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  • The M&M 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Cozy and No-So-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem Novels

    The M&M 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Cozy and No-So-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem Novels

    Cozy Mystery Fiction AwardThe 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)

     1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Maggie Marr on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the M&M BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the M&M Grand Prize Winner.

    M&M Blue and Gold 1st Place Badge Image

     

    Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works!

    • Michelle Cox – A Spying Eye

    • Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Book of Rules

    • E. E. Burke – Tom Sawyer Returns

    • Elizabeth Woolsey – Small Town Secrets: Horse Doctor Adventures

    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Frozen in Motion

    • M.K. Graff – The Evening’s Amethyst

    • Kathleen KaskaEagle Crossing: A Kate Caraway Animal-Rights Mystery

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Mystery & Mayhem Awards is:

    A Spying Eye

    A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel

    by Michelle Cox 

    The M&M Grand Prize for Mystery and Mayhem M&M Awards goes to A Spying Eye by Michelle Cox

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

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    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

    To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

    Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

    Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

     Team Chanticleer

  • The CHATELAINE Book Awards 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Romance Fiction

    The CHATELAINE Book Awards 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Romance Fiction

    Romance Fiction Chatelaine AwardThe Chatelaine Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Romance Fiction.  The Chatelaine Book Awards is a division of the 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). We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Gail Noble-Sanderson on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the CHATELAINE BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the CHATELAINE Grand Prize Winner.

    Chatelaine 1st Place Best in Category Blue and Gold Badge

    Congratulations to all!

    • Reenita Malhotra Hora – Operation Mom

    • KC Cowan – The Bennets: Providence & Perception

    • Josanna Thompson – A Maiden’s Journey

    • Carol Van Den Hende – Orchid Blooming

    • Wendy Rich Stetson – Hometown

    • Kelly Miller – Captive Hearts

    • Marie Jones – Those We Trust

        the Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 CHATELAINE Book Awards is:

        Operation Mom:

        My plan to get my Mom a life and a man

        by Reenita Malhotra Hora 

        The Chatelaine 2022 Grand Prize for Operation Mom by Reenita Malhotra Hora

        PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

        Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

        This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.

        Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

        Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews

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

         

        A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

        To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

        Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

        Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

        The Chanticleer Team

      • Chanticleer Authors Conference – Update and Latest Info by Kiffer Brown

        Chanticleer Authors Conference – Update and Latest Info by Kiffer Brown

        Learn from the Best at CAC 23! 

        ~Book to Film Workshop – What Every Author Needs to Know~

        ~How to Use Magazine Features to Promote Your Works~

        ~Travel Writing – How To and Breaking In to the Business~

        ~Podcasting for Authors~

        ~Narrative Fiction Podcasts vs Audiobooks~

        ~Decoding the Amazon Algorithm~

        ~Outlining Your Books, Pacing & Plotting, Genre Specific Editing~

        ~Kickstarter Publishing – Primer and How-To ~

        ~Exercising and Building Good Movement Habits for the Writing Life~

        ~BookBub and Book Funnel Selling Platforms~

        ~Increasing Your Email List and Expanding Your Readership~

        ~Book Covers that Sell~

        ~ChatGPT – What is it and What does it mean for authors and content creators~

        ~Multi-Channel Marketing for Authors ~

        ~How to be Your Own Book Publicist~

        ~Alphabet Soup (SEO, ISBNs, BISAC, Meta-Data) for Book Distribution and Discovery~

        and many more sessions on the marketing and business side of being an author and publisher

        Don’t Delay – Register Today!

        Only Four Weeks until the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

        a Wreath surrounds CAC 2023 for the Chanticleer Authors Conference

        and the 

        2022 Chanticleer International Book Awards Banquet and Ceremony

        CAC23

        Join us at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether on beautiful Bellingham Bay!

        There are FIVE different registration packages available!

        1. Book to Film 3-Hour Workshop with Maggie Marr, Atty – Creative Representation
        2. 3-Day All Inclusive Registration with CIBA Ceremony and Banquet with options for discounted Book to Workshop, Companion Pass Option, and CIBA Dinner Guest option.
        3. 2-Day Registration Pass with Awards Banquet – Saturday and Sunday & Book Fair
        4. “Locals” Basic Day Pass for  Saturday and Sunday Registration – No Awards Banquet. Book Fair included
        5. CIBA Banquet and Ceremony Only for Saturday Evening

        Join Us for the Crowning Event

        of the

        Chanticleer Authors Conference

        the CIBAs Annual Banquet and Ceremony

        The Icing on the Cake, the Crowning Event, the Highlight of the conference is the CIBA Banquet and Awards Ceremony that is held on Saturday evening of the conference.

