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The 2021 HEARTEN Book Awards for Inspiring & Uplifting Non-Fiction – CIBAs Short List 2021
The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Hearten Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2021 Hearten Non-Fiction Long List to the 2021 Hearten Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2021 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspirational Non-Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Lisa Smith Molinari – The Meat and Potatoes of Life: My True Lit Com
- Cheryl Troxel – The Inexplicable Gypsy
- Wendy Sanford – These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship across Race and Class
- Heather Haldeman – Kids and Cocktails Don’t Mix: A Memoir
- Burl Harmon – Combat Missions
- Meredith Wargo – DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them
- Carolyn Lee Arnold – Fifty First Dates After Fifty: A Memoir
- Leah Witman Moore – Loving You Big:Embracing the Unexpected
- Cheng Wang – From Tea to Coffee
- Rod Baker – Unexpected Treasures – Running a Mental Health Nonprofit
- Linda Jamsen – Odyssey of Love: A Memoir of Seeking and Finding
- Evelyn LaTorre – Love in Any Language
- Meg Nocero – Butterfly Awakens: A Memoir of Transformation Through Grief
- Jim Enderle – Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story
- Robert E. Lofthouse – Honor Through Sacrifice
- Judith Briles – When God Says NO – Revealing the YES When Adversity and Loss Are Present
- Jane Eden – Nail Soup
- Colonel Van H. Slayden, USAF, with Patrecia Slayden Hollis – Normandy to Nazi Surrender, Firsthand Account of a P-47 Thunderbolt Pilot
- Allison Hong Merrill – Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops
- Jeremy Rhyne – His Name is Cwiz
- Julie Ryan McGue – Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
- Dennis J Kotchmar – The Joy of Searching, Buying, and Selling Antiques and Home Decor from France and England
- C.L. Olsen – The Home for Friendless Children
- Fred Guttenberg – Find the Helpers
- Kim Fairley – Shooting Out the Lights: A Memoir
- George Kohn – Vector to Destiny: Journey of a Vietnam F-4 Fighter Pilot
- Sara Easterly – Searching for Mom: A Memoir
- Linda Morrow – Heart of This Family – Lessons in Down Syndrome and Love
- Lisa Dailey – Square Up: 50,000 miles in search of a way home
- Abe Streep – Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana #2
- Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
- Richard Lui – Enough About Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness
- Rick Avery with Tom Bleecker – A Life at Risk
- Labar Laskie – Above the Din: Diary of the HepC Wonder Drugs
- Bedri Cag Cetin Ph.D. – Sacred Life: Healing from the Virus in Consciousness
- Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book Two #2
- Marcus A. Nannini – Midnight Flight to Nuremberg: Capture of the Nazi Who Put Adolph Hitler into Power
- Rosemary Keevil – The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction
- Gerri Almand – Running from Covid in our RV Cocoon
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The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 HEARTEN Awards is Judy Gaman for Love, Life, and Lucille
Click here to see the 2020 Hearten Book Award Winners for Uplifting Non-Fiction
We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.
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VIRTUAL and IN-Person – June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!
