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Sati and the Rider by Winslow Eliot – Cozy Mystery/Woman Sleuth

Do you need a little mystery in your life? It may be in your cards with Winslow Eliot’s new book, Sati and the Rider!

Just when she thinks she’s lost her juju, Satyana, the heroine of Winslow Eliot’s new mystery series, finds it in a most unexpected way.

Satyana and the Rider opens with Satyana – just Satyana – a fortune teller, coming to grips with the possibility that she has lost her ability to tell fortunes. After a horrendous loss, misdirection, and failed attempts to rescue a child, she has packed her bags and moved into a brownstone smack dab in the center of a posh neighborhood in New York City. How does she afford the home? A wealthy client willed it to her when she died.

But with no money to speak of, no clients lining up on her steps, and grappling with her gift that seemingly has flown the coop, Satyana is lonely and depressed – until a sexy young delivery man slips on her stairs and fractures his ankle.

Cue motherly instincts – or a keen sense of responsibility – or an instant attraction – cue whatever you like, Sati (Satyana) is bound to care for the hapless delivery man, Percy is his name, until he can to walk up the five flights of stairs to his apartment across town… which, you know, he never does!

This is the set-up for Winslow Eliot’s first book in the Satyana Mystery Series. A cozy, fast-paced, fun read, Eliot has set the stage for future adventures. Is it perfect? Not quite. There are some continuity issues, but not enough to stop a reader cold. The author, a card reader herself, utilizes the troupe of cards in her title and throughout the book. Here, the Rider indicates the following: News, a delivery, a young man, perhaps a lover. A new person or situation entering your life. A visit. A horse, a car, or other means of transportation. Opportunity. Things moving quickly. A vibrant social life. Elegance. Energy. Comings and goings. 9 of Hearts: a wish fulfilled. Timing: Soon, in a day, next week, in January.

The above description is mentioned at the beginning of the book and skillfully woven in throughout the work. Ultimately, Sati and the Rider is well-written and engaging. A perfect escape from reality for readers of the cozy mystery genre.

February 19, 2017
St Louis Affair: The Adventures of Herbert Falken by Michael Scheffel – Historical Thriller/Detective

This tantalizing whodunit is set in 1899 St. Louis and revolves around the heinous murder of a prominent wealthy citizen, Charles Garrett, whose body is discovered on the banks of the Mississippi River. Because the crime scene is devoid of clues and political pressure for a fast resolution abounds, the city police turn to professional Inquiry Agent, Herbert Falken, for assistance.

Falken, also known by the public as Major Falken from his heroic exploits fighting renegade raiders along the US – Mexican border, is well respected for his deductive abilities and previous success in solving a perplexing string of grisly crimes. What the public doesn’t know is that Falken is haunted by his own personal and professional demons.

Not long after departing from this crime scene, however, Falken discovers a curious fact: Charles Garrett’s public and private personas are polar opposites. Faced with a growing list of suspects and demands from the Governor on down to the average citizen for an immediate arrest, Falken feels the pressure. If it weren’t for James Westfall (former army officer mustered out due to a permanent leg injury) Falken’s aide-de-camp, our hero would be in dire straights. Westfall not only records critical crime scene and subject interview information, but he also cares for and tries to protect Falken—sometimes from himself.

A strong cast of well-drawn and individually distinctive characters who aid, circumvent, and forestall Falken’s pursuit of justice adds richness to the story.

Scheffel’s use of architectural design, clothing and accouterments, individual and class attitudes, and various character traits and dialects to resurrect old St. Louis is a true highlight of the book. He deftly crafts different scenes in smooth, articulate detail without hindering the story’s pace. Whether it’s inside Falken’s dining room, traveling across uneven paving bricks in a horse-drawn buggy, trudging along the muddy banks along the river, descending into a seedy opium den, or watching Falken get his butt kicked in a bare-knuckle brawl, the reader is right there. Another treat is the seamless placement of real-world news events into dialogue, which adds both authenticity and consistency to the setting.

Overall, St Louis Affair: The Adventures of Herbert Falken is an entertaining turn-of-the-century page-turner with plenty of twists to keep the reader guessing to the end. Michael Scheffel grabs the reader’s attention from the first sentence and doesn’t let go until the very last in St. Louis Affair: The Adventures of Herbert Falken, a fast-paced, page-turner that will have the reader hoping that he is hard a work penning a new tale involving Herbert Falken, Inquiry Agent.

