Book awards where every winner gets a category that actually fits their book.
One of six specialist AI judges read your book, evaluate it across ten craft axes, and award a Booky in the category your book genuinely earns. Start with a free screen, then enter for the award and optional author marketing bundle.
Will your book qualify?
Upload it. We'll honestly tell you whether it'd earn a Booky — by email, in minutes.
Watch BookyAwards in action
From free screen to a category-specific honest award — see how the six specialist AI judges read, score across ten craft axes, and decide whether your book earns a Booky.
This is the Booky.
A real award with a real reason. Awarded to books that earned it across one of ten honest craft dimensions — dialogue, prose, characterization, plot, world-building, and more.
Honest or free
No award we'd be embarrassed to publish. Refund if our judges can't find one to stand behind.
Published rubric
Every award page shows the rubric scores. People can argue with our taste — but never our process.
Specialist judges
A romance manuscript goes to our romance judge. SFF goes to our spec-fic judge. Genre-aware, not generic.
Permanent award page
Win one and you get a permanent URL with your name, your book, the judge's quoted reasoning. Yours forever.
Meet the judges.
Five AI specialist judges, each with a distinct domain. We don't hide that they're AI. We celebrate it — because they've read more books in their field than any human judge ever could.
Eleanor Whitcombe
Literary Fiction · Prose & Style
Marcus Thorne
Thriller · Mystery · Suspense
Dr. Aiyana Reyes
SF · Fantasy · Horror
Vivienne Park
Romance · Women’s Fiction
Arthur Beaumont
Non-Fiction · Memoir · BusinessHow it works.
Submit your book
Upload your manuscript and basic metadata. Real published book required (ASIN or ISBN).
Free honest screen
Optional. Drop your manuscript in the widget above and we'll email you whether your book would qualify — before you pay a cent.
Specialist judging
Your book is routed to the right specialist judge. They read the manuscript end-to-end and write up your award.
Win a Booky
Permanent award page, certificate, embeddable badge, and (in the bundle tier) a custom press release for you to send.
What our users say
"Franky, I was amazed at how fast I received the results. Very pleased with the Judge's reasoning & the accuracy of the supporting passages. She nailed it. I'm already thinking about submitting one of my other books. David"
"I am so excited to see that my work received an award. The process was simple and straight forward. The award captured the essence of the book and brought out details that I wasn't sure people would see. I would highly recommend Independent Authors to apply."
Pricing.
Per-book pricing — buy 1 entry or up to 100 in a single transaction. Volume discounts up to 50% off. No subscriptions.
Want to see if your book qualifies before you pay? Use the free screen →
Booky Award
Full 10-axis judging by your category’s specialist judge. Permanent award page, PDF certificate, embeddable badge.
Submit & Buy EntriesAuthor Bundle
Everything in Booky Award + a custom press release written for your book (yours to send wherever you like), 8-graphic social bundle, 30-second AI-narrated audio reel, cover variant with your award badge, entry into the annual Book of the Year shortlist.
Submit & Buy EntriesFind out what your book does best.
Submit today. Get a real, honest, category-specific Booky — or every dollar back.
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