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The HARVEY CHUTE Book Awards for Business and Enterprise Non-fiction – the Short List for the 2021 CIBAs
The HARVEY CHUTE Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Business and Enterprise Non-fiction. The Harvey Chute 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 motivational, strategy, technology guides, social media, finance, investing & money, communications, marketing, business, and economics. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Harvey Chute Book Awards? We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person. Looking for our other Non-fiction categories? Keep an eye out for our long lists for The Nellie Bly Awards focusing on journalism, The I & I Awards focusing on business, The Journey Awards focusing on Narrative Non-fiction, and Mind & Spirit Awards.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Harvey Chute Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 Harvey Chute Book Awards SHORT LIST. Finalists will be selected from the Short List. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the Finalists Level of Achievement for the 2021 Harvey Chute Book Awards novel competition for Business, Finance, and Enterprise Non-Fiction!

Congratulations to the 2021 Harvey Chute Short Listers!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Stan Bernard, MD, MBA – Brands Don’t Win: How Transcenders Change the Game
- Ross Brand – 100 Livestreaming & Digital Media Predictions: Top Content Creators Help You Succeed in an Era of Rapid Change
- Thomas Wideman – Welfare Cheese to Fine Caviar: How to Achieve Your Dreams Despite Your Upbringing
- Anthony C. Delauney – Owning the Dash: The No Regrets Retirement Roadmap
- Bruce Graham – Unemployment and You
- David Cutler – The Game of Innovation: Conquer Challenges. Level Up Your Team. Play to Win.
- George Marino CPA – Beyond Balancing the Books: Sheer Mindfulness for Professionals in Work and Life
- Gustavo J. Gomez, Ph.D. – Private Money Lending: Learn How to Consistently Generate a Passive Income Stream 2nd Edition
- Heather Wilde – Birth of a Unicorn: Six Basic Steps to Success
- Howard Tiersky – Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance
- Kate Dixon – Pay Up! Unlocking Insider Secrets of Salary Negotiation
- Max James – Harder I Fall, the Higher I Bounce
- Nayana Williams – The Lifespan Movement
- Cash Nickerson – Negotiating As a Martial Art
- Dori Jones Yang – When the Red Gates Opened
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Harvey Chute Awards is Laura Huang for Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage

Click here to see the 2020 Harvey Chute Book Award Winners for Business & Finance Non-Fiction

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Nellie Bly Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

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See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
January 15, 2022
COMMISSAR: A Novel of Civil War Russia by DV Chernov – Russian 20th Century Historical Fiction, Military Historical Fiction, War Fiction

DV Chernov delivers the first book of the Anna Sokolova series, an historical thriller Commissar: A Novel of Civil War Russia destined to capture readers’ attentions and have them coming back for more.

Chernov seamlessly blends historical figures with fictional characters in Commissar. Shining above them all is Anna Sokolova, a revolutionary who fights to protect the newly formed Cheka. Her idealistic goal is to improve the lives of her fellow countrymen.

Anna Sokolova steps off the pages as a gutsy and beautiful woman who is also vulnerable and idealistic. She will do anything it takes to find the British spy “Reilly,” a real character from history, who threatens her country’s new political system.

Chernov sets the scene in Moscow in 1918, after the revolution.

The big players in this international espionage thriller are broken down into two opposing forces: the Red and the White armies. However, outside influences from Britain and the United States complicate the struggles. Anna pursues the British spy, but he eludes capture even with her best agents’ intelligence.

Chernov expertly exposes the British and American desires of maintaining their outside capitalist ideologies within Russia. This forces the Reds to fight harder to preserve the newly formed government.

Anna’s romantic involvement with Sergei, her longtime friend and mentor, falls apart when Sergei becomes withdrawn and places the party over her. Anna’s family disappoints her as well. They intend to flee Russia to Switzerland and resume their bourgeoisie life of wealthy business owners. Anna stays behind and throws herself into her work. Will she ever catch the spy Reilly?

One day, Anna meets William, a representative of the American Red Cross, and with him plans the mission that will change her path forward. Together with Egorov and William, she drives a Rolls Royce, of all things, to southwestern Ukraine to entice a group of anarchists to help her catch the elusive Reilly.

There is another reason for her mission, one involving the Russian treasury and the Bolshevik cause.