February 19, 2017
Business Growth Applied to Authorship by Sara Dahmen

We have a LOT of terrific sessions planned for CAC17, and we are still adding more. One of those amazing sessions will be:

Bigger Than Books: Business Growth Applied to Authorship & Beyond – What more does it take to be a successful author? Whether you’re represented or self-published or somewhere in between, using overarching business tools are a huge assistance in building success. How can the tools commonly manipulated by marketers, large and small companies, and retailers help you create a successful ‘business plan’ as an author? From multi-pronged approaches, to developing a tiered ‘clientele’, to organization and presence, business is business, whether you’re an author or the manager of Apple. Use those same tools to create yours.

The presenter for this class, Sara Dahmen, a Chanticleer Grand Prize winner and business owner, took time out of her week to provide us with this article based on her session.

If you’re an author, you’re also, by default, a self-employed business owner. I know many of us don’t take out LLC’s or even own our own URL, but the fact remains, if only on paper, that we are all business owners. There’s a resounding ring to that.

Business owner.
Self-employed.
My own boss.
The plotter of my own destiny.

Excellent. So, once we’ve all recognized that fact…now what?

Being a successful author is more than simply selling some (or a lot!) of books. Even getting 20,000 books out there is not going to be a sustainable career. Once those 20,000 books have been read (and unless you continually churn out best-sellers), you’re left with a bit of a hangover and half-formed additional ideas. None of these bode well to continue the business of “you.”

Success is measured both by income and by long-term growth. It’s a bit hard, and not nearly as wonderfully artsy to say, but it’s the truth. If you’re going to be a successful small business owner, you need to pull up a chair with the left side of your brain and get to work.

A multiple pronged approach is best, and each person’s strategy will vary widely depending on your audience, which should always be broader than a singular author’s platform. There are a myriad of business tools out there – some expensive, and some free – that can be harnessed to create a wide-scale business bigger than a book.

A business owner will always have a product or a service. You have that already: your book. And a business owner will also have a marketing strategy (and we all know many of those…but many are also often forgotten or overlooked or we get in a rut and forget to think outside the box) that encompasses far more than a blog, a website and some social media. And a business owner will think long-term. A one-hit wonder will be lovely, but after that advance is gone and the shine has worn from those book covers, you’ll need to ask yourself: what now?

Business is business, and books are business in many more ways than getting some readers and a publisher. Whether you write it down (pun intended!) or not, writers need some sort of a business plan that goes beyond writing the words “the end” and I’m not just talking about plastering a Twitter page with a bunch of book launch announcements.

Authors should walk into the arena equipped with answers to the questions:

What do you believe: about yourself, your book, your future plans?
What are you going to do to make those future plans happen – and how?
Who do you need to know to help you?
And what kind of wacky ideas can you dream up for yourself…and then do?

I plan to tackle much of this in a presentation (Bigger Than Books: Business Growth Applied to Authorship & Beyond) at the Chanticleer Author Conference in Bellingham WA the weekend of March 31 – April 2 where I promise I will be far less vague and incredibly specific. If I had my way, we’ll all be drinking a little booze while I talk, and then we talk. Looking forward to it!

Sara Dahmen: Author & Entrepreneur

Sara Dahmen is a metalsmith of vintage and modern kitchenware in tin, copper and iron. Her debut novel, Doctor Kinney’s Housekeeper, won the Laramie Award Grand Prize for Western Historical Fiction, and inspired House Copper & Housekeeper Crockery – American-made cookware. She has published over 100 articles as a contributing editor for multiple magazines, book blogs and review blogs and spoke at TEDx Rapid City, at the Historical Writers of America inaugural conference in Williamsburg VA, and has co-chaired the Port Washington Literary Festival since its inception. Prior to her writing gigs, Sara was a print, radio and TV producer in Milwaukee and owns and has operated a nationally award-winning event planning company since 2006. When not writing or sewing authentic clothing for reenactments, she can be found hitting tin and copper at her apprenticeship with a master smith, reading the Economist and reference books, or playing with her three young children.

February 17, 2017
Fire Call! Sounding the Alarm to Save Our Vanishing Volunteers by George De Vault – Memoir/Fire Science

In his first job as a newspaper reporter, DeVault attended many emergencies – and firefighters were always on the scene. Gradually he discovered that the vast majority of America’s firefighters are volunteers, often leaving their regular jobs by prearrangement or rushing out from home in the middle of the night to respond to every conceivable crisis, from a simple kitchen fire to a multi-car crash to the cataclysmic events of 9-11-01.

