We are deeply honored and excited to continue to announce the 2020 Winners of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) with our third of three official postings.

Click here to visit the First Posting out of Three Official Announcements of the 2020 CIBA Winners.

Click here to visit the Second Posting out of Three Official Announcements of the 2020 CIBA Winners.

The winners were recognized at a special CIBAs ceremony held on June 5th, 2021 in-person and by ZOOM webinars based at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.

The CIBA announcements were made LIVE with Chanticleerians participating and interacting from around the globe and North America.

We cheered on the CIBA Premier Finalists with our bubbly of choice from wherever we were Zooming!

We want to thank all of the CIBA judges who read each and every entry and then comment, rate, and rank within each of the 24 CIBA Divisions. Without your labors of love for books, the Chanticleer International Book Awards would not exist. THANK YOU!

 

We want to thank all of the authors and publishers who participated in the 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs). Each year, we find the quality of the entries and the competitiveness of the division competitions increasing exponentially. We added a new level to the judging rounds in 2019—the premier Level of FINALIST per each CIBA Division. The CIBA judges wanted to add the Finalist Level of Achievement as a way to recognize and validate the entries that had outstanding merit but were not selected for the very few First Place Award positions within each genre division.

This post will recognize the First Place and Grand Prize Winners for the

Six Non-Fiction Divisions:

Journey, Hearten, Harvey Chute, Mind and Spirit, I & I, and Nellie Bly

along with the FIRST Winners for the 

Short Story, and Book Series Awards,

and concluding with the 

 OVERALL 2020 GRAND PRIZE WINNER 

for the 

2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards 

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The JOURNEY Book Awards for

Narrative Non-Fiction, Memoirs, and Biographies 

Grand Prize Winner is

THE PARROT’S PERCH: A MEMOIR OF TORTURE AND CORRUPTION IN BRAZIL by Karen Keilt

The Journey First Place Category Winners are:

• Susan E Casey – Rock On: Mining for Joy in the Deep River of Sibling Grief
• Laila Tarraf – Strong Like Water: Lessons Learned from Leading with Love
• Steve Mariotti – Goodbye Homeboy 
• Steve Rochinski – A Man of His Time: Secrets from a Halfway World
• Susan E. Greisen – In Search of Pink Flamingos: A Woman’s Quest for Forgiveness & Unconditional Love
• Renee Hodges – Saving Bobby: Heroes and Heroin in One Small Community 
• Barbara Clarke – The Red Kitchen    

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The INSTRUCTION and INSIGHT Book Awards

for How-To Guides, Travel Guides, Cook Books, Self-Help, and Enlightenment

Grand Prize Winner is 

INDEPENDENT LIVING WITH AUTISM by Wendela Whitcomb Marsh

 

 

The I & &  First Place Category Winners are:

• Peggy Sullivan –Blissfully Single, A Single’s Guide to Finding Happiness
• Judy Taylor – Save That Rug! A How-To Guide for Repairing Hooked Rugs
• Dennis J Kotchmar – The Joy Of Searching, Buying and Selling, Antiques and Home Décor from France and England
• Leslie Bains – Let’s Take A Hike: 7 Family-Friendly Trails of Nantucket
• Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book Two
• Jill Sherer Murray – Big Wild Love: The Unstoppable Power of Letting Go           

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The NELLIE BLY Book Awards

for Investigative and Long Form Journalism Non-Fiction 

Grand Prize Winner is

PRISON FROM THE INSIDE OUT by William ‘Mecca’ Elmore & Susan Simone

 

The Nellie Bly First Place Category Winners are:

• Ashley Conner and Cierra Camper – Memoirs of Michael: The Hurricane Project 
• Kris Newby – BITTEN: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
• Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D. – Cause and Civility: Imploring Reason and Respect From An Advocate Journalist, Book I (now, Advancing the Good Society: Real Advocacy Journalism™ in Action, Book I Ethics and Values)
• Patricia Martin Holt – EMPOWER A REFUGEE, Peace of Thread and the Backyard Humanity Movement
• Gigi Berardi – FoodWISE: A Whole Systems Guide to Sustainable and Delicious Food Choices
• Ted Neill – Two Years of Wonder 

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The HARVEY CHUTE Book Awards

for Business & Enterprise Non-Fiction 

Grand Prize Winner is

EDGE: TURNING ADVERSITY INTO ADVANTAGE by Laura Huang

The Harvey Chute First Place Category Winners are:

• Gary M. Shiffman – The Economics of Violence: How Behavioral Science Can Transform our View of Crime, Insurgency, and Terrorism
• Susanne Tedrick – Women of Color in Tech: A Blueprint for Inspiring and Mentoring the Next Generation of Technology Innovators
• Rachel Thompson – The BadRedhead Media 30-Day Book Marketing Challenge
• Marcus Kirsch – The Wicked Company
• Anthony Delauney – Owning the Dash
• Tikiri Herath – Your Rebel Dreams: Discover Your Purpose and Passions to Power Up Your Life
• Mike D. Kinney – Navigating Your Safety Culture Journey     