Anna approaches Makhno, who helps her organize an ambush and attack of the heavily armed and guarded train transporting the gold, but he has two conditions. He gets all the gold as well as the train. Anna convinces him to split the gold 50/50, and she gets Reilly. Soon the mission details fall into place.

The mission unfolds in a tense battle that claims the life of Anna’s friend and comrade in arms, Egorov. The many deaths weigh on Anna. Coupled with another failure to capture Reilly, Anna’s confidence is rocked, which leaves her questioning the decisions made by her superiors and what the Bolsheviks have come to represent.

Even after her successful retrieval of three times the amount of gold she’d anticipated, Anna loses her drive for the cause. Her successful mission assures her a place in the government as a rising star, and as the winds of war change, the Reds gain control of the government.

Chernov’s masterful blending of fictional with non-fictional characters and events creates a blockbuster read. He gives us a high espionage thriller through the eyes of a daring protagonist, Anna Sokolova, and delivers a riveting story that will keep readers up into the night. Moreover, Chernov’s attention to detail will impress the most avid historian, and his storytelling will appeal to lovers of historical fiction and spy thrillers alike. Highly recommended

January 14, 2022
The 2021 LARAMIE Book Awards for Americana Fiction Short List – CIBAs 2021
The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre. The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring Americana themes, First Nation stories, early North American History, cowboys & cowgirls in the Wild West, pioneering, and Civil War, and we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Laramie Americana Long List to the 2021 Laramie Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The 2021 Laramie Finalists will be selected from the Laramie Semi-Finalists.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALS of the 2021 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Americana Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- David Fitz-Gerald – Waking Up Lost
- Chase Pletts – The Loving Wrath of Eldon Quint
- E.E. Burke – Tom Sawyer Returns
- Kimberly Burns – The Mrs. Tabor
- Leah Angstman – The Only Way to Cheat a Hangman
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Tommies
- Kalen Vaughan Johnson – Raid of Souls
- Catherine M. O’Connor – Dust Covered Lies
- Michael Eisenhut – Brothers of War, The Iron Brigade at Gettysburg
- Pamela Nowak – Never Let Go
- Forest B. Dunning – Death at Lame Deer
- Will Astrike – The Knack and The Skills of Ezra Lacey – Series
- Samantha Specks – Dovetails in Tall Grass
- Kenneth Arbogast – Sorrow Ledge
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Kidnapped
- Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Breath, Book One in the Desert Hills Trilogy
- T.K. Conklin – Outlaw’s Redemption
- Betty Willis – Texas Quest
- Glen Craney – The Cotillion Brigade: A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History
- David Fitz-Gerald – The Curse of Conchobar: A Prequel to the Adirondack Spirit Series
- George T. Arnold – Wyandotte Bound
- Michael R. Frontani – Dante’s Forge
- Chris Bennett – Road to the Breaking
- Michael L. Ross – Across the Great Divide: Book 2 The Search
- Daniel Greene – Northern Hunt (Northern Wolf Series Book 2)
- Bryan Ney – Absaroka War Chief
Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 LARAMIE Awards is Rebecca Dwight Bruff for Trouble the Water, a Novel

Click here to see the 2020 Laramie Book Award Winners for Americana Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Laramie Book Awards for Americana and Western Fiction.

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For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:
Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

VIRTUAL and IN-Person – June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

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Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
January 12, 2022
STONE: Rhone and Stone Series, Book One by Strider S.R. Klusman – Y/A Steampunk, Science Fiction First Contact, Y/A Western

Award-winning author, Strider S. R. Klusman’s Stone: Rhone and Stone Series, Book One is set in the high desert outside of the dusty town of Skragmoore.

With all the trappings of a western, he draws us into the Badlands and takes us on a merry and hair rising journey through lake strewn caves and the dusty little town of Skragmoore. This YA adventure will have readers riveted in place to find out what happens next.

Rhone has survived alone in the wilderness since his mother’s death, but he has learned to thrive and spends more and more time out of doors under the open sky than at home in his old, dilapidated house. So, when he hears a voice, and no one else is there, he is confused to say the least. Where is the voice coming from and why won’t it shut up?

Rhone has been carrying the stone in his pouch for several years.