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The 2021 I&I Book Awards for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction – CIBAs Short List 2021
The I & I Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Instruction and Insight non-fiction that are self-help, how-to, guides, or explanatory. In non-fiction works, the author assumes responsibility (in good faith) for the truth, accuracy, people, places, or information presented. The I & I Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best Instruction and Insight books featuring How-To, Guidance, Travel Guides, Cookbooks, Self-Help, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2021 I&I Non-Fiction Long List to the 2021 I&I Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2021 I&I Book Awards novel competition for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Aaron Taylor – Stretching Your Way to a Pain-Free Life: Illustrated Stretches for Sports, Medical Conditions and Specific Muscle Groups
- Angela Quijada-Banks – The Black Foster Youth Handbook
- Brad Borkan and David Hirzel (co-authors) – Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman Shaped our Modern World
- Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
- Eleanor K. Smith and Margaret Pastor – One School’s Journey – Further Down the Path
- George Marino, CPA, CFP – Beyond Balancing the Books: Sheer Mindfulness for Professionals in Work and Life
- Geraldine Clouston and Susan Weintrob – indieBRAG Eat, Read & Dream Cookbook
- Jennifer George – Communication is Care: 9 Empowering Strategies to Guide Patient Healing
- Jim & Jessica Braz – Baby Out of Wedlock
- Judy Taylor – Breaking the Boundaries: The Rug Hooking Artistry of Sharon Johnston
- Kaitlyn Jain – Passports and Pacifiers? Traveling the World, One Tantrum at a Time
- David Soh Poh Huat – Nature Gifts of the Soursop Leaves
- Kelly Tan Peterson, Dan Peterson, MD. – KETO BAKED
- M. J. Simms-Maddox, Ph.D. – A Handbook for Emerging and Seasoned Authors
- Mary M. Clare and Gary Ferguson – Full Ecology: Repairing Our Relationship with the Natural World
- Phoebe Walker – Freedom Found – Productive and Joyful Living In Spite of Chronic Pain
- Cheryl Troxel – The Inexplicable Gypsy
- Sabbithry Persad – What Is Coronavirus? How It Infects, How It Spreads, and How to Stay Safe
- Stan Bernard, MD, MB – BRANDS DON’T WIN: How Transcenders Change the Game
- Susan Marie Conrad – Wildly Inside: A Visual Journey Through the Inside Passage
- Wendela Whitcomb Marsh – Recognizing Autism in Women and Girls
- Bedri Cag Cetin Ph.D. – Sacred Life: Healing from the Virus in Consciousness
- Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book Two
- Jan Kaa Kristensen – Splitting Up Without Falling to Pieces
- Melanie Choukas-Bradley – Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island
- Vindy Teja – YOLO: Essential Life Hacks for Happiness
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The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 I&I Awards is Wendela Whitcomb Marsh for Independent Living with Autism: Your Roadmap to Success
Click here to see the 2020 I&I Book Award Winners for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction
We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 I&I Book Awards for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.
Please click here for more information.
See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!
Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
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Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
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The 2021 SHORTS Awards for Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies – The Short List – CIBAs 2021
The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Collected Works such as Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.
The Chanticleer International Book Awards program discovers today’s best works. The Short Stories Awards discovers the Best New Shorts in Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Shorts Book Awards entries to the 2021 Shorts Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Finalist positions. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.
NOTE: We are posting the Individual Short Stories, Essays, and Novellas in a different post. These are Collected Works
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
These titles have advanced to the Short List of the 2021 Shorts Book Awards competition for Short Story Collections, Essay Collections, and Anthologies and are in the run for the FINALISTS!
- Grendolyn Peach Soleil – The Mermaids Melt at Dawn for Fantasy and Myth
- Susannah Dawn – K Team – 4th Galactic Cavalry for Space Opera
- Russ Colson – Kernels of Mind – for Philosophical SciF
- Leah Angstman – Shoot the Horses First for Americana Fiction
- Helena P. Schrader – Grounded Eagles for 20th c. Wartime Fiction
- Susannah Dawn – I’m Not What I Used To Be, Yet I Am Who I’ve Always Been – Excerpts From My Journey for Personal Journey Non-Fiction
- Judy Taylor – The Boy Who Wrote Poetry for Family Stories
- Lisa Lynn Veith – Gold Medal for Personal Growth and Romance
- Domenick Venezia – The Edwerd Chronicles for Magical Realism
- Dianne Ebertt Beeaff – On Traigh Lar Beach for Connections
- K. – Resistance, Revolution and Other Love Stories for Literary Love Stories
- Dreena Collins – She Had Met Liars Before for Literary
- Michael T. Tusa Jr. – A House Without Books for Social Themes and Philosophy
- Elizabeth Crowens – New York: Give Me Your Best or Your Worst for Anthologies and Mixed Media
- Jeff Richards – Everyone Worth Knowing for Literary
- Maria Rybakova – Quaternity: Four Novellas From The Carpathians for Contemporary Themes
- Frances Howard-Snyder – Through a Glass Darkly for Contemporary Themes
- Elizabeth Reinach – Three Dimensions – Lizzie’s Histories for Historical Comedy
- Elizabeth Reinach – Three Dimensions – Lizzie’s Fizzies for Satire
- James Musgrave – The Valley of the Dogs for Absurdism
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 SHORTS Awards for Short Story Collections is Pierce Koslosky Jr. for A Week at Surfside Beach
Click here to see the 2020 Shorts Book Award Winners and Finalists.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Shorts Book Awards. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.
