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B.C. author wins silver award for true story about ‘wealthy’ con artist

Glenda Toews picks up international Reader Views Literary Awards for book ‘Spinning on a Barstool’
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Glenda Toews, seen here at Corky’s Irish Pub in Chilliwack, wrote Spinning on a Barstool after she was allegedly scammed $60,000 by a con artist. She won silver in the ‘overall grand prize non-fiction’ category of the 2023-2024 Reader Views Literary Awards. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)

A Chilliwack author has won an international award for her non-fiction book about losing tens of thousands of dollars in an alleged fraud.

Glenda Toews won silver in the ‘overall grand prize non-fiction’ category of the 2023-2024 Reader Views Literary Awards — a program for independent authors — for her book Spinning on a Barstool.

She said she was “humbled” when she heard she won.

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