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  • GALDO’S GIFT: The Boovie by Eleanor Long & Trevor Young – Animated, Picture Books, Children’s Fantasy Stories

    GALDO’S GIFT: The Boovie by Eleanor Long & Trevor Young – Animated, Picture Books, Children’s Fantasy Stories

     

    In Galdo’s Gift: The Boovie, Eleanor Long & Trevor Young create an interactive animated story that helps children learn about their unique gifts through an imaginative tale and diverse vocabulary.

    The first page opens with a poem sharing a personalized gift with the reader. Then, we meet the frog King, and his kingdom Galdovia. His land is “where the wild wind whistles while the songbird sings” and he narrates the story, voiced by Brian Murphy.

    The townsfolk of Galdovia move on the page in textured illustrations. They need a hero to undertake an important adventure, with the promise of a gift from the King to whoever completes this quest. Enter four great heroes who start their journeys in the hope of earning the King’s reward.

    The four fearless heroes of this story are hilarious!

    Any child or child at heart will notice the innocent humor in this story. Even their names (Strompoff, Brendara, Mustafo and Doogood) are silly, along with their exaggerated physical appearances.

    The four are hysterical to watch as they employ clever alliteration-described skills to obtain the king’s gift. The animations show deliberate attention to a child’s curiosity and imagination. Overall, the story is a very joyful read.

    By helping children to see their individual gifts, it empowers them to become better people.

    We do not all share the same gifts as the fearless four, but individually we learn our strengths and purpose. Galdo’s Gift teaches us to hone our abilities while growing up.

    Often adults convince children they must become something they are not capable of or comfortable with. Long & Young foster a child’s worth and esteem as inner flames which must be stoked. We all admire great heroes, but once we play to our strengths, they show us the heroes inside ourselves. This story teaches us this lesson without sounding overpowering or insensitive to a child’s curiosities and insecurities.

    More importantly, by encouraging a child’s strength, we empower and boost their confidence. Galdo’s Gift encourages us to use our strengths and magical gifts, one adventure as a silly great hero at a time.

    Galdo’s Gift: The Boovie by Eleanor Long & Trevor Young won Grand Prize in the 2019 CIBA Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers and Picture Books.  This interactive masterpiece is available on Apple i-Tunes.

     

    5 Stars! Best Book Chanticleer Book Reviews

  • Part Two of The 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs) Overall Grand Prize and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners

    Part Two of The 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs) Overall Grand Prize and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners

    We are deeply honored and excited to continue to announce the 2021 Winners of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) with our second of three official postings.

    The winners were recognized at the CIBA ceremony held on June 25th, 2022 In-Person and broadcast live via ZOOM at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.

     

    The CIBA announcements were made LIVE with Chanticleerians flying in and watching from around the globe and North America.

    We cheered on the CIBA winners with our drink of choice, whether in-person or Virtual!

    Btw, Kiffer’s favorite Champagne!

    We want to thank all of the CIBA judges who read each and every entry and then comment, rate, and rank within each of the 25 CIBA Divisions. Without your labors of love for books, the Chanticleer International Book Awards would not exist. THANK YOU!

    A pyramid showing the different levels of CIBA Achievement

     

    We want to thank all of the authors and publishers who participated in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs). Each year, we find the quality of the entries and the competitiveness of the division competitions increasing exponentially. We added a new level to the judging rounds in 2021—the premier Level of FINALIST per each CIBA Division. The CIBA judges wanted to add the Finalist Level of Achievement as a way to recognize and validate the entries that had outstanding merit but were not selected for the very few First Place Award positions within each genre division.

    This post will recognize the First Place and Grand Prize Winners for the Laramie, Chaucer, Goethe, Hemingway, Chatelaine, Mark Twain, and Somerset Awards.

    For the Cygnus, Ozma, Paranormal, Global Thrillers, M&M, Clue, Little Peeps, Gertrude Warner, and Dante Rossetti Book Awards, please click here for Part 1.

