{"id":140,"date":"2015-09-03T18:42:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T01:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fourinthegarden.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2022-11-12T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T18:34:09","slug":"four-in-the-garden-receives-readers-favorite-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickhocker.com\/weblog\/four-in-the-garden-receives-readers-favorite-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Four in the Garden Receives Readers’ Favorite Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readers’ Favorite Book Award<\/h1>\n

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\nI\u2019m pleased to announce that\u00a0Four in the Garden<\/em>\u00a0won an honorable mention from the Readers\u2019 Favorite 2015 Book Award Contest<\/strong>. This means I\u2019ll get tremendous exposure for my book and I\u2019m invited to attend a formal awards ceremony in Miami in November.<\/p>\n

Increased Exposure for Four in the Garden<\/em><\/h2>\n

My book is now listed on BookAwards.com<\/a>, a premier site whose domain keywords receive 200,000 searches each month from literary enthusiasts looking for award-winning books.<\/p>\n

The contest results will be advertised in two different Publishers Weekly e-newsletters reaching a combined total of 100,000 of literary industry professionals.<\/p>\n

Readers’ Favorite announces the contest results in an email to 115,000 libraries, 85,000 bookstores, and 300,000 schools nationwide.<\/p>\n

Readers’ Favorite announces the results of their competition through a premium press release which is placed into RSS feeds with more than 250,000 subscribers including bloggers and journalists.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s challenging for any author to market a book when there is so much competition. This kind of increased exposure will help a lot.<\/p>\n

Four in the Garden<\/em> website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Readers’ Favorite Book Award I\u2019m pleased to announce that\u00a0Four in the Garden\u00a0won an honorable mention from the Readers\u2019 Favorite 2015 Book Award Contest. This means I\u2019ll get tremendous exposure for my book and I\u2019m invited to attend a formal awards ceremony in Miami in November. Increased Exposure for Four in the Garden My book is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Hhvw-2g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":150,"url":"https:\/\/www.rickhocker.com\/weblog\/readers-favorite-international-book-awards-ceremony\/","url_meta":{"origin":140,"position":0},"title":"Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards Ceremony","date":"December 20, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Last month, I flew to Miami to attend the Readers' Favorite Book Awards ceremony. About 300 people attended as well as a lot of press. 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