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Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
VIRTUAL and IN-Person – June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!
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Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
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The 2021 SHORTS Awards for Short Stories, Essays, and Novellas (Individual Works) – The Short List – CIBAs 2021
The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Short Stories, Essays, Novelettes, and Novellas. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.
The Chanticleer International Book Awards program discovers today’s best works. The Short Stories Awards discovers the Best New Shorts in Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Shorts Book Awards entries to the 2021 Shorts Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Shorts Finalist positions. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners will be announced on June 25th from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.
NOTE: We are posting the Collected Works such as Short Story or Essay Collections and Anthologies in a different post. These are Individual Works
These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2021 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Stories, Essays, Novelettes, Novellas!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
Out of This World Fiction (Cygnus (SciFi), OZMA (Fantasy), Paranormal (Supernatural)
- Susannah Dawn – Command of the Butterfly
- Susannah Dawn – On The Run With Meagan Wise
- J.L Oakley – Dragons End
- Karina McRoberts – Dargo – Eco Hero!
- Susan Faw – The Wizard of Bastion
- Diamond Ligues – The Bird of Hermes Shall Get its Wings
- M.J. Fitzmaurice – The Night Warrior
- Gina Detwiler – Before: Jared’s Story
- Kourtney Spadoni – In The Underwood
- Clayton Marshall Adams – The Mask
Mysteries and Suspense (Mystery/Thriller/CLUE)
- Monique Snyman – Black Mariah: Victoria West, Northern Cape, South Africa
- Dalton Mire – A Chance to Serve
- M. K. Wiseman – Sherlock Holmes & the Ripper of Whitechapel
- Lori Robbins – Leading Ladies
The Historicals (Chaucer/Goethe/Hemingway)
- David Martyn – Huldah and the Last Righteous King.
- Kristie Clark – Dragon of the Sea
- Nicole Evelina – Consequences
- Joy Ross Davis – The Sutler of Petersburg
- Elizabeth Wolf – The Royal Foetus: A very short novel based on the very short life of King Louis XVII
- Breakfield and Burkey – Out of Poland
Box of Chocolates Assortment
- Lindy Miller – Sleigh Bells on Bread Loaf Mountain
- James Musgrave – The Castaways of Mar-a-Lago
- Barry Robbins – Oh Daddy Chronicles: The Tasting
- David Perlmutter – No Son Of Mine
- Dane S. Skorup – Kid Kingmaker
- Jean-Jacques Jura – Acadian Chronicles: When Ancestors Look Down
Somerset – Literary & Contemporary Fiction
- Toni Ann Johnson – Homegoing
- Mekiya Walters – Bathwater (or, The Miseducation of Ness Chairmonte)
- Esta Lemon – The Name.
- Frances Howard-Snyder – Face to Face
- J.F. Penn – Blood, Sweat, and Flame
- Dalton Mire – A Minefield of Memories
- Grace Sikorski – How To Become a Mother
Narrative Non-Fiction
- Lisa Lynn Veith – Gold Medal
- J. L. Oakley – Putting Things Away
- David Soh Poh Huat – Care Giving Gift of Unconditional Love
- David Soh Poh Huat – Nature Gifts of the Soursop Leaves
- Vicky Oliver – A Valentine to my Mothers and Other Dubious Role Models
- Judy Taylor – The Boy Who Wrote Poetry
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Shorts Awards for Short Stories is Robin Lee Lovelace
for Savonne, Not Vonny
Click here to see the 2020 Shorts Book Award Winners and Finalists.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Shorts Book Awards. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.
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Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
VIRTUAL and IN-Person – June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!
FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.
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Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!
Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
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LOVE, LIFE and LUCILLE: Lessons Learned from a Centenarian by Judy Gaman – Biography, Women’s Memoirs, Aging
Award-winning author, motivational speaker, and podcast host Judy Gaman befriends a fun-loving and feisty centenarian in her CIBA Grand Prize-winning novel, Love, Life, and Lucille.