        The CIBA Banquet and Ceremony

        First, we start with a cocktail hour (five-thirty in the afternoon with a cash bar, complimentary appetizers are served at six o’clock in the evening.

        Most every one is dressed to impress – either “in brand,” posh, or “after-five” special. Of course, this is Bellingham, so there will always be those who bring out their best fleece and wool socks!

        The ceremony photographer is set-up to take complimentary headshots, group photos, and, of course, photograph the ceremony announcements and presentations. After the event, he continues with division group photos, winner photos, cheering sections photos—a lot of photos—that attendees may download digitally for free!

        Our CAC23 photographer is Dwayne Rogge of PhotoTreeHouse Photography, Bellingham, WA.

        FINALIST attendees are given a Finalist Ribbon to attach to their name badge upon registration pick-up—btw.

        Also, there are many different lodging options for different budgets and needs. Click here for more info

        Who will take home the coveted Chanticleer Blue Ribbons?

        At seven o’clock in the evening, each attendee is handed a ceremony program with all the Finalists listed by division.

        Next, we are seated for a lovely dinner catered by the Hotel Bellwether. Acknowledgements, a short keynote presentation, and recognition of the Finalists in attendance during the salad course.

        Then we enjoy the Northwest inspired dinner prepared by the Hotel Bellwether’s  Executive Chef Marcello Mazzoleni.  

        After dinner,  coffee and dessert (the cash bar stays open the entire time!) are served and we begin the announcements for the Division First Place Award Winners. We have a small break and photo opportunities.

        Next, we announce the Division Grand Prize Winners. And, finally, the Overall GRAND PRIZE WINNER of the 2022 CIBAs!

        More photos are taken!

        At the end of the glorious evening, we all head to the Hotel Bellwether’s fireside bar to gather and enjoy each others company and congratulate the winners.

      • POP-UP Books & Gifts Event – Just in Time for Palentine’s & Valentine’s Day

        POP-UP Books & Gifts Event – Just in Time for Palentine’s & Valentine’s Day

         Pop-On Over and Visit Us

        at the Chanticleer 

        Pop-Up Books and Gifts Event

        February 4 & 5, 2023

        Saturday  10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

        and Sunday  11 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

        The Herald Building – First Floor, Downtown Bellingham, Wash. 


        FREE! Local Authors and Artists Event featuring Gifts for Palentine’s and Valentine’s Day:

        • Books
        • Children’s Books
        • Candles
        • Soaps
        • T-shirts
        • Toys & Games
        • Prints & Paintings
        • Cards
        • Vintage Goods
        • Bric a Brac

        Open to the Public

        POP on over to our POP-UP Event on Sat. & Sun. Feb 4th & 5th at the Herald Building, First Floor – Downtown Bellingham!

        Featuring the Following Authors:

        Susan Conrad, Peggy Sullivan, Gail Noble-Sanderson, Wendy Kendall, Jennifer Mueller, Robert Wright, Rob Slater, Donna LeClair, Strider Klusman, Marian Exall, Christine Smith, Sean Dwyer, MW Soapworks, Neal Cronic – Artist & Kiffer Brown.

        POP on Over for this FUN and FREE event! We have a few spots left, if you are interested or in the neighborhood.

        We’d love to help create these pop-ups for Chanticleerians all over.

        Message or email Kiffer at KBrown@ChantiReviews.com

      • POP-UP Books & Gifts Event – Just in Time for Palentine’s Day

        POP-UP Books & Gifts Event – Just in Time for Palentine’s Day

         Pop-On Over and Visit Us at the

        Pop-Up Books and Gifts Event

        February 4 & 5, 2023

        Saturday  10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

        and Sunday  11 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

        The Herald Building – First Floor, Downtown Bellingham, Wash. 


        FREE! Local Authors and Artists Event featuring Gifts for Palentine’s and Valentine’s Day:

        • Books
        • Children’s Books
        • Candles
        • Soaps
        • Tee-shirts
        • Toys & Games
        • Prints & Paintings
        • Cards
        • Vintage Stuff 
        • Bric a Brac

        Open to the Public and FREE!

        POP on over to our POP-UP Event on Sat. & Sun. Feb 4th & 5th at the Herald Building, First Floor – Downtown Bellingham!

