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  • The 2020 OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction – the Semi-Finalists for the OZMA Division of the 2020 CIBAs

    The 2020 OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction – the Semi-Finalists for the OZMA Division of the 2020 CIBAs

    The OZMA Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of  Fantasy Fiction. The OZMA Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards discovers the best books featuring magic, the supernatural, imaginary worlds, fantastical creatures, legendary beasts, mythical beings, or inventions of fancy that author imaginations dream up without a basis in science as we know it. Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Dragons, Unicorns, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, or other out of this world fiction, they will be put to the test and the best selected as winners of the prestigious CIBAs.

    The following fantasy fiction works have advanced from the Short List to the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 OZMA Book Awards:

    • Susannah Dawn – Battle for the Armor of God    
    • Christopher Russell – Divinity’s Twilight: Rebirth
    • T. Cook – Shin
    • David Fitz-Gerald – She Sees Ghosts: The Story of a Woman Who Rescues Lost Souls
    • Michelle Rene – The Canyon Cathedral: The Witches of Tanglewood, Book Two 
    • Robert C. Feol – A Journey to Mouseling Hollow
    • MG Wilson and Phil Elmore – Ninja Girl Adventures
    • J. Nell Brown – Orphan Tree and the Vanishing Skeleton Key
    • Gordon Preston – Zendragon
    • H.J. Ramsay – Ever Alice
    • Jeny Heckman – The Warrior’s Progeny
    • Sandra A. Hunter – Daughter of Earth & Fire, The Fledgling    
    • Jacob Andrew Emrey – Inferno Dawn
    • LaVerne Thompson – Wild Child
    • D.L. Jennings – Awaken the Three
    • Derrick Smythe – The Other Magic
    • KC Cowan & Sara Cole – Everfire
    • Dr. Anay Ayarovu – STAZR The World Of Z: The Dawn Of Athir
    • Alison Levy – Gatekeeper: Book One in the Daemon Collecting Series
    • Glenn Searfoss – Cycles of Norse Mythology: Tales of the AEsir Gods
    • T. K. Thorne – House of Rose
    • Lee Hunt – Dynamicist

    Good Luck to All as your works compete for the FINALIST rounds of the CIBAs!

    We will announce the Finalists of the 2020 CIBA divisions April 22, 23, & 24, 2021.

    The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 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 Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized each evening at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

    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.

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    We are now accepting entries into the 2021 OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards. Please click here for more information and to enter. 

     

     

     

  • The 2020 Paranormal Book Awards for Supernatural Fiction – the Semi-Finalists for the Paranormal Division of the 2020 CIBAs

    The 2020 Paranormal Book Awards for Supernatural Fiction – the Semi-Finalists for the Paranormal Division of the 2020 CIBAs

    Paranormal Fiction Awards

    The PARANORMAL  Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of  Paranormal and Supernatural Fiction. The Paranormal Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs) is looking for the best 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. They will be put to the test and the best will be declared winners of the prestigious CIBAs.

     

    The following paranormal fiction works have advanced to the Semi-Finalist List from the Short List of the 2020 Paranormal Book Awards:

    The Semi-Finalists for the Paranormal Book Awards, a division of the 2020 CIBAs

    • Christopher Leibig – Almost Damned
    • K.A. Banks – Seven Sisters Road   
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – Just Die
    • Lydia Staggs – Azrael
    • Brooke Skipstone – Someone To Kiss My Scars
    • James Kirst – Magic Once Removed    
    • Meg Evans – Enthrallment     
    • Blaise Ramsay – Blood Law  
    • Kaylin McFarren – Soul Seeker     
    • Joy Ross Davis – The Magnificent Celestine   
    • Stephanie Alexander – Charleston Green     
    • Franklin Posner – Boston Betty      
    • R.B. Woodstone – Chains of Time   
    •  Ryan Young – The Shepherd’s Burden     
    • David W. Thompson – ‘Possum Stew   
    • Carissa Andrews – Secret Legacy    
    • Neil Chase – Iron Dogs   
    • S.K. Andrews – Bay of Darkness 
    • Matt Tompkins – Odsburg

    Good Luck to All as your works compete for the FINALIST rounds of the CIBAs!

    We will announce the Finalists of the 2020 CIBA divisions April 22, 23, & 24, 2021.

    The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 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 Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

    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.

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    We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Paranormal Book Awards.

