Pay for Play Book Awards and the Award Winning Lie

(00:00:00) Pay for Play Book Awards and the Award Winning Lie
(00:00:01) The Problem with Pay-for-Play Awards
(00:00:34) The Deception of Paid Awards
(00:01:54) The Value of Authentic Honesty
(00:03:52) Authentic Marketing Strategies
(00:04:25) Standing in Truth and Authenticity

The pay for play book award system bothers Neal Winsomer, and he is not paying for an award to stick on this book. Episode 06 of Calling Out the Shadows: A Clarity Over Comfort Podcast. Neal Winsomer looks at the pay-for-play book award model where authors pay $20 to $200 to be nominated, and where many of the systems state on their own websites that every entrant at least lands runner-up. The line between "award-winning" and "paid to be nominated" gets drawn. The episode covers:

• The pay-for-play book award model and the $20 to $200 nomination-fee range
• Award-system websites that print "you will at least be runner-up" on the page itself
• The credibility gap between paid awards and juried awards earned without payment
• The marketing trade-off Neal is making by refusing to buy a bestseller ranking, a paid award, or any pay-to-win label
• A case for marketing and messaging with honesty, transparency, and love instead of false presence
• A direct call to stand in authority, authenticity, and transparency, not pay-for-play

If Calling Out the Shadows ever carries an award, it was earned without paying for it.

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