USA Today best-selling author and St. Pete Beach native Wendy Wax invites the community to celebrate the sunset and her new novel Sunshine Beach on Sunday, June 26th, beachside at 6:30 pm at Paradise Grille, 900 Gulf Way, PAG. Paradise Grille is offering $5 wine & half-price beer during the book signing. A portion of each book sale will be donated to the new St. Pete Beach Community Library building fund, courtesy of Wendy & Joan Schulhafer Publishing & Media Consulting, Clifton, NJ. Wendy will personally autograph each book, provided by Bookmiser, East Cobb and Roswell, GA. Attendees can also enter the St. Pete Beach Building Fund/Wendy Wax Raffle for a chance to have their name – or a friend or family member’s name – in a future novel in her successful Ten Beach Road book series. The winner will also receive signed copies of her other Ten Beach Road books- “Ten Beach Road,” “Ocean Beach” and “The House on Mermaid Street.”
St. Pete Beach Library Administrator Phyllis Ruscella told Paradise News, “Wendy Wax has been a longtime, loyal friend to the St. Pete Beach Library and the community in which she spent her youth. Her books are always in high demand among our patrons who are some of her greatest fans. We always appreciate an opportunity to partner with Wendy for local book signings and thank her for her continued support in efforts to build a new Library to better serve our patrons.”
In the new novel, Maddie, Avery and Nicole, the three female friends and stars of “Ten Beach Road,” return to their (and Wendy’s) old stomping grounds- St. Pete Beach. The success of their new project, a nearby nearly mid-Century modern beachside hotel left vacant for decades, will make or break their TV careers and finances. It’s no coincidence that the location of the Sunshine Hotel approximates that of The Rellim, the St. Pete Beach hotel and beach club in Pass-a-Grille established in 1941 and owned for years by good friends of Wendy’s parents and where she spent many happy times. Memories of those days remain vivid for Wendy, and while the Sunshine Hotel differs in many ways from The Rellim, she made it a point to imbue it with the spirit of those earlier days.
Wendy currently splits her time between Atlanta, where she’s lived for nearly 20 years, and New York City. When not writing, she visits with readers at bookstores and book events, reads, enjoys her and her husband’s newly empty nest, and serendipitous visits with their sons.
June 26 event is free, but Wendy asks all to RSVP at http://tinyurl.com/hxm3gap so that enough books are on hand for all attendees.
Story by Steve Traiman
[Steve Traiman is President of Creative Copy by Steve Traiman in St. Pete Beach, offering freelance business writing services. He can be reached via email at traimancreativecopy@gmail.com]