Inside the Illumination Book Awards: What Secrets Do Past Winners Reveal?
Q –
Angela,
I have seen online ads for the Illumination Book Awards which has several categories of Christian work, including fiction. Do you have any experience with them?
Thanks.
A –
Re: Illumination Book Awards / illuminationawards.com
Operated by: The Jenkins Group / jenkinsgroupinc.com
Writer Beware has them listed on this page: Awards Profiteers: How Writers Can Recognize Them and Why They Should Avoid Them
“The Jenkins Group, a costly self-publishing services provider, runs at least six awards programs. Even among profiteers, Jenkins is unusual in the amount of extra merchandise it hawks to winners. For instance, check out the options for Moonbeam Award winners–no fewer than 35 items, ranging in price from $5 (for a “Certificate Presentation Folder”) to $130 (for a Moonbeam Gold Medal–not even a real medal, just an image) to $1,423 (for a marketing” package that includes such junk marketing services as book fair display and press releases). (UPDATE 10/24/25: Jenkins is still selling awards merch, but it has reduced the number of items and removed some of the most expensive.)”
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