The Semi-Finalists Announcement for the SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary, Contemporary, and Satire Fiction – a division of the 2019 CIBAs

The SOMERSET Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary, Contemporary, and Satire Fiction. The Somerset Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

 

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, satire, humor, magic realism or women and family themes. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Somerset Book Awards?

Presenting the following works that have advanced to the 2019 SOMERSET Book Awards Semi-Finals:

• Leonide Martin – The Prophetic Mayan Queen: K’inuuw Mat of Palenque
• Beth Burgmeyer – The Broken Road
• Judith Kirscht – End of the Race
• John Herman – The Counting of Coup
• R. Barber Anderson – The Sunken Forest, Where the Forest Came out of the Earth
• Domenick Venezia – Liberator Legacy
• Larry Brill – Deja Vu All Over Again
• Domenick Venezia – Suriname Legacy
• Alexandrea Weis with Lucas Astor – Damned (A Magnus Blackwell Novel Book 1)
• Donna LeClair – The Proprietor of the Theatre of Life
• Bob Holt – Firebird
• Gail Avery Halverson – The Skeptical Physick
• Dd Jaseron – Wheelboys
• Janet K Shawgo – Legacy of Lies
• Santiago Xaman – After Olympus
• Sara Stamey – Pause
• Patricia Averbach – Resurrecting Rain
• Hannah Edington Tekle – Conflict
• C. E. Porch – From the Halls of Cuba
• Maggie St. Claire – Martha
• Lisa Reddick – The Same River
• Nick Mancuso – Fever
• Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg – The Nine
• Claire Fullerton – Little Tea
• Gary Driver – God Answers Science
• Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Bernie, I’m Glad You’re Dead
• Linda Bledsoe – Through the Needle’s Eye
• Carl Roberts – The Trial of Connor Padget
• Patrick Finegan – Cooperative Lives
• Mike Murphey – Section Roads
• Jamie Zerndt – Jerkwater
• Prue Batten – Passage
• Tikiri Herath – Abducted – A Red-Heeled Rebels novel
• David B. Seaburn – Gavin Goode
• Joanne Jaytanie – Salvaging Truth, Hunters & Seekers, Book 1

Congratulations to all! Good Luck to all as your works compete for the First Place Category positions.

These titles are in the running for the First Place positions of the 2019 SOMERSET Book Awards.

Semi-Finalists will be recognized at the 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference and the 2019 CIBA banquet and ceremony. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 16 CIBA divisions Semi-Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2020 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.