Chanticleer Book Reviews

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Tamra Bolton — Author of A Blessed Life and The Art of Story Keeping

I can’t imagine the work that must go into getting all of these books read and judged…congratulations on you and the entire CIBA team for doing such an outstanding job.

— Tamra Bolton, author of A Blessed Life and The Art of Story Keeping and Hearten Award Finalist

August 10, 2021
Matt Andrus — Author of UFO

Just want to say thanks for all of your hard work, that was a great show.

I’m excited about my first place finishing

– Matt Andrus, author of UFO and Global Thriller First Place Winner

August 10, 2021
ML Rinaca — Author of P Mind Your Q’s

Thanks for all your help- great event. And, congrats to the team and panel- and all the winners.

–ML Rinaca (Lisa Rinaca), author of P Mind Your Q’s and Little Peeps Finalist

August 10, 2021
Jaime Castle, Author of The Luna Missile Crisis

Thank you all for such hard work tonight! Very proud to have won the grand prize. You all did a wonderful job.

—Jaime Castle, co-author of The Luna Missile Crisis and Cygnus Grand Prize Winner

August 10, 2021
Pamela Jonas — Author of For Love of Family

I’m so excited to have received First Place for the Goethe Awards for 20th Century Historical Fiction for my novel For Love of Family: A Slovak Immigrant Novel

—Pamela Jonas, author of For Love of Family and Goethe First Place Winner

August 10, 2021
JL Morin — Author of Loveoid

Thank you for the first place award Kiffer, David and staff, and for all the important work you do.

Much appreciated 💕☺🎬🐬

All the best,

JL Morin, author of Loveoid and Cygnus First Place Winner

August 10, 2021
Ellie Smith — Author of Tex the Explorer

I want to tell you how honored, and honestly overwhelmed I am, that my book Tex the Explorer Journey Through the Alphabet placed First in Category in Little Peeps! Truly, thank you!

—Ellie Smith, Author of Tex the Explorer and Little Peeps First Place Winner

August 10, 2021
Tammy Mannersly — Author of Persuading Lucy

I greatly appreciate everything Chanticleer does for its authors and I thoroughly enjoy the contest process. I look forward to purchasing a copy (or more) of the new Magazine and spreading the word about its release.

Thanks again and have a lovely day!

Tammy Mannersly, Author of Persuading Lucy and Chatelaine First Place Winner

August 10, 2021
The 2021 LARAMIE Book Awards for Americana Fiction Long 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 entries to the 2021 Laramie Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Laramie Shortlist. 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 SHORT LIST of the 2021 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Americana Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Kimberly Burns – The Mrs. Tabor
- E.E. Burke – Tom Sawyer Returns
- 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
- EM Abner – Hollow Eyes on Tennessee: From Shiloh to Perryville
- Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Breath, Book One in the Desert Hills Trilogy
- T.K. Conklin – Outlaw’s Redemption
- Bryan Ney – Absaroka War Chief
- 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
- James Musgrave – The Dancing Murders
- Bert Entwistle – Leftover Soldiers, Aftermath, & Opportunity
- Michael R. Frontani – Dante’s Forge
- Chris Bennett – Road to the Breaking
- Michael L. Ross – Across the Great Divide: Book 2 The Search
- Daniel Herman – The Feudist: A Novel of the Pleasant Valley War
- Daniel Greene – Northern Hunt (Northern Wolf Series Book 2)
Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

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Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

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.

Please click here for more information.

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!

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 Authors: Cathy Ace and Robert Dugoni along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
August 9, 2021
The 2021 MYSTERY & MAYHEM Book Awards for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries – The Long List – CIBAs 2021
The M & M Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem fiction genre. The M & M Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring Mystery and Mayhem, amateur sleuthing, light suspense, travel mystery, classic mystery, British cozy, hobby sleuths, senior sleuths, or historical mystery, perhaps with a touch of romance or humor, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them. (For suspense, thriller, detective, crime fiction see our Clue Awards and for International High Stakes Thrillers and Lab Lit, see our Global Thriller Awards)

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 M&M Cozy and Not-So-Cozy entries to the 2021 M&M Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2021 M&M Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

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

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 17 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 SHORT LIST of the 2021 M&M Book Awards novel competition for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Craig Allen Heath – Where You Will Die
- Andrew Hunkins – Evil Alive
- Michael Scott Garvin – Ophelia’s Room
- J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings
- Joy Ann Ribar – Deep Green Envy
- Codi Schneider – Cold Snap: A Viking Cat Mystery
- David Martyn – Called Into Service: A Robert Curtis Mystery
- Vicki Batman – Temporarily Out of Luck
- Lori Roberts Herbst – Double Exposure
- Mally Becker – The Turncoat’s Widow
- Tina deBellegarde – Winter Witness
- Alexander Mukte – The Recruiter
- Traci Andrighetti – Marsala Maroon
- B.L. Smith – Bert Mintenko and the Serious Business
- B.L. Smith – The Irritating Misadventures of Bert Mintenko
- Patricia Catacalos – Lurking in the Darkness (1832 Regency Book 4)
- Arlene McFarlane – Murder, Curlers & Kilts
- Eileen Charbonneau – Death at Little Mound
- Elizabeth Crowens – Babs and Basil, and the Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles
- Debbie De Louise – No Gravestone Unturned
- Mary Gehlen Seifert – Titanic Trial
- Charlotte Stuart – Shopping Can Be Deadly
- Charlotte Stuart – Who Me? Fog Bows, Fraud and Aphrodite
- Jolie Tunnell – Loveda Brown Sings the Blues
- Patrick M. Garry – Through the Waves a Steady Path
- Lori Robbins – Murder In First Position
- Tony Kelsey – Once A Man Indulges
- Patricia C. Lee – First Gear : a Sadie Hawkins Mystery
- Cam Lang – The Concrete Vineyard
- Steve Lindahl – Chasing Margie
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Unknown, A Buck Taylor Novel
- Casey Cook – Homebodies
- Susan McCormick – The Fog Ladies: Family Matters
- Diane Weiner – An Ear for Murder
- Darryl Wimberley – A Star in her Crown
- Kelly Miller – Accusing Mr. Darcy
- Phil Bayly – Loving Lucy
- Joann Keder – Welcome to Piney Falls
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

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

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

Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

Click here to see the 2020 M&M Book Award Winners for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries.

The M & M Book Awards for Mystery & Mayhem

for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

Grand Prize Winner is

THE DISCOVERY by Patrick M. Garry

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 M&M 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 Authors: Cathy Ace and Robert Dugoni along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
August 6, 2021