Two more weeks for Top Shelf Book Cover Award submissions Nominations for ECPA’s 2022 Top Shelf Book Cover Awards will be accepted until August 15. In the program’s 10th anniversary year, the award will be presented to top covers in four categories, and each submitting publisher can nominate a program judge. Winners will be announced at ECPA PubU on November 16 in Nashville. More…
Read More …Top Shelf Book Cover Awards celebrate 10 years with changes to 2022 program A tenth anniversary of anything marks a very good time to reflect, to remember, to look ahead and, at times, to “re-package” the gift we’ve received over the prior decade. ECPA is doing just that for the 10th Annual Top Shelf Book Cover Awards, recognizing excellence in book design. For this year’s 10th anniversary, ECPA is making two key changes to the submission and judging process – emphasizing industry involvement…
Read More …Judges named for 2018 Top Shelf Book Cover Award program The industry is invited to nominate the year’s best book covers until August 31 ECPA created the Top Shelf Book Cover Awards to honor the role of good design in Christian book publishing. Each year covers are judged by a new team of top design professionals, whose reputations are renown throughout the entire design industry, to choose the year’s best book designs published by ECPA members. “It is imperative the judges of…
Read More …ECPA created the Top Shelf Book Cover Awards to celebrate the year’s best book designs in Christian publishing. Covers are judged by top designers in the industry for their merits in appropriateness for the market, level of conceptual thinking, and quality of execution. Judges are not bound by a number of covers to choose, but choose the designs that stand out as the best of the year. Winners are officially announced and presented with an award at ECPA’s annual PUBu. Winning covers are featured in…
Read More …ONGOING SUBMISSION PERIOD FOR 2015 PROGRAM OPEN NOW UNTIL AUG 14, 2015 Program Overview | Criteria | Judges | 2015 Submission Form ECPA created the Top Shelf Book Cover Awards to celebrate the year’s best book designs in Christian publishing. Covers are judged by top designers in the industry for their merits in: appropriateness for the market level of conceptual thinking quality of execution Judges are not bound by number of covers to choose as they have the freedom to truly choose the BEST designs of the year….
Read More …The Pelican Bride Named Winner of Cover Café’s Annual Cover Contest Contact: Lynnae Lubbers (616)676-9185 x393 llubbers@bakerpublishinggroup. com Ada, Mich. (June 29, 2015)—Cover Café has named The Pelican Bride by Beth White the winner in the historical category of this year’s annual cover contest. The annual contest was first sponsored by the All About Romance website from 1999 to 2005. In 2006, it was spun off as an independent website, Cover Café. The contest was created to encourage excellence in cover design and to…
Read More …ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award program implements ongoing submission period until August The Top Shelf Book Cover Award program recognizes and honors the finest book cover designs of the year. Entries are judged by three top designers for their merits in appropriateness for the market; level of conceptual thinking; and quality of execution. Top Shelf program manager and Faceout Studio principal Torrey Sharp states, “Designers can now submit their entry as soon as the book cover is in print,…
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