        Featuring the Following Folk:

        Susan Conrad, Peggy Sullivan, Gail Noble-Sanderson, Wendy Kendall, Jennifer Mueller, Robert Wright, Rob Slater, Donna LeClair, Strider Klusman, Marian Exall, Christine Smith, Sean Dwyer, MW Soapworks, Neil Cronic – Artist & Kiffer Brown.

        POP on Over for this FUN and FREE event! We have a few spots left, if you are interested or in the neighborhood.

        We’d love to help create these pop-ups for Chanticleerians all over.

        Message or email Kiffer at KBrown@ChantiReviews.com

      • Chanticleer Magazine featuring USA Today Bestselling Author Ann Charles is Available in Print and E-Zine

        Chanticleer Magazine featuring USA Today Bestselling Author Ann Charles is Available in Print and E-Zine

        The latest issue features Ann Charles, USA Today Best-Selling Author.

        Ann shares her amazing author journey and her secrets to success! She has five, count them, five book series that are filled with mystery, humor, romance, supernatural, and the paranormal. Ann has also been awarded the CIBA Grand Prize for Paranormal Fiction.

                • Five Tips for Building Relationships with Readers
                • How to Refuel Your Creative Tank
                • Charting Plot Structure
                • Writing Life
                • Secrets for Writing Series

        All this and more in Sharon E. Anderson’s great interview with Ann!

        Order your print copy today!

         

        Download your e-pub copy today! Click here for a digital copy featuring Ann Charles. 

        Writing Craft with Jessica Morrell, Top-Tiered Editor and one of Chanticleer’s exceptional Master Writing Class instructors, expands on the components of successful fiction.

        Jessica Page Morrell
        Jessica Page Morrell

        James Conroyd Martin, Chanticleer Overall Grand Prize Winning Author known for bringing historical fiction to life, 10 Question Interview.

        James Conroyd Martin, Overall Chanticleer Grand Prize Winner!

        Sweet Lavender Days with Gail Noble-Sanderson with her delicious lavender shortbread cookie recipe. Gail is a multi-award-winning author who weaves an epic tale of romance set against World War I and II, full of warmth, family, and the hope that love can indeed conquer all.

        Award-Winning Author Gail Noble-Sanderson

        What Will You Read Next? Discovery New Reads from this issue’s Chanticleer reviews of these authors’ works from Non-Fiction to Fiction and even an anthology! More than 80 Chanticleer Reviews on the following authors’ works.

        Robert L. Slater, Ted Neill, G.R. Morris, Paul E. Vaughn, T. K. Riggins,  JW Zarek, Joy Ross Davis, Jeny Heckman, Richard J. OBrien, Chris Karlsen, Corey Lynn Fayman, Kevin G. Chapman, Pamela Beason, Norman M. Jacobs, M.D., Marilyn Larew, Michael Pronko, Michelle Cox, Wally Duff, Ann Charles, Karen Musser Nortman, Anna Castle, James Conroyd Martin, Bruce Gardner, Blaine Beveridge, Joe Vitovec,  Sandra Wagner-Wright, Andrea McKenzie Raine, Gerri Hilger, Michael L. Ross, Kari Bovee, David Fitz-Gerald, Sandra Rostirolla, L. A. Thompson, Susan Faw, Tiffany Brooks, Kay M. Bates, Robert D. Calkins, Aric Cushing, Sara Dahmen, Robert Scott Thayer, Simon Calcavecchia, L. E. Rico, Bronwen Evans, Elana Mikalsen, Claire Fullerton, Gene Helfman, Charlie Suisman, Lou Dischler, Eileen Charbonneau, Yorker Keith, Kris Kelso, Julie Jason, Lance Brewer, Franklin Ball, David Okerlund, Linda Jamsen, Cassandra Overby, Stevanne Auerbach, Bill W, Thomas Widman, Karen Keilt,  Jill Anderson, Dan Juday, Ilene Birkwood, Dr. Rhona Epstein, Ramzi Najjar, K,  Tanner T. Roberts, J. Nell Brown, Maya Castro, Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D, and The Red Wheelbarrow Writers.

        Where can you get you copies of the Chanticleer Reviews Magazine?

        You may order print and e-zine copies directly from us! Print copies receive complimentary shipping to anywhere in the United States.

        OR Purchase Print Copies from these Independent Booksellers:

        U.S.