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    • The 2020 Clue Book Awards for Thriller and Suspense Novels – the Semi-Finalists for the Clue Division of the 2020 CIBAs

      The 2020 Clue Book Awards for Thriller and Suspense Novels – the Semi-Finalists for the Clue Division of the 2020 CIBAs

      Clue Thriller Suspense Fiction AwardThe CLUE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Suspense and Thriller Fiction. 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).

      The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash. 

      Congratulations to these authors whose works have advanced to the Semi-Finalists!

        • Chuck Morgan – Crime Denied, A Buck Taylor Novel    
        • Toni Bird Jones – The Measure of Ella    
        • Grahame Shannon – Bay of Devils   
        • Hal Malchow – 42 Million to One   
        • Kari Bovee – Folly at the Fair    
        • Dana J. Summers – Downhill Fast    
        • Rafael Amadeus Hines – Bishop’s Law
        • Ken Farmer – Three Creeks    
        • Elizabeth Lewes – Little Falls
        • Sheila McGraw – The Knife Thrower’s Wife    
        • Martin Roy Hill – The Fourth Rising  
        • Chris Karlsen – A Venomous Love      
        • Christopher Leibig – Almost Damned      
        •  Brooke Skipstone – Some Laneys Died    
        • J.J.  Clarke – Dared to Run  
        • Laura Wolfe – Top Producer    
        • Megan Allen – The Meat Hunter    
        • Michelle Cox – A Child Lost    
        • Valerie J. Brooks – Revenge in 3 Parts   
        • Corey Lynn Fayman – Ballast Point Breakdown    
        • Kevin G. Chapman – Lethal Voyage (Mike Stoneman Thriller) 
        • Shanessa Gluhm – Enemies of Doves         
        • Suanne Schafer – Hunting the Devil    
        • John DeDakis – Fake   

        Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 CLUE Book Awards? Stay tune

      These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2020 Clue Book Awards for Thriller and Suspense Novels. 

      The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 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 Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

      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.

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    • The MYSTERY & MAYHEM Book Awards for Cozy and Not So Cozy Mystery novels – the Semi-Finalists for the M & Ms Division of the 2020 CIBAs

      The MYSTERY & MAYHEM Book Awards for Cozy and Not So Cozy Mystery novels – the Semi-Finalists for the M & Ms Division of the 2020 CIBAs

      Cozy Mystery Fiction Award

      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 International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring “mystery and mayhem,” amateur sleuthing, light suspense, travel mystery, classic mystery, British cozy, not-so-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 intrigue see our Global Thriller Awards)

      The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the Finalists positions. Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. The Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. 

       

      Congratulations to the M&M 2020 Semi-Finalists!

      Congratulations to these authors for their works that advanced from the 2020 M & M Book Awards Short List!

      • Chris Karlsen – A Venomous Love
      • Susan McCormick – The Fog Ladies    
      • Patrick M. Garry – The Discovery
      • Sigrid Vansandt – A Ghost’s Tale
      • Lori Roberts Herbst – Suitable for Framing
      • Cindy Sample – Dying for a Double       
      • Elaine Orr – Demise of a Devious Suspect
      • D.R. Ransdell – Substitute Soloist
      • P.K. Adams – Silent Water
      • Kari Bovee – Bones of the Redeemed
      • Kate Vale – Unanswered Questions
      • Michelle Cox – A Child Lost
      • Maria Ostrowski – Yet From Those Flames No Light
      • Prudence Ambergast – The Mystery at Fig Tree Hall
      • Ana T. Drew – The Murderous Macaron
      • Lina Hansen – In My Attic – A Magical Misfits Mystery        
      • Traci Andrighetti – Galliano Gold
      • Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
      • Arlene McFarlane – Murder, Curlers & Kegs
      • Rita M Boehm – Missing on Maple Street
      • Mark Daniel Seiler – Shave Ice Paradise
      • Nicole Asselin – Murder at First Pitch
      • Perry Miller – Lethal Injection
      • Mary Alice Kressler – Not So Silent Night
      • Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Bernie, I’m Glad You’re Dead
      • Lucinda Brant – Deadly Kin: A Georgian Historical Mystery
      • Carl and Jane Bock – The White Heron
      • Molly Flewharty – Short Line to Death
      • Betty Jean Craige – Saxxons in Witherston 

      Good Luck to All as Your Works Compete to Advance to the Next Level of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

      These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2020 M&M Book Awards for Cozy and Not So Cozy Mystery Novels. 

