BigAl's Books and Pals Readers' Choice Awards

In the twelve months ending February 28th, 2013, BigAl and the Pals received over 1,400 books to consider for review. Almost 300 of them were selected, read, and reviewed. From those we chose the books we felt stood out from the pack as exceptional examples of Indie writing (self-published and small press) and divided them into twelve categories.

For the next two weeks we'll be collecting votes from our readers to determine the winners in each category and holding a giveaway in conjunction with our voting. The Rafflecopter form below can be used to vote, with entries made in the giveaway for each of your votes, along with several other entry methods.

Since many of these books may be unfamiliar, you can find our review on any of them using the index by author or index by title pages (links on the top right of any page on the site). Between now and Friday our posts we'll be focused on these awards, with posts each day spotlighting the nominees.

Might we suggest that if you aren't familiar with the books in categories you enjoy, now would be a great time to sample them using Amazon's "Look Inside" feature,  and please encourage all your book loving friends to drop by and participate.

Please note, the giveaway and voting form below does NOT work with Microsoft Internet Explorer. You'll have to use another browser.

If you aren't familiar with the Rafflecopter application/form, here are a few quick hints. 

First, If you see a sign-in page below, you'll have to either sign-on using your Facebook login or by giving a name and email address by clicking the appropriate button. (No, we won't use your email address or any information gathered to start spamming you. The Rafflecopter application picks winners for the giveaway randomly and provides us with the email address for the winners. Otherwise we'd have no way to reach the winners to award the prizes.) 

Second, you'll see twelve (I said eleven in some places, once I ran out of fingers my counting went astray) boxes with down arrows and the verbiage "Your vote in the ________ category". Click the down arrow, make your choice, then click enter.

Third, there are other ways you can get additional entries to the giveaway, which are each of the boxes with down arrows below the voting boxes. Click the down arrow on each of these and it instructs you on what to do for each.

a Rafflecopter giveaway