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The MIND & SPIRIT Book Awards

for Spirituality and Enlightenment Non-Fiction

Grand Prize Winner is

EXIT THE MAZE: ONE ADDICTION, ONE CAUSE, ONE CURE by Dr. Donna Marks

The Mind and Spirit First Place Category Winners are:

• Cindy Rasicot – Finding Venerable Mother: A Daughter’s Spiritual Quest to Thailand 
• Nancy Pickard – Bigger Better Braver
• Jennie Lee – Spark Change: 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution 
• Anna Carner – Blossom – The Wild Ambassador of Tewksbury
• Marianne Ingheim – Out of Love: Finding Your Way Back to Self-Compassion  
• Jill Sherer Murray – Big Wild Love: The Unstoppable Power of Letting Go     

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The HEARTEN Book Awards

for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction

Grand Prize Winner is

LOVE, LIFE, AND LUCILLE by Judy Gaman

The Hearten First Place Category Winners are:

 

• Annerose D. Watts – Blue Plate Journey 
• Katherine Snow Smith – Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker, Missteps, and Lessons Learned  
• 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 
• Keturah Kendrick – No Thanks: Black, Female, And Living in the Martyr-Free Zone
• Evelyn Kohl LaTorre – Between Inca Walls – Peace Corps memoir 
• 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 
• Cerridwen Fallingstar – Broth from the Cauldron; A Wisdom Journey through Everyday Magic 
• Bill Pullen – It Started at The Savoy  

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Congratulations to the Inaugural 

AWARD WINNERS for the

Short Story Awards and Short Story Collections

of the CIBAs

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The SHORT STORY Book Awards

for the CIBA Short Story Collections

Grand Prize Winner is

A WEEK AT SURFSIDE BEACH by Pierce Koslosky Jr.

 

Congratulations to The SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS FINALISTS!

• Lindy Ryan – Dead of Winter 
• Janet Oakley – Hilo Bay Mystery Collection
• Sean Thomas Dwyer – Voices I Hear
• Susan Lynn Solomon – T’was the Season
• Abbe Rolnick – Tattle Tales: Essays and Stories Along the Way

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The SHORT STORY Book Awards

for Short Stories, Novelettes, and Novellas

Grand Prize Winner is

SAVONNE, NOT VONNY by Robin Lee Lovelace

Congratulations to The SHORT STORY & NOVELLAS FINALISTS!

SHORT STORIES and NOVELETTES 

Historical Fiction (Chaucer/Goethe/Laramie/Hemingway) 

• Kristie Clark – Dragon of the Sea
• Vali Benson – Blood and Silver 
• Grendolyn Soleil – Snow Dust and Boneshine: The Chronicles of Granny Witch
• Marina Osipova – From Stalin with Love

Mystery & Suspense  (M&M/Clue)

• J. J. Clarke – Dared to Fly 
• Alan E. Fleischauer – Sherlock and the Tiger 
• Joanne Jaytanie – Twice As Bad, Miss Demeanor, P. I.  Series

Out of This World Fiction – Speculative Fiction

• Robin Lee Lovelace – Savonne, Not Vonny 
• Alexandrea Weis – Sisters of the Moon 
• Matilda Scotney- Joy In Four Parts
• Sarena Ulibarri – Inviting Disaster
• Grendolyn Soleil – Snow Dust and Boneshine: The Chronicles of Granny Witch

Contemporary/Literary/Satire (Somerset/Mark Twain) 

• Susan Lynn Solomon – Reunion
• V. P. Evans – N
• V.P. Evans – W
• Michelle Rene Magee – Danielle’s Inferno
• Dennis M. Clausen – The Accountant’s Apprentice 

Chatelaine

• Joanne Jaytanie – Christmas Chemistry, Forever Christmas in Glenville, Book 3
• Vicki Batman – Raving Beauty
• Gail Meath – Fire Blossom 
• Joanne Jaytanie – P.I. I LOVE YOU,  Miss Demeanor, P.I. Book I

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Congratulations to the

Inaugural AWARD WINNERS for the

FICTION SERIES

of the 2020 CIBAs

 

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The BOOK SERIES Book Awards

for Fiction Series

Grand Prize Winner is

THE DEVIL’S BOOKKEEPERS by Mark Newhouse

The Noose, The Noose Tightens, The Noose Closes

 

Congratulations to the First Place  Category Winners 

for the CIBAs New Division for Fiction Series Book Awards!