    For the Journey, Hearten, Nellie Bly, I&I, Mind & Spirit, Harvey Chute, Military & Frontline, Series, and Shorts Book Awards, place click here for Part 3

    Coveted Chanticleer Blue Ribbons!

    We are honored to present the

    2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards

    Grand Prize Winners 

    The 2021 CIBA Winners! 

     


     

    Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction Award

    The LARAMIE Book Awards for

    American, Western, Pioneer, Civil War, and First Nation Novels

    The Grand Prize Winner is

    TOM SAWYER RETURNS by E.E. Burke

     


    The Chaucer Awards for Historical Novels

    The CHAUCER Book Awards for

    Pre-1750s Historical Fiction 

    Grand Prize Winner is

    Too soon the night Grand Prize Badge

     

    TOO SOON THE NIGHT by James Conroyd Martin

    Too soon the night cover

     

    • John A. Martino and Michael P. O’Kane – Olympia: The Birth of the Games
    • Janet Wertman – The Boy King
    • Wendy J. Dunn – Falling Pomegranate Seeds: All Manner of Things
    • Rebecca D’Harlingue – The Lines Between Us: A Novel
    • Patricia Bracewell – The Steel Beneath the Silk
    • James Hutson-Wiley – The Travels of ibn Thomas

    Post 1750s Historical Fiction Award

    The GOETHE Book Awards for

    Post-1750’s Historical Fiction 

    Grand Prize Winner is

    After the Rising Goethe Grand Prize Badge

    AFTER THE RISING by Orna Ross

    After the Rising Cover

     

    • Ron Singerton – The Refused
    • Drema Drudge – Victorine
    • Lee Hutch – Molly’s Song
    • Adele Holmes, M.D. – Winter’s Reckoning
    • Mike Jordan – The Freedom Song
    • Michelle Rene – Maud’s Circus

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the right

    The HEMINGWAY Book Awards for

    20th Century Wartime Fiction

    Grand Prize Winner is

    EO-N Hemingway Grand Prize Badge

     

    EO-N by Dave Mason

    EO-N Cover

     

    • Murray Pura & Patrick E. Craig – Far On The Ringing Plains
    • Marian Exall – Daughters of War
    • Marina Osipova – Too Many Wolves in the Local Woods
    • Richard Alan Schwartz – The Soldier: A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
    • Jerena Tobiasen – The Emerald, Book II of The Prophecy    

     

    Romance Fiction Award

    The CHATELAINE Book Awards for

    Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction

    Grand Prize Winner is

    The Long Desert Road Chatelaine Grand Prize Award Badge

     

    THE LONG DESERT ROAD by Alex Sirotkin

    The Long Desert Road Cover

     

    • Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Breath, Book One in the Desert Hills Trilogy
    • Valerie Taylor – What’s Not Said — A Novel
    • Evie Alexander – Highland Games
    • Tina Sloan – Chasing Cleopatra
    • Kana Wu – No Secrets Allowed
    • Emma Lombard – Discerning Grace
    • John W. Feist – The Color of Rain

     

    The MARK TWAIN Book Awards

    for Humor and Satire

    Grand Prize Winner is

    Certified Mark Twain Grand Prize Badge

     

    CERTIFIED by Roger Wilson-Crane

    Certified Cover

     

    Blue and Gold Mark Twain First Place Winner Badge for Best in Category

    • Charlie Suisman – Hot Air
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Babs and Basil, and the Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles
    • Lou Dischler – My Only Sunshine: Getting Straight with the Bomb
    • Andy Becker – The Kissing Rabbi: Lust, Betrayal, and a Community Turned Inside Out
    • Anne Pfeffer – Binge  

    The SOMERSET Book Awards

    for Literary, Contemporary, and Mainstream Fiction

    Grand Prize Winner is

    Lies in Bone

     

    LIES IN BONE by Natalie Symons

    Lies in Bone Cover

     

    Blue and Gold Somerset First Place Winner Badge for Best in Category

    • Alex Sirotkin – The Long Desert Road
    • Robert Gwaltney – The Cicada Tree
    • Judy Keeslar Santamaria – Jetty Cat Palace Cafe
    • Kent Politsch – Beebe and Bostelmann, a historical novel
    • Douglas Green – A Dog of Many Names
    • Barbara Linn Probst – The Sound Between the Notes
    • M. J. Simms-Maddox – The Mysterious Affair at the Met

     


    Congratulations to ALL!