The list of titles and accolades Judy Gaman has accrued begin to pale when she encounters Lucille Fleming for the very first time. The whole reason for the meet-up with the centenarian was specifically to get her opinions on “aging gracefully,” the featured topic of a new book Judy planned to write. What was scheduled as an hour-long interview turned into an absolutely delightful, near three-hour visit. Lucille turned the tables and began asking questions about Judy’s life with compelling earnestness—something Judy rarely experienced. She was unprepared yet exhilarated.
Judy couldn’t stop thinking about this “dressed to the nines” woman with an ear-to-ear smile and a sturdy, affectionate hug. Her contact with this larger-than-life woman was so infectious, Judy made up an excuse—so that she could see her again. During that second meeting, the two became fast friends as they set Fridays aside as their day to get together. Before their next planned meeting, Judy learned that Lucille had gone into cardiac arrest. She was dead for three minutes before she came back full of vim and vigor as if nothing had happened. Five months later, Lucille was more than ready for TV interviews. With that, Judy made plans to write a second book about Lucille and their relationship.
Once Lucille agreed to Judy’s literary plans, their Friday get-togethers morphed into long, memorable, eye-opening, and at times, heart-wrenching lunch outings.
The two would share their life experiences—many happier Lucille memories than Judy’s dark, divorced-riddled childhood recollections. At the same time, those outings provided valuable lessons for Judy. She realized she had stopped thinking about her work to-do list but, instead, was “simply living in the moment” when she was around Lucille. “With every lesson, she taught me, she was making me stronger, both mentally and emotionally.” Judy had no idea that her newfound strength from her newfound best friend would carry her through a series of unforgettable roller-coaster events.
Award-winning author Judy Gaman retells the remarkable, life-changing story of her relationship with Lucille, the woman who profoundly changed her life.
Life, Love, and Lucille reads more like fiction than nonfiction. A true storyteller, Gaman enthralls her audience by taking common scenarios—visiting a friend; going to restaurants—and turning them into significant unanticipated spiritual encounters. During those moments, Gaman realizes that Lucille’s optimism came from years of perseverance through life’s ups and downs, which gave her optimism and determination, qualities severely lacking in Gaman’s life. Little by little, Lucille’s passion for life and people began to penetrate the carefully-protected recesses of Gaman’s heart.
Gaman’s first-person narration delicately weaves a consistent theme highlighting the pair’s incredibly close relationship: Lucille’s stories; how Lucille’s stories affected Gaman; Gaman’s personal, gut-wrenching struggles with family members; and the testing and strength of their faith in God that led to wholeness.
Drawing each chapter to a cliffhanging close further heightens the storyline. From one human-interest situation to the next, Gaman fills her narrative with a sequence of circumstances, slowly evolving from lighter, happier junctures to more heart-rending ones. Judy Gaman masterfully weaves her story, heartfelt, funny, outrageous – all to a compelling must-read narrative.
Through Gaman’s Love, Life, and Lucille, Judy Gaman gifts us all with the experience of what it is like to meet a woman who chose hope, love, and life above all else. Highly recommended!
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DRUMS and DRAGONS: A Field Guide to Mokele-mbembe and Other Living Dinosaurs in Africa by Ryan J. Lyons – Occult Horror, Adventure, Mythology and Folk Tales
Ryan J. Lyons presents Drums and Dragons: A Field Guide to Mokele-mbembe and Other Living Dinosaurs in Africa with such a realistic edge, readers may wonder at the fictional account of the many prehistoric survivors contained within the book.
Lyons crafts Drums and Dragons as a journal written by an assistant curator, who joins an expedition into the African jungles to discover cryptids. Readers will become immersed in the spell-binding story of what happens when one dares to believe that this world still has hidden things yet to be discovered. Lyons’ approach to his work will delight and inform readers, as every aspect of these creatures’ lives is carefully documented.
Meet Matt Preston, an assistant curator at the F. Donald Hagstrom Museum of Natural History in Fairview. His life takes a strange turn, and he encounters the notorious “monster hunter,” Walter Spink. This meeting sets the stage for a mission to find dragons in the African wilderness.
