The latest about my novels, No, You’re Crazy, released in May, 2023, and Sneaker Wave, re-released in May, 2026.
Second edition launched of my first novel, Sneaker Wave
It was nearly 13 years ago that my first novel, Sneaker Wave, was published. It’s managed to keep attracting new readers; in fact, next month I will visit with a local book club that is currently reading it. It has even outlasted its small Canadian publisher, which has gone out of business. Rather than find a new publisher, I have self-published a second edition of Sneaker Wave. It comes with a more vibrant cover, 21,000 fewer words and a few updates. The new and improved Sneaker Wave is available in print (Amazon and IngramSpark, putting the new version in bookstores and libraries), eBook (Amazon, Apple, Kobo and Google), and in audiobook (Spotify, ElevenReader and Audible and others).
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Jeff Beamish honored at New York City Big Book Awards Ceremony
Author Jeff Beamish accepted the award for the best work of visionary fiction at the New York City Big Book Awards ceremony in Newark, New Jersey on June 24, 2024. Dozens of authors from as far away as China, India and Australia accepted fiction and non-fiction awards at the event. No, You’re Crazy was also the 2023 Hollywood Book Festival Award runner-up for general fiction and the 2023 Beach Book Festival Award runner-up for general fiction. It also received honorable mention in the fiction category in the 2023 Royal Dragonfly Book Award.
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No, You’re Crazy wins a 2023 New York City Big Book Award
No, You’re Crazy was named winner in the visionary fiction category of the 2023 New York City Big Book Awards, for independently and traditionally published authors, publishers, big and small presses. Visionary fiction is a fiction genre with New Age or mind, body, spirit themes and perspectives, including consciousness expansion, spirituality, mysticism, and parapsychology. It is sometimes classed as a subtype of speculative fiction. No, You’re Crazy is also the 2023 Hollywood Book Festival Award runner-up for general fiction and the 2023 Beach Book Festival Award runner-up for general fiction. It also received honorable mentions in the 2023 New York and San Francisco book festival awards. Click here for a list of 2023 NYC Big Book winners.
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No, You’re Crazy a finalist in the 2023 Hollywood Book Festival awards
No, You’re Crazy was named runner-up in the general fiction category in the 2023 Hollywood Book Festival awards, which honor books worthy of further attention from the film, television and multimedia communities. (See the full list of winners here.) Earlier, it also received honorable mentions in the 2023 New York and San Francisco book festival awards.
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No, You’re Crazy a finalist in the 2023 Beach Book Festival awards
No, You’re Crazy was named runner-up in the general fiction category in the 2023 Beach Book Festival awards, which celebrate the summer’s hottest reads.
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No, You’re Crazy launched with a seaside reading
No, You’re Crazy, my latest novel, was launched May 30, 2023 with a reading in my hometown of Surrey, B.C. About sixty people gathered to hear me read excerpts from the novel and explain the inspiration behind it. No, You’re Crazy can be ordered on Amazon, Indigo, Barnes & Noble, and other book-selling websites.
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An interview with me about the inspiration for No, You’re Crazy
Literary Titan interviewed me in June about identity and the role it played in writing a teenaged character who believes she’s clairvoyant. Click here to see the full interview.
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Novels that helped influence me in writing, No, You’re Crazy
Which books helped inspire me to write my new novel, No, You’re Crazy, which is scheduled for release next May? See my recent article in Shepherd.com, a year-old website focused on book reviews.