    We will email each winner with more information about their prize packages and more information.

    Be sure to FOLLOW and LIKE us Facebook and on Twitter @ChantiReviews

    Not seeing your Division? Try the links below!

    For the Cygnus, Ozma, Paranormal, Global Thrillers, M&M, Clue, Little Peeps, Gertrude Warner, and Dante Rossetti Book Awards, please click here for Part 1.

    For the Journey, Hearten, Nellie Bly, I&I, Mind & Spirit, Harvey Chute, Military & Frontline, Series, and Shorts Book Awards, place click here for Part 3

    And the OVERALL GRAND PRIZE for the 2021 CIBAs!

    Stay Tuned for Part 3 which will announce the Overall Grand Prize Winner!

    We are now accepting entries into the 2022 and 2023 Chanticleer International Book Awards.

    Click here for more information and submission deadlines: https://test.chantireviews.com/contests/

    As always, if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please email us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com — We will try our best to respond within 3 business days.

    Thank you for joining us in celebrating the 2021 CIBA Winners! – The Chanticleer Team

  • The 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs) Overall Grand Prize and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners | Part One of Three

    The 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs) Overall Grand Prize and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners | Part One of Three

    We are deeply honored and excited to announce the 2021 Winners of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs). The Finalists were recognized at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Ceremonies, and the First Place Category and Grand Prize Winners were announced June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.

     

     

    The 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference and the 2021 Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards Banquet and Ceremony took place over June 23-26,  2022, with the CIBA Banquet happening on June 25th. Each year, Chanticleerians from around the globe come together to celebrate and cheer each other on at the annual CIBA banquet and awards evening at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether that is situated on beautiful Bellingham Bay, Washington State.

    Meeting in-person for the first time since lockdown began brought such joy into our lives. The ability to celebrate, hug, and learn together with the extra space provided by the Hotel Bellwether made this a truly unforgettable experience. Champagne was poured and shared as the 2021 CIBA Grand Prize Division Award Winners were announced. Thank you to all who joined us in-person and virtually to make the CIBA Ceremonies a success!

    The 2021 Grand Prize Winners in attendance!

    After two virtual conferences, it was a joy and pleasure to feel the energy of an in-person crowd! It was amazing to have such a marvelous event with presenters like Cathy Ace, Judy Gaman, Betsy Graziani Fasbinder, Jessica Morrell, Nicole Evelina, Jodé Millman, Oriana Leckhert, Diane Garland, and more!

    We are already excited and gearing up for our next conference in nine short months! Save the date for CAC23 April 27-30, 2023.

    At the June 25th, 2021 Ceremonies, we were overjoyed to recognize the 18 Fiction and 7 Non-Fiction CIBA Divisions for the First Place Category and Grand Prize Winners!

    First of all, we want to thank all of the CIBA judges who read each and every entry and then comment, rate, and rank within each of the 25 CIBA Divisions. Without your labors of love for books, the Chanticleer International Book Awards would not exist. THANK YOU!

    A pyramid showing the different levels of CIBA Achievement

     

    We want to thank all of the authors and publishers who participated in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs). Each year, we find the quality of the entries and the competitiveness of the division competitions increases exponentially. We added a new level to the judging rounds in 2019—the premier Level of FINALIST per each CIBA Division.