The expedition leads the two dragonologists to uncover the existence of many species of surviving dinosaurs.
Preston records it all. The comprehensive work includes additional information in its appendix: A. Brief Guide to African Dragons, B. List of Plants Consumed by Mokele-mbembe, and C. Body Measurements of the Biafran Sea Dragon. Preston’s journal serves to shed light on Walter Spink’s legitimate discovery, which an apathetic public dismissed and mocked in the 1980s.
It turns out that not everyone seeking the elusive beasts is a friend to them.
Spink and Preston must preserve these species from natural predators in the forest and from human game hunters. Meanwhile, a feticheuse, a witch doctor of Toukalaka village, attempts to stop the two men from seeking more dragons. She warns them that they are the most significant risk to these creatures’ survival. As for Preston and Spink, they believe in what they are doing.
Drums and Dragons illustrates how we derive meaning and purpose through caring for others and other species, and author Lyons accomplishes this with a good bit of humor.
Spink, a well-informed naturalist, divulges information on dragon physiology, diet, habitat, behavior patterns, and plants indigenous to African forests. Moreover, he shows compassion for the dinosaurs, to the point that he frets about one female mokele-mbembe’s choice for a mating partner. This dry humor permeates Matt Preston’s record.
This story concerns the nature of dwelling on desire.
Spink determines to stop the hunters from killing his savage dragon friends. He also insists on keeping track of their lives as long as possible. When the feticheuse demands that he leave the dinosaurs alone, and in exchange, she will keep the creatures safe from the hunters, he is torn. What happens next will make the book stick in readers’ minds long after it is finished.
Drums and Dragons by Ryan J. Lyons won 1st Place in the 2019 CIBA Paranormal Book Awards for Supernatural Fiction and comes highly recommended!
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The 2021 CLUE Book Awards for Suspense/Thrillers – CIBAs Finalists 2021
The Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Suspense and Thriller Mysteries. The Clue Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring suspense, thrilling adventure, detective work, private eye, police procedural, and crime-solving, we will put them to the test to discover the best! (For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards).
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2021 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction Semi-Finalists to the 2021 Clue Book Awards FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
Congratulations to the 2021 CLUE Book Awards Finalists!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Tom Galvin – The Auction
- Lynn Yvonne Moon – The Agency – Tablet of Destiny
- Alicia Dill – Beyond Sacrifice
- James A. Ross – Coldwater Revenge
- T.L. Bequette – Good Lookin’: A Joe Turner Mystery
- Amy S. Peele – Match: A Medical Murder Mystery
- Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
- Erik Foge – We Know Your Name
- Kevin G. Chapman – Fatal Infraction (Mike Stoneman Thriller #4)
- Rip Converse – Callie Awakens
- Roberta Seret – Gift of Diamonds
- Lyle Howard – An Eye For An Eye
- Laurie Buchanan – Indelible: A Sean McPherson Novel, Book One
- Robert Honor – Bogart’s Hat
- Valerie J. Brooks – Tainted Times
- Shelley Nolden – The Vines
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Conspiracy: A Buck Taylor Novel
- Emily A. Myers – The Truth About Unspeakable Things
These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE WINNERS of the 2021 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!
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The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 CLUE Awards was Chris Karlsen for A Venomous Love
Click here to see the 2020 Clue Book Award Winners for Suspense/Thriller Mysteries.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Clue Book Awards for Suspense/Thriller Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.
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For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards
Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
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OUR TIME to DANCE: A Mother’s Journey to Joy by Eva Doherty Gremmert – Epilepsy, Biography, Parenting
Our Time to Dance: A Mother’s Journey to Joy by Eva Doherty Gremmert demonstrates the importance of advocacy for those who are disabled, intellectually or otherwise.
In the early morning of August 18th, 1979, Eva Doherty Gremmert awoke with a contraction. A young mother already, Eva is worried about how she will cope with caring for two infants. She tried to calm her concerns by remembering that babies typically arrive easier and more quickly the second time around; however, the delivery ends up being long and exhausting. Once her son Nick arrived, Eva could not shake the feeling that something might be wrong. For the first several months of Nick’s life, doctors actively ignored her concerns and told her nothing was wrong with her son.