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

         

        The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

        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.

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        We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is April 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.

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    • The 2020 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction – The Semi-Finalists for the CYGNUS Division of the 2020 CIBAs

      The 2020 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction – The Semi-Finalists for the CYGNUS Division of the 2020 CIBAs

      Cygnus Award for Science FictionThe Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus 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 division. Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Genetic Modification, Aliens, Super Humans, Interplanetary Travel, 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.

      The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the Finalists positions. Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. The Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. 

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      The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash. 

      Congratulations to the 2020 Cygnus Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS!

      • Brent Golembiewski –Flat Earth
      • Jonas Saul –The Immortal Gene
      • Mark T. Sneed – Bully Nation
      • Brooke Skipstone – Some Laneys Died
      • B.T. Keaton – Transference
      • Mark D. Owen – Impact
      • JL Morin – Loveoid
      • Charis Himeda – CRISPR Evolution
      • Bryan K. Prosek – Paradoxal
      • R.S. Harmon – Captain’s Covenant
      • Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl – Merged
      • Timothy S. Johnston – The Savage Deeps
      • Alex McIntosh – Upstream Revolt 
      • Mike Meier – JoinWith.Me
      • Palmer Pickering – Moon Deeds 
      • Ted Neill – Reaper Moon: Race War in the Post Apocalypse
      • Dr. Anay Ayarovu – STAZR the World Of Z: The Dawn of Athir
      • PA Vasey – Trinity’s Fall
      • Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle – The Luna Missile Crisis
      • Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
      • J.T. Blossom – Lenore and the Problem With Love – When You Go to College Save the Planet
      • Russ Colson – The Arasmith Certainty Principle
      • Zach Fortier – Volk: Book one of The Overseer series
      • Cary Allen Stone – SEEDS: The Journey Begins
      • Susan Wingate – The Lesser Witness
      • Dennis M. Clausen – The Accountant’s Apprentice
      • Courtney Leigh Pahlke – Life Force Preserve
      • Marc Corwin – The Optical Lasso
      • Alan J. Steinberg – To be Enlightened

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

      The next round of judging will decide which books move on to the Finalist positions for the 2020 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction novels.

       

      The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

      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.

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      We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 CYGNUS  Awards writing competition. The deadline for submissions is April 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.

      Don’t wait! Click here to enter today!

    • The 2020 SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction – the Short List

      The 2020 SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction – the Short List

      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 SLUSH pile to the 2020 Somerset Book Awards LONG LIST and now have progressed to the 2020 SHORTLIST. 

      Congratulations to the following titles who have advanced to the 2020 SOMERSET Book Awards SHORTLIST!

      • Susan Dobson – Boomerang
      • Sara Stamey – Pause
      • R Barber Anderson – Jumeau
      • Gregory Erich Phillips – A Season in Lights
      • Candi Sary – Magdalena
      • Kathleen Reid – Sunrise in Florence
      • Ivy Cayden – Everything All At Once (Book 1, Chorduroys and Too Many Boys™)
      • Lauren J. Sharkey – Inconvenient Daughter
      • Amy L Cleven – Look Up
      • Kasie Whitener – After December
      • T P Graf – As the Daisies Bloom
      • Patrick M. Garry – The Donor
      • Katherine Johnson – Grit & Granite
      • Jennifer Gold – Keep Me Afloat
      • Catherine Hamilton – Victoria’s War
      • Jessica O’Dwyer – Mother Mother
      • Lauren J. Sharkey – Inconvenient Daughter
      • Pierce Koslosky Jr. – A Week at Surfside Beach
      • John Danenbarger – Entanglement: Quantum and Otherwise
      • Julie Weary – Knowing Marjorie Thane
      • B. K. Stubblefield – Scars of the Past
      • Dan V. Jackson – Rainbow Bridge
      • Kathleen M. Rodgers – The Flying Cutterbucks
      • Abbe Rolnick – Founding Stones
      • Liana Gardner – Speak No Evil
      • Susan Wingate – How the Deer Moon Hungers
      • Lainey Cameron – The Exit Strategy
      • Barbara Linn Probst – Queen of the Owls
      • Alice Early – The Moon Always Rising
      • Judy Keeslar Santamaria – Jetty Cat Palace Cafe
      • Joanne Kukanza Easley –Sweet Jane

      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 Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Somerset Book Awards for Contemporary and Literary Fiction. 

