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Candace Sams
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I graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Agriculture, worked as a police officer with the State of Texas, was with the San Diego Police Department, taught for the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and with a law enforcement agency in Alabama.
I've always loved reading paranormal stories.
Accomplishments: Senior woman on the U.S. Kung Fu Team,
Awarded the Medal of Putien from China and the Statue of Tao for martial arts,
Holder of several International Martial Arts Titles, and an Award Winning author of Fantasy Romance.
Since I published the first of the Tales of The Orders, I've been nominated for the following awards:
I was awarded, out of 2400 entries, an Honorable Mention in the 9th Annual Writer's Network Screenplay & Fiction Competition sponsored by The Writer's Network.
One of THE LORIES Best New Authors for 2002, http://www.theromanceclub.com/fth/fthtrc.htm
2002 PEARL Nominee and Honorable Mention Winner for the Best New Author, (Paranormal Excellence Award for Romantic Literature)from Writerspace.com
A Silver Chalice nominee for Outstanding Paranormal Romance of 2003
2002 Love Romances, Golden Rose nominee for Best Shapeshifter
And a 2002 TOP TEN, Preditors and Editors Author for the Best Mainstream Novel, Crumbs In The Keyboard, published by Echelon Press, http://www.echelonpress.com
A Beacon Winner for Best Paranormal 2003 (The Gazing Globe)
Write Touch Reader's Award Finalist for 2003 (The Gazing Globe)
A double finalist in the National Readers' Choice Awards, 2002, for Best First Book and Best Paranormal (Gryphon's Quest) and Winner for Best Paranormal Book of the Year from the National Readers' Choice judges (nation-wide readers)
National Bookseller's Best Award finalist, Paranormal Category, for Gryphon's Quest
THE MAGGIES finalist for Best Paranormal
(The Gazing Globe)
A Windy City Choice Award winner for Best Paranormal Book (Gryphon's Quest)
The Romance Studio's CAPA Nominee for Best Fantasy Romance of 2002-2003, for Gryphon's Quest, www.theromancestudio.com
Best Contemporary Romance nominee for The Mountie and The Rockhound, Sizzling Romances web site, www.sizzlingromances.tripod.com
The Road to Romances, www.roadtoromance.ca, has named The Mountie and The Rockhound as a Recommended Read based on RTR's reviewer input.
Gryphon's Quest and The Gazing Globe have recently been named 'Recommended Reads' by Fallen Angel Reviews.
The Gazing Globe was recently named as a Fantasy Top Pick by TopShelf.com reviewers.
Stone Heart has recently been named as the LAURIE winner for Best Paranormal book of the year.
Authors' Red Room readers have nominated me as one of their Hottest Authors for 2005.
2004 PEARL Nominee for the Best Fantasy novel (Stone Heart), (Paranormal Excellence Award for Romantic Literature)from Writerspace.com
Stone Heart has just been named the Colorado Romance Writers' Award of Excellence finalist.
Stone Heart is also a More Than Magic finalist for best paranormal book of the year.
Stone Heart is a National Readers' Choice Award finalist for books published in 2004, Best Paranormal Book.
Goblin Moon is a finalist for the PEARL award, Best Magical/Fantasy book of the year (Paranormal Excellence Award for Romantic Literature).
Gryphon's Quest was recently awarded the 2006 Road to Romance, Reviewers' Choice Award
Cimmerian Reign (Guardian) is a 2006 finalist for the Beacon Award, Best Erotic Romance (written as C.S. Chatterly)
Cimmerian Reign (Guardian)is the National Readers' Choice Award Winner for Best Erotica of the year (written as C.S. Chatterly)
Cimmerian Reign (Guardian) is a Write Touch Readers' Award finalist for Best Erotica of the year (written as C.S. Chatterly)
Something Faery Special, from the It's Magic faery paperback anthology is the Golden Rose award winner for best novella of the year.
Goblin Moon is the Book Buyer's Best award finalist for Best Paranormal of the year
Goblin Moon is the Aspen Gold finalist for Best Paranormal of the year
Every 'Witch' Way But Loose, from the Things That Go Bump In The Night VI anthology has just been named a finalist in the National Readers' Choice Awards competition for 2007.
Romance Junkies Blue Ribbon Award for Delos Descending, first book in the Sons of Olympus series, 2007
Romance Junkies Blue Ribbon Award for Lydon's Exile, second book in the Sons of Olympus series, 2007
All above titles are or will be available from
www.cerridwenpress.com
www.ellorascave.com
www.dorchesterpub.com
www.total-e-bound.com
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Books
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 | Gryphon's Quest by Candace Sams
The Sorceress of the Ancients sends a Druid Warrior on a mission. He must retrieve three rune stones that were stolen from an ancient, Irish burial site. Can he recover them before the world learns of their powers? Can he keep a mythic Order of creatures safe? Will revealing his secrets, to the woman he loves, cost them both their lives?
Available now from Cerridwen Press, www.Cerri...
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 | Goblin Moon by Candace Sams
GOBLIN MOON
The Fourth Tale of The Order
coming to Cerridwen Press, www.cerridwenpress.com
To save his race from extinction, the leader of the Goblins is ordered to kidnap and get a child by a human. For a proud Goblin warrior who remembers the horror mankind inflicted on his people, death would be preferable to lying with a woman from the outside world.
Come along with...
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News
Tales of the Order going to a new publisher by Candace Sams
Hello, I just wanted to let all the Tales of the Order readers know that the series, including several unpublished titles, will be going to a new publisher. Please contact me and ask to be placed on a...
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| Cerridwen Press
Cerridwen Press is a sister company to Ellora's Cave, one of the most prolific companies dealing with paranormal fiction.
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Ellora's Cave
All my Tales of the Order series are coming to Cerridwen Press (an imprint of Ellora's Cave). Also see my stories under the name of C.S. Chatterly for Ellora's Cave and visit my C.S. Chatterly web site, www.cschatterly.com
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C.S. Chatterly
Award winning author of paranormal and romantica fiction.
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Candace Sams
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Additional information
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| My first novel, Gryphon's Quest, was a contemporary fantasy and the National Readers' Choice Award winner for Best Paranormal Book of the Year and a nominee for Best First Book. It was released in January 2002, followed by The Gazing Globe in October of 2002. Stone Heart and Goblin Moon were released in 2004. Those titles will be coming to a brand new publisher, Cerridwen Press, soon along with others in the series known as the TALES OF THE ORDER.
Please email me at CandaceSams@mchsi.com to be placed on a non-spam newsletter list. All those on that list will get first information on where my titles will be released...especially about the TALES OF THE ORDER series coming to Cerridwen Press. Also see my stories at Ellora's Cave (writing as C.S. Chatterly).
NONFICTION:
I've been included in a non-fiction
collection of essays entitled, "Classic Christmas: True Stories of Holiday Cheer and Goodwill" by Adams Media Corporation, to be released in October of 2006 and available now for pre-order on Amazon.com. My contribution to the essays is entitled, 'Christmas With Peppermint'.
For other information on upcoming novels, short stories and anthologies, click on the 'books' icon at the top or bottom of this page. And be sure to read about the new vampire series called Night Watch. www.nightwatchbooks.com
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