Fifth Award for Genre-Crossing Author
Leigh K Cunningham has published four books across three genres with five awards to her credit. Being Anti-Social, Cunningham's latest title won gold at the 2012 Readers Favorite book awards.
Los Angeles, CA, September 21, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Independent author, Leigh K Cunningham picked up her fifth award at the 2012 Readers Favorite book awards for her latest novel, Being Anti-Social in the Chick Lit category.
"Being Anti-Social," says Cunningham, "is about being true to oneself, and not feeling guilty about preferring to stay home and being on your own. Unfortunately, friends and family tend to think there is something wrong with this when it is a perfectly acceptable way to live your life, by choice."
Cunningham previously won gold at the 2011 Indie Excellence Awards in the literary fiction category for her multi-generational family saga, Rain. Rain also won silver at the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY).
Prior to entering the adult fiction market, Cunningham released two children’s books, The Glass Table and its sequel Shards, which both won silver medals at the 2010 Mom’s Choice Awards. Writers Digest said of The Glass Table, "This is a really fresh concept with a great message. There are lots of eco-friendly stories out there, but not since Miyazaki's Nausicaa have I come across one so imaginative," and of Shards, "I liked the concept of this book; the fantasy wrapped inside a typical, hot, summer day. The mixture of conservation, anti-establishment, fantasy and a bit of "Lord of the Flies"makes for an intriguing plot."
Cunningham is currently working on a dystopian story, the third book in The Glass Table series, and a sequel to Rain.
"I hadn't planned to write a sequel to Rain," says Cunningham, "but a lot of readers have written and asked about the main protagonist and what happens to her after the story ends. Rain is a very dark, tragic story with just a glimpse of hope in the final chapter so it seems readers need to know that life is on the improve for Carla Baden. I plan to spend some time in Luanda, Angola next year to work on the story."
Cunningham has managed to hit the #1 spot on Amazon bestseller lists for Rain (Family Saga) and Being Anti-Social (Comic Fiction).
About the Author:
Leigh K Cunningham is a lawyer with a career as a senior executive for a number of public companies in her home country of Australia. She has master’s degrees in law (Master of International Trade & Investment Law) and commerce (Master of Commerce) as well as an MBA (International Management). She now writes full-time.
About Readers Favorite:
Readers Favorite offers an annual award program honoring the best books across seventy categories. Each entry is firstly reviewed by a Readers Favorite volunteer reviewer. Books that receive a 3-star rating or higher are then considered by the judging panel. Entries come from independent authors, small publishers, and major publishers like HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster. Entrants range from debut, self-published authors to New York Times best-selling authors like James Rollins, James Patterson, Nicholas Sparks, and celebrity authors like three-time Emmy award-winner Michael Brown.
The award ceremony will be held during the Miami Book Fair International on Saturday, 17 November at the Regency Hotel Miami.
"Being Anti-Social," says Cunningham, "is about being true to oneself, and not feeling guilty about preferring to stay home and being on your own. Unfortunately, friends and family tend to think there is something wrong with this when it is a perfectly acceptable way to live your life, by choice."
Cunningham previously won gold at the 2011 Indie Excellence Awards in the literary fiction category for her multi-generational family saga, Rain. Rain also won silver at the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY).
Prior to entering the adult fiction market, Cunningham released two children’s books, The Glass Table and its sequel Shards, which both won silver medals at the 2010 Mom’s Choice Awards. Writers Digest said of The Glass Table, "This is a really fresh concept with a great message. There are lots of eco-friendly stories out there, but not since Miyazaki's Nausicaa have I come across one so imaginative," and of Shards, "I liked the concept of this book; the fantasy wrapped inside a typical, hot, summer day. The mixture of conservation, anti-establishment, fantasy and a bit of "Lord of the Flies"makes for an intriguing plot."
Cunningham is currently working on a dystopian story, the third book in The Glass Table series, and a sequel to Rain.
"I hadn't planned to write a sequel to Rain," says Cunningham, "but a lot of readers have written and asked about the main protagonist and what happens to her after the story ends. Rain is a very dark, tragic story with just a glimpse of hope in the final chapter so it seems readers need to know that life is on the improve for Carla Baden. I plan to spend some time in Luanda, Angola next year to work on the story."
Cunningham has managed to hit the #1 spot on Amazon bestseller lists for Rain (Family Saga) and Being Anti-Social (Comic Fiction).
About the Author:
Leigh K Cunningham is a lawyer with a career as a senior executive for a number of public companies in her home country of Australia. She has master’s degrees in law (Master of International Trade & Investment Law) and commerce (Master of Commerce) as well as an MBA (International Management). She now writes full-time.
About Readers Favorite:
Readers Favorite offers an annual award program honoring the best books across seventy categories. Each entry is firstly reviewed by a Readers Favorite volunteer reviewer. Books that receive a 3-star rating or higher are then considered by the judging panel. Entries come from independent authors, small publishers, and major publishers like HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster. Entrants range from debut, self-published authors to New York Times best-selling authors like James Rollins, James Patterson, Nicholas Sparks, and celebrity authors like three-time Emmy award-winner Michael Brown.
The award ceremony will be held during the Miami Book Fair International on Saturday, 17 November at the Regency Hotel Miami.
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Being Anti-Social, Leigh K. Cunningham
Mace Evans is single at thirty-eight. When her much unloved sister declares that Mace is anti-social, she embarks on a journey to understand her condition; whether she was born that way or if it is the accumulation of thirty-eight years of unfortunate encounters with other humans and dogs.
Leigh K. Cunningham
Leigh K Cunningham is a lawyer with a career as a senior executive for a number of public companies in her home country of Australia. She now writes full-time across genres.
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