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  • SPOTLIGHT on I&I AWARDS for NON-FICTION, HOW-TO, INSIGHT, INSTRUCTION, and more!

    SPOTLIGHT on I&I AWARDS for NON-FICTION, HOW-TO, INSIGHT, INSTRUCTION, and more!

     

    Are you gifted in the art of puzzle making? Do you have the ability to flip houses for profit? Are you a fervent advocate for renewable energy and want to share your knowledge with the world?

    Do you have a unique and interesting way of doing something? If so, and you choose to write an instructional manual, a travel guide, or shed some light on a subject, we would like to say, “Welcome!”

    We need your input, your advice, your manuals and manuscripts for the CIBA 2019 Instruction and Insight Awards.

    The deadline is fast approaching, so don’t delay, enter your work and let us judge it against the other entries to sus out the best!

     

     

    The categories are:

    • The Arts: Music, Photography, Performing Arts, Fine Arts,
    • Cookbooks, Home and Garden
    • Motivational: Career, Business, Sports, Self-help
    • Arts and Crafts How-To
    • Nature and Environment
    • Travel Guides
    • Science
    • Pets and the Animal World
    • Health, Diet, and Fitness
    • Writing Guides
    • Pop Culture and Social Issues

     

    If you have a published book or manuscript of Instruction & Insight, enter it before December 31, 2019! Who knows, you may bring home a First in Category – or even the Grand Prize Award!

    But you have to enter in order to win. Don’t delay, follow this link and enter today. 

    Cassandra Overby entered and won the I & I Grand Prize in the CIBAs for her Travel Guide, Explore Europe on Foot

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Here are the titles and authors who won First in Category in the 2018 I&I Awards: 

    • The Suburban Micro-Farm: Modern Solutions for Busy People by Amy Stross
    • God Answers Science by Gary W. Driver
    • Retire Securely: Insights on Money Management from an Award-Winning Financial Columnist by Julie Jason
    • Physician: How Science Transformed the Art of Medicine by Rajeev Kurapati
    • Do You Have a Catharsis Handy? Five-Minute Writing Tips by Kathleen Kaska
    • Klee wyck Journal by Lou McKee          

    The CIBA 2017 GRAND PRIZE I & I Award Winner: 

    Kari Rhyan for Standby for Broadcast

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Here are the titles and authors who won First in Category in the 2017 I&I Awards: 

    The I&I Awards were new in 2017. Before that, the instruction and Insight books were included in the Journey Awards for NonFiction. Here are some of those books that made the grade – and are true I&I Winners!

    Here are some titles that fit nicely into the I&Is from 2016:

    The Grand Prize Winner for the Journey Awards in 2016 came from the Self-Help Category, Destiny Allison’s The Romance Diet: Body Image and the Wars We Wage on Ourselves.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Here are some titles that fit nicely into the I&Is from 2015:

    The Grand Prize Winner in the 2015 Journeys, from the Enlightenment/Historical category, Grant Harper Reid‘s Rhythm for Sale

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Some of the Category Winners from that year: 

    Our First in Category Winners in 2014 Journey Awards that are definitely I & I Contenders: 

     

    In 2013, Christine Smith won the OVERALL Grand Prize in the Chanticleer International Book Awards for More Faster, Backwards: Rebuilding David  

    All of these outstanding authors entered the I&I Awards – or, the earlier, Journey Awards and were chosen as the best books of the year! 

    The deadline is fast approaching! December 31, 2019, is almost here.  