        Village Books of Bellingham, Wash. They can mail magazines out anywhere and they keep copies of the latest issue of Chanticleer Reviews quarterly magazine in stock on their magazine racks.

        Canada & U.K.

        If you live in Canada or the United Kingdom, then order your print magazine from Dragon’s Lair: www.DragonsLairArtist.com or email Susan Faw at susan@dragonslairartist.com | We ship a stack to Dragon’s Lair in Ontario, Canada. Then, they can ship them much easier, faster, and for cheap to Canadian addresses. 

        E-zines!

        Order from Bookchain.ca

        Or download directly from us!

        Advertise?  Yes, please! Email DBeaumier@ChantiReviews.com  for more information.

        Chanticleer Reviews magazine will make a great showpiece for the coffee table, or to take to book signings, or to have in your writer’s den, or to take to other promotional events for your books, or with you to book club meetings, and just in time for the holidays! 

         

      • Part Two of The 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs) Overall Grand Prize and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners

        Part Two of The 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs) Overall Grand Prize and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners

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

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

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

         

        VCAC21 laurel wreath

         

        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!

        Btw, Kiffer’s favorite Champagne!

        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 2020—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 Laramie, Chaucer, Goethe, Hemingway, Chatelaine, Mark Twain, and Somerset Awards.

        Coveted Chanticleer Blue Ribbons!

        We are honored to present the

        2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards

        Grand Prize Winners 

        The 2020 CIBA Winners! 


         

        Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction Award

        The LARAMIE Book Awards for

        American, Western, Pioneer, Civil War, and First Nation Novels

        The Grand Prize Winner isA blue and gold badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Winner for Laramie Westerns for Trouble the Water, a novel by Rebecca Dwight Bruff

        TROUBLE THE WATER, A NOVEL by Rebecca Dwight Bruff

        Cover of Trouble The Water by Rebecca Dwight Bruff

         

        • Eileen Charbonneau – Mercies of the Fallen 
        • James Kahn – Matamoros 
        • Daniel Greene – Northern Wolf
        • David Fitz-Gerald – She Sees Ghosts? The Story of a Woman Who Rescues Lost Souls 
        • Gerry Robinson – The Cheyenne Story   
        • J.B. Richard – Jesse  
        • Mike Shellenbergar – Quail Creek Ranch 
        • Mike Shellenbergar –Refuge
        • J. Palma – The Chaffee Sisters   
        • Fred Dickey – Days of Hope, Miles of Misery – Love and Loss on the Oregon Trail 

        The Chaucer Awards for Historical Novels

        The CHAUCER Book Awards for

        Pre-1750s Historical Fiction 

        Grand Prize Winner is

        BIRD IN A SNARE by N.L. Holmes

        Cover of Bird in a Snare by N.L. Holmes

        • B.L. Smith – The Fall of the Axe
        • Helena P. Schrader – The Emperor Strikes Back
        • Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
        • Thoren Syndergaard – Ripley of Valor
        • Brook Allen – Antonius: Son of Rome
        • Janet Wertman – The Path to Somerset
        • Regan Walker – Summer Warrior    

        Post 1750s Historical Fiction Award

        The GOETHE Book Awards for

        Post-1750’s Historical Fiction 

        Grand Prize Winner is

        A blue and gold badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Winner for Goethe Post-1750s The Aloha Spirit by Linda Ulleseit

        THE ALOHA SPIRIT by Linda Ulleseit

        Cover of The Aloha Spirit by Linda Ulleseit

        • Wendy Long Stanley – The Power to Deny       
        • Ben Wyckoff Shore – Terribilita      
        • Donna Scott – The London Monster   
        • Michelle Cameron – Beyond the Ghetto Gates    
        • P. L. Jonas – Beneath a Radiant Moon     
        • Dorothea Hubble Bonneau – Once in a Blood Moon  
        • Jule Selbo – Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi

        Ernest Hemingway looking off to the right

        The HEMINGWAY Book Awards for

        20th Century Wartime Fiction

        Grand Prize Winner is

        THE QUISLING FACTOR by J.L. Oakley

         

                       


         

        Romance Fiction Award

        The CHATELAINE Book Awards for

        Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction

        Grand Prize Winner is

        A blue and gold badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Winner for Chatelaine Romantic Fiction When the Wind Chimes by Mary Ting

