Chanticleer Book Reviews

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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!

  • GUIDED to WISDOM: The JOURNEY to EMOTIONAL HEALING by Susan D’Agostino

    GUIDED to WISDOM: The JOURNEY to EMOTIONAL HEALING by Susan D’Agostino

    Susan D’Agostino has wisdom to share, garnered from a lengthy battle with cancer and the medical establishment. This is her intimate story.

    “In 2002 I found a lump in my breast, maybe the size of a pea.” Like anyone faced with a possible dire diagnosis, D’Agostino was scared and confused. Her encounters with medical people left her feeling like a statistic, and when she got the dreaded prognosis after a painful biopsy, it was accompanied by the standard recommended next steps: months of chemo and radiation treatment. Fearing the treatment almost as much as the cancer, she sought alternative healing methods.

    She consulted a variety of therapists—naturopaths, herbalists—and certain ones seemed like soul mates. In her search, she began to see signs: a strange affinity for the number 1111, a hawk landing and sitting in her yard. She began to trust her intuition; despite being prodded by the oncologist to get the standard treatment, she finally decided it wouldn’t be right for her. In the next few years, she became thoroughly immersed in her “mission”. She learned meditation, took yoga classes, eliminated aluminum products (like deodorants) from her life, began journal-ling, had colonics and kinesiology, and discovered automatic writing, leading her to her inner voice and a higher level of guidance.

    One day she said “I knew I was finished” with the medical establishment’s treatments, and despite ominous letters sent by the oncologist predicting her demise if she stopped, tests showed that the cancer was gone. After resigning from her day job, she realized she could help others, and has remade her professional life as an Emotional Healer and Journey Practitioner.

    D’Agostino’s saga is compellingly dramatic in the early pages, as the reader suffers with her and cheers her along on her personal mission. She has found her feet as a writer, staging her story skillfully, and frankly revealing the fears and rages that she believes were part of her inner cycle of “dis-ease” and healing. The last third of the book reinforces her positive messaging and could be used as a workshop tool for positive messaging and mediation. D’Agostino delivers a powerful and succinct message about hope and change in the subjective, human story that she shares. She reminds us that we are not alone.

    Doubtless a vehicle to inspire others who find themselves or loved ones in a similar, life-threatening plight, Guided to Wisdom offers a heart-rending true story along with responsible and valuable advice to consider when deciding treatments and alternative methods of healing and self-healing. Overall, with her treatise Guided to Wisdom: The Journey of Emotional Healing, D’Agostino implores us to look inside ourselves for answers to life’s challenges and to trust our intuition.