With the encouragement of empathetic wife Melanie, also a reporter, De Vault joined the firefighting ranks as a volunteer in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, while fully immersed in his journalistic career with Rodale Inc. He answered every call, about 5,000 over a thirty year period, no matter what else was going on in his life – even on a day when Melanie was in the hospital dealing with her own emergency.

He describes such harrowing experiences as realizing that the blazing floor he was standing on was about to collapse, to loading corpses into body bags after the mid-air crash of two small planes, to rescuing many traumatized victims, their children, and their pets from burning homes. One of the more memorable and terrifying incidents described did not involve fire: the author was called upon to pull out a man stuck in a pond drain, battling pressure that threatened to suck him and the man he was rescuing into watery oblivion. Some events involved animals, notably the blaze in a pet store where volunteer firefighters gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, chest compressions, and oxygen to puppies and a chimpanzee.

DeVault, most recently the local Fire Chief and an eco-conscious family farmer, uses this action-packed memoir to make us aware that if a fire or other disaster should strike our home or place of work, the people who rush to our rescue will almost certainly be volunteers. They will have gone through exceedingly rigorously training, including chopping a log with a 14-pound sledgehammer, carrying a fifty-pound weight 400 feet, and “wrestling a 100-pound rescue dummy out a second-floor window and down a ladder by yourself, while wearing bunker gear and an air pack.”

Unfortunately, it has become nearly impossible to attract young people into this work that involves great personal sacrifice; many of our first responder volunteers now are over 50. DeVault hits us with the facts: every 23 seconds, there’s a fire call somewhere in our country, or about 1.6 million calls a year. He lists at least 16 jobs that we can perform voluntarily to assist the firefighters in their valiant and valuable efforts, from grant writer to cook to performing the duties of a chaplain. Or, he suggests, “write a bigger check the next time your fire department has a fundraising drive.”

George DeVault is a former reporter/writer who has turned his volunteering into a full-time job and now, a one-man crusade to fire up national interest in our firefighters – who they are, what they do, and why they merit our support. Readers will be thrilled, and at times chilled, by this up-close view of the sacrifice, guts, and skill displayed on an everyday basis by volunteer firefighters who perform their duties with no thought of recognition or reward. Professionally composed, fast-paced and thought-provoking, Fire Call! has already garnered the Charles A. “Chet” Henry Fire Service Advocacy Award in recognition of the book’s important message.

February 16, 2017
A SEASON for KILLING BLONDES by Joanne Guidoccio – Cozy Mystery

Gilda has been absent from her hometown for 30 years, and when she returns with a pocket full of cash (19 million from a lottery win), she opens up a business. Everything is ready for the opening night – except the dead blonde in the dumpster out back wasn’t part of the plan. What’s worse, that dead blonde was Gilda’s first client! This is just the start – dead blondes seem to drop everywhere Gilda goes!

In A Season for Killing Blondes, author Joanne Guidoccio introduces a bevy of Italian friends and relatives who are loving, clever, talented, overbearing, overprotective, erratic, abusive, etc., and who try to “help” Gilda manage her life, whether she wants their input or not. Some of the characters have double names—think of The Waltons 2.0—that in combination with some cousins, a few Aunts, and an Uncle, may initially seem confusing, but the author handles it with a deft touch. The names and behaviors add depth, texture, and suspects to the story.

When lead detective, Carlo Fantin, comes onto the scene with a lot of pressure from the city to solve the crimes, he’s all business until he realizes that he knows Gilda from high school…30 years ago. On the plus side, she accepts his dinner invitation to reconnect. On the negative, she’s a prime suspect who has a huge problem with alibis.

But honestly, who wouldn’t love a relative willing to create a handy alibi on the fly?

“Relax, Gilda. You’re not going to jail. I provided you with an alibi for last night. All those times that Roberto and I rehearsed worked.” Sofia (her mother) glanced over at me. “Aren’t you pleased? You’ve said very little since we left the station.”

or how about this:

“I called Detective Fantin and left a message on his machine,” Uncle Paolo said. “When he calls back, I’ll make sure that he knows you and Sofia were with us Saturday night.”

Talk about a support network.

A Season for Killing Blondes is well crafted with solid character and setting descriptions that do not get in the way of pacing. For those readers who enjoy a good humorous mystery and whodunit, along with Italian food, Guidoccio’s cozy does not disappoint. Clues, hints, and some foreshadowing are mixed in with a few curve balls (and meatballs) that keep you guessing until the end.

