All Seattle Public Library (SPL) card holders, ages 18 and up, are invited to enter the SPL’s first ever e-book self-publishing contest. Using Smashwords, local writers can publish their book, and then submit the e-book to the Library for consideration, by 11:59p on Wednesday, October 15th. Up to three winners will be added to the SPL e-book collection.
Enter by creating a free Smashwords account, self-publishing your book on the website, then entering the contest using the Seattle Writes webpage. E-book submissions can be fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and/or short story collections – all themes and genres will be equally considered. One submission is allowed per SPL card holder. Official contest rules can be viewed on the SPL website.
The contest is presented in partnership with Smashwords, a site that promises the fastest and easiest option for distributing an e-book to the world’s largest e-book retailers. The site provides free tools for marketing, distribution, metadata management and sales reporting of independent e-books. At Smashwords, authors and publishers have complete control over the sampling, pricing and marketing of their written works, and the site is ideal for publishing novels, short fiction, poetry, personal memoirs, monographs, non-fiction, research reports, essays, or other written forms that haven’t even been invented yet.
For more information and full contest rules, visit the Seattle Writes website, or Ask a Librarian.