The Wishing Shelf Book Awards is a new non-profit making award set up to help independently published authors market their work.

I set up the awards because I was tired of the way the present independent awards treat the authors who enter. For example, I was recently longlisted on the Rubery Awards, and they did not even bother to let me know.

I want the Wishing Shelf Awards to be different.

Everybody will get lots of feedback, all emails will be answered personally and we will do all we can to publicise the winning books. Also, every winner will be personally notified by email and phone and I will post the accounts at the end of each year so all the entrants will know how the money was spent. But the best bit of all, every book entered will be well read and properly judged, perhaps not by experts, but by avid readers and school children.

Interested? Check out our webpage www.thewsa.co.uk