A mother knows best, and with a lot of courage and determination, Eva and her husband Arden finally find a doctor that listens and agrees with their concerns.
Their world becomes full of physical therapy and pediatric neurological appointments. When Nick reaches school age, Eva and Arden also become very involved in ensuring he receives the right educational program. Sometimes, a whole new program needed to be created. The road is often tricky, but Nick is full of life and love, and of course, dancing.
Eva crafts Our Time to Dance into a beautiful story of a mother’s unyielding love. She holds nothing back as she describes her fears of motherhood and the emotional toll of caring for her intellectually and physically disabled son. This book ultimately is not just about Nick’s particular story but also about the importance of advocating for those with disabilities and their families. Eva describes many instances where educational professionals could not provide Nick with the proper program and, subsequently, underestimated his unique abilities and potential to learn.
The structure of the book has two timelines that transition back and forth.
One timeline begins just before Nick is born – the other picks up when Nick reaches adulthood and experiences more severe seizures. This results in his doctor’s suggestion that they prepare for the possibility of his passing. Eva and Arden decide to take a big road trip so that Nick can visit friends, possibly for the last time. As they depart, Gremmert reflects on the many challenges throughout Nick’s life, from physical therapy and his education. On every page of this story, readers see Nick’s abundant love and joy with everyone he meets.
Eva hopes that by writing Our Time to Dance, readers will “find the strength and hope they need and the joy they desire.” Finding the good in difficult situations makes going through them a little easier.
The powerful message contained in Our Time to Dance makes the book a treasure, and is sure to help those who live with and work with persons with disabilities. Gremmert won First Place in the CIBA 2019 Journey Book Awards for narrative non-fiction for her inspirational work. Highly recommended!
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The 2021 JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction – CIBAs Short List 2021
The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2021 Journey Non-Fiction Long List to the 2021 Journey Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2021 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Sherry Chapman – How Much Big Is the Sky: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love and Unfathomable Loss
- Tracie White with Ronald W. Davis – The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist’s Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
- Rosie McMahan – Fortunate Daughter: A Memoir of Reconciliation
- Marcie Maxfield – Em’s Awful Good Fortune
- William Johnson – Snow Blind: Recovering After the Random Shooting
- Kathleen Lockyer – The Broken Wing Dance — Love, loss, trauma and how nature led me back to my wild self
- Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
- George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoir
- Renee K. Nicholson – Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness
- Margaret Thomson – The World Looks Different Now
- Sylvie Heyman – Beyond the Holocaust: An Immigrant’s Search for Identity
- Kawan Glover – Favor: How Stroke Struggle and Surgery Helped Me Find My Life’s Purpose
- Faith Fuller Wilcox – Hope Is a Bright Star: A Mother’s Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning to Live Again
- Azim H. Jiwani, MD – Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible
- Rosemary Keevil – The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction
- Andrea Wilson Woods – Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days
- Krista Nerestant – Indestructible: The Hidden Gifts of Trauma
- Jean-Philippe Soule – I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
- Meghan Caughey – Mud Flower
- C.L. Olsen – The Home for Friendless Children
- Heather Haldeman – Kids and Cocktails Don’t Mix: A Memoir
- Jim Enderle – Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story
- Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
- Tammy Green – Living Without Skin: Everything I Never Knew About Fierce Vulnerability
- Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Black, White, and Gray All Over; a Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
- Nikki West – The Odyssey of the Chameleon
If you entered your work into the 2021 Journey Book Awards and do not see it on the list, please check our other non-fiction divisions, as the judges may have deemed that the work belongs in a different division. The many works that have been entered into the Journey Book Awards should have trigger warnings. This is why the judges requested the new division of the Hearten Book Awards for inspirational/uplifting works that overcome adversity. Other works may have moved to other divisions such as Nellie Bly or the Shorts if they did not meet word count requirements.
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Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.
The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 JOURNEY Awards is Karen Keilt for The Parrot’s Perch: A Memoir of Torture and Corrupti0n in Brazil
Click here to see the 2020 Journey Book Award Winners for Narrative Non-Fiction
We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Journey Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.
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See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!
Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
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