The CHATELAINE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works of Women’s Fiction and Romantic Fiction. The CHATELAINE Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer Reviews International Book Awards.
The following titles will compete for the FIRST IN CATEGORY Positions (Contemporary Romance, Adventure & Suspense, Historical Romance, Inspirational/Restorative/Clean, and Romantic/Steamy/Sensual) Book Awards Packages for the 2017 Chatelaine Book Awards.
Congratulations to all those who made the SHORT LIST!
The Finalists Authors and Titles of Works that have made it to the highly competitive Short-List (aka The Semi-Finalists) of the Chatelaine 2017 Book Awards are:
Good Luck to All!
Diane Wylie – Magic of the Pentacle
Phillip Vega – Last Exit to Montauk
Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mr. Hitchcock
Abbie Roads – Hunt the Dawn
Anna Durbin – King of Swords
J.L.Oakley – Mist-chi-mas: An Novel of Captivity
Nick Rester – Darlings
Ryan K. Nelson – Cash Valley
Eileen Charbonneau – Watch Over Me
Kate Vale – Chance Encounter
F. E. Greene – The Best-Left Questions
Cynthia A. Crowner – Blinded by the Night
Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Passage Home toMeuse
Cheri Champagne – The Trouble With Love
Cheri Champagne – Love and Deceit
Cheri Champagne – Love’s Misadventure
Michelle Cox – A Ring of Truth
Lucinda Brant – Proud Mary: A Georgian Historical Romance (Book 5)
Cerella Sechrist – A Song for Rory
Leigh Grant – Mask of Dreams
Keith Zwingelberg/Rory Church – Kindred Spirits the Healers
Sara Dahmen – Wine & Children
Dana Faletti – Beautiful Secret
The 2017 Chatelaine Short Listers will compete for the Chatelaine First-In-Category Positions. First Place Category Award winners will automatically be entered into the Chatelaine GRAND PRIZE AWARD competition. The CBR Grand Prize Genre Winners will compete for the CBR Overall Grand Prize for Best Book.
Chatelaine Grand Prize Winner M. A. Clarke Scott
All Short Listers will receive high visibility along with special badges to wear during the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala.
Nicole Evelina awarded Chatelaine Grand Prize for DAUGHTER OF DESTINY
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Congratulations to the Short Listers in this fiercely competitive contest!
Good Luck to each of you as each one of your workscompetesfor the Chatelaine Awards First Class Category Positions.
Janet Shawgo Won the Chatelaine Grand Prize
The Chatelaine Grand Prize Winner and the First Place Category Position award winners along with all Short Listers in attendance will be announced at theApril 21st, 2018 Chanticleer Book Awards Annual Awards Gala,which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash.
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Anyone producing a digital book or setting up an ISBN may come across the acronym BISAC. If you’re a self-published author wondering what a BISAC code actually is, here are some answers.
Mysterious Coding – BISAC Codes
Metadata For Your Book
BISAC is an acronym for Book Industry Standards and Communications, a very helpful tool put out yearly by the BISG (Book Industry Study Group). TheBISAC code systemis an alpha-numeric system of book classification. The book industry (libraries, universities, Barnes & Noble, local bookstores, and online bookstores) use BISAC code numbers to categorize books.
For example, if you’ve just written a graphic novel murder mystery, they have a BISAC code for that:
In the BISAC code catalog, there are fifty-three (53) main categories with various sub categories – and in some instances, sub-sub categories.
How do you access the BISAC codes?
If you are buying an ISBN code for your book directly fromBowker, you will be prompted to select your BISAC code. When you set up your Bowker account when you purchase an ISBN, Bowker will ask you to identify or categorize your book. A list of 53 BISAC codes will appear (if Bowker is truly up-to-date) and you’re off to the races.
Even if you’re not working with Bowker and using a third party to acquire your ISBNs, you can alwaysaccess the BISAC code categoriesdirectly online.
How do you determine your book’s BISAC code?
YES, you can unlock the secrets to BISAC Codes!
The first category you choose should be what the book is about, which genre category it fits into. Think of it as a funnel: a wide opening at the top, narrowing down to a spout at the bottom. Start large, go narrow.
