The long list, finalists and grand prize winner of the 2019 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition were announced today. Among the five finalists is Patrick Finegan's debut novel, Cooperative Lives.
Christmas arrived early in the Finegan household. Cooperative Lives was named one of five finalists in the 2019 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition and received a three-page spread in the magazine’s December/January issue. You can peruse the entire issue for free at the link below or jump to page 22 like I did.
Thank you, Shelf Media, for including my novel in your competition, and congratulations to grand prize winner Michaela Renee Johnson for Teetering on Disaster. I’ve added your memoir to my holiday reading list.
Determined to confront the hazy memories of his troubled youth, Oliver Matthews, a retired detective and confirmed bachelor, returns to the picturesque town of Henley-on-Thames for the first time in years.
The Apple Tree Blossoms in The Fall, is the life journey of Carineh - a child, a teenager, a wife, a mother, but most of all a woman of purpose. From stories of her parents held-up by bandits; the white donkey gifted by Khomeini; her father's death f