The most beautiful stone he’s ever seen, it is his prized possession and now it’s talking? Yet, somehow he is calmed by the voice and develops a sense of well being as it speaks. Soon Rhone is talking back and finds the stone’s intelligent conversation philosophical and instructive. His new friend educates him about how a lump of mineral can communicate with a human and where it came from.

As part of a meteor that struck earth in the distant past, Stone’s story unfolds with the skill wielded only by Klusman’s master storytelling. Stone’s mission is to find more of his kind, the “We,” and Rhone pledges his services to help and his undying friendship.

Meanwhile in the dusty town of Skragmoore, we meet Commissioner Dodge.

A heavy-handed boss who drives his men with a clenched fist ready to strike. Dodge is planning his escape from the dying town, and when news reaches him of a beautiful stone that flashes blinding light, he knows it must be an artifact, and his dream of escape grows closer than he imagined. Thus begins the misadventure, and Rhone soon loses stone to Dodge’s men.

Rhone will never give up on Stone, though.

The bond they forged in the short time they were together is too strong for him to ignore, and Rhone won’t let his friend suffer at the hands of Dodge, who only wants to use Stone for his own gain. Rhone understands fully the Dodge will treat Stone as an object, not the sensitive, sentient being he is. Rhone uses the lessons that Stone instilled in him to memorize a route out of the maze of the badlands and rescue Stone.

The Counsel has Dodge on their radar as a person of interest for poorly overseeing his commission, and they have also been informed of Stone. Agents Aundrea and Bran arrive in the Badlands in search of this stone and the boy who found it.

Klusman’s fast-paced novel keeps readers turning pages to learn the fate of Rhone and Stone.

Rhone becomes the unlikely hero who will do anything to help his friend and unwittingly exposes Dodge whose ruthless and cold-hearted nature lose him any friend he ever had. Part fantasy, part western, part YA, part adventure/thriller, Klusman’s novel melds genres seamlessly to give us a riveting and rollicking story of friendship, trust, and adventure. This five-star read will keep readers entertained and wanting more! And they are in luck because Book II in the Rhone and Stone series carries on the adventure.

January 12, 2022
The 2021 Paranormal Book Awards for Supernatural Fiction – CIBAs Short List 2021
The Paranormal Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Supernatural Fiction. The Paranormal Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs) is looking for the best books Paranormal books featuring magic, the supernatural, weird otherworldly stories, superhumans (ex. Jessica Jones, Wonder Woman), magical beings & supernatural entities (ex. Harry Potter), vampires & werewolves (ex. Twilight), angels & demons, fairies & mythological beings, magical systems and elements. These books have advanced to the Long List Level of Achievement in the 2021 CIBAs.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2021 Paranormal Supernatural Fiction Long List to the 2021 Paranormal Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2021 Paranormal Book Awards novel competition for Supernatural Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Avanti Centrae – The Doomsday Medallion
- Robert Herold – Moonlight Becomes You
- Rebecca Kightlinger – Megge of Bury Down: The Bury Down Chronicles, Book One
- Catori Sarmiento – But the Wicked Shall Perish
- Elizabeth Crowens – The Time Traveler Professor – Book Three: A War in Too Many Worlds
- J. W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls The Strings
- Kaylin McFarren – Annihilation
- K.T. Anglehart – The Wise One
- AJ Thibault – Ghost Town
- JP McLean – Blood Mark
- J.G. Schwartz – The Curious Spell of Madam Genova
- Henry Anderson – Cape Misfortune
- Miki Mitayn – The Conscious Virus
- John Stafford – A Hand of Vengeance
- Daniela Valenti – Sentinel 10: The Crystal Skull
- PJ Devlin – The Chamber
- Susan Lynn Solomon – What’s Past is Prologue
- T.K. Conklin – Outlaw’s Redemption
- D. J. Adamson – Into the Storm
- Jonathan Floyd – Lost on the Edge of Eternity
- David Fitz-Gerald – The Curse of Conchobar
- Nola Nash – Crescent City Sin
- Nola Nash – Crescent City Moon
These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2021 Paranormal Book Awards novel Supernatural Fiction!

