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Lisa Jewell, Lex Croucher and Rebecca Kuang shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards

Lisa Jewell, Lex Croucher and Rebecca Kuang shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards

Jones claimed: “Evaluating the awards this year has actually been a pleasure: that there is a lot interest, commitment and interest in reviewing books is an actual present to the business. I located the shortlists, and individuals behind the shortlists, broad in their outlook, varied in their point of views and charitable in their strategies to the different genres, publications and authors that were the topic of the BookTok lens.

Jewell’s None Of This Is True (Century) is up for Publication of the Year (UK & Ireland) together with Croucher’s Gwen & Art Are Not crazy (Bloomsbury YA), Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Tiny Globes (Penguin) and Caroline O’Donoghue’s The Rachel Occurrence (Little, Brown).

The evaluating panel consisted of Philip Jones, editor of The Bookseller, material developer Jack Edwards, last year’s TikTok designer of the year Eden Victoria, Dan Conway, c.e.o of the Publishers Organization and Selina Brown, founder and c.e.o of the Black British Publication Festival. Authors Samantha Shannon and Sara Cox also signed up with the evaluating panel.

“These honors are after that a minute to celebrate all the effort that is made to look so easy, however additionally a time to reflect on the relevance of these voices and what they do. My congratulations to every one of the shortlistees.”

Viewers are invited to vote for their champions making use of the Voting Hub on the TikTok app. The groups are: Publication of the Year (UK & Ireland), Book of the Year (International), BookTok Breakthrough Author, BookTok Creator of the Year, BookTok Increasing Star Developer, Indie Bookshop of the Year.

Victoria included: “It was an honour to win Creator of the Year at the TikTok Book Awards in 2015. Returning as a judge has been hugely exciting, and I see it as a charming method to celebrate and uplift the BookTok area.”

1 Black British Publication
2 British Publication Festival
3 Caleb Azumah Nelson
4 year Eden Victoria