Don’t let the process intimidate you. Don’t be sidetracked. Get your BISAC codes down so you can start talking about your book in an intelligent manner. For example, when asked what your book is about you can say, “My book is a Sci-fi/Fantasy with elements of the paranormal and badass skateboarding.” Or, you could say that if you were author Jesse James Freeman talking about his book,Billy Purgatory: I am the Devil Bird.
BIASC Codes and Discoverability
BIASC codes are used by booksellers, librarians, teachers, and others who need to categorize and catalog your book. But as an author, you can use this coding system to understand your book in the context of all the other books out there.
Third Party Keywords
Please note that if you are letting a third-party such as Amazon’sCreateSpace, they have their own codes, some of which match to BISAC and others do not. For example, when you log in to CreateSpace and upload your book files you’ll be prompted to enter keywords. During this process – currently on CreateSpace,Step 3: Target Your Book to Customers >categories– a screen will pop up and ask you for KEY WORDS. These, like BISAC codes, will help readers find your work. So the principles described below for BISAC codes apply to keywords as well.
BISAC Identifiers = The Beginning of Interest
You can also think of BISAC Identifiers as the bones for DISCOVERABILITY.
Let’s take this wagon on another ride and construct a little scenario where you are attempting to purchase the perfect book for your grandma. You sit down with her and ask her what she likes to read. She tells you that she likes mysteries best – mysteries with a lot of vampire sex. Instead of screamingT.M.I. GRANNY!You smile and say,I will find you the perfect book!
How? You now know about BISAC codes and how to wield them. You either visit your favorite brick and mortar store – or go online and search:
Mystery, Erotic, Vampire
And you’ll findJ.D. WardandLaurell Hamilton– two of the tops authors writing in this category – both of whose books will be perfect for your grandmother.
Check your BISAC codes yearly
The BISG is not a static group. They are constantly changing things up with BISAC codes – rearranging codes, creating codes, destroying codes – all in an attempt to make our books more discoverable.
Once you’ve landed on the codes that best describe your book you will need to check back from time to time (yearly) to ascertain if your chosen codes are:
still accurate,
still active, and/or
if the BISG has come up with a better code for your book.
In their most recent update, the BISAC Subject Committee states that they never reuses inactivated codes and that they would never inactivate a code and then reuse that code for an unrelated literal. The committee continues that this has always been the case and inactivated codes have never been reused. So, that has never been a practice – apparent or otherwise. They do, however, “reactivate” codes as necessary. For example, GAR011000 was inactivated after the 2.3 edition (in 2001) and the reactivated for the 2016 Edition with the same exact literal.
A Concise Context For Your Book — Unlocking Publishing Secrets
Let’s be honest, the real reason you need to know your book’s BISAC Code: It gives you a fast way to describe your book.
Can you imagine doing that to anyone in the book industry? No one has the time or inclination to listen to you prattle on about it. Base your book description on its BISAC code and everyone will have a good solid context for its genre, content, and even the type of experience they’ll have when they read it.
So when your all-too-well-meaning writer friends set your book down and ask in unison,“Yes, but where is this book going to be on the shelf?”Or agents at conferences ask you, “Who’s your audience? How am I supposed to sell this book?”Now you have something smart to say in return. Now you know BISAC codes!
We will have more articles about BISAC codes and how to decide on which ones to use and how.
Sharon Anderson is an award-winning author and Chief Reviews Editor for Chanticleer Reviews and International Book Awards. Creating and editing content – as well as editing/writing reviews – and outreach are just a few skills she brings to the table. An SPU graduate in Clothing Design and Textiles – something she barely uses in her day-to-day life – Sharon brings her textile know-how into her stories as often as possible. In her spare time, she serves as President of the Skagit Valley Writers League where she promotes authors, engages speakers, leads workshops, and more. She writes dark comedy, horror, short stories, articles, and essays whenever she gets the chance from her home in the Skagit Valley where she lives with her husband, two children, two dogs, a couple of cats, and a sketchy Guinea pig. Working with Chanticleer is like playing every day! Contact: editor@chantireviews.com
Chanticleer Book Reviews is honored to announce the First Place Category Winners for the Little Peeps Awards 2016, for Early Readers. Little Peeps Early Readers Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer Blue Ribbon Award Writing Competitions.
The Little Peeps Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Childhood Early Readers.
CONGRATULATIONS to the 2016 Little Peeps First Place Award Winners!