      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 ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 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.

      Please click here for more information.

      Don’t Delay! Enter Today! 

      As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.

    • The 2020 GOETHE Book Awards for post 1750s Historical Fiction – the Short List – 2020 CIBAs

      The 2020 GOETHE Book Awards for post 1750s Historical Fiction – the Short List – 2020 CIBAs

      Post 1750s Historical Fiction AwardThe Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

       

      The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

      Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian,18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them. The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

      These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2020 Goethe Book Awards LONG LIST and have now progressed to the 2020 SHORTLIST.  

       

      The 2020 Shortlist for the Goethe Book Awards

       

      • James Hockenberry – Send The Word
      • Helena P. Schrader – Where Eagles Never Flew: A Battle of Britain Novel
      • Conor Bender – Jubilee
      • Linda Ulleseit – The Aloha Spirit
      • Eileen O’Finlan – Erin’s Children
      • Jon Duncan – Heart of the Few
      • Grahame Shannon – Bay of Devils
      • Leslie K. Barry – Newark Minutemen
      • T. Matt Ryan – One Hell of a Shipmate
      • Richard Alan Schwartz – Wind Chimes, War and Consequence A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
      • Kari Bovee – Folly at the Fair
      • James Padian – A Patriot’s Challenges
      • Betty Bolte – Becoming Lady Washington
      • Kit Sergeant – The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII
      • J.P. Kenna – The Anarchist Girl’s Confession
      • Jomo Merritt – Sons of a Mauffen King
      • J.L.Oakley – The Quisling Factor
      • Brigitte Goldstein – Babylon Laid Waste-A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols
      • D.V Chernov – Commissar
      • Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse 
      • Michelle Cameron – Beyond the Ghetto Gates
      • Kathryn Gauci – The Poseidon Network
      • Dorothea Hubble Bonneau – Once in a Blood Moon
      • Nancy H. Wynen – We Did What We Could
      • Pamela Jonas – Beneath a Radiant Moon
      • John Hansen – Secrets of the Gros Ventre
      • Eileen Harrison Sanchez – Freedom Lessons – A Novel
      • Elizabeth St. Michel – Lord of the Wilderness
      • Donna Scott – The London Monster
      • Jerena Tobiasen – The Crest, Book I of The Prophecy
      • James Ross – Hunting Teddy Roosevelt
      • Jule Selbo – Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
      • Linda Stewart Henley – Estelle: A Novel
      • Gregory Erich Phillips – Guilty as Angels
      • Vicky Oliver – Love and Suffrage in Manhattan
      • Roger Newman – Will O’ the Wisp: Madness, War and Recompense
      • Theo Czuk – Hastings Street: Boulevard Of Blues
      • Sandra Perez Gluschankoff – Thorns for Raisel
      • Ben Wyckoff Shore – Terribilita
      • Carmela Cattuti – Between the Cracks: one woman’s journey from Sicily to America
      • Wendy Long Stanley – The Power to Deny
      • David Selcer – The Old Stories, a.k.a Da Alt Geshikhtem
      • Pyram King – Destiny’s War – Part 1: Saladin’s Secret
      • Lucinda Brant – Deadly Kin: A Georgian Historical Mystery 
      • Cris Harding – Red Wing

      These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Goethe  Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. 

      The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash. 

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

        Goethe Book Awards Semi-Finalist Badge

        The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

         

        We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. The deadline for submissions is July 30, 2020. The  2021 winners will be announced in April 2022.

      • Cathy Ace | VCAC21 Headliner Crime and Mystery

        Cathy Ace | VCAC21 Headliner Crime and Mystery

        Cathy Ace | VCAC21 HEADLINERS

        Crime and Mystery Writer

        Cathy Ace

        Cathy Ace is an entertaining speaker; over the years she’s chatted engagingly, made complex Powerpoint presentations, and read her work or hosted and been Master of Ceremony for various events and conferences. She’s done this at venues as diverse as a plant nursery in Canada, a dazzling Livery Hall in the City of London, and a grade 12 schoolroom.

        Having run her own post-graduate marketing communications training company in the UK for a decade, and having traveled the world as a management trainer, she’s now able to take all that experience and be an “edu-taining” speaker who is funny, insightful, knows her stuff and can speak about topics ranging from the broad base of The History of Mystery, to more intimate and personal topics such as how she plans, plots and writes her bestselling mysteries.

