Tag: CAC23

  • Lisa Spicer

    Book to Screen Expert

    In my present career move from visual storytelling to writing, I am finding all things Chanticleer to be so helpful and positive! I’m working on the final draft of a biography (met my editor at CAC 22), and I’m in the middle of a memoir about growing up with an animator dad in LA and back-to-the-lander mom. I plan on sending the biography over to you soon for a Chanticleer Review, publishing through Village Books’ Independent Publishing program. An expensive year for me!

  • Denise Frisino- Author of Storms From A Clear Sky- Hemingway 1st Place Winner

    Amazing.

    CAC 2023 was a spectacular gathering of world renown authors. Contestants arrived from Australia, India, Portugal, Korea, and across the United States to the beauty of the San Juans and the warmth of the Chanticleer staff. Every workshop I was lucky enough to attend was exceptional, well organized, timely and extremely informative. The level of expertise from attorney Maggie Marr, to the inspiring class on script writing, the panels on AI, or marketing, to mention a few, lent to a well balanced mix of information for any level of story teller in the ever evolving self-published industry. Plus, the smaller size of this conference allowed incredible exchanges between knowledgeable writers offering their time and support.

    Hats off to Kiffer and Andy Brown along with their outstanding and talented team for their years of believing in and supporting the journey of our profession.

    A deep and grateful Thank YOU.

    Denise Frisino
    Author

  • Gail Hertzog- Author of Crossing The Ford- Goethe and Laramie 1st Place Winner

    Dear Kiffer,

    I am writing to thank you for the outstanding event put on by Chanticleer. I was excited to attend the event before I arrived, but truly surprised by how wonderful it turned out to be. The Bellwether was a great location. I loved the convenience of the session locations, and the presenters were very knowledgeable and open. It’s hard to choose a favorite!

    The organization of the events was spot-on. The way you present the awards made everything so fun and exciting, with suspenseful build-up over the three days leading up to the final awards banquet. It was so fun! In fact, seeing other writers enjoy the experience was a blast. I made some great, new friends!

    All that being said, there was one more occurrence that really took me by surprise. There is a true camaraderie among the authors, presenters, and Chanticleer staff. I was not expecting that! It was so wonderful to become a part of that group! Every author cheered on every other  author. I have never seen that at any other conference before.

    Now I’m a proud member of the Roost, and I look forward to hearing from Chanticleer. Thank you again for putting on such a fun and detail-oriented event.

     

    Sincerely,

    Gail Hertzog

     

  • Tana Hope- Author of Healthy Habits For Desk Potatoes- I&I 1st Place Winner

    Tana HopeWow…….. Thank you so much!!!  I am so honored and excited to be part of the finalist!!!  I have many books in the works so this is a great start. The first book talks a lot about basic things in life but they are important habits cause it affects us so much.  Wow… You made my day!!!

    Tana Hope – Author of Healthy Habits For Desk Potatoes

  • Ann E. Feldman

    Author of Building Communities of Trust- Hearten 1st Place Winner

    Thanks for sharing this great news with me! My board of directors and colleagues are all thrilled that Building Communities of Trust is a Finalist for the Hearten Award.

    Thanks to you and your colleagues for the wonderful work you do,

  • Tracy Cram Perkins- I&I 1st Place Winner- Author of Dementia Home Care

    I am so excited and honored to be included as a finalist with this amazing group of authors. Thank you Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media! – Tracy Cram Perkins

     

     

  • The SOMERSET 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Literary & Contemporary Fiction

    The SOMERSET 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Literary & Contemporary Fiction

    The SOMERSET Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary and Contemporary Fiction. The Somerset Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, magical realism, or women and family themes. These books have advanced to the final judging rounds.

     1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Donna LeClair on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the SOMERSET BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the SOMERSET Grand Prize Winner.

    Somerset Blue and Gold First Place Badge

    Join us in celebrating the following award-winning authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

    • Jo Deniau – Stiff Hearts

    • Datta Groover – The Reluctant Visionary

    • Conon Parks – Everything That Was

    • John Hansen – Hired Hands

    • Linda Moore – Attribution

    • Morgan Sloan – Scars and Honey

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 SOMERSET Awards is:

    Everything That Was 

    by Conon Parks 

    Everything That Was CoverThe Grand Prize Somerset Badge for Everything That Was by Conon Parks

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

    Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.

