The MIND & SPIRIT Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Enlightenment and Self-help Non-fiction. The Mind & Body 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 enlightenment, motivational/self-help, spirituality, mindfulness, well-being, meditation, and energy. These books have advanced to the Premier Level of Achievement in the 2020 CIBAs.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORT LIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.
The following works have advanced to the 2020 Finalists in Mind & Spirit Book Awards for Spirituality and Enlightenment Non-fiction
Nina Nordstrom –Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall . . . Where Does My Self-Love Fall? A Journey Through Toxic Relationships
Krista Nerestant –Indestructible: The Hidden Gifts of Trauma
Cindy Rasicot –Finding Venerable Mother: A Daughter’s Spiritual Quest to Thailand
Nancy Pickard –Bigger Better Braver
Dr. Donna Marks –Exit the Maze: One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure
Jennifer Ankele –Death Less: A Guide Through Grief
Jennie Lee –Spark Change: 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution
Krista Nerestant –Indestructible: The Hidden Gifts of Trauma
Nina Norstrom –Not a Blueprint It’s the Shoe Prints that Matter
Mendek Rubin & Myra Goodman –Quest for Eternal Sunshine
Thomas Wise –Why Can’t We Trust God?
Tracee Dunblazier –Heal Your Soul History- Activate the True Power of Your Shadow
Marianne Ingheim –Out of Love: Finding Your Way Back to Self-Compassion
Jill Sherer Murray –Big Wild Love: The Unstoppable Power of Letting Go
These titles are in the running for the First Place Winners of the 2020 Mind & Spirit Book Awards for Spirituality and Enlightenment Non-fiction.
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Mind & Spirit Book Awards for Spirituality and Enlightenment Non-fiction?
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Mind & Spirit Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is November 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.
The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Uplifting and Inspiring, and Memoir. The Heartwarming Book Awards is a NEW genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).
Due to an unprecedented number of 2020 Journey Book Awards, we split off the Heartwarming, Inspirational, Heartening, Humorous, and Happiness. Think of Chicken Soup for the Soul.
We also are now offering the following CIBA Non-Fiction Divisions:
The Journey Awards for Narrative Nonfiction
The Mind & Spirit Book Awards for Mindfulness and Well-being
The Nellie Bly Book Awards for Investigative and Long-Form Journalism
The I & I Book Awards for Insight and Instruction for How-To, Guide Books, Self-Help, Cook Books, etc.
The Harvey Chute Book Awards for Business, Finance, and Enterprise
The Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring
New in 2021 will be the Military Veterans and First Responders Non-Fiction works.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORTLIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.
The following works have advanced in the 2020 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction.
Annerose D. Watts – Blue Plate Journey
Katherine Snow Smith – Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker, Missteps, and Lessons Learned
Cerridwen Fallingstar – Broth from the Cauldron; A Wisdom Journey through Everyday Magic
Judy Gaman – Love, Life, and Lucille
Keturah Kendrick – No Thanks: Black, Female, And Living in the Martyr-Free Zone
Evelyn Kohl LaTorre – Between Inca Walls
Bill Pullen – It Started at The Savoy
Deborah Tobola – Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison
Suzanne Kamata – Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair
T.D. Arkenberg – Trials & Truffles: Expats in Brussels
Frank Ball – Ball of Yarns
Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book One, Savoring the Olde Ways Series
Michael M. Van Ness – GENERAL IN COMMAND: The Life of Major General John B. Anderson from Iowa Farm to Command of the Largest Combat Corps in World War II
Miguel A. Aguilo – Pencils in the Hand of God: Two Heavenly Adoption Stories
Tamra Bolton – A Blessed Life: One World War II Seabee’s Story
These titles compete for the First Prize Winners of the 2020 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction.
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction?
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The First Place Category Winners and the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies on June 5th, 2021, virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
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.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORT LIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.
The following works have advanced to the 2020 Harvey Chute Book Awards for Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction
Gary M. Shiffman – The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism
Laura Huang – Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage
Susanne Tedrick – Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators
Mike D. Kinney – Navigating Your Safety Culture Journey
Gustavo J. Gomez, Ph.D. – Private Money Lending: Learn How to Consistently Generate a Passive Income Stream
Rachel Thompson – The BadRedhead Media 30-Day Book Marketing Challenge
Marcus Kirsch –The Wicked Company
Tikiri Herath – Your Rebel Dreams: Discover Your Purpose and Passions to Power Up Your Life
Anthony Delauney – Owning the Dash
These titles are in the running for the First Place Winners of the 2020 Harvey Chute Book Awards for Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction.
