Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Indie/Self-Published Book - Pete Delohery Award for Best Sport Book Category

DALLAS, Sept. 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Shelf Unbound book review magazine announces the Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Indie/Self-Published Book. Any independently published book in any genre is eligible for entry. The winning entry will be selected by the editors of Shelf Unbound magazine. The competition also includes the Pete Delohery Award for Best Sports Book, open to fiction and non-fiction sports-related books, in honor of Pete Delohery, author of the novel Lamb to the Slaughter.

"Independently Published" books include self-published books and e-books (such as those published through CreateSpace, Lulu.com, iUniverse, etc.) and/or books and e-books published through small presses releasing less than five titles per year. Books entered in last year's competition are eligible for re-submission. There is no limit to the number of books an individual can enter; each book is a separate entry. The competition is open to authors worldwide; books must be in English.

The official rules for the competition can be found at http://www.shelfmediagroup.com/pages/competition.html. To submit an entry, email a PDF or Word Doc of your entire book, including the cover, to [email protected], subject line Contest Entry (or mail a physical copy of your book to: Shelf Media Group, PO Box 852321, Richardson, Texas 75085-2321), and send a check for $40 made out to Shelf Media Group to Margaret Brown, Shelf Media Group, PO Box 852321, Richardson, Texas 75085-2321, or pay via PayPal (go to http://www.shelfmediagroup.com/pages/contact.html and select "Competition Entry Fee"). All entries received (and entry fee paid) will be considered. Please include your email and book title with your entry if sending by mail.

The author of the book named as the Best Independently Published book will receive $500, a year's worth of full-page ads in Shelf Unbound (rate card value $6,000), and editorial coverage in the December/January 2016 issue of Shelf Unbound. Five finalists will receive editorial coverage in the December/January 2016 issue of Shelf Unbound. More than 100 books deemed by the editors as "notable" entries in the competition will also be featured in the December/January 2016 issue of Shelf Unbound.

The winner of the Pete Delohery Award for Best Sports Book will receive $1,000. 
The deadline for entry is midnight on October 5, 2015. The winners will be notified by November 2, 2015.

Lamb to the Slaughter is a novel about love and courage, sin and redemption. Set against the vividly rendered backdrop of professional boxing, Pete Delohery's hard-bitten yet generous-spirited novel focuses on three men at a moral crossroad.

"Iron" Mike McGann, plagued by fear and violent nightmares, has refused to honor his promise to his wife to quit the ring and start a family. In despair, his wife, Madge, is leaving him.

Rufus "Hurricane" Hilliard, Mike's next opponent, is the most menacing presence in prizefighting. Forced to move to a ghetto when his father died, Rufus joined a gang to protect his sister. He soon was in prison. Left alone before his bout, Hilliard is forced to confront the past that haunts him and the future he dreads.

Charles "Charliehorse" O'Connell, Rufus's corner man has been ordered by a mob kingpin to sabotage Hilliard. O'Connell, an alcoholic and compulsive gambler, already blames himself for the deaths of two prizefighters. Trapped in a moral crisis, will O'Connell finally confront his "Cardinal Sin"?

A moving portrait is created of the men, each damaged by a brutal world, who flee from personal demons toward the only imperfect redemption available to them, victory in a fight."

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