    The Chanticleer Non-fiction Book Awards First Place Award-Winning
    Authors Awards Package Includes:

    • ALL First In Category Award Winners will be given high visibility during the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala.
    • First in Category award winner will compete for the Non-fiction Book Awards Grand Prize Award for Chanticleer Non-fiction Book Awards’ Grand Prize Ribbon and badges.
    • A coveted Chanticleer Book Review valued at $425 dollars U.S. CBR reviews will be published in the Chanticleer Reviews magazine in chronological order.
    • A CBR Blue Ribbon to use in promotion at book signings and book festivals
    • Digital award stickers for on-line promotion
    • Adhesive book stickers
    • Shelf-talkers and other promotional items
    • Promotion in print and online media
    • Review of book distributed to on-line sites and printed media publications
    • Review, cover art, and author synopsis listed in CBR’s newsletter

    And the 1st Place Award winners will automatically be entered into the NON-FICTION GUIDEBOOKS AND HOW-TO BOOKS GRAND PRIZE AWARD competition 2019!

    Don’t delay, follow this link and enter for your chance to win a prestigious CIBA 2019 I & I Awards today!

  • An Editorial Review of “Rhythm for Sale” by Grant Harper Reid, Ph.D.

    An Editorial Review of “Rhythm for Sale” by Grant Harper Reid, Ph.D.

    Grant Harper Reid’s  Rhythm for Sale  tells the rags-to-riches story of his grandfather Leonard Harper, an extraordinary entertainer who danced, choreographed and produced his way to stardom in the frenzied years of The Harlem Renaissance, only to be forgotten after the last curtain call of that culturally transforming and iconic chapter in the history of American Musical Theater. Mr. Harper is considered the father of cabaret.

    In this fascinating biography, Dr. Reid’s decades of careful research, has managed to polish nearly a century’s worth of neglect from the image of his grandfather, the remarkable Mr. Leonard Harper. Dr. Reid is eager and happy to share the knowledge that he accumulated about this particular time in American history.

    The book’s tempo is fast-paced as the author condenses an encyclopedic amount of events, entertainers, prohibition gangsters, and the birth of a new genre of show business into its mere 242 pages. The well-documented facts and events often tap dance across the page with a fury, perhaps suggestive of the pace at which Leonard Harper worked his craft: He would often be involved in several stage productions simultaneously!

    Reid tracks his Alabamian grandfather’s career that began at 10 years-old when he was forced to enter show business full-time when his father dies. It was from his father that Leonard was introduced to performing. Prior to his father’s passing, Harper sang in church and danced for appreciative smiles and pennies along side his father. It seemed that young Leonard Harper had a natural talent for entertaining and a passion to perform.

    Reid shares his grandfather’s journey from dancing in broken hob-nailed “tap” shoes to making the Southern Circuit via “country road walking,” to working in Vaudeville, to basement gin-joints, and on to legendary venues such as The Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. Reid also lets his readers in on the darker side of the Harlem Renaissance, a time of racial segregation, political corruption, and cultural clash that was prevalent during this time period of American history.

    Indeed this book stands tall, not only as a biography but as a reliable document of an important slice of American history. Reid also shares some of the fabulous lost photographs that he uncovered while researching his phenomenal grandfather’s journey in this penetrating work that mirrors the psychology of a nation in transition—one preparing for the coming Civil Rights movement.

    Much of the book’s inner light comes from the author’s, Grant Harper Reid, own, often humorous, observations, supplemented by a simply delightful parade of the celebrities and gangsters with whom Leonard Harper rubbed elbows. However, Reid doesn’t shy away from the deeper underbelly of Harper and his generation—white, black, or mixed.

    Grant Harper Reid, the author himself, was carried on stage as a ‘New Year’s Baby’ at the Apollo Theater by singer Jackie Wilson. And he remembers being around entertainers and show biz as a matter of course when he was a child. Later, the author worked professionally as a location scout and/or crewed for at least 40 films such as Fame, Mississippi Burning, and Do the Right Thing (IMDb). Reid’s latest project is Rhythm for Sale (2013), the biography of his late grandfather, Leonard Harper who came from a life of meager means in Alabama to become one of the great contributors to art and culture in the U.S.

    Like Harper himself, his biography, Rhythm for Sale is a vigorous and highly entertaining read that will transport its reader. Highly recommended.