The 2020 CIBA FINALISTS were announced at VCAC21 – April 21 – 24, 2021.
The Harvey Chute Book Awards 2020 First Place and Grand Prize Winner will be announced at the hybrid CIBA Ceremony that will take place on Saturday, June 5th, 2021 at the Hotel Bellwether.
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Harvey Chute Book Awards for Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction?
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
We are still accepting submissions into the 2020 Harvey Chute Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is November 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2021.
The NELLIE BLY Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in non-fiction for Investigative and Journalist Non-fiction. The Nellie Bly Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Social Science, Data Driven Reporting, Equality and Justice, Ethics, Human Rights, and Activists Groups. These books have been put to the test and the best will advance to be declared winners of the prestigious Nellie Bly Book Awards.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORT LIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.
The 23 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the June 5th 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala,which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
The following works have advanced to the 2020 Finalists for the Nellie Bly Book Awards for Journalistic Non-Fiction
William “Mecca” Elmore & Susan Simone – Prison From The Inside Out: One Man’s Journey from a Life Sentence to Freedom
Gigi Berardi – FoodWISE: A Whole Systems Guide to Sustainable and Delicious Food Choices
Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D. – Cause and Civility: Imploring Reason and Respect From An Advocate Journalist, Book I
Stephen Erickson – The Great Healing – Five Compassions That Can Save Our World
Ashley Conner and Cierra Camper – Memoirs of Michael: The Hurricane Project
Patricia Martin Holt – EMPOWER A REFUGEE, Peace of Thread and the Backyard Humanity Movement
Kris Newby – BITTEN: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
Judy Bebelaar and Ron Cabral – And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown
Ashley Conner and Cierra Camper – Memoirs of Michael: The Hurricane Project
Ted Neill –Two Years of Wonder
These titles are in the running for the First Place Winners of the 2020 Nellie Bly Book Awards for Journalistic Non-Fiction.
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Nellie Bly Book Awards for Journalistic Non-Fiction?
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Nellie Bly Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is November 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.
The LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Readers that invites children to read and explore. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards Reviews is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books & Educational Books we will put them to the test to discovery today’s best children’s books. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORT LIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.
These titles are now Finalists for the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers
Ellie Smith –Tex the Explorer Journey Through the Alphabet
M. Lisa Rinaca –P Mind Your Q’s
Masoud Malekyari –Great As A Button
Susan Faw –Poppy Ogopogo
Carmela Dutra – Little Katie and the STEAM Team
D.K. Brantley –Every Mummy Has a Mommy
Dr. Justine Green –Completely Me
Courtney Shannon Strand –Ella’s Umbrella
Lindy Ryan –Trick or Treat, Alistair Gray
Dawn Marie Thompson –Sedwick the Seagull
Mercy Hansen Mize – Samson’s Tail
Johnny Ray Moore – ANTHILL FOR SALE
Raven Howell –So You Want a Puppy?
PJ McIlvaine –Little Lena and The Big Table
Melodie Tegay – Hannah’s Two Homes: life in a “blended” family; a 5 year old’s perspective
These titles are in the running for the First Place Winners of the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers.
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers?
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Little Peep Awards Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.
May 6th – 12th kicks off National Nurses Week which recognizes and honors Nurses around the world. And after the last year we’ve had and the healthcare struggles we continue to deal with at home and worldwide, we want to show them our appreciation and gratitude!
While Nurses Day was proposed twice to different administrations, it wasn’t until 1974 that Nixon recognized it, and in 1982 President Reagan officially proclaimed National Nurses Day in the US to celebrate those in one of our most trusted and important of professions.
This Thursday isn’t just the day in the US to recognize nurses, but it launches Nurses Appreciation Week, which culminates on May 12th, International Nurses Day! Why the twelfth? Because it’s the birthday of famous nurse, Florence Nightingale.
Who Is Florence Nightingale?
Also known as “The Lady of the Lamp,” Florence Nightingale is a statistician who revolutionized the field of nursing.