    The CIBA judges wanted to add the Finalist Level of Achievement as a way to recognize and validate the entries that had outstanding merit but were not selected for the very few First Place Award positions within each genre division. Promotional Stickers are available to those who have advanced in the CIBA Tiers of Achievement here

    A Recap of the CIBA Selection Process

    • The 2021 CIBAs have 18 Fiction Divisions and 7 Non-fiction Divisions.
    • First Place Category award winners were selected for each one of the 25 divisions from an overall field of titles that progressed to the Premier FINALIST Division Level from the Division Semi-Finalists positions from the Shortlists, the Long List, and the infamous beginning slush pile rounds.
    • One Grand Prize award winner was selected from the First Place Category Award Winners for the 25 CIBA divisions.
    • One Overall Grand Prize award winner was selected from the 25 divisions of Grand Prize Award Winners

    This post will recognize the First Place and Grand Prize Winners for Cygnus, Ozma, Paranormal, Global Thrillers, M&M, Clue, Little Peeps, Gertrude Warner, and Dante Rossetti Book Awards.

    For the Laramie, Chaucer, Goethe, Hemingway, Chatelaine, Mark Twain, and Somerset Awards, click here for Part 2.

    For the Journey, Hearten, Nellie Bly, I&I, Mind & Spirit, Harvey Chute, Military & Frontline, Series, and Shorts Awards, click here for Part 3

    THANK YOU to CAC22 SPONSORS and FRIENDS

     

     

    CIBA Grand Prize Ribbons!

    We are honored to present the

    2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards

    Grand Prize Winners 

    The 2021 CIBA Winners! 


    Cygnus Award for Science Fiction

    The CYGNUS Book Awards

    for Science Fiction Novels

    Grand Prize Winner is 

     

    A WAR IN TOO MANY WORLDS by Elizabeth Crowens

     

    • J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings 
    • Sarah Lahey – Nostalgia Is Heartless, Book Two 
    • Akosua Sankofa – Monmouth Deep
    • Rhett C. Bruno – Vicarious  
    • Steven Seril – The Destroyer of Worlds: ‘An Answer to Every Question’
    • Charlene Newcomb – Echoes of the Storm    

     


    The OZMA Book Awards

    for Fantasy Fiction

    Grand Prize Winner is 

    Plague of Flies Grand Prize Badge

     

    PLAGUE OF FLIES: Revolt of the Spirits by Laurel Anne Hill

    Plague of Flies Cover

     

    • David Fitz-Gerald – Waking Up Lost
    • Allegra Pescatore – Where Shadows Lie
    • L. A. Thompson – Isle of Dragons
    • J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings
    • KC Cowan – Asa’s Redemption             

    Paranormal Fiction Awards

     

    The Paranormal Book Awards

    for Supernatural Fiction

    Grand Prize Winner is

    The Devil Pulls the Strings Paranormal Grand Prize Badge

    THE DEVIL PULLS THE STRINGS by J.W. Zarek

    The Devil Pulls the Strings Book Cover


    The GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards

    for High Stakes Thrillers, Lab Lit, and Suspense Novels

    Grand Prize Winner is

    Grand Prize Badge for Ron McManus The Chameleon

    THE CHAMELEON by Ron McManus

    • Timothy S. Johnston – Fatal Depth
    • J Lawrence Matthews – One Must Tell The Bees
    • Norman M. Jacobs, MD – A Divine Wind
    • Randall Krzak – Mission: Angola (Xavier Sear Thriller Book 1)
    • Andrew Kaplan – Blue Madagascar 

    Clue Awards for Suspense Thriller Novels

    The CLUE Book Awards

    for Thrillers, Suspense, Legal, Detective, and Procedural Crime Novels

    Grand Prize Winner is 

    Grand Prize Badge for Shelley Nolden The Vines

     

    THE VINES by Shelley Nolden

    The Vines Cover

     


    Cozy Mystery Fiction Award

    The M & M Book Awards for Mystery & Mayhem

    for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    Grand Prize Winner is

    Ophelia's Room M&M Grand Prize Badge

    OPHELIA’S ROOM by Michael Scott Garvin

     