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The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 PARANORMAL Awards was Kaylin McFarren for Soul Seeker

Click here to see the 2020 Paranormal Book Award Winners for Supernatural Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Paranormal Book Awards for Supernatural Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

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Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

VIRTUAL and IN-Person – June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

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Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
January 11, 2022
The 2021 CLUE Book Awards for Suspense/Thrillers – CIBAs Short List 2021
The Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Suspense and Thriller Mysteries. The Clue Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring suspense, thrilling adventure, detective work, private eye, police procedural, and crime-solving, we will put them to the test to discover the best! (For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards).

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2021 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction Long List to the 2021 Clue Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

Congratulations to the 2021 CLUE Book Awards Short Listers!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Tom Galvin – The Auction
- Steph Mullin and Nicole Mabry – The Family Tree
- Lynn Yvonne Moon – The Agency – Tablet of Destiny
- Alicia Dill – Beyond Sacrifice
- Tony Ollivier – The Amsterdam Deception
- J. Luke Bennecke – Waterborne
- Jane Rosenthal – Del Rio
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Exploded, A Buck Taylor Novel
- James A. Ross – Coldwater Revenge
- John Stafford – Call of Vengeance Series, Book 4: A Hand of Vengeance
- T.L. Bequette – Good Lookin’: A Joe Turner Mystery
- Ernesto H Lee – Flawed Beauty
- Amy S. Peele – Match: A Medical Murder Mystery
- Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
- Erik Foge – We Know Your Name
- Kevin G. Chapman – Fatal Infraction (Mike Stoneman Thriller #4)
- Rip Converse – Callie Awakens
- Emily A. Myers – The Truth About Unspeakable Things
- D. J. Adamson – Into The Storm
- Roberta Seret – Gift of Diamonds
- Mary Keliikoa – Denied
- Lyle Howard – An Eye For An Eye
- Laurie Buchanan – Indelible: A Sean McPherson Novel, Book One
- Robert Honor – Bogart’s Hat
- Valerie J. Brooks – Tainted Times 2
- Shelley Nolden – The Vines
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Conspiracy: A Buck Taylor Novel
These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2021 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!

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The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 CLUE Awards was Chris Karlsen for A Venomous Love

Click here to see the 2020 Clue Book Award Winners for Suspense/Thriller Mysteries.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Clue Book Awards for Suspense/Thriller Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards

Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

VIRTUAL and IN-Person – June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
January 11, 2022
The 2021 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – CIBAs Short List
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, Literary, we will put them to the test and choose the best Young Adult Books among them for the winners of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. Looking for middle grade contests? Check out our Gertrude Warner Awards.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Dante Rossetti Young Adult Fiction Long List to the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalist. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the Semi-FInalists of the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- P.H.C. Marchesi – Florissant
- Angela Yeh – A Phoenix Rises
- Shadow Bleak – Riot Shield
- B.L. Smith – The Last Golden Light
- M.J. Evans – The Sand Pounder: Love and Drama on Horseback in WWII
- Dan Rice – Dragons Walk Among Us
- Blue Spruell – TARO: Legendary Boy Hero of Japan
- Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
- E.A. Allen – Percy St. John and the Chronicle of Secrets
- J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings
- Susan Faw – Bone Dragon
- Mark Wakely – A Friend Like Filby
- Rick Duffy – The Sigil Masters
- Glen Dahlgren – The Game of War: The Trials of Dantess, Warrior Priest
- Strider K – Stone (former title: You Rock my Life)
- Eileen Charbonneau – Death at Little Mound
- Jon Robinson – Sunshine and the Full Moon
- Rektok Ross – Ski Weekend
- Nancy Thorne – The Somewhere I See You Again
- Dennis D. Skirvin – The Treasure of Nonsense Woods
- Kourtney Spadoni – In The Underwood
- Rebecca Danzenbaker – The Color of My Soul
- John Thomas Everett – Aesop’s Fox
- L. A. Thompson – Isle of Dragons
- Shay Siegel – Fractured
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards is Dallas Woodburn for The Best Week That Never Happened

Click here to see the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Award Winners for Young Adult Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

For our other Youth Reader Fiction Awards, please see the following:
- The Gertrude Warner Awards for Middle Grade Fiction
- The Little Peeps Awards for Children’s Literature
Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

VIRTUAL and IN-Person – June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
January 10, 2022
The 2021 JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021
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.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 Journey Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Journey Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

If you have entered your works into the 2021 Journey Book Awards and do not see them in the list below, please visit the other Non-Fiction Book Awards listings: Nellie Bly, Hearten, Mind & Spirit, Instruction and Insight, or perhaps Harvey Chute Book Awards. The Journey Book Awards have morphed into extreme stories of adversity – some of which were overcome; some that were not. Most of these accounts are intense and some should come with trigger warnings. We have moved some entries into the other non-fiction divisions based on the recommendations of the non-fiction judges.

