Cathie Beck

Cathie Beck is the author of the award-winning memoir, Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship, a wickedly funny and smart memoir about female friendship. Iris Dart, author of Beaches, describes Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship as “an achingly poignant memoir that reminds every woman to call her best friend right away.”

In 2009, Cathie self-published her memoir, holding an online “Cheap Cabernet for Every Vixen” online book launch party, and sold so many copies on Amazon.com, it hit No. 1 Amazon Movers & Shakers. Twenty-two publishers and 16 literary agents jockeyed to represent the book, and a top literary agent held a three-house auction — in July 2010, Hyperion Books published Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship.

Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship has been a Denver Post Best Sellers book five times and is the only memoir named a “Great Group Read” by the National Women’s Book Association. The book is also an Honoree, 2011 Books for a Better Life Award, named a Target Stores Emerging Author book, and Cathie is a Midwest Booksellers Association Featured Author.

Cathie has written for the Boulder Daily Camera, the Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post, The Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Business Journal, Poets & Writers Magazine, and Writers Digest. She presently contributes to a number of major publications and is the recipient of the Louisiana Press Women’s and Denver Press Woman’s Writing Awards, the Scripps-Howard Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the University of Colorado’s Dean’s Award for Writing.

Further information can be found at www.cathiebeck.com. Cheap Cabernet: A Friendship is available on Amazon.com.