    Ophelia's Room Cover

    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Double Exposure
    • Cam Lang – The Concrete Vineyard
    • Eileen Charbonneau – Death at Little Mound
    • Codi Schneider – Cold Snap: A Viking Cat Mystery
    • Darryl Wimberley – A Star in her CrownChasing Cleopatra 

    Two little chicks, fresh from their egg

    LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards for

    Early Readers and Picture Books

    Grand Prize Winner is 

    VICTORIA AND THE BIG BRAVE BREATH by Andrea Vaughan


     

    The Boxcar Children from the famed series by Gertrude Warner

    GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards

    for Middle Grade Fiction

    Grand Prize is

    FISHING FOR LUCK by Murray Richter

    Fishing for Luck Cover

     

    • Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
    • J. B. Spector – The Sunlit Curse, The Mer-Prince Adventures
    • Ben Gartner – Sol Invictus
    • Jay Spenser – The Barn Owl Mystery
    • Gloria Two-Feathers – Buck: Keeper of the Meadow
    • Didem Saracel – Story of Carbon            

    Dante Rossetti Awards for YA Fiction

    The DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards

    for Young Adult Fiction

    Grand Prize Winner is

    TARO Legendary Boy Hero of Japan Dante Rossetti Grand Prize Badge

    TARO: Legendary Boy Hero of Japan by Blue Spruell

    TARO Legendary Boy Hero of Japan Cover

     

    • P.H.C. Marchesi – Florissant
    • Blue Spruell – TARO: Legendary Boy Hero of Japan
    • Rektok Ross – Ski Weekend
    • Nancy Thorne – The Somewhere I See You Again
    • Mark Wakely – A Friend Like Filby
    • Glen Dahlgren – The Game of War: The Trials of Dantess, Warrior Priest  

    Congratulations to ALL!

    We will email each winner with more information about their prize packages and more information.

    Be sure to FOLLOW and LIKE us Facebook and on Twitter @ChantiReviews

    Not seeing your Awards Division? Check out the links below!

    For the Laramie, Chaucer, Goethe, Hemingway, Chatelaine, Mark Twain, and Somerset Awards, click here for Part 2.

    For the Journey, Hearten, Nellie Bly, I&I, Mind & Spirit, Harvey Chute, Military & Frontline, Series, and Shorts Awards, click here for Part 3

    And the OVERALL GRAND PRIZE for the 2021 CIBAs!

    We are now accepting entries into the 2022 Chanticleer International Book Awards.

    Click here for more information and submission deadlines: https://test.chantireviews.com/contests/

    As always, if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please email us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com — We will try to respond within 3 business days.

    Thank you for joining us in celebrating the 2021 CIBA Winners! – The Chanticleer Team

  • DAWN Of GENESIS: Titan Code Book 1 by Rey Clark – Sci-Fi, Post-Apocalypse, Young Adult

    DAWN Of GENESIS: Titan Code Book 1 by Rey Clark – Sci-Fi, Post-Apocalypse, Young Adult

     

    Cygnus Science Fiction 1st Place Blue and Gold CIBA BadgeDawn of Genesis: Titan Code Book 1 by Rey Clark portrays a near future Earth that is dying by inches, feet, and yards.

    Specifically, yards and acres of crops are choked to death by a constant dust-bowl. Only a small human population has so far managed to survive the collapse of both the environment and the economy of the entire world.

    The desperate circumstances of most of humanity are exacerbated by the rise of mutated super-humans with powers to rival those of typical superheroes. But the “Evos,” evolved humans, are missing the moral compass that directs those comic book superheroes, and the government that has arisen to “protect” the remaining non-Evo population isn’t much better.

    The reader’s perspective on that boiling stew is teen Tessa Jones, still in school and trying to pretend that her combat and engineering skills aren’t nearly as excellent as she knows they are.

    If she shows what she’s really capable of, she’ll be whisked away from her family’s farm by a government that uses – and uses up – every available person in order to defeat the Evos.