First Place Category Winners for the Little Peeps Awards are:
Little Peeps Award Winning Authors: Sara Dahmen, Denise Ditto Satterfield, & Donna Washington
Story Book: The Blue Beetle by Sara Dahmen
Chapter Grade Book: The Tooth Collector Fairies, Batina’s Best First Day by Denise Ditto Satterfield
Activity Book: Rikki & the Rocket Twins Adventure 1: Discovering the Solar System by Kneko Burney
Educational Book:The Adventures of Frank and Mustard: Stuck in the Mudby Simon Calcavecchia
Picture Book:The Mouse and the Mole Hill by Donna Washington
CONGRATULATIONS to Denise Ditto Satterfield, author of the Litttle Peeps Grand Prize Winner —The Tooth Collector Fairies, Batina’s Best First Day!
The 2016 Little Peeps Short Listers competed for these First Place Category Positions. These First Place Category Award Winners’ novels have competed for the Little Peeps Grand Prize Award for the 2016 Early Readers. These winners were announced and recognized at the annual Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala, Bellingham, Wash., on April 1st, 2017.
The First In Category award winning titles will receive an award package including a complimentary Chanticleer Book Review of the winning title, digital award badges, shelf talkers, book stickers, and more.
Congratulations to those whose works made the Little Peeps Awards 2016 FINALISTS and SHORT-LISTERS lists.
We are now accepting entries into the 2017 Little Peeps Awards. The deadline is August 31st, 2017 Click here for more information or to enter.
More than $30,000 worth of cash and prizes will be awarded to the 2017 Chanticleer Novel Writing Competition winners! Fifteen different genres to enter your novels and compete on an international level.
We have a LOT of terrific sessions planned for CAC17, and we are still adding more. One of those amazing sessions will be:
My Life as an Unconventional Book Tour – Gone are the days where an author simply reads, opens the floor to Q&A, and then signs books. (Can you say YAWN FEST?)
Your audience craves engagement, and you want them to leave with your book in their hands—and with vivid memories in their minds.
The presenter for this class, Susan Conrad, is an author, adventurer, and speaker who has been living her own whirlwind book tour since the release of her debut memoir in May 2016. Susan gives us a sneak preview into the session she will be teaching.
Is your book’s unveiling looming excitedly on the horizon? Or are you deep in the throes of promoting a recent release—but feel like you’re spinning your wheels?
Or maybe you’re just curious how to get the best bang for your take-over-the-world-book tour campaign.
A box of chocolates from one of Susan Conrad’s fans who read the book and knows that she adores chocolate!
Just as there’s so much more to being an author than “simply writing a book,” there’s so much more to a book tour than contacting a few bookstores. Whether you are self-published or traditionally published, you’ll be sure to pick up some priceless tips and tricks to launch your own kick-a&$# book tour.
You didn’t write your book, pour out your heart, and create interesting characters, plots and themes just to make money, right? I’m assuming you (also) wrote your book to share your passion, spread your message, and tell your story. Indubitably, the next step is about making connections and building relationships—essentially finding your TRIBE!
This session will help participants wrap their brain around who their audience truly is, where the best venues are to secure those audiences, and once that audience is all under one roof—how to invite them to come into your book. We’ll brainstorm ways to find your audience, organize and present a killer book tour (and not go broke doing it), set the mood, engage and dazzle your audience, and more. We’ll also discuss ways to generate clever promotions and land the venues you want.
I look forward to meeting all of you at CAC17 and sharing ideas on how to get a leg up on your book tour competition! – Susan Conrad
Susan Conrad is an adventurer, author, educator, and speaker. She’s also an accomplished paddler. Her tenacious exploration by sea kayak has fueled her stories and images of the natural world for decades. Her articles and photographs have appeared in Sea Kayaker, Canoe and Kayak, Adventures Northwest, and Figure magazines. Countless newspapers, guidebooks, and historical journals also feature Susan’s work.
Since there’s no such thing as a perfect person, we can’t say that Julie LeMense has written a perfect Regency romance.
Darn close, though.
Once Upon a Scandal nails it on so many levels: plot and characters driven by the era they live in; smooth, clean writing; a fully realized heroine who’s smart, vulnerable, resourceful, flawed, compassionate, and funny; an aristocrat hero who’s believable as a man; and a fresh, twisty plot that demands pages be turned to find out what happens next.