February 16, 2017
SHORTS & NOVELLAS 2016 – SHORT LIST
These titles are in the running for the 2016 Overall Best Short Story/Novella Award and the three runner up positions.

The SHORTS & NOVELLAS Award is a division of Chanticleer International Writing Competitions. Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best fiction short stories and novellas.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to FINALISTS LIST and now has moved forward to the SHORT LIST. They are now 2016 SHORTS & NOVELLAS Semi-Finalists as they compete for the Overall First Place Shorts Award and three runner up positions in the last rounds of judging.

Congratulations to these authors for their works moving up from the 2016 Finalists List to the Short List (Semi-Finalists).
- B. K. Smith – Laina & the Vamp
- Lucy Carol – Kill the Crazy
- Jesikah Sundin – Lynden (TRANSITIONS: Novella Collection / “The Biodome Chronicles #2.5”)
- Jesikah Sundin – Mack (TRANSITIONS: Novella Collection / “The Biodome Chronicles #2.5”)
- Kris Felstehausen – The Secret
- J.L. Oakley – Coconut Island
- Olivia Rivard – Vacuum
- Olivia Rivard – Danielle’s Inferno
- Joe Corso – Engine 24 Fire Stories 1, 2, 3
- Penny Page – Not Haunted
- Tom And Nancy Wise – Life On Base: Quantico Cave Short Story
- Ken Oder – The Old Bull
- Deborah Fleming – Easy Lives
- TC Booth – Beyond Vica
- Andrea Downing – Dearest Darling
All Short Listers in attendance to CAC17 will receive high visibility along with special badges to wear during the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala. All Short Listers in attendance will be recognized on stage during the Chanticleer Awards Ceremony.

Good Luck to all of the Semi-Finalists as they compete for the coveted Overall First Place Award and the three runner up positions.

All prize winners will be announced at the April 1st, 2017 Chanticleer Writing Contests Annual Awards Gala, which takes place on the last evening of the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2017 SOMERSET Awards Book Awards writing competition. Please click here for more information.

More than $30,000.00 dollars worth of cash and prizes will be awarded to Chanticleer Book Reviews 2016 writing competition winners! Enter today!
February 13, 2017
SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary, Contemporary, and Mainstream Fiction 2016 Short List (Semi-Finalists)
These titles are in the running for the First Place Category Positions Book Awards for the 2016 SOMERSET Book Awards novel competition for Literary, Contemporary, and Mainstream Fiction!

The Somerset Book Awards Writing Competition recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary Fiction. The Somerset Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Writing Competitions.

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, satire, humor, magic realism or women and family themes, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

The Somerset First Place Categories are: Contemporary Theme, Adventure/Suspense, Literary, Women’s Fiction, Satire, and Magic Realism.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to FINALISTS LIST and now has moved forward to the SHORT LIST of the 2016 Somerset Book Awards. They are now 2016 Somerset Semi-Finalists as they compete for the limited First Place Category Positions of the 2016 Somerset Book Awards in the last rounds of judging.

Congratulations to these authors for their works moving up from the 2016 Somerset Finalists to the Short List (Semi-Finalists). These novels will now compete for the First Place Category Positions!
- Patrick Garry – The Illusion
- Alexander Boldizar – The Ugly
- Debu Majumdar – Sacred River
- Andrea McKenzie Raine – A Crowded Heart
- Boo Walker – Red Mountain
- Ann DeFee – Lucy’s Got a Lot of ‘Splaining to Do
- Judith Kirscht – The Camera’s Eye
- Gail Cleare – The Taste of Air
- Bernard Mansheim – Do No Harm: Everydoctor
- Andrea McKenzie Raine – Turnstiles
- Joao Cerqueira – Jesus and Magdalene
- Conon Parks – Empty Bottle of Smoke
- Janet K Shawgo – Archidamus
- Kathleen M. Rodgers – Johnnie Come Lately
- Kevin G. Chapman – A Legacy of One
- Megan A. Clancy – chhori
- Michael D. Durkota – Once in a Blue Year
- Annaliese Darr – Believe
- Chief John J. Mandeville – The Fox, Mike, Hilda, and the Green Emerald Cafe Inferno
- Diana Forbes – Mistress Suffragette
- Michael Aloysius O’Reilly – Proud Patrick
- Ronald E. Yates – The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles (Book 2, Finding Billy Battles Trilogy)
- Jamie Zerndt – The Roadrunner Cafe
- James G akho3dn. Skinner – The Galician Parallax
- Justin Bog – Wake Me Up
- Patrick Garry – Blind Spots
All Short Listers in attendance to CAC17 will receive high visibility along with special badges to wear during the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala.