    But Tessa’s dreams of remaining with her family explode when she manifests her own Evo powers to save her little sister’s life. Unable to hide what she really is, Tessa becomes a pawn, caught between forces that plan to use her for their own ends, either as a warrior for the Evos or a lab rat for a government planning to make more super-soldiers just like Tessa.

    Because Tessa is still learning about the world and her place in it, she provides an eye-opening perspective on this post-apocalyptic world, as well as giving the story crossover appeal to readers of young adult and new adult fiction.

    Tessa is on the cusp of adulthood, facing decisions that will set the course of her life. She is still facing all the issues of being in school: boredom, bullying, trying to fit in and desperate not to stand out too much. Even in the post-apocalypse, these issues are easy for readers to identify with.

    She also tries to find her truth, to find a way of coping with the dying world she has been born into. She’s aware that what she hears about the larger world is all propaganda, and she doesn’t know which way to turn or what to believe because she has no idea where to find the truth.

    She’s naive, she’s uncertain, and she’s desperate because she’s trapped in terrible circumstances facing equally terrible choices, none of them of her making. But she is the one person who might be able to fix at least some of her world, if she is willing to take the reins of the future into her own hands.

    Dawn of Genesis is a post-apocalyptic survival story. And it’s a story about one young woman making a place for herself on a dying Earth. But it’s also a story about training and learning to be the most that one can be, and it’s a kick-ass adventure story about grabbing a better future.

    Dawn of Genesis by Rey Clark won 1st Place in the 2019 CIBA Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction.

  • The SOMERSET 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Literary & Contemporary Fiction

    The SOMERSET 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Literary & Contemporary Fiction

    The SOMERSET Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary and Contemporary 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, magical realism, or women and family themes. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    The 2021 SOMERSET Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the SOMERSET Grand Prize Winner were announced by James Conroyd Martin on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar.

    This is the OFFICIAL 2021 LIST of the SOMERSET BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the SOMERSET Grand Prize Winner.

    Blue and Gold Somerset First Place Winner Badge for Best in Category

     

    Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • Alex Sirotkin – The Long Desert Road
    • Robert Gwaltney – The Cicada Tree
    • Judy Keeslar Santamaria – Jetty Cat Palace Cafe
    • Natalie Symons – Lies in Bone
    • Kent Politsch – Beebe and Bostelmann, a historical novel
    • Douglas Green – A Dog of Many Names
    • Barbara Linn Probst – The Sound Between the Notes    
    • M. J. Simms-Maddox – The Mysterious Affair at the Met

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 SOMERSET Awards is:

    Lies in Bone

    Natalie Symons

    Lies in Bone Cover

    Lies in Bone

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

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    Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.

    The 2022 SOMERSET Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 11 year Conference Anniversary!

    Submissions for the 2022 SOMERSET Book Awards are open until the end of November. Enter here!

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in August. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for participating in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards!

  • The JOURNEY 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Overcoming Adversity Non-Fiction

    The JOURNEY 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Overcoming Adversity Non-Fiction

    Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA Badge

    The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

    The 2021 JOURNEY Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the JOURNEY Grand Prize Winner were announced by Cami Ostman on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar.

    This is the OFFICIAL 2021 LIST of the JOURNEY BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the JOURNEY Grand Prize Winner.

     

    Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • Rosie McMahan – Fortunate Daughter: A Memoir of Reconciliation
    • Rosemary Keevil – The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction
    • Andrea Wilson Woods – Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days
    • Heather Haldeman – Kids and Cocktails Don’t Mix: A Memoir  
    • Kathleen Lockyer – The Broken Wing Dance — Love, loss, trauma and how nature led me back to my wild self
    • C.L. Olsen – The Home for Friendless Children 

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 JOURNEY Awards is:

    Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days

    Andrea Wilson Woods

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the FB post. However, for FB to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews. FB rules — not ours.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Twitter’s handle is @ChantiReviews

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    The 2022 JOURNEY Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

    Submissions for the 2022 JOURNEY Book Awards are open until the end of August. Enter here!

