Topic: The Results of the 2018 CIBA Awards Are In!

Hi everyone,

The 2018 Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs) have been announced. This year, there were fourteen fiction categories and two non-fiction.

The Kurdish Connection and Dangerous Alliance, both workshopped on TNBW, participated in the Global Thrillers genre. They moved from the slush pile, through the long list, the short list, and the semi-finals.

The Kurdish Connection finished its run as a semi-finalist, while Dangerous Alliance went a step further and was one of seven 2018 Global Thriller Book Awards for Lab Lit & High Stakes Thriller Novels First in Category Winners.

I can't thank those enough who provided reviews and guidance to aid my writing journey since I joined the site in 2015.

Needless to say, I'm thrilled!
Regards, Randall

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Outstanding, Randy! Way to go.

Bill

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Way to go, Randall!!
Everybody doing happy dance!!
Awesome!!

Keep 'em coming, my friend.

Bobbie

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Congrats! Take care. Vern

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Congrats, Randall!!! Very well done.

Kiss + Kiss

Gacela

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Many congratulations, Randy.

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Congratulations, Randall. This is wonderful!

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Many thanks, everyone!

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BIG congratulations!! Wonderful news.

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Congratulations, Randy! You've hit the big time. You deserve it.  JP

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Many thanks Ann & JP!

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Congrats, Randy.

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Cool beans, Randy!  Well done and keep it up.

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Many thanks CJ and Brett!

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Congrats, Randy!

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Many thanks, Jack!

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Congratulations, Randall!

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Many thanks, Mark. Hard to believe and I owe it to all of the TNBWers who reviewed my work!

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19 Reply by Sideman (edited by Sideman 2019-05-14 01:06:46)

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Hi Randy ...

This is my first post on the site since December of 2018. Lots of life issues and medical issues.

Anyway, I wanted to say "Congratulations!". Your work is near-perfect for its genre. I've always enjoyed your writing. Will be back to reading more real soon ... perhaps within the week. Your success is well-earned and deserving. Wishing you continued success and enjoyment as you move forward.

Hope is all with you and your wife. Again, congratulations!!!

Alan

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Sideman wrote:

Hi Randy ...

This is my first post on the site since December of 2018. Lots of life issues and medical issues.

Anyway, I wanted to say "Congratulations!". Your work is near-perfect for its genre. I've always enjoyed your writing. Will be back to reading more real soon ... perhaps within the week. Your success is well-earned and deserving. Wishing you continued success and enjoyment as you move forward.

Hope is all with you and your wife. Again, congratulations!!!

Alan

Hi Alan. Hope things are settling down for you. Many thanks for the congratulations, too. I found out yesterday that in addition to a Chanticleer book review of Dangerous Alliance plus their promotions, I'll have an opportunity to submit something to the Donald Maass Literary Agency. The wording was: "... priority submission process opportunity."  I'm waiting for additional details which are supposed to be emailed from Chanticleer by June 10th.  Definitely an exciting time!  Best regards, Randy

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Randall Krzak wrote:
Sideman wrote:

Hi Randy ...

This is my first post on the site since December of 2018. Lots of life issues and medical issues.

Anyway, I wanted to say "Congratulations!". Your work is near-perfect for its genre. I've always enjoyed your writing. Will be back to reading more real soon ... perhaps within the week. Your success is well-earned and deserving. Wishing you continued success and enjoyment as you move forward.

Hope is all with you and your wife. Again, congratulations!!!

Alan

Hi Alan. Hope things are settling down for you. Many thanks for the congratulations, too. I found out yesterday that in addition to a Chanticleer book review of Dangerous Alliance plus their promotions, I'll have an opportunity to submit something to the Donald Maass Literary Agency. The wording was: "... priority submission process opportunity."  I'm waiting for additional details which are supposed to be emailed from Chanticleer by June 10th.  Definitely an exciting time!  Best regards, Randy

The opportunities keep coming... Congratulations!!!

Memphis Trace

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Memphis Trace wrote:
Randall Krzak wrote:
Sideman wrote:

Hi Randy ...

This is my first post on the site since December of 2018. Lots of life issues and medical issues.

Anyway, I wanted to say "Congratulations!". Your work is near-perfect for its genre. I've always enjoyed your writing. Will be back to reading more real soon ... perhaps within the week. Your success is well-earned and deserving. Wishing you continued success and enjoyment as you move forward.

Hope is all with you and your wife. Again, congratulations!!!

Alan

Hi Alan. Hope things are settling down for you. Many thanks for the congratulations, too. I found out yesterday that in addition to a Chanticleer book review of Dangerous Alliance plus their promotions, I'll have an opportunity to submit something to the Donald Maass Literary Agency. The wording was: "... priority submission process opportunity."  I'm waiting for additional details which are supposed to be emailed from Chanticleer by June 10th.  Definitely an exciting time!  Best regards, Randy

The opportunities keep coming... Congratulations!!!

Memphis Trace

Many thanks, Memphis!

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Oh, wow!  Have your feet touched back down on earth yet???!!!  I am so stinking proud of you, Randy!  What a fabulous honor with sooooo many opportunities opening up for you because of this!  Please keep us informed!  I am delighted and excited for you!

MJ

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Marilyn Johnson wrote:

Oh, wow!  Have your feet touched back down on earth yet???!!!  I am so stinking proud of you, Randy!  What a fabulous honor with sooooo many opportunities opening up for you because of this!  Please keep us informed!  I am delighted and excited for you!

MJ

Many thanks MJ!  I couldn't have achieved this without the tremendous support of the TNBW family!

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25 Reply by Randall Krzak (edited by Randall Krzak 2019-05-16 08:50:35)

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As a First Place Category award winner, Dangerous Alliance will also receive prizes from PublishDrive, a global distribution platform and Hindenburg Systems, which does audiobook and podcast software. As with the priority submission process opportunity with the Donald Maass Literary Agency, the details will be sent to each of the winners by June 10th.

Chanticleer stated First Place Category award winners were selected for each one of the 16 divisions from an overall field of 275 Semi-Finalist titles. To have both The Kurdish Connection and Dangerous Alliance make it as far as they did is an absolute thrill!

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