During the Crimean War, many people died in horrible hospital conditions. The care facilities lacked sanitation, and straw was often left on the floor to soak up excess blood. Nightingale brought in a regimen of cleanliness, cleaning the hospital for the wounded from top to bottom, and enforcing several hygiene practices, such as handwashing. In practicing these measures, the death rate of the injured reduced from 42% to 2%, an incredible achievement.
Improvements made to the field hospital at Üsküdar by British nurse Florence Nightingale revolutionized the treatment of wounded soldiers and paved the way for later developments in battlefield medicine. Britannica
We can see the effect of measures meant to maximize health today, as in the last year with the emphasis on mask wearing and handwashing that led to a steep drop in flu cases. This last year was the lowest hospitalization rate for people with the flu ever recorded (recording began in 2005), and only 1 pediatric flu death has been reported this year compared to the 196 in the 2019-2020 flu season. You can read more of what the CDC has to say about flu cases in the past year here.
Remember, when washing your hands you can count out 20 seconds by singing “Happy Birthday” twice, but we prefer to recite the intro from Star Trek, The Next Generation.
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before!
Back to Nightingale, after the Crimean War, she continued to advocate for sanitary conditions in hospitals and for living situations generally, lowering the death rate in peacetime by an impressive amount. In 1860, she also founded the first secular nursing school in the world, which is still a part of King’s College London.
On top of all of this, Nightingale was a prolific writer, which we always love to see at Chanticleer. We’re proud to have done our part with two virtual conferences to encourage social distancing and safety to care for both ourselves, and also be responsible for the larger community that we are a part of. As we say for our Non-Fiction Awards, “Truth matters now more than ever.”
We have book recommendations, of course, to support the nurses in your life, but before we move to that, we’d like to quote from “Santa Filomena” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which refers to how Nightingale received her nickname through her tireless efforts to care for troops during the Crimean War:
Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room.
We would like to introduce you to some of our favorite novels written by or about nurses.
Passage Home to Meuse
by Gail Noble-Sanderson
It’s 1923 and character Marie Durant Chagall is now 27 years old as she tells about her life-altering events in The Passage Home to Meuse, thanks to author Gayle Noble-Sanderson. This is the second historical novel in the Meuse Trilogy. The world around Marie is still reeling from the devastation of World War I. She and the other characters in the book are learning how to continue living, and perhaps more importantly, wishing to find joy once again in life.
Marie is at home in France, seeking peace within, as well as for those around her. She looks for ways to help others who are in need, and her nursing skills come in handy to help this farming community. Nearby she’s found a sense of belonging with the Sisters at the Chapel, and her friendships continue with Henri and others.
The first novel in a series of novels about war-time nurses written by travel nurse, Janet K. Shawgo.
A lantern, a medicine pouch, and a bell to stop the gunfire: That was all nurses took into the Civil War battlefields as they sought out injured men, boys, and women disguised as men. Among them is Sarah Bowen, a young healer from Georgia, whose use of herbal medicine brings her scorn from most field doctors even as it saves countless lives.
Look For Me begins with young, affluent New York-er Samuel White, who has just embarked on his career as a war correspondent. Through an early incident between their fathers, he is also Sarah’s longtime pen pal.
Meanwhile, Mack, a teenage girl traveling as a boy, delivers a letter from the youngest Bowen son to the family farm, lingering long enough to be tutored by Sarah and to fall in love with brother James before leaving to pursue her goal of becoming a Confederate spy. Soon after her departure, a band of traveling nurses comes looking for the local healer, and it doesn’t take much persuading for Sarah to realize her destiny. This is when all of the primary story-lines begin to intersect.
The Particular Appeal of Gillian Pugsley
by Susan Örnbratt
Irish-born Gillian McAllister knew she was meant for bigger things than a quiet life among her large extended family. Leaving home at seventeen against her protective father’s wishes, Gillian is looking for adventure – and that’s exactly what she finds. She was a nanny for a maharaja, a caretaker for WWII internees, and a nurse on the Isle of Man before finally becoming a wife, mother, and grandmother in London, Canada, where she spent the majority of her eighty-nine years.
However, with only weeks to live after being stricken by cancer, she knows her time with her beloved granddaughter and namesake is truly precious. Before she goes, she wants to pass on the poems that capture her long, adventurous life to the junior Gilly in hopes the girl will use the poems to write about her adventure – her hidden love story.