Because the story is a romance, we can expect a happy ending. How Jane and Benjamin are ever going to find it, however, remains a mystery until the end. Both are trapped in their roles in society and hide dangerous secrets behind their identities. Jane actually has to give up her identity and become a false person in order to escape poverty and shame. Her sacrifice, it turns out, helps save her country from a traitor—who just might be her own father.
Operating in disguise creates a satisfying turnabout, wherein the honest woman rejected by society allures the snobs, doyennes, and chauvinists into eating out of her dishonest hand. Jane observes: “Their strict rules and codes of conduct had been instituted for one reason and one alone: to prove themselves superior. They didn’t judge a person’s suitability by intellect, achievement, or even kindness.”
That thought forms the theme of the novel and the deceptions practiced throughout it.
Jane’s identity switcheroo is engineered by Benjamin for his own noble yet selfish purposes, though he soon realizes he’s bitten off more than he can chew and falls crazy in love with the real Jane—jeopardizing both of their masquerades.
The moral and behavioral strictures of society during England’s Regency period seem unbelievable to those of us reading about it generations later. But they were painfully real at the time and forced many a clandestine affair. This suppression gives plausibility to the characters’ secrets and skulduggery; and the era’s lack of technology as we know it allows them to get away with stunts that would be immediately caught, and widely broadcast, today. Thus, when modern anachronisms appear in the narrative, they draw attention to themselves. The word “feminist,” for example, used in conversation by Jane in 1813, was not actually coined until decades later. Bloopers like this in such a period-sensitive novel raise doubts about the rest in the reader’s mind.
Fortunately, the story holds its own with romantic intrigue and close brushes with disaster. The result is a conflict parfait, with Jane and Benjamin’s impossible love at the top, overlying the contradictions and inequities of their society, which forms a harsh class division between the haves and have-nots, in a country deep at war. In this multi-layer mess, how can anyone dream that true love will conquer all?
Jane and Benjamin give it their best shot in this classy, cork-screwy romance that turns scandal on its head.
Spy-craft, betrayals, and bloody battles infuse this historical novel of Ancient Greece in the chaotic years following the death of Alexander the Great.
Worldon Fireis the second novel in a complex historical saga narrated by Andrikos, a young man who started his fighting career on the streets of his hometown of Illandra. As a member of the underground cult, The King’s Hand, Andrikos and his traveling companion Vettias dedicate themselves to keeping Alexander’s lineage on the throne of Macedon. The pair is a study in contrasts: Vettias, the elder, is the more hardened soldier who teaches Andrikos the arts of espionage; while Andrikos maintains a youthful idealism that is sometimes at odds with the grim necessities of war.
The lessons Andrikos learns from Vettias offer gripping scenes of surveillance, stealth, and expeditious killings. Together they must help restore Alexander’s dynasty, often posing as enemy operatives. This infiltration creates a multi-layered plot with far reaching implications on and off the battlefield.
In addition to spy-craft and bloodletting, writer Christian Kachel makes room and time to establish Andrikos as a loyal, home-loving son whom his parents trust enough to guard Alexander’s widow Rhoxane and her young son, Alexander IV, within their household despite the obvious dangers.
The arts of war form a central element ofWorldonFire, with vivid descriptions of ancient weaponry and hand-to-hand combat. To our delight, Kachel does not neglect the feminine, as he presents two powerful young women, both wise beyond their years: the teenage Queen of Macedon, Adea, who becomes a willing player in the plots against the enemies of Vettias and Andrikos; and Mara, Andrikos’ first love, to whom he made prior promises that he is now able to keep.
By the end of ten years of travels and intrigues, Vettias and Andrikos will see the world differently and will have played their part in making positive changes.
Kachel has staged this epic skillfully. Placing Andrikos as the narrator allows the reader to see many political and military viewpoints held by others through a young, albeit, sometimes naïve perception, and to enjoy periods of respite from war and treachery in scenes of romance, home life, and some moments of stolen passion.
Kachel, three times deployed to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, is a student of warfare who has chosen to concentrate his novelistic mastery on a sometimes neglected period of history—the aftermath of the death of Alexander the Great and resulting internecine struggles for dominance in the middle eastern region. Historians disagree on many details of this troubled era, giving Kachel free rein to explore possibilities clearly grounded in fact and research, but also informed by the author’s substantial imaginative gifts.
