Amid a rather turbulent period in my life, (my husband skied off a mountain and was airlifted to hospital on my birthday!) an author friend, Alison Ripley-Cubitt, sent me some very welcome good news.
She told me my latest memoir, Building The Beast: How (Not) To Build An Overland Camper has been chosen as a finalist in the Adult Non-Fiction section of the Wishing Shelf Book Awards!
With everything that was going on, I had completely missed it.
The winners will be announced on 1st April 2025.
However, for li’l’ ole me to get this far in an international book award is enough. Anything else is purely icing and cherries on top!
I am pleased to say that I am working very hard on the sequel, More Manchester Than Mongolia, and hope to release it later in 2025.
Building The Beast is the comic memoir of a crazy idea. It follows the true story of how one married couple bought a 6 x 4-wheel drive, 24.5-tonne army truck blind off the internet to convert into an off-grid home-on-wheels fit to undertake an expedition to Mongolia with The Pawsome Foursome, their four dogs.
Reviewers have described it as, “A quixotic twist (on the ‘renovating an old house’ story)”, “Hugely Inspirational!” and “So much more than the build. So far away from a ‘how to’ manual.”
Within months of release, Building The Beast was awarded a Readers’ Favorite 5* seal and was a finalist in the Page Turner Awards 2024.
Building The Beast is Jacqueline’s seventh book. Her previous books follow the couple’s life since they quit work, rented out their house, sold most of their possessions, and set out to tour Europe full time with The Pawsome Foursome.
All have received multiple 5* reviews. Her third book, Dogs ‘n’ Dracula: A Road Trip Through Romania won the Chill With a Book PREMIER Readers’ Award and was a finalist in the Romania Insider Awards for ‘Best Promotion of Romania Abroad.’
As with all of Jacqueline’s books, Building The Beast is available to purchase as an e book or paperback on Amazon, or you can read it for FREE on Kindle Unlimited.
about the wishing shelf awards
The Wishing Shelf Book Awards is run by award-winning children’s author Billy Bob Buttons (Edward Trayer). It is recommended by ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors, and also supports a very worthy cause, Blind Children UK. If you are an author, you can enter the 2025 Wishing Shelf Book Awards here. It costs just £59/$75 to enter the awards, or £109/$140 if you want feedback, quotes, and reviews on Bookbub.com and Goodreads.
About Jacqueline Lambert
Jacqueline (Jackie) Lambert is an award-winning travel writer and blogger. A dedicated adventurer, B.C. (Before Canines) she rafted, rock climbed, and backpacked around six of the seven continents. A passionate windsurfer and skier, she can fly a plane, has been bitten by a lion, and appeared as a fire eater on Japanese TV.
A.D. (After Dog), she quit work in 2016 to hit the road permanently with her husband and four pooches.
To date, they have toured more than 20 countries.
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