Our Dutyopens with a group of nursing students sunbathing on the roof of their apartment. Pauline Garrity, aka Polly, has a little bit of fun and decides to sunbathe sans robes. While this stirs some of the girls up a bit, others know Polly is only being Polly. When a fighter plane does a fly-by on a training mission, Polly has a little more fun.
Here’s a story of World War II with a slightly different bend. Rather than focus on the horrors of what was happening in the trenches, Gerri Hilger centers her novel around Polly and her close-knit group of friends who are attending nursing school together. Our Duty is a novel for fans of lighthearted historical fiction with a sprinkling of cozy romance and a thread of Christianity.
Five young friends from then-English Newfoundland and Ireland together join a regiment to serve in the war, as does a young nurse from Dublin. At first, a reader might be lulled into thinking this is a light-hearted Irish dialect-filled romp a la Finian’s Rainbow, but the novel takes us deep into the lives of its characters as they serve in the bloody trenches, convalesce, and try to live normal lives despite the physical and emotional damages they suffered.
Diedre, the tough but emotionally scarred nurse, Jack, who left “bits” of him on the battlefield, Will, with his invisible yet no-less devastating wounds—these are a few of the complex yet wholly identifiable characters who become alive through this novel’s pages. These are no simplistic people. Their humanness, their frailties confronted by the awfulness of the war, gives the book its special heart.
When you’re ready, did you know that Chanticleer offers editorial services?We do and have been doing so since 2011.
Our professional editors are top-notch and are experts in the Chicago Manual of Style. They have and are working for the top publishing houses (TOR, McMillian, Thomas Mercer, Penguin Random House, Simon Schuster, etc.).
If you would like more information, we invite you to email Kiffer or Sharon at KBrown@ChantiReviews.com or SAnderson@ChantiReviews.com for more information, testimonials, and fees.
We work with a small number of exclusive clients who want to collaborate with our team of top-editors on an on-going basis.Contact us today!
Chanticleer Editorial Services also offers writing craft sessions and masterclasses. Sign up to find out where, when, and how sessions being held.
A great way to get started is with our manuscript evaluation service, with more information available here.
And we do editorial consultations for $75. Learn more here.
If you’re confident in your book, consider submitting it for a Editorial Book Review here or to one of our Chanticleer International Awards here.
Also remember! We’re hosting our 2020 CIBA Ceremonies for First Place Category and Grand Prize Winners June 5th at the Hotel Bellwether in Beautiful Bellingham, Wash. Attending the June 5, 2021 VIRTUAL Ceremonies for the 2020 CIBAs is Free. However, registration is required. We will have the link posted on our website after the Finalists are announced.
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. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Somerset Book Awards?
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORT LIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.
These titles are in the running for the Finalist positions of the 2020 SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction.Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
Sara Stamey –Pause
Gregory Erich Phillips –A Season in Lights
Candi Sary –Magdalena
Kathleen Reid –Sunrise in Florence
T P Graf –As the Daisies Bloom
Katherine Johnson –Grit & Granite
Jennifer Gold –Keep Me Afloat
Catherine Hamilton –Victoria’s War
John Danenbarger –Entanglement: Quantum and Otherwise
Julie Weary –Knowing Marjorie Thane
Kathleen M. Rodgers –The Flying Cutterbucks
Abbe Rolnick –Founding Stones
Liana Gardner –Speak No Evil
Susan Wingate –How the Deer Moon Hungers
Jessica O’Dwyer – Mother Mother
Lainey Cameron –The Exit Strategy
Judy Keeslar Santamaria– Jetty Cat Palace Cafe
Joanne Kukanza Easley –Sweet Jane
Barbara Linn Probst – Queen of the Owls
Nancy H. Wynen – We Did What We Could
NOTE: Some titles have been transferred to the Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire, Allegory, Humor, and Alternative Histories (non-SciFi).
These titles are in the running for the First Place Category Winners of the 2020 Somerset Book Awards for Contemporary and Literary Fiction.
The 2020 CIBA FINALISTS were announced at VCAC21 – April 21 – 24, 2021.
The Somerset Book Awards 2020 First Place and Grand Prize Winner will be announced at the hybrid CIBA Ceremony that will take place on Saturday, June 5th, 2021 at the Hotel Bellwether. More details will be posted in early May.
