Join us every fall for the NYC Big Book Award. Book submissions are welcomed from independent authors, publishers, and big press.
CONGRATULATIONS Winners AND Distinguished Favorites!, You have been awarded, and now's it's time to display the badge of honor that will drive book sales.
OVERVIEW of our offerings
Seals: Do you want digital or physical self-adhesive that can be applied to existing books? 60, 150, 300 or 1000 seals available for purchase
Press Release: We offer three types, two include the newswire (approx. 200-300 urls we provide where it gets picked up, Associated Press, etc.)
Social Media: We customize the banner with your book cover, and post: LinkedIn OR Instagram, X and Facebook.
Magazine Advertising: Purchase space in a digital magazine (some print), details here: https://www.nycbigbookaward.com/advertise
Billboard Ads: Details here: https://independentpressaward.com/promotion.
Book Videos: We will create from scratch; or host an existing video
Interview: President of NYC Big Book Award interviews you, we stream on dozens of services; create editorial and magazine advertising, and you even have the option of targeted eBlasts
Bookmarks: We create the file, and will even print 500 to 5000
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Order quality NEW YORK CITY BIG BOOK AWARD seals for the front of your book. Easy to attach, these seals give testimony to your book’s design quality and editorial excellence, and are downright impressive!
You should get some because once you’re a NEW YORK CITY BIG BOOK AWARD winner, you’re always a NEW YORK CITY BIG BOOK AWARD winner. They’re a marketing-must for book signings, trade shows, and instant street credibility with book buyers, booksellers, and librarians. To order, pay via PalPal button (arrow on right gives five options: 60; 150; 300; 500 or 1000 seals, click one to order), and enter the Name of the Book, and type of seal requested (either Winner or Distinguished Favorite)
Book Seals (Self-adhesive or digital) free digital badge with seal was sent, email Ted@GabbyBookAwards.com if you need help.
Purchase additional posts:
Three posts for $20 more or
eight posts for $40 more to extend your promotion for your award-winning book!
In addition, you can post on your own site, use in your emails and social media!!
Social Media (Customized text and creative digital banners included)
Order a LinkedIn Post
*Limited number * we will create a LinkedIn Post to share with our 4,200+ followers for only $72.
Make me my own banner - and POST to your 12,500+ followers (We insert your cover, category, and tweet)
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Send us a link to your video, and we'll host it on our YouTube Channel.
We'll get you more views of your video!
ONLY $24.95 first three months; $24.99 next three months, then billed annually at a rate of $150 for annual hosting
(a one-time $75 initial set up fee)
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Here is a basic SAMPLE PRESS RELEASE for you to follow. Need help?, email Ted at Ted@GabbyBookAwards.com
(REPLACE highlighted areas with your information)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Name/email/phone
Author receives national recognition
through the NYC BIG BOOK AWARD®!
City, State -- The NYC Big Book Award recognized {Book Title} in the category of {category} as a {distinguished favorite OR winner}.
The competition is judged by experts from different aspects of the book industry, including publishers, writers, editors, designers, booksellers, librarians and professional copywriters. Winners and distinguished favorites are based on overall excellence.
{Book Title}
{Book Summary}
NYC Big Book Award received book submissions worldwide. Journalists, well established authors, small and large press, and first time indie authors participated in record numbers. Entries this year were received from the United States as well as countries such as Australia, Canada, China, Dubai, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Cities represented among the entries were Chicago, Hamburg, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Quebec, Rome, San Francisco, Seattle, Singapore, and Victoria.
Publishers included Berrett-Koehler; Brown Books Kids; Central Avenue / Simon & Schuster; Forbes Books; Muse Literary; New Harbinger Publications; New York University Press; Oxford University Press; Pegasus Books; She Writes Press; University of Massachusetts Press to name a few.
Winners included "What is My Legacy?" by Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King, Marc Kielburger and Craig Kielburger; "Mikhail Gorbachev - How he changed our lives" by Bettina Schaefer; Berrett-Koehler's "From Founder to Future: A Business Roadmap to Impact, Longevity, and Employee Ownership" by John Abrams; The Cooking Lab's "Modernist Bread at Home" by Nathan Myhrvold; and "Wild Fox Ridge" by Xue Mo to name some key titles on the awarded list.
"With so many quality publishers and authors from around the world participating this year, I’m eager to share these books with a global readership," said awards sponsor Gabby Olczak.
To view the list of NYC Big Book winners and distinguished favorites, please visit: https://www.nycbigbookaward.com/
NYC Big Book Award, https://www.nycbigbookaward.com/, is announced every fall. NYC Big Book Award is open to all authors, publishers, and illustrators, and includes submissions from the big five publishers including Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
Join us for the Independent Press Award, deadlines every December and announced every spring, is open to independent authors and publishers. To see this year's list of IPA Winners, visit: https://www.independentpressaward.com/2025winners
And, join us for the Awards Dinner on April 25th, https://www.nycbigbookaward.com/awardsdinner, held at the BookCAMP event, April 24-25, 2026, https://www.ipabookcamp.com, where recipients from both programs will walk on stage to receive their awards.
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