 

CHATELAINE Book Series Awards for Romantic Fiction

Multi-cultural/Inter-racial Romance Series:

• The Prodigy Slave by Londyn Skye
  • The Prodigy Slave: Journey to Winter Garden
  • The Prodigy Slave: The Old World
  • The Prodigy Slave: The Ultimate Grand Finale

Regency/Georgian Romance Series:

 

• The Donet Trilogy by Regan Walker
  • To Tame the Wind 
  • Echo in the Wind
  • A Fierce Wind

Historical Romance Series:

• The Lavender Meuse Trilogy by Gail Noble-Sanderson
  • The Lavender House in Meuse
  • The Passage Home to Meuse
  • The Lavender Bees of Meuse

 

HEMINGWAY Book Series Awards for Wartime Historical Fiction

The Devil’s Bookkeepers – Three Books by Mark Newhouse

• • The Noose
  • The Noose Tightens
  • The Noose Closes

 

CLUE Awards Series for Mystery & Suspense

• The Annie Oakley Mystery Series – Three Books by Kari Bovee
  • Girl with a Gun
  • Peccadillo at the Palace
  • Folly at the Fair

LARAMIE Series Awards Western, Americana, Civil War Fiction

Americana Fiction

•  An American Journey Novel Series – Four Books by Richard Alan Schwartz
  • The Emigrant
  • The Pioneer
  • The Surgeon
  • The Soldier

GOETHE for Historical Fiction Series, post-1750s

• The Poland Trilogy – Eastern European Literature -Three Books by James Conroyd Martin
  • Push Not the River
  • Against a Crimson Sky
  • The Warsaw Conspiracy

 

DANTE ROSSETTI Book Series Awards for Young Adult Fiction

• The Adventures of Jonathan Moore Book Series – Three Books by Peter Greene
  • Warship Poseidon
  • Castle of Fire
  • Paladin’s War 

 

M & M Book Series Awards for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries 

• The Henrietta and Inspector Howard Mystery Series – Five Books by Michelle Cox
  • A Girl Like You
  • A Ring of Truth 
  • A Promise Given
  • A Veil Removed
  • A Child Lost 

 

OZMA Book Series Awards for Fantasy Fiction 

• Terribly Serious Darkness Gaslamp Fantasy Book Series – Three Books by Sam Hooker
  • Peril in the Old Country
  • Soul Remains
  • Now Before the Dark

 

PARANORMAL Book Series Awards for Supernatural Fiction

• The Winters Sisters – a Paranormal Romantic Suspense Series – Four Books by Joanne Jaytanie
  • Chasing Victory
  • Payton’s Pursuit
  • Willow’s Discovery
  • Corralling Kenzie 

 

SOMERSET Book Series Awards for Contemporary, Literary, & Mainstream Fiction

• The Anne McFarland Book Series – American Literature – Three Books by Jill G. Hall
  • The Black Velvet Coat
  • The Silver Shoes
  • The Green Lace Corset

 

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CONGRATULATIONS to ALL! 

 

And NOW for the 

2020 CHANTICLEER INT’L BOOK AWARDS

BEST BOOK

and

OVERALL GRAND PRIZE WINNER

TROUBLE THE WATER

by Rebecca Dwight Bruff

Rebecca Dwight Bruff will also be awarded $1,000 USD in recognition of her 2020 BEST BOOK of the YEAR – Chanticleer International Book Awards – Sponsored by Chanticleer Reviews & Media. 

A Chanticleer Review of Trouble the Water will be featured in the in the SPRING 2022 quarterly edition of the Chanticleer Reviews Magazine (print and epub) along with other promotional and marketing opportunities along with an interview with the author, Rebecca Dwight Bruff.

Thank you Rebecca Dwight Bruff for participating in the 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards. We look forward to receiving future work in our CIBAs.

We look forward to toasting Rebecca in person at our next gathering–hopefully in 2022. We are so happy that she joined us virtually for the CIBA announcements at our special ceremony on June 5th, 2021.

CONGRATULATIONS REBECCA DWIGHT BRUFF! 

From all of us at Chanticleer International Book Awards and Chanticleer Reviews. 

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Submit your works (manuscripts or novels published after or on January 1, 2019, are accepted) to the prestigious Chanticleer International Book Awards today! Entries are being accepted into the 2021 CIBAs in all 18 fiction divisions and seven non-fiction divisions. 

Be sure to register early for the 10th Anniversary 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference that will start on April 7th, 2021 with the 2022 CIBA banquet and ceremony scheduled to take place on Sunday, April 10th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. If we cannot move forward with CAC22 due to the coronavirus, we will host another LIVE and HYBRID Chanticleer Authors Conference and 2021 Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards ceremony.

Pivot and Oscillate are the Words for Today’s Challenging Times.

An email will go out to all 2020 CIBA award winners prior to October 30, 2021, with instructions, links, and more information about the awards packages. We appreciate your patience. As stated many times before “One does not need to be present at the CIBA ceremony and banquet to win. But it sure is a lot more fun!” –even if it is virtual!

As always, please contact us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions!

Be well. Stay Healthy. Take Care!

The Chanticleer Reviews Team