Hi, Kindle Readers!
We have a special treat for you today. So if you’re wondering where you can find great reads by lesser known independent and small press authors, you have come to the right place – at the right time. Today we are announcing the finalists in our 2012 Kindle Book Review Best Indie Book Contest. We will feature these books all week, too! These titles are the top 30 books out of over 170 semifinalists.
But stay tuned. We will announce the Grand Prize Winners and the Winner of a KINDLE FIRE on Oct. 1st! We will give away over $1,000 in cash and prizes!!!! And sign up by email to get our daily freebie alert and featured great reads. Click here to ~> SUBSCRIBE
Now, without further ado, here are the TOP-5 Finalists in each category! 
HORROR/SUSPENSE…
Devil’s Hand by M.E. Patterson
The Beautiful Evil by Robbi Bryant
The Drought by Patricia Fulton
The Dying of the Light by Jason Kristopher
This Time You Lose by Chris Stralyn
LITERARY FICTION…
A Death on the Wolf by G.M Frazier
After the Fog by Kathleen Shoop
Come Back to Me by Melissa Foster
Pegasus Falling by William E. Thomas
River in the Sea by Tina Boscha
ROMANCE…
Deadly Obsession by Kristine Cayne
Hardball by V.K Sykes
The Memory of You by Laurie Kellogg
To Dare the Duke of Dangerfield by Bronwen Evans
Walking with Elephants by Karen S. Bell
SCI-FI/FANTASY…
Bypass Gemini by Joseph Lallo
Contract of Defiance by Tammy Salyer
Dremiks by Cassandra Davis
The Darkening Dream by Andy Gavin
Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey
MYSTERY/THRILLER…
Chasing Innocence by John Potter
Last One Chosen by Stephen Woodfin
OMAR: A Novel Craig O. Thompson
Project Moses by Robert B. Lowe
The Fall of Billy Hitchings by Kirkus MacGowen
YOUNG ADULT…
Cycles by Lois D. Brown
Open Minds by Susan Kaye Quinn
Purple by Graham J. Sharpe
Untraceable by S.R. Johannes
Wanted: Dead or Undead, The Zombie West by Angela Scott
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Thanks for the great write up, Kirkus!
My pleasure, Jeff! And I meant every word. You have a great thing in the KBR. You’ve grown so fast already, I can’t wait to see where you are a few years from now. 🙂
Congratulations to all the finalists! I look forward to reading them all 🙂
How awesome. I’m so excited Cycles made it into the top five. With the contest and the website going berserk you guys deserve a vacation. l.
Where are the memoirs?
Hi Jonna, We didn’t have a non-fiction category this year but we will next year! We had to start somewhere.
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So pleased that OMAR: A Novel was chosen as a Finalist in the “Mystery/Thriller” category for the 2012 Best Indie Book Competition. KBR has been very supportive of indie authors from its inception. And this honor makes all my years, in researching and writing, so worthwhile. Thanks Jeff and Amber.
Very happy to see that my own “The Dying of the Light: End” made it to the top 5, and that my friend Wayne Basta’s “Aristeia: Revolutionary Right” made it to the sci-fi semifinals.
Congratulations to all the semi-finalists and finalists! Great bunch of writing, here, from everyone.
Oh, and if you’ve not read it yet, the “Wool: Omnibus Edition” is one of the best sci-fi books I’ve read in YEARS. And that’s coming from an author AND publisher, folks.
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