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Sherry Chapman – How Much Big Is the Sky: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love and Unfathomable Loss
- Tracie White with Ronald W. Davis – The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist’s Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
- Lisa Lynn Veith – Gold Medal
- Rosie McMahan – Fortunate Daughter: A Memoir of Reconciliation
- Marilyn Mascaro – When the Rivers Flowed
- Marcie Maxfield – Em’s Awful Good Fortune
- William Johnson – Snow Blind: Recovering After the Random Shooting
- Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Black, White, and Gray All Over; a Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
- Nikki West – The Odyssey of the Chameleon
- Kathleen Lockyer – The Broken Wing Dance — Love, loss, trauma and how nature led me back to my wild self
- Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
- George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoire
- Bruce Rowe, MD – Everything Under the Sun: A Family Doctor’s Reflections on Life, Love, Loss and Renewed Hope in Medicine
- Renee K. Nicholson – Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness
- Margaret Thomson – The World Looks Different Now
- Sylvie Heyman – Beyond the Holocaust: An Immigrant’s Search for Identity
- Kawan Glover – Favor: How Stroke Struggle and Surgery Helped Me Find My Life’s Purpose
- Faith Fuller Wilcox – Hope Is a Bright Star: A Mother’s Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning to Live Again
- George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoir
- Azim H. Jiwani, MD – Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible
- Rosemary Keevil – The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction
- Andrea Wilson Woods – Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days
- Krista Nerestant – Indestructible:The Hidden Gifts of Trauma
- Jean-Philippe Soule – I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
- Mark Allen – Based on a True (Traumatic) Brain History: a Short Memoir
- Meghan Caughey – Mud Flower
- C.L. Olsen – The Home for Friendless Children
- Heather Haldeman – Kids and Cocktails Don’t Mix: A Memoir
- Jim Enderle – Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story
- Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – Weeds Beneath the Open Meadows
- Rick Avery with Tom Bleecker – A Life at Risk
- Julie Ryan McGue – Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
- Tammy Green – Living Without Skin: Everything I Never Knew About Fierce Vulnerability
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The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 JOURNEY Awards is Karen Keilt for The Parrot’s Perch: A Memoir of Torture and Corrupti0n in Brazil

Click here to see the 2020 Journey Book Award Winners for Narrative Non-Fiction

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Journey Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

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See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

VIRTUAL and IN-Person – June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

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Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
January 10, 2022
The 2021 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction – The Short List – CIBAs 2021
The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (the CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring space, time travel, life on other planets, parallel universes, alternate reality, and all the science, technology, major social or environmental changes of the future that author imaginations can dream up for the CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction.

Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Genetic Modification, Aliens, Super Humans, Interplanetary Travel, Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi), and Settlers on the Galactic Frontier, Dystopian, our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 CYGNUS Science Fiction Long List to the 2021 Cygnus Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2021 Cygnus Semi-Finalists. FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The 2021 CYGNUS FINALISTS will be selected from the CYGNUS Semi-Finalists.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALS of the 2021 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings
- Sarah Lahey – Nostalgia Is Heartless, Book Two
- Joe Butler – Of All Possibilities
- Michael Hicks Thompson – Clouds Above
- Spaulding Taylor – Last Star Standing
- Dale Renton – DART
- S. W. Lawrence, MD – Earth Dragon
- Max Mason – Novastrom: Adventures from the Zrax Wars
- Mark D. Owen – Impact
- Steven Seril – The Destroyer of Worlds: ‘An Answer to Every Question’
- Akosua Sankofa – Monmouth Deep
- John Teton – The Book of Geezer
- Gary Clark – The Given
- Rhett C. Bruno – Vicarious
- Timothy S. Johnston – Fatal Depth
- Peter Greene – Light of Ganymede
- Kristie Clark – Dragon Gold
- Dimple Patel Desai – The Lambda Factor
- John J Spearman – Pike’s Potential
- Charlene Newcomb – Echoes of the Storm
- D.H. Ford – Cosmic Swap
- William M. Hayes – Save Him
- William X. Adams – Alien Dream Machine
- Michael J Metroke – The Masada Affair
- PA Vasey – Trinity Evolution
- Daniel C. McWhorter – Revival: The Gaia Origin, Book Two
- Robert C Littlewood – Deviance
- Jenn Lees – Restoring Time: Community Chronicles Book 4
- Bernie Koenig – B.R.A.I.N.
- Daniele Kasper – Cut Her Out In Little Stars
- William X. Adams – Alien Panic
- Elizabeth Crowens – A War in Too Many Worlds
- Sandra J. Jackson – Catching Butterflies
- Dana Claire – The Connection
- Gina Detwiler – Forgiven
- Sam Stea – The Edge of Elsewhere
Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 CYGNUS Awards is Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle for The Luna Missile Crisis

