Volume 7- Issue 3, March 2008
Published by Llumina Press

GRAND PRIZE PACKAGE UPDATE

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (March 13, 2008) _ The 2008 Beach Book Festival has added a new prize to its package honoring the hottest reads of the summer season.

The festival's top book of the upcoming season will win a week for two at the fabulous Larimar St. Croix, a writer's retreat in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The winner has the option of a week-long stay at the villa or participation in one of its intensive four-day workshops featuring top writing instructors from the TV, film and book publishing industries. More information and pictures are at www.larimarstcroix.com.

The 2008 Beach Book Festival will honor its top prize-winners on Saturday, May 3, 2008 at the Atlantic City Hilton.

The Beach Book Festival will consider self-published or independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, teenage, how-to, science fiction, romance, comics, poetry, spiritual, compilations/anthologies, history, business and health-oriented books published on or after Jan. 1, 2000.

In addition to the writer's retreat vacation, our grand prize for the 2008 Beach Book Festival includes $1500 cash, a flight to Atlantic City for our awards program and a publicity campaign from Tracey Miller & Associates, a leading international PR firm, following the competition. The total prize package is now worth over $10,000 in cash and services.

Submitted works will be judged for general excellence, i.e., the potential of the work to be an engaging beach read this summer season. More information on the festival and entry forms are at www.beachbookfestival.com.

The 2008 Beach Book Festival is part of the JM Northern Media family of festivals, which includes the New York Book Festival, Hollywood Book Festival, London Book Festival and DIY Convention. The 2008 Beach Book Festival is sponsored by The Hollywood Creative Directory; Larimar St. Croix Writer's Retreat; Westside Websites com; Shopanista; eDivvy and The DIY Reporter.com.