The book awards where every winner gets a category that actually fits their book.
Forget vague Book of the Year trophies awarded by judges who couldn't possibly have read every entry. Our five AI judges read your book end-to-end, evaluate it across ten craft axes, and award a Booky in the one category your book genuinely earns. If they can't find one in good conscience, we refund you 100%.
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 the first three chapters and basic metadata. Real published book required (ASIN or ISBN).
Honest screen ($9)
Quick AI evaluation across our ten axes. If no axis hits the threshold, we refund you in full.
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 press release ready to ship.
Pricing.
Per-book pricing. No subscription. The honest screen exists so we never take your money for an award we don't believe in.
Honest Screen
Quick AI screen of your first 3 chapters. If our judges can’t award you a Booky in good conscience, you get a 100% refund.
Choose Honest ScreenBooky Award
Full 10-axis judging by your category’s specialist judge. Permanent award page, PDF certificate, embeddable badge.
Choose Booky AwardAuthor Bundle
Everything in Booky Award + press release distributed via the EIN PR tool, 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.
Choose Author BundleFind out what your book does best.
Submit today. Get a real, honest, category-specific Booky — or every dollar back.
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