Words for the Wounded Independent Author Book Award 2016 results

Words for the Wounded Independent Author Book Award 2016

Words for the Wounded Independent Author Book Award 2016 results:

This year’s competition has been an amazing experience. We received cookery books, self-help books, memoirs, young adult fiction, crime, romance – you name it, we enjoyed it. Remember that every penny of the entry fee goes to the wounded, because as you all know by now, the administrators personally absorb all costs.

Our judge, Felicity Trew of the Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency also had a high old time reading your work. Finally, after much thought and discussion the top three emerged.
Why were these chosen?

Perhaps what any judge is groping for is to find an author writing with a confidence born of practise, endless practise. This practise was evident in the winners. Surely each book had been written, then re-written, and then again,with the authors twisting and turning the words, and the images they were trying to create, until they achieved balance. Balance? Well, between pace, rhythm, tension, show not tell, and closely edited text.

In our winner, especially, there was a surety, and a ‘voice’, and that undefinable difference that makes a book, whether a non-fiction, a cookery book, a memoir, or a novel unputdownable.
It’s always a tough call, but one that has to be made. Bravo to the winners.

Over the next three days we will be publishing more about the winning authors and their novels, and the judge’s remarks. Tomorrow we will be concentrating on our 1st Place winner, the next day 2nd place, and then 3rd place. Tune in and have a look.


Results.

 

1st place

 

From both ends of the stethoscope: getting through breast cancer by a doctor who knows. By Dr Kathleen Thompson.

 

2nd place

 

The Man Who Didn’t Go To Newcastle by Alison Clink

 

3rd place


The Secret of Skara Vhore, by Jennifer M Calder

 

Highly Commended

 

Food for Thought David Croft

We’ve come to take you Home Susan Gandar

1066 What Fates Impose EK Holloway

The Spirit of London Rob Keeley

Buckinghamshire Spies and Subversives D.J. Kelly

Dead Man’s Legacy Marion Leigh

Requiem for Private Hughes Chip Tolson

Do Not Forget me Quite Richard Pike

Le-Jog-ed Robin Richards

 

Commended

 

Traditional Kurdish Food Ala Barzinji

Arnie Jenks and the House of Strangers Tim Bradley

Transform Your Communication Skills Steve Bridger

The Pomegranate Ring Simon Brian Cartlidge

The Father’s House Larche Davies

The Politician’s Daughter Marion Leigh

Little Hoglet’s Christmas Richard Middleton

Blackberry Promises Jan Moran Neil

 

 

We will be featuring the judge’s reviews of the top three, and tell you more about the authors over the next few days.