“A master tactician and student of war, Christian Kachel brings history to life inThe Spoils of War II:Worldon Fire; an engaging foray into the aftermath of Alexander the Great.” – Chanticleer Reviews
The Other Side of Life by the first-time author Andy Kutler will take you by surprise. This time-spanning book covers two major wars in United States history: World War II and the Civil War – but not how you might think. Kutler pulls this off with an intriguing storyline and well-orchestrated action sequences that put us in place and time.
The story opens on the deck of the battleship Nevada, part of the U.S Naval fleet on December 7th, 1941. The Japanese fighters rip apart the battleships moored in place. During the attack, Commander Malcolm (Mac) Kelsey is severely wounded – and this is where the story gets interesting.
Kelsey encounters a certain Mr. Leavitt who offers him a choice: stay right where he is in his broken condition; or, go somewhere else – a place known as The Other Side of Life – where all of his memories are wiped clean. A do-over, if you will.
Kelsey chooses the latter, but this other side of life is no better – and in some respects worse – than before. He’s fighting for the Union Army in the Civil War. But something has gone wrong: he has retained all of his memories, making him a man outside his own time.
For four years Kelsey fights for the Union Army, and throughout this period, he struggles (understandably so) with trying to make sense of why he is where he is, and how this all come to be. Upon the conclusion of the war, Kelsey encounters Mr. Kelsey again and faces another choice.
That choice is perhaps the most interesting and most jarring aspect of the book. The author never does explain quite where it is that Kelsey has gone. A brilliant move! Any reader having even the slightest bit of religious background or spiritual awareness will quickly associate this with heaven – or maybe purgatory – or even nirvana. Using this ambiguous device enables readers to ponder questions like, what would they do in a similar circumstance – the same thing, or maybe something different?
A captivating historical military story that blends genres and crosses through time and space. Kutler has a flare for describing situations at hand – his descriptions of the Pearl Harbor attack are impeccable – and he brings in multiple characters to help the story unfold. The story may be a bit unwieldy at times, but in the end, Kutler manages it well even providing an unexpected twist making The Other Side of Life is a satisfying and worthy read. Highly recommended.
Like the first book in Beyond the Woods Series, the second, A River Divides, offers a complex view into life during the Civil War era. This multifaceted book has the same engaging characters found in the first and includes a few new ones, that when combined, will keep readers riveted to the pages.
The story resumes in winter of 1864, where Betsy Henderson remains outside Staunton, Virginia with a freshly bruised face, worrying whether she’s revealed too much. Will the sheriff find out about her affair with Union soldier Hank? Does the sheriff have enough evidence to capture Walthorpe, the man who gave her the bruise and nearly made away with her fortune? Walthorpe, meanwhile, has another plan up his sleeve, one that will force Betsy to grapple with her southern loyalties, including the secret she’s keeping from Hank—one she won’t be able to hide for long.
Author Michael J. Roueche does a great job introducing esoteric terms while giving them proper context, thereby helping present-day readers immerse themselves in the historical tapestry he’s created. All the characters in this story demonstrate authentic shades of good and bad, making their choices (and their consequences) even more intriguing. Especially William, the former slave from Betsy’s plantation, whose bond with a new family makes his objective of joining the Union Army a lot more complicated.
Reading the first in the series isn’t required here but doing so will certainly enhance the experience. Roueche’s ability to sprinkle in enough detail to keep the interest of readers of Beyond the Wood while enticing those who are yet to pick through its pages makes this bittersweet story more than palatable. The sheriff’s point-of-view not only enlightens new readers to the necessary backstory found in the first book but also offers some surprises along the way. Readers will also get a glimpse into Walthorpe’s past and gain insight into his character that will suggest his villainy isn’t as cut-and-dried as it originally appears.
Roueche writes each character’s voice so distinctly that the reader may not notice the point-of-view shifts within the scenes, a small, but present, distraction. On the whole, Roueche’s beautifully written imagery and ability to immerse readers in place and time will delight and hook readers from the very beginning to the very end.
By the close of A River Divides, it’s clear that a river divides no more. And the cliffhanger in the final chapter will whet readers’ appetites for the next book in the series.
Beauty takes a different a form in Lisa Souza’s page-turning debut novel, Beauty and the Bridesmaid.
Dorothy (Dot) Lindell tags herself as a “relationship black hole.” An overweight software geek with a loser love life whose only wish is to not die a virgin.
