Chanticleer Book Reviews

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  • Chanticleer Magazine featuring USA Today Bestselling Author Ann Charles is Available in Print and E-Zine

    Chanticleer Magazine featuring USA Today Bestselling Author Ann Charles is Available in Print and E-Zine

    The latest issue features Ann Charles, USA Today Best-Selling Author.

    Ann shares her amazing author journey and her secrets to success! She has five, count them, five book series that are filled with mystery, humor, romance, supernatural, and the paranormal. Ann has also been awarded the CIBA Grand Prize for Paranormal Fiction.

            • Five Tips for Building Relationships with Readers
            • How to Refuel Your Creative Tank
            • Charting Plot Structure
            • Writing Life
            • Secrets for Writing Series

    All this and more in Sharon E. Anderson’s great interview with Ann!

    Order your print copy today!

     

    Download your e-pub copy today! Click here for a digital copy featuring Ann Charles. 

    Writing Craft with Jessica Morrell, Top-Tiered Editor and one of Chanticleer’s exceptional Master Writing Class instructors, expands on the components of successful fiction.

    Jessica Page Morrell
    Jessica Page Morrell

    James Conroyd Martin, Chanticleer Overall Grand Prize Winning Author known for bringing historical fiction to life, 10 Question Interview.

    James Conroyd Martin, Overall Chanticleer Grand Prize Winner!

    Sweet Lavender Days with Gail Noble-Sanderson with her delicious lavender shortbread cookie recipe. Gail is a multi-award-winning author who weaves an epic tale of romance set against World War I and II, full of warmth, family, and the hope that love can indeed conquer all.

    Award-Winning Author Gail Noble-Sanderson

    What Will You Read Next? Discovery New Reads from this issue’s Chanticleer reviews of these authors’ works from Non-Fiction to Fiction and even an anthology! More than 80 Chanticleer Reviews on the following authors’ works.

    Robert L. Slater, Ted Neill, G.R. Morris, Paul E. Vaughn, T. K. Riggins,  JW Zarek, Joy Ross Davis, Jeny Heckman, Richard J. OBrien, Chris Karlsen, Corey Lynn Fayman, Kevin G. Chapman, Pamela Beason, Norman M. Jacobs, M.D., Marilyn Larew, Michael Pronko, Michelle Cox, Wally Duff, Ann Charles, Karen Musser Nortman, Anna Castle, James Conroyd Martin, Bruce Gardner, Blaine Beveridge, Joe Vitovec,  Sandra Wagner-Wright, Andrea McKenzie Raine, Gerri Hilger, Michael L. Ross, Kari Bovee, David Fitz-Gerald, Sandra Rostirolla, L. A. Thompson, Susan Faw, Tiffany Brooks, Kay M. Bates, Robert D. Calkins, Aric Cushing, Sara Dahmen, Robert Scott Thayer, Simon Calcavecchia, L. E. Rico, Bronwen Evans, Elana Mikalsen, Claire Fullerton, Gene Helfman, Charlie Suisman, Lou Dischler, Eileen Charbonneau, Yorker Keith, Kris Kelso, Julie Jason, Lance Brewer, Franklin Ball, David Okerlund, Linda Jamsen, Cassandra Overby, Stevanne Auerbach, Bill W, Thomas Widman, Karen Keilt,  Jill Anderson, Dan Juday, Ilene Birkwood, Dr. Rhona Epstein, Ramzi Najjar, K,  Tanner T. Roberts, J. Nell Brown, Maya Castro, Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D, and The Red Wheelbarrow Writers.

    Where can you get you copies of the Chanticleer Reviews Magazine?

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    Canada & U.K.

    If you live in Canada or the United Kingdom, then order your print magazine from Dragon’s Lair: www.DragonsLairArtist.com or email Susan Faw at susan@dragonslairartist.com | We ship a stack to Dragon’s Lair in Ontario, Canada. Then, they can ship them much easier, faster, and for cheap to Canadian addresses. 

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    Chanticleer Reviews magazine will make a great showpiece for the coffee table, or to take to book signings, or to have in your writer’s den, or to take to other promotional events for your books, or with you to book club meetings, and just in time for the holidays! 