        BIG NEWS FOR CATHY…Her Cait Morgan Mysteries have been optioned for TV by the UK production company Free@Last TV, which is responsible for the hit TV series based on MC Beaton’s Agatha Raisin books (Hamish MacBeth series). The same company has optioned The Wrong Boy, with plans for it to be broadcast as a three-part miniseries, in Welsh and English. 

        Below are the titles for the Cait Morgan Mysteries in all their glory! A fraction of the books Cathy Ace has written!

        The Corpse with the Silver Tongue A Cait Morgan Mystery Cathy Ace The Corpse with the Golden Nose A Cait Morgan Mystery Cathy AceThe Corpse with the Emerald Thumb A Cait Morgan Mystery Cathy Ace The Corpse with the Platinum Hair A Cait Morgan Mystery Cathy Ace The Corpse with the Sapphire Eyes A Cait Morgan Mystery Cathy Ace

         

         

         

         

         

        The Corpse with the Diamond Hand A Cait Morgan Mystery Cathy Ace

        The Corpse with the Garnet Face A Cait Morgan Mystery Cathy Ace

        The Corpse with the Ruby Lips A Cait Morgan Mystery Cathy Ace

        The Corpse with the Crystal Skull A Cait Morgan Mystery Cathy Ace

        And forthcoming from Cathy Ace: Book 10 of the Cait Morgan Mysteries, The Corpse with the Iron Will

        The Corpse with the Iron Will Book 10 Cathy Ace Cait Morgan

        From the website of Cathy Ace:

        Welsh criminal psychologist and globetrotting sleuth, Cait Morgan, and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson, are enjoying some well-deserved peace and quiet at home, in moody, mountainous British Columbia. The sudden death of a neighbor is a significant loss for them both, so Cait’s honored when Gordy Krantz’s “unusual” will requests that she eulogize him at his memorial.

        However, delving into the dead man’s background becomes a pressing priority when a puzzling theft, and some surprising discoveries, put our favourite sleuths on high alert. Might someone living in their seemingly tight-knit – and certainly off-beat – rural community have wanted their neighbor dead? And if so, are more people they know at risk?

         

        The tenth Cait Morgan Mystery from Bony Blithe Award-winning author Cathy Ace, The Corpse with the Iron Will, forces Cait and Bud to use the skills they’ve honed tackling cases around the world to unmask a killer who’s too close to home for comfort!

        ISBN print: 9781999223076 (will be available for pre-order from your local bookstore or library from mid-May 2021)

        ISBN e-book (all platforms): 9781999223083 (will be available for pre-order for platforms other than amazon from late-March 2021)

         

        Click here for more information about the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference and Int’l Book Awards Banquet and Ceremony.

      • The 2020 Laramie Book Awards for Western/Pioneer Fiction – the Short List

        The 2020 Laramie Book Awards for Western/Pioneer Fiction – the Short List

        Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction Award

        The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Western, Pioneer, & Civil War Historical Fiction and First Nation Novels. The Laramie 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, the wild west, pioneering, Civil War, North American History, and First Nation Novels.. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Laramie Book Awards?

        These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2020 Laramie Book Awards LONG LIST and now have progressed to the 2020 SHORTLIST. 

        Congratulations to the following titles who have advanced to the 2020 Laramie Book Awards SHORTLIST!

        • Fred Dickey – Days of Hope, Miles of Misery  
        • David Fitz-Gerald – She Sees Ghosts? The Story of a Woman Who Rescues Lost Souls 
        • DL Fowler – The Turn      
        • JR Collins – Legend of Swell Branch
        • John W. Bebout – The Cause of Darkness- A Story of the Civil War    
        • Eileen Charbonneau – Mercies of the Fallen
        • James Kahn – Matamoros
        • Gerry Robinson – The Cheyenne Story    
        • J. Palma – The Chaffee Sisters   
        • Susan Higginbotham – The First Lady and the Rebel    
        • Barbara Salvatore – Magghie    
        • J.C. Graves – Death is a Sharpshooter    
        • J.B. Richard – Jesse   
        • Terry D. Heflin – Scarlet Hem
        • Mike Shellenbergar – Quail Creek Ranch
        • Mike Shellenbergar – Refuge
        • T.K. Conklin – Promise of Spring
        • Van Temple – Whisperwood: A Confederate Soldier’s Struggle  
        • Rebecca Dwight Bruff – Trouble the Water, a Novel
        • John Hansen – Elk Meadows
        • E. Alan Fleischauer – Hunted
        • Daniel Greene – Northern Wolf
        • W. Hock Hochheim – Rio Grande Black Magic
        • Elizabeth St. Michel – Surrender to Honor 

        These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Laramie Book Awards for Western, Pioneer, & Civil War Historical Fiction and First Nation Novels Fiction. 

        Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Laramie Book Awards for Western/Pioneer Fiction?

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

        Laramie Book Awards

        The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

        We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Laramie Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is July 31st, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.

        Please click here for more information.

        Don’t Delay! Enter Today! 

        As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.

      • ABIGAIL’s WINDOW by Susan Lynn Solomon – Romantic Fantasy, Paranormal & Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance

        ABIGAIL’s WINDOW by Susan Lynn Solomon – Romantic Fantasy, Paranormal & Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance

        Katy Novacs is haunted, both by her past and the laughing specter that reminds her of it. When her friends bring her to Niagara-on-the-Lake in the hopes of lifting her spirits, she finds that their inn has a ghost of its own who has a tale that might save her.

        Katy comes to the Niagara Inn in a mire of sorrow, fear, and trauma. Though her friends try to help her move forward with her life, to fall in love and open herself up to other people again, Katy’s stay at the inn only seems to drain her further. Both she and her friends question her sanity as she becomes certain that she’s sharing a room with the spirit of a dead woman, but when Abigail eventually reveals herself, it is to tell Katy a story that she needs to hear—that of Abigail’s life.

        One hundred and fifty years ago, Abigail Kirby finds her own love in Will Bender. They cross the lines of class to be together, but Abigail’s story doesn’t end when she wins Will’s heart; there are far greater struggles, sorrows, and the dark shadows of the past waiting to fall upon her. What strings have fate wrapped around Abigail, and will Katy be able to find the message that she so desperately needs?

        Abigail’s Window is threaded through with evocative descriptions. The cold and snow of Niagara-on-the-Lake surrounds the Niagara Inn, which is built up with foreboding and emotional energy that suffuses parts of the old house. Abigail’s story is even more expansive in its description, building the whole town as it was long in the past; this old picture gives the reader a strong sense of Abigail and the world that she lived in, from the small social circles of Niagara-on-the-Lake to an exploration of the far-reaching American Civil War.

        Susan Lynn Solomon creates animated, complex characters whose personalities show through in everything they do and say. Katy’s emotional exhaustion is palpable on the page, shading the entire beginning of the story; her narration is intimately understandable even at its most troubled. Her experiences show a deep alienation from the people around her and draw the reader into her world which is, at least early on, truly private. Among that fear and isolation from Katy’s struggles, the story introduces a slow, powerful development of the friendship and emotional connection that Abigail and Katy share as they tell each other what they’ve both been through; their life stories carry parallels that help them understand one another while remaining distinct characters with their own voices and ways of seeing the world.

        The reader learns the mysteries of Katy and Abigail at the same time the two women learn them, their stories interwoven. The pacing of Abigail’s Window is excellent. The story takes its time revealing Abigail, giving space for Katy to settle into the house and teach the reader about herself. Katy’s fear of the ghost doesn’t change to comfort all at once, but over time as Abigail becomes more and more present. Once they begin sharing, both of their stories are given the space they need to be told, to explore the feelings within them and show the reader who these characters were before they came to share a bedroom in the Niagara Inn. Those stories come together as Abigail’s Window picks up the pace for a tense and affecting climax.

        Common themes connect Abigail and Katy. Abigail’s story is marked by fate, how what happened to her before could only have led to what came after, and how she tried to fight against it. Katy struggles to accept the love that’s waiting for her because of her own past. Abigail’s Window doesn’t shy away from the deep emotional pain of its characters, but the story is strung together with the idea that a true connection with someone else has the power to heal the soul, and the trust that love will survive, no matter what else.

        Abigail’s Window is a touching, fascinating story of two wonderful characters, and the connection they form across a century and a half. This novel by Susan Lynn Solomon won Grand Prize in the CIBA 2019 Paranormal Awards for supernatural fiction.