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Somerset Book Awards for Contemporary and Literary Fiction?
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Somerset Awards Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is November 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.
The MARK TWAIN Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Humor and Satire Fiction. The Mark Twain Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
The 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire Fiction, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards is the first year that this division is offered as a book awards competition division in the CIBAs.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring satire, humor, political ideology, parody, fantasy, and allegory or fable. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Somerset Book Awards? (For contemporary and literary fiction see our Somerset Book Awards.)
I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: “Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.” — Mark Twain
Twain’s prediction was accurate; he died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Stormfield, (Twain’s mansion where he lived from 1908 until his death) one day after the comet’s closest approach to Earth.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORT LIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.
These titles have advanced to the Finalists for the 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire and Humor Fiction
Charlie Suisman –Arnold Falls
St John Karp –Quake City
Lenore Rowntree –Cluck
J.P. Kenna –Toward A Terrible Freedom
Wayne Edmiston –UNfatally Dead: to thaw or not to thaw?
Haris Orkin –You Only Live Once
Elizabeth Crowens –Dear Bernie, I’m Glad You’re Dead
Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
Alex J. Tremari –Dragoncast
Erik Segall –Not Yet
Conon Parks –Some Kind of Ending
Beth Wareham and Jason Davis –Hair Club Burning
Lou Dischler –Too Pretty for a Hit Man
Matt Tompkins –Odsburg
Good Luck to All!
These titles are in the running for the First Place Winners of the 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire and Humor Fiction.
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
The CHATELAINE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction. The Chatelaine Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best new books featuring romantic themes and adventures of the heart, historical love affairs, perhaps a little steamy romance, and stories that appeal especially to fans of affairs of the heart to compete in the Chatelaine Book Awards (the CIBAs).
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORT LIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.
These titles are in the running for the First Place Winner positions of the 2020 CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romance and Women’s Fiction.Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
Michael Aloysius OReilly – Romeo and Juliet Are Alive and Well in California
Sara Stamey– Pause
Linda Stewart Henley –Estelle: A Novel
Lindy Miller –The Magic Ingredient
Alexandrea Weis –The Christmas Spirit
Mary Ting –When the Wind Chimes
Linda Lee Graham –A Thimbleful of Honor
Gayle Woodson –After Kilimanjaro
Eileen Charbonneau –Mercies of the Fallen
Tammy Mannersly –Drawn to Him
Carol Van Den Hende –Goodbye, Orchid
Gail Noble-Sanderson –The Lavender Bees of Meuse
Holly Brandon –Life in the Chastity Zone
Michelle Cox –A Child Lost
Tina Sloan –Chasing Cleopatra
Barb Warner Deane –The Whistle Stop Canteen
T.K. Conklin –Promise of Spring
These titles are in the running for the First Place Winners of the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards for Romantic Fiction.
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards for Romantic Fiction?
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
The GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of middle-grade readers, fiction and non-fiction, that compel children to read and explore. The Gertrude Warner Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs).
Named in honor of the author of the quintessential children’s series – The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Warner.
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 eight to twelve. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Adventure we will put them to the test and choose the best Middle-Grade Books among them. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.)
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORT LIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.
These titles have reached the Finalists for the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle-Grade Fiction
Catherine Grangaard –A Fairy’s Tails
Poem Schway –The Infinity Pendant
Ruthy Ballard –Frankie and the Gift of Fantasy
Ben Gartner –The Eye of Ra
Ian C Douglas –The Particle Beast
Carolina Ugaz-Moran – Aline and the Blue Bottle
Jay Spenser –The Barn Owl Mystery
Jay Spenser –The Phantom Airplane Mystery
Tricia L McDonald –The Sally Squad: Pals to the Rescue
Robert C. Feol – A Journey to Mouseling Hollow
Carmela Dutra –Little Katie Goes to the Moon
John Middleton –Dillion and The Skeleton Hall
William X. Adams –Alien Body
Alison Rice –Chasing Snow
Richard Groseclose –Henry Castlewaite and the Portrait of Doom
Kelly Oliver –Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter
These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction.
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle-Grade Readers?
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Gertrude Warner Awards Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is June 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.
The NELLIE BLY Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in non-fiction for Investigative and Journalist Non-fiction. The Nellie Bly Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).
The CHATELAINE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction. The Chatelaine Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).