     

  • Making Your Story Narrator Irresistible | 2-hour Online Class with Steve Almond for Laurel Leigh

    Making Your Story Narrator Irresistible | 2-hour Online Class with Steve Almond for Laurel Leigh

    How to Create an Irresistible Narrator – Taught by Steve Almond

    Many a short story, essay, novel, and memoir have gone unpublished because the author fails to create a strong narrator, one who can act as a wise and entertaining guide to the reader. In this class, you will  examine the work of Sylvia Plath, Jane Austen, Alicia Erian, Joan Didion, and others in an effort to make sure your next narrator isn’t just strong, but irresistible. 

    Steve will upend what you thought you knew about narrators and make you reconsider how you go about creating characters on the page.

    The fiercely amazing writer Steve Almond (Candyfreak, God Bless America) has been  teaching writers for a long time, including at Seattle’s Hugo House and Portland’s Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop.

    Steve Almond, author of ten books of fiction and non-fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers “Candyfreak” and  “Against Football.”

    Now he is teaching an online class to support one of our own, Laurel Leigh, to help her cover her medical and other basic expenses.

    The class Steve will be offering for this project is: How to Create an Irresistible Narrator

    Laurel Leigh has supported her community of friends and writers across the country for decades. She has always had time to give advice, send a cheerful message, share a heartfelt hello. She has mentored new writers and aspiring authors. She has let wordsmiths borrow her confidence until they found their own. Now it’s time for us to step up and support her.

    Laurel Leigh – mentor for writers, editor, and builder of writer communities.

    Laurel Leigh Needs Our Help

    Recently, our wonderful friend and mentor Laurel Leigh got devastating news from her doctors: She has advanced-stage lung cancer.

    She’s never smoked. Nobody knows exactly when or why she developed lung cancer, but she did.

    Laurel is self-employed and has not been able to work full-time since starting treatment last month. By the time it was discovered, her cancer was inoperable, and part of her right lung is collapsed around the main tumor. She is undergoing simultaneous chemo and radiation therapy. To make matters worse, she cannot tolerate some of the medications used to lessen the treatment side effects. Her health insurance is covering only a part of the treatment costs, and as a freelancer she does not have paid time off or short-term disability coverage.

     

    The only way to get a seat at Steve Almond’s exclusive class on narration is to donate $75 or more, using this link, with “Steve Almond” mentioned  in the Comments  section on Laurel Leigh’s GoFundMe webpage. The Zoom invitation will be sent via GoFundMe’s Thank You email.

     

    If you are not taking the online class, please consider making a contribution to help Laurel cover her medical and other basic expenses. It doesn’t have to be much. Even a small amount will reduce the pressure on her in this difficult time. You may contribute here. 

     

    Note from Kiffer:  I first met Laurel Leigh while she was supporting local authors at Village Books in Fairhaven at an event. She is considered to be a founder of the Bellingham writers’ community. Many of us remember her from Open Mic with Laurel Leigh at Whatcom Talks  and Village Books where she encouraged published and unpublished authors. She is a gracious and talented word-crafter who is generous with her knowledge and experience. 

     

    Please join Sean Dwyer, Cami Ostman, Paul Hanson, and myself along with Sabine Sloley, Dawn Groves, Selah Tay-Song, and others of the writing community who have joined forces to help Laurel fight the good fight. Please feel free to contact any of us if you have any questions or want to know how you can help Laurel. 

     

    Here’s to Laurel’s full and speedy recovery! – Kiffer and Andrew Brown 

     

    This class on narration is suitable for all levels of writers.

    When: Wednesday,  September 22, 2021 from 5 – 7 p.m. PDT (8 – 10 p.m. Eastern Time)

    Where: Online via Zoom

    COST:  A donation of $75 or more to the GoFundMe campaign of the amazing Laurel Leigh to help cover illness-associated expenses. Make sure to add the words “Steve Almond” as a comment. Steve has graciously offered to teach this two-hour online class with proceeds going to the Laurel Leigh GoFundMe campaign.

    Click here to enroll in the online class or to make a donation to benefit Laurel Leigh Erdoiza GoFundMe.com project.
    I cannot oversell this opportunity work with my colleague Steve Almond. He is a writer. He teaches writing at a level unequaled. In particular his lectures on the narrator are excellent. You will be grateful to work with him. Claudette Sutherland.