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A Jersey-based virtual literary festival has won the award for 'Startup of the Year' at The Bookseller’s FutureBook BookTech Awards.
MyVLF was founded by three Jersey writers, Gwyn GB, Deborah Carr and Kelly Clayton, and developed locally by Snap.je and Virtex Studios.
"We were overwhelmed at winning the FutureBook Start-up of the Year award, for the business most likely to have an impact on the publishing industry in the future," Gwyn GB said.
"The judges liked our ambition and audience fit, and we had some very promising talks with publishers immediately afterwards, who are keen to get involved in our events, take a stand in the virtual exhibition hall, or rent the venue for their own branded festivals."
"We aren’t resting on our laurels," added co-founder, Deborah Carr. "We’ve already programmed in a schedule of genre specific talks for 2020, starting with a romance festival in February.
"Our Book Blogger Awards were a big success at the festival in November and so we are going to repeat those, and we’ve lots more plans to ensure we are offering variety and exactly what our reader and author members want."
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