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in August. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for participating in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards!

  • The HEMINGWAY 2021 CIBA WINNERS for 20th c. Wartime Fiction

    The HEMINGWAY 2021 CIBA WINNERS for 20th c. Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the right

    The Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works for 20th Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    The Hemingway Book Awards competition is named for Ernest Hemingway who was born July 21, 1899

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring 20th Century Wartime Fiction in Historical Fiction; Romance and Romantic Fiction; Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense Fiction of the time; Literary works and Satire and anything else that author imaginations can dream up for the HEMINGWAY Book Awards division. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them. For Post-1750s Historical Fiction, see our Goethe Awards here.

    The 2021 HEMINGWAY Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the HEMINGWAY Grand Prize Winner were announced by Michelle Cox on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar.

    This is the OFFICIAL 2021 LIST of the HEMINGWAY BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the HEMINGWAY Grand Prize Winner.

    Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • Dave Mason – EO-N
    • Murray Pura & Patrick E. Craig – Far On The Ringing Plains
    • Marian Exall – Daughters of War
    • Marina Osipova – Too Many Wolves in the Local Woods
    • Richard Alan Schwartz – The Soldier: A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
    • Jerena Tobiasen – The Emerald, Book II of The Prophecy

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 HEMINGWAY Awards is:

    EO-N

    Dave Mason

    EO-N Cover

    EO-N Hemingway Grand Prize Badge

     

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      The 2022 HEMINGWAY Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

      Submissions for the 2022 HEMINGWAY Book Awards are open until the end of November. Enter here!

      Don’t delay! Enter today! 

      A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in August. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for participating in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards!

    • The BOOK SERIES 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Genre Fiction

      The BOOK SERIES 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Genre Fiction

      A stack of books flying into the blue sky for the Book Series Awards

      The CIBA FICTION SERIES Book Awards recognize outstanding series works in any of our 16 Divisions. The Fiction Series Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

      Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) is seeking for the best book series in all sixteen fiction divisions: Mysteries, Suspense Thrillers, Espionage/High Stakes, Young Adult, Middle-Grade Readers, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural and Paranormal, Romance, Historical Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

      The 2021 BOOK SERIES Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the BOOK SERIES Grand Prize Winner were announced by Diane Garland on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar.

      This is the OFFICIAL 2021 LIST of the BOOK SERIES BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the BOOK SERIES Grand Prize Winner.

      Join us in Celebrating the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

      Ozma Book Awards for Series – Fantasy Fiction

      • M. K. Wiseman – The Bookminder series

      Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Series – Young Adult

      • Pamela Beason – Run for Your Life

      Chatelaine Book Awards for Series – Romantic Fiction

      • Janet K. Shawgo – Look For Me Series

      CLUE Book Awards for Series – Thriller/Suspense

      • Kaylin McFarren – Threads

      Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards for Series – Mysteries / Cozy and Not-so-Cozy

      • Amy S. Peele – A Transplant Medical Murder Mystery series

      Chaucer Book Awards for Series – Historical Fiction

      • Nicole Evelina – The Guinevere’s Tale Trilogy

        Laramie Book Awards for Series – Americana / Western Fiction

        • E. Alan Fleischauer – JT Thomas’s Series – Western series

        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 BOOK SERIES Awards is:

        The Guinevere’s Tale Trilogy

        by Nicole Evelina

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        The 2022 BOOK SERIES Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

        Submissions for the 2022 BOOK SERIES Book Awards are open until the end of November. Enter here!

        Don’t delay! Enter today! 

        A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in August. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for participating in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards!

      • The HEARTEN 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction

        The HEARTEN 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction

        The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Hearten Book  Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

        Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

        The 2021 HEARTEN Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the HEARTEN Grand Prize Winner were announced by Judy Gaman on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar.

        This is the OFFICIAL 2021 LIST of the HEARTEN BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the HEARTEN Grand Prize Winner.