Good Luck to all of the Semi-Finalists as they compete for the coveted First Place Category positions.

The SOMERSET Grand Prize Winner and First Place Category Winners will be announced at the April 1st, 2017 Chanticleer Writing Contests Annual Awards Gala, which takes place on the last evening of the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2017 SOMERSET Awards Book Awards writing competition. Please click here for more information.

More than $30,000.00 dollars worth of cash and prizes will be awarded to Chanticleer Book Reviews 2016 writing competition winners! Enter today!
February 11, 2017
PARANORMAL Book Awards for Supernatural Fiction 2016 Short List (Semi-Finalists)
These titles are in the running for the 5 First Place Book Awards for the 2016 PARANORMAL Book Awards novel competition for Supernatural Fiction!

The Paranormal Book Awards Writing Competition recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Supernatural Fiction. The Paranormal Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Writing Competitions.

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring magic, the supernatural, weird other worldly stories, super humans, magical beings and supernatural entities, vampires, werewolves, angels, demons, Fairy, Magical systems and elements, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

The First Place Category Positions in the Paranormal Awards are: Adventure/Mystery/Thriller, Paranormal Romance, Magical Beings & Creatures, Strange and Unexplained, and Supernatural Powers.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to FINALISTS LIST and now has moved forward to the SHORT LIST of the 2016 Paranormal Book Awards. They are now 2016 Paranormal Semi-Finalists as they compete for the limited First Place Category Positions of the 2016 Paranormal Book Awards in the last rounds of judging.

Congratulations to these authors for their works moving up from the 2016 Paranormal Finalists to the Short List (Semi-Finalists). These novels will now compete for the First Place Category Positions!
- Angella Cormier & Pierre C Arseneault – Oakwood Island
- Derek Swannson – Crash Gordon and the Illuminati Underground
- Alex E. Carey – Fire’s Love
- Jessie Kwak – Shifting Borders
- John D Trudel – Raven’s Redemption
- Ian M. Smith – Trace
- Janet K. Shawgo – Archidamus
- Joanne Jaytanie – Corralling Kenzie, Book 4 of The Winters Sisters
- A.M. Manay – She Dies at the End (November Snow Book 1)
- Carl S. Plumer – Shadows of Death
- Harper L. Jameson – The Spirit
- Ben Sharpton – 2nd Sight
- Elizabeth Crowens – Silent Meridian
- Christopher Leibig – Almost Mortal
- Colleen Jiron/Colleen Golden – The Well
All Short Listers in attendance to CAC17 will receive high visibility along with special badges to wear during the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala.

Good Luck to all of the Semi-Finalists as they compete for the coveted First Place Category positions.

The PARANORMAL Grand Prize Winner and First Place Category Winners will be announced at the April 1st, 2017 Chanticleer Writing Contests Annual Awards Gala, which takes place on the last evening of the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2017 PARANORMAL Awards Book Awards writing competition. Please click here for more information.

More than $30,000.00 dollars worth of cash and prizes will be awarded to Chanticleer Book Reviews 2016 writing competition winners! Enter today!
February 11, 2017
OZMA Book Awards for FANTASY Fiction 2016 Short List (Semi-Finalists)
These titles are in the running for the 5 First Place Book Awards for the 2016 OZMA Book Awards novel competition for Fantasy Fiction!

The OZMA Book Awards Writing Competition recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Fantasy Fiction. The OZMA Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Writing Competitions.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to FINALISTS LIST and now has moved forward to the SHORT LIST of the 2016 OZMA Book Awards. They are now 2016 OZMA Semi-Finalists as they compete for the limited First Place Category Positions of the 2016 OZMA Book Awards in the last rounds of judging.

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring magic, the supernatural, imaginary worlds, fantastical creatures, legendary beasts, mythical beings, or inventions of fancy that author imaginations dream up without a basis in science as we know it. Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Dragons, Unicorns, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, or other out of this world fiction, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

The First Place Category positions in the OZMA Awards are: Magic, Heroes & Villains, Coming of Age, Steampunk/Dieselpunk/Gaslight, Historical Fantasy, Modern/Urban Fantasy, Fairy Tale/Fable/Myth & Legend.

