Small Spec Book Awards

I am pleased to announce that I am an official influencer for the Small Spec Book Awards! What are the Small Spec Book Awards (SSBA)? The SSBA was co-founded by L. N. Holmes and Millie Abecassis . Their mission is to recognize and promote independent and small press authors writing exceptional speculative fiction.They wanted to create a free-to-enter award that was specific to small press and independent authors whose marketing often gets buried by the bigger publishers. This award will help draw attention to more of the awesome indie books out there. This is the first year of the award and currently, the award focuses on the adult age category, novels/novellas, and works of fiction published in a single year, but they hope to expand on this in future years. There are many things that make this award cool, but a couple of them are that it is free to enter, and they are working to avoid being yet another popularity contest, as so many awards are. All the nominated books wi...