    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

    To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

    Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

    Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

     Team Chanticleer

  • The JOURNEY 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Overcoming Adversity Non-Fiction

    The JOURNEY 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Overcoming Adversity Non-Fiction

    Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA BadgeThe 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. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here

    1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Lisa Spicer on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the JOURNEY BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the JOURNEY Grand Prize Winner.

    Join us in celebrating the following award-winning authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

    • Sandi Paris – Catching Rain

    • Norris Comer – Salmon in the Seine: Alaskan Memories of Life, Death, & Everything In-Between

    • Laura Whitfield – Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground

    • Kyomi O’Connor – A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self

    • M. E. Schuman – The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun

    • Mark Berridge – A Fraction Stronger    

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 JOURNEY Awards is:

    A Fraction Stronger 

    by Mark Berridge 

    A Fraction Stronger Cover

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the FB post. However, for FB to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews. FB rules — not ours.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Twitter’s handle is @ChantiReviews

    Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.

     

    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

    To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

    Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

    Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

     Team Chanticleer

     

  • The HEMINGWAY 2022 CIBA WINNERS for 20th c. Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the rightThe Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works for 20th Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    The Hemingway Book Awards competition is named for Ernest Hemingway who was born July 21, 1899

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring 20th Century Wartime Fiction in Historical Fiction; Romance and Romantic Fiction; Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense Fiction of the time; Literary works and Satire and anything else that author imaginations can dream up for the HEMINGWAY Book Awards division. For Post-1750s Historical Fiction, see our Goethe Awards here.

    1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by J.L. Oakley on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the HEMINGWAY BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the HEMINGWAY Grand Prize Winner.

    Join us in celebrating the following award-winning authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

    • Denise Frisino – Storms From A Clear Sky

    • Helena P. Schrader – Moral Fibre

    • Robert W Smith – Running with Cannibals

    • Michael J Cooper – Wages of Empire

    • Kathryn Gauci – The Viennese Dressmaker: A Haunting Story of Wartime Vienna

    • Peter Curtis – Pavel’s War Book Three

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Hemingway Book  Awards is:

    Running with Cannibals

    by Robert W. Smith

    Running with Cannibals Cover

    The Hemingway Grand Prize for Running with Cannibals by Robert W. Smith

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

    Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.

    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

    To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

    Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

    Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

     Team Chanticleer

  • The Series Book Awards – 2022 Winners

    A stack of books flying into the blue sky for the Book Series AwardsThe CIBA FICTION SERIES Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in any of our 16 Fiction Divisions where the author has written a series. The Fiction Series Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) is seeking for the best book series in all of its fifteen fiction divisions: Mysteries, Suspense Thrillers, Espionage/High Stakes, Young Adult, Middle-Grade Readers, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural and Paranormal, Romance, Historical Fiction.

    1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Diane Garland on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

     

    This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the SERIES BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the M&M Grand Prize Winner.

    Join us in congratulating the following award-winning authors and their works in the CIBAs

    PARANORMAL Series Book Awards

    • Vince Bailey – The Curtis Jefferson Series 

    ROMANCE – Chatelaine Series Book Awards

    • Davalynn Spencer – Front Range Brides 

    HISTORICAL FICTION – Goethe Series Book Awards

    • Tamar Anolic – Triumph of a Tsar

    COZY MYSTERY – M&Ms Series Book Awards

    • Charlotte Stuart – Discount Detective Mysteries 

    AMERICANA & FIRST NATION FICTION – Laramie Series Book Awards

    • Jodi Lea Stewart – Silki, the Girl of Many Scarves series

    CHILDREN’S BOOKS – Little Peeps Series Book Awards

    • M. J. Evans – The Skullington Family Series 

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 SERIES Awards is:

    The Curtis Jefferson Series

    by Vince Bailey 

    The Series Grand Prize for the Curtis Jefferson Series by Vince Bailey

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

    Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.

    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting inJune. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

    To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

    Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

    Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

     Team Chanticleer