Congratulations to these authors for their works moving up from the 2016 OZMA Finalists to the Short List (Semi-Finalists). These novels will now compete for the First Place Category Positions!
- Susan Buffum – Black King Takes White Queen
- Kristen and Daniel Sheridan – Elementals
- Matt Kilby – The Road Cain Walks
- Allie Mendelsohn – The Stone Keepers
- Gary J. Hurtubise – Darksea
- Murray Lee Eiland Jr – The Emperor of Babylon
- Murray Lee Eiland Jr – The Sword of Telemon
- Rebecca Lochlann – The Sixth Labyrinth
- James Malone – Rainbow Gardens
- Brad Farley – A Pallid Moon
- Christopher Leibig – Almost Mortal
- Nicole Evelina – Camelot’s Queen
- Elizabeth Crowens – Silent Meridian
- Alec Hutson – The Crimson Queen
- Woody Carter – Narada’s Chldren: A Visionary Tale of Two Cities
- Raven Oak – Amaskan’s Blood
- Phillip Buchanon – Aquatic Bourne
- Sam J. Charlton – Journey of Shadows
- V. Lakshman – Mythborn 2
- April Holthaus – Legend of the Fae
- Sydney M. Cooper – Forsaken Lands Book 1: Tragedy
- Elisabeth Hamill – Song Magick
All Short Listers in attendance to CAC17 will receive high visibility along with special badges to wear during the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala.

Good Luck to all of the OZMA Semi-Finalists as they compete for the coveted First Place Category positions.

The OZMA Grand Prize Winner and First Place Category Winners will be announced at the April 1st, 2017 Chanticleer Writing Contests Annual Awards Gala, which takes place on the last evening of the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2017 OZMA Awards Book Awards writing competition. Please click here for more information.

More than $30,000.00 dollars worth of cash and prizes will be awarded to Chanticleer Book Reviews 2016 writing competition winners! Enter your manuscript or recently published book today!
February 11, 2017
JOURNEY 2016 Book Awards for Narrative Non-fiction – The SHORT LIST (Semi-Finalists)
The JOURNEY Awards writing competition recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Narrative Non-fiction. The Journey Awards is a division of the Chanticleer Book Awards & International Writing Competitions.

We are pleased to announce the JOURNEY Awards Official Short-List (Semi-Finalists) for 2016 for Narrative Non-fiction.

Congratulations to the JOURNEY AWARDS 2016 Semi-Finalists and Good Luck to them as they compete for the First Place Category Positions.

The Official 2016 JOURNEY Awards SHORT – LISTERS:
- L. Darlene – Another Thirty-(Seven) Days (The Aftermath)
- Gretchen Walker – The Silver Lining Encounters With Angels
- Judy Lytle – A Mile in Her Shoes
- Destiny Allison – The Romance Diet: Body Image and the Wars We Wage on Ourselves
- Hazel J. Magnussen – The Moral Work of Nursing: Asking and Living with the Questions
- Abbe Rolnick – Cocoon of Cancer: An Invitation to Love Deeply
- Nick K. Adams – My Dear Wife and Children: Civil War Letters from a 2nd Minnesota Volunteer
- Phillip Buchanon – New Money: Staying Rich
- Robin Suerig Holleran, Lindy Philip – Bracing for Impact: True Tales of Air Disasters and the People Who Survived Them
- Monica Sucha Vickers – My Extraordinary Life
- Cyndy Sheldon – Gestalt as a Way of Life
- Richard Southall – Haunted Plantations of the South
- Roni McFadden – The Longest Trail
Good luck to all the Journey Awards Semi- Finalists who made the Short List as they compete for the First Place Category Positions.

More than $30,000 dollars in cash and prizes are awarded to Chanticleer International Blue Ribbon Awards Winners annually.

The 2016 Journey Short Listers will then compete for 5 First Place Category positions that will be announced and awarded on April 1, 2017 at the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala, Bellingham, Wash. All Short Listers in attendance of CAC17 will be given recognized at the awards ceremony and will be given special badges to wear at the conference.

We are now accepting entries into the 2017 JOURNEY Awards. The deadline is February 28, 2017. Click here for more information or to enter.

More than $30,000 worth of cash and prizes will be awarded to the 2016 Chanticleer Novel Writing Competition winners! Check out out fifteen genres to enter your works into to compete on an international level and distinguish your books from the two million new titles hitting the market this year.
February 10, 2017

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