Click here to see the 2020 CYGNUS Book Award Winners for Science Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 CYGNUS Awards writing competition.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

VIRTUAL and IN-Person – June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
January 10, 2022
BEEBE and BOSTELMANN by Kent Politsch – Historical Fiction, Historical Biographical Fiction, Deep Sea Exploration

Dive deep into a three-part saga illuminating underwater discovery in Kent Politsch’s historical fiction novel, Beebe and Bostelmann.

Well-researched with a strong environmental focus, Beebe and Bostelmann captures the incredible accomplishments of a multi-faceted naturalist and adventurer. But this charismatic man, Will Beebe, navigates his own emotional journey as well as the deep sea. Collaborating with him, Else Bostelmann brings life to his oceanographic discoveries through her artwork.

In 1929, Will Beebe, newly wed to a young female writer almost half his age, sets out to understand the deep sea. As an ornithologist and explorer, he ventures nearly half a mile beneath the ocean’s surface.

In his passionate quest, he connects with Otis Barton. The famous fortune seeker designs an enclosed submersible able to withstand the pressure of record-breaking dives.

With entertaining pitches and backing from various patrons, the project begins south of Bermuda. Once there, the research team gathers at a laboratory set up on Nonsuch Island. However, technical delays, necessary testing, precarious refinements, and a stock market crash threaten the completion of the “bathysphere.” But Beebe and Barton persevere. They put their trust, and lives, in the hands of the invention.

Politsch delivers brilliantly detailed descriptions of Beebe’s various sightings. Whether “coral clinging, weaving seaweeds dangling … tissue-thin pearl shells … ” an unknown quartet of fish, with “bird-like beaks … standing upright on a thin tailfin … colors brilliant” or bioluminescent fish in an abyss likened to “a moonless starlit night” – the intricate illuminate the nuances of this far-reaching, mysterious seascape.

Politsch weaves themes of love, loss, and heartfelt burdens through his story.

While Else Bostelmann employs her unique ability to translate Beebe’s reports into beautiful artistic renderings, Beebe enjoys an open marriage – disregarding his wife’s feelings on the matter; indeed, he has several romantic liaisons. Bostelmann proves a character with the skill to observe human dynamics taking place within the island and its work. And, ultimately, this story shows the need for forgiveness and letting go of resentments.

Beebe clearly possessed the ability to charm and attract women through both charismatic and intellectual means.

However, Politsch distinguishes him as a mentor who gave women opportunities in the scientific field. The idea that “There is nothing about science that makes a man wiser than a woman …” may have been Will Beebe’s attitude regarding gender equality at the beginning of the 20^th century, though his many liaisons would certainly cloud a person’s image in society today.

Politsch’s final pages include short biographical sketches of the real-life individuals from whom this work derives. In addition to the intertwining human interest aspect of Beebe and Bostelmann, the author details the many dangerous dives far beneath the water’s surface. These dives highlight the significance of the ocean in the origins of life on our planet – and our ultimate future.

Amidst the wonder of the sea, Will Beebe and Else Bostelmann play an essential part in the advancement of oceanic science. Beebe and Bostelmann serves as an artful and engaging odyssey introducing their important work to an audience that might otherwise be unaware of their significant place in history.

January 10, 2022