At her cousin’s wedding, displayed in a tightly molded purple-ish taffeta gown, Dot feels she wins the award for the ugliest bridesmaid. To add injury to insult, Dot has lost hope of an amorous hookup since her escort, Kennedy J Kennedy is gay – and the life of the party. But when he offers to trade his image consulting services for her software know-how, Dot checks the box for a complete image overhaul.
What she doesn’t realize is that her extensive overhaul is bigger, financially and physically and emotionally, than she could ever have imagined. If facial acid applications through a dermatologist aren’t enough, Dot’s personal trainer works her to death. Although it only takes her three and a half months to lose the weight through rigorous exercise program and her spanking-new meal plan, it all pales in comparison to the painful aftermath of plastic surgery.
As a result of her hard work and her surgeon’s skill, Dot is NOT the same person, anatomically speaking, than before. Changing her moniker to her middle name, Alana (Dot) enters a new world of attraction. Among her many admirers, the first person to ask her on a date is none other than her heart-throb who didn’t know she existed – even though they worked in the same office.
As told through Dot, Souza’s first person narrative describes a young woman whose involvement as a bridesmaid is less than stellar for several reasons, hideously unflattering dresses near the top of the list. Beauty and the Bridesmaid is a fascinating story that will hit the nerve of women who have ever felt or been told that their physical appearance just isn’t enough.
Souza’s distinct cast encompasses a wide range of personalities. From the down-and-outers and geeks to the haughty, and those that are purely villainous, Souza has designed much of her figures to function as foils for the main purpose of shaping Dot’s persona. Scenes continually alternate between Dot’s work, home life, friendships, and attendance at weddings as she transforms from an unattractive heavyset woman to a slim drop-dead gorgeous diva. An appealing feature of Dot’s character is her snarky comebacks, which as comedic as they are, function as her defense mechanism. Underneath her callous demeanor is actually a very humble and compassionate side that remains consistent even though she changes outwardly.
Souza slowly but steadily builds her plot with various elements to keep the story fluid. Aside from cliffhanging chapter endings and scenes replete with copious amounts of unexpected everything, Souza eliminates monotony by sprinkling the storyline with Dot’s therapy appointments, her Barbara Cartland romance reads, and bridal excerpts from Sarah Stein and Lucy Talbot’s The Bridesmaid’s Manual.
Beauty and the Bridesmaid is a perfect read with broad audience appeal for both Chick Lit and Romance aficionados.
Authors and writers from around the world (from more than 35 countries) submit their latest works to the Chanticleer International Writing Competitions. The winners of these novel writing contests are recognized at the annual Chanticleer Book Awards Ceremony and Banquet that takes place at the annual Chanticleer Authors Conference and 3 Day Book Fair.
We have recognized each of the 14 genres that are represented First Place category winners along with announcing the genre GRAND PRIZE Award Winners and then top the evening by announcing the Overall Grand Prize Winner for the year’s Best Book Award. At this year’s ceremony, we will also recognize a new level of award winners, the Short Listed award winners.
Books that have reached the Short List or the Semi-Finalist rounds have been read completely. These are books that we love and that we want to give extra recognition. However, only a handful will go on to achieve First Place Category Positions and only one of these will be awarded the genre’s grand prize.
The Short Listed Award Winners (aka Semi-Finalists) will compete for the 5 coveted First Place Category Position within each of the offered genre novel competitions. Conference and Banquet Attendees who have been awarded a Short List position will be recognized on stage at the awards ceremony and their books will have the opportunity to be available in the 3 Day Book Fair managed by Village Books.
Short Listed titles may use the digital badges below for website, digital, and social media promotion. “Short Listed by Chanticleer Reviews” stickers are available to Short Listers. Authors may use “Short Listed by Chanticleer Reviews on their Short Listed titles.
For more information about the Chanticleer International Book Awards, please click here.
We are grateful for our contests judges — for theirs is truly a labor of love!
As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns at KBrown@ChantiReviews.com
BISAC Identifiers = The Beginning of Interest
This article is by Sharon E. Anderson
Chanticleer Book Reviews is honored to announce the First Place Category Winners for the Little Peeps Awards 2016, for Early Readers. Little Peeps Early Readers Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer Blue Ribbon Award Writing Competitions.
I look forward to meeting all of you at CAC17 and sharing ideas on how to get a leg up on your book tour competition! – Susan Conrad
