Book by Book Publicity announced the winners of its 2019-20 Reader Views Literary Awards today. Patrick Finegan''s debut novel, Cooperative Lives, won three of its most prestigious prizes - first place in general fiction, the Jack Eadon Memorial Award for best book in contemporary drama, and the Author Marketing Network Award for best fiction début.
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Reader Views is a author services company, that has been reviewing books, conducting interviews and otherwise assisting authors since 2005. Its reviews have appeared on amazon.com, on USA Today, Reuters, Fox News, Fox Business, and NBC. They have also appeared in newspapers such as Austin American Statesman in Austin, Texas, Chicago Sun-Times, Courier Times, Naperville Sun (suburbs of Chicago), The Beacon Times,Journal-News in Hamilton, Ohio, Lake Country News-Sun in Waukegan, IL, Palm Beach Post, Post-Tribune in Merrillville, IN, Southtown Star and The Herald News and on many online websites such as LiveStrong (Lance Armstrong Foundation) and blogs as well as city sites such as ClickOnDetroit and Click2Houston. TV stations such as WESH, WCVBTV/DT5, NEWS4Jax, WXII12, KETV, KITV, WISN, WMUR, and WJAC have also used its reviews.
Mr. Finegan is elated to be a Reader Views Literary Awards winner.
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