smashwords in multiple eBook formats at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/89055.

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Jayne Gold is the most talented hairdresser of her generation, she is on track to be one of the best in the world and is also building a successful business, but Jayne can’t let go she micro manages everything. Gordon is a young and talented employee he will push the envelope.

You can purchase the book online from Smashwords in multiple eBook formats at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/115546.

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