2010 BEACH BOOK FESTIVAL NAMES "SEVEN YEAR SWITCH"
6/2/2010
NEW YORK (June 1, 2010) _ Claire Cook’s novel “Seven Year Switch” has been chosen as the grand prize winner of the 2010 Beach Book Festival, which honors the top reads of the summer season.
Cook’s new novel, issued via the Voice imprint of Hyperion Books, is a breezy examination of the life of Jill Murray, whose life includes managing a ten-year-old daughter and a culturally-enriching job. Until her ex-husband shows up, complicating things in her personal life and the direction things are heading with a new consultancy under bike-riding Billy.
Although every seven years you become a new person, Jilly has to make a choice between the woman she is and the woman she wants to be. Beach readers can sit back and enjoy the ride.
Cook will be honored at a reception June 11 at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan.
Other winners in the competition:
NON-FICTION
WINNER: The Ice Cream Theory – Steff Deschenes
HONORABLE MENTION:
Recess is Over! - Dr. Sherry L Meinberg
HEALTH
WINNER: Autism ABC – Dr. Sherry L. Meinberg, illustrated by Rachael Mahaffey
TEENAGE
WINNER: FreeK Camp – Steve Burt
FICTION
WINNER: Seven Year Switch – Claire Cook
HONORABLE MENTION:
Manifest Destiny – Rick Robinson
Jakob Out of the Village – William Driedger
From Where The Rivers Come – Terin Tashi Miller
That Demon Life – Lowell Mick White
Social Disease – Lisa Cavalear
Inside A Haunted Mind – K. Patrick Malone
The Rendering – Leann Marshall
The Vengeance Trap – Axel & Linda Hansen
COMPILATIONS
WINNER: Second Grace – Candace Leigh Coulombe
HONORABLE MENTION:
Touching The Dead – Carlotta G. Holton
SPIRITUAL
WINNER: God, The Universe and Where I Fit In – Laurie Ann Levin, Psy.D
HONORABLE MENTION:
It’s All Thought – Terry L. Neal
Who Stole My Soul? - Vishwa Prakash
BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
WINNER: Behind the Badge – Harry D. Penny, Jr.
HONORABLE MENTION:
Tea Pie, Love and Reality – Sally Petersen
Rosie’s Daughters – Matilda Butler & Kendra Bonnett
HOW-TO
WINNER: A Loop of String – Ruth Stotter, illustrations by Kevin Coffey
CHILDREN’S
WINNER: Curio A Shetland Sheepdog Meets The Cat – Jeanette Griver, illustrated by Phyllis L. Milway
ROMANCE
WINNER: Road Atlas to Love – Mina A.A.
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