The winners of the 2019 Wishing Shelf Book Awards were announced Wednesday, April 1, 2020. Winning a silver medal in the Adult Fiction category was Cooperative Lives, by retired lawyer and finance executive, Patrick Finegan. There were two gold medals and four silver medals awarded.
Cooperative Lives is the winner of more than a dozen major awards, including:
Grand Prize Finalist, 2019 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition
Category Winner in Literary Fiction and Grand Prize Short List, 2019 Millennium Book Award
Winner in General Fiction, 2019-20 Reader Views Literary Awards
Winner in Fiction, 2020 Book Excellence Awards
Seal of Approval and Gold Medal in Contemporary Fiction, 2019 Literary Classics International Book Awards
Winner, 2019-20 Jack Eadon Memorial Award for Best Book in Contemporary Drama
Winner, 2019-20 Author Marketing Network Award for Best Fiction Début
Reviewer's Choice Award, 2019 Feathered Quill Book Awards
Silver Medal in Adult Fiction, 2019 Wishing Shelf Book Awards
Finalist in General Fiction, 2019 American Fiction Awards (American BookFest)
Semi-Finalist, 2019 Somerset Book Awards
Bronze Medal in Fiction Drama, 2019 Readers Favorite Awards
Bronze Medal in General Fiction and Début Author Finalist, 2019 Feathered Quill Book Awards
B.R.A.G. Medallion in Literary Fiction, Book Readers Appreciation Group
Best Books in Literary Fiction, Fall 2019 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards
Long List, 2019 Cinnamon Literature Prize
The book is available in hardcover, paperback and ebook format at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. The publisher's website is Click here.
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