         

        Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

        • Fred Guttenberg – Find the Helpers
        • Linda Morrow – Heart of This Family – Lessons in Down Syndrome and Love 
        • Lisa Dailey – Square Up: 50,000 miles in search of a way home 
        • Labar Laskie – Above the Din: Diary of the HepC Wonder Drugs 
        • Diane Trull & Meredith Wargo – DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them
        • Meg Nocero – Butterfly Awakens: A Memoir of Transformation Through Grief  

        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 HEARTEN Awards is:

        DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them

        by Diane Trull & Meredith Wargo

        Cover of DAWGS

        2021 Heart Grand Prize Badge for DAWGS by Diane Trull and Meredith Wargo

         

        PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

        Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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        The 2022 HEARTEN Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

        Submissions for the 2022 HEARTEN Book Awards are open until the end of November. Enter here!

        Don’t delay! Enter today! 

        A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in August. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for participating in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards!

      • EXIT The MAZE: One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure by Dr. Donna Marks – Addiction Recovery, Personal Transformation, Overcoming Trauma

        EXIT The MAZE: One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure by Dr. Donna Marks – Addiction Recovery, Personal Transformation, Overcoming Trauma

         

        Blue and Gold 2020 Badge for Mind & Spirit Grand Prize for Spirituality and Enlightenment Exit the Maze: One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure by Dr. Donna MarksExit The Maze: One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure by Dr. Donna Marks is a welcoming and comprehensive enchiridion of untapped wisdom that offers a step-to-step guide to getting out of any form of addiction.

        No one sets out to become an addict; it catches us off guard. An addiction can happen quickly or slowly and can affect anyone regardless of intelligence, social class, ethnic group, or religion. With pitch-perfect prose, Dr. Donna Marks invites readers into the root causes of different forms of addiction, while offering pragmatic and evidence-based solutions that are bound to yield results.

        Buoyed by the personal experiences of the author along with numerous case studies, Dr. Marks further offers deep insights into the inadequacies of traditional treatment models. For example, she notes that most rehab centers lack adequate staffing and overstep the limits of their capabilities. Another example is the famous 12 steps of fighting addiction which she believes do help to stop a behavior and develop a solid support system, however, she also sees that the program falls short

        Marks attempts to address the traumas that underlie most addictive behavior.

        This book does not stop there but offers alternative solutions to beat any form of addiction such as facing the pain, releasing it, writing out the thoughts and feelings that are disturbing you, forgiving the pain, letting go of resentment, visualizing a new life for yourself, and eventually exiting the maze. With valuable and reflective questionnaires at the end of every chapter, the result is a comprehensive compendium that is not only educating but eye-opening.

        This guide is divided into twelve chapters that begin with a welcoming and illuminating quote from scholars and other well-known people. Each chapter amplifies the previous ones, resulting in a well-nuanced and easy-to-read self-help journey. Further, Dr. Marks’s empathetic and honest tone creates a much-needed balm for those longing to exit the frustrating rabbit hole of addiction. She closes on the last ultimate step of exiting the maze which includes self-care such as caring for the body, spirit, mind, and relationships.

        The core backbone of this guidebook is the extensive research that Dr. Marks did in preparation for writing it.

        Exit The Maze: One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure offers a unique roadmap to assist readers in discovering true healing and comfort. The book’s suggestions are concise and emphasize the need to deal with unresolved emotional trauma, as it is more often than not the doorway to addictions, as many try to blot out the pain. As addictions and depression escalate in the modern world, Dr. Donna has written a blueprint for living a post-addiction life of serenity and self-love.

        Indeed, this revolutionary guide delivers a much-needed anchor designed to inspire, guide, and steer readers through all forms of addictions including gambling, love addiction, and drug addiction, just to name a few, and exit to the other end, triumphantly and fully recovered.

        Exit the Maze: One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure won Grand Prize in the 2020 CIBA Mind & Spirit Book Awards for Spirituality and Enlightenment Non-Fiction.

         

        5 Stars! Best Book Chanticleer Book Reviews