Kindle Storyteller Award Back for Second Year

Last year Kindle announced its first ever Storyteller Award for authors who publish their work through Kindle Direct Publishing in the UK. Last year the thriller, The Relic Hunters won the first ever award and now it’s announced that the award is back for a second year.

On 10th April Amazon UK opened this year’s awards, a literary prize recognising outstanding work by self published authors. To qualify for the 2018 award you must have published your book via Kindle Direct Publishing, between 1st May 2018 and 31st August 2018.

Readers help to choose the winner as customer interest in the book is a big factor in creating a shortlist. In addition to this a panel of esteemed judges from the book and publishing industry who will then select the Kindle Storyteller 2018 winner in the Autumn.

The winner will be announced at a ceremony to be held in central London in the Autumn, and the winner will receive a £20,000 cash prize, a marketing campaign to support the book on Amazon and the chance to have the book translated for international sales.

Kindle Direct Publishing means it’s never been so easy to publish a book and this award is strong encouragement for that and the chance for self-published authors, who are often excluded from esteemed literary awards, to receive recognition for their work.

For the award at least five books from all the submissions will be selected by a shortlist, created by readers and their interest in the books. The judging panel will then select a winner.

If you’re an author and you’d like more information on the award you can find out how to enter, and find more information at amazon.co.uk/storyteller.