A book contest is taunting me to enter, but so it is with 10s of thousands of people!
This book contest e mails me, constantly, to enter my book into a contest. There are big prizes. Free publishing, a chance for a TV film, chance to win money, or get into a magazine. Lots of prizes, but humor does not do well in these contests. I won a 2017 Apple Literary award for the best humor book, in its own category, humor. The prizes there were not big, just a few copies of the award sent to me, and maybe a little publicity. I was not the # 1 winner in the total category. That was the big miss, but I did very well. Then, in another I won, an honorable mention. My book was put on the front of their website, as well as many others who got honorable mention, for a month or so. It did not increase sales, it did nothing. Although I got a fantastic review on their website, that really was probably the best review I had ever got. So in this contest, I may have finished quite a few books down from # 1 in the humor slot. This one asks for unpublished books as well.