        WHEN THE WIND CHIMES by Mary Ting

        Cover of When the Wind Chimes by Mary Ting

        • Linda Stewart Henley –Estelle: A Novel
        • Lindy Miller –The Magic Ingredient
        • Alexandrea Weis – The Christmas Spirit
        • Linda Lee Graham – A Thimbleful of Honor
        • Gayle Woodson – After Kilimanjaro
        • Eileen Charbonneau –Mercies of the Fallen
        • Carol Van Den Hende – Goodbye, Orchid       
        • Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse   
        • Barb Warner Deane – The Whistle Stop Canteen     
        • T.K. Conklin – Promise of Spring    

        Mark Twain Awards

        The MARK TWAIN Book Awards

        for Humor and Satire

        Grand Prize Winner is

        A blue and gold badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Winner for Mark Twain Humor and Satire Arnold Falls by Charles Suisman

        ARNOLD FALLS by Charlie Suisman

        Cover of Arnold Falls by Charlie Suisman

        Blue and Gold Mark Twain First Place Winner Badge for Best in Category

        • Lenore Rowntree – Cluck
        • 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
        • Alex J. Tremari – Dragoncast
        • Matt Tompkins – Odsburg
        • J.P. Kenna – Toward A Terrible Freedom           

        The SOMERSET Book Awards

        for Literary, Contemporary, and Mainstream Fiction

        Grand Prize Winner is

        A blue and gold badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Winner for Somerset Literary and Contemporary Fiction A Season in Lights By Gregory Erich Phillips

        A SEASON IN LIGHTS by Gregory Erich Phillips

        Cover for A Season in Lights by Gregory Erich Phillips

        Blue and Gold Somerset First Place Winner Badge for Best in Category

        • Sara Stamey –Pause
        • Candi Sary –Magdalena
        • Kathleen Reid –Sunrise in Florence
        • T P Graf – As the Daisies Bloom
        • Julie Weary – Knowing Marjorie Thane
        • Barbara Linn Probst – Queen of the Owls
        • Jennifer Gold – Keep Me Afloat
        • Lainey Cameron – The Exit Strategy
        • Susan Wingate – How the Deer Moon Hungers  

         


        Congratulations to ALL!

        We will email each winner with more information about their prize packages and more information.

        Be sure to FOLLOW and LIKE us Facebook and on Twitter @ChantiReviews

        Please standby for our next post ( that will honor:

        • Journey Book Award Winners
        • Hearten Book Award Winners
        • Harvey Chute Book Award Winners
        • Mind and Spirit Book Award Winners
        • Nellie Bly Book Award Winners
        • Instructional and Insight Book Award Winners
        • Short Story Book Award Winners
        • Book Series Book Award Winners

        And the OVERALL GRAND PRIZE for the 2020 CIBAs!

        Stay Tuned for Part 3 that will announce the Overall Grand Prize Winner!

        We are now accepting entries into the 2021 and 2022 Chanticleer International Book Awards.

        Click here for more information and submission deadlines: https://www.chantireviews.com/contests/

        As always, if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please email us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com   We will try our best to respond within 3 business days.

        Thank you for joining us in celebrating the 2020 CIBA Winners! – The Chanticleer Team

         

         

      • Chanticleer Fiction Series Book Awards – 2020 First Place Division and Grand Prize Winners

        Chanticleer Fiction Series Book Awards – 2020 First Place Division and Grand Prize Winners

        CIBA Fiction Series Book Awards | Chanticleer Book Reviews

        The CIBA FICTION SERIES Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in any of our 18 Divisions where the author has written a series. The Fiction Series Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

        Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) is seeking for the best book series in all of its fifteen fiction divisions: Mysteries, Suspense Thrillers, Espionage/High Stakes, Young Adult, Middle-Grade Readers, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural and Paranormal, Romance, Historical Fiction

        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

        The GRAND PRIZE Winner of the 2020 CIBA New Division in BOOK SERIES:

        is Proudly Awarded to 

        The Devil’s Bookkeepers – Three Books by Mark Newhouse

        Devil's Bookkeepers 3 Covers

        The Noose,  The Noose Tightens, &  The Noose Closes

         

        Don’t Delay! Enter Today! 

         Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

        We are now accepting entries into the 2021 Fiction Series Book Awards, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

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

      • CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romance Fiction 2020 CIBA Award Winners

        CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romance Fiction 2020 CIBA Award Winners

        book award for Romance Novels The Chatelaine AwardsThe 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 books have advanced to the Premier Level of Achievement in the 2020 CIBAs.

        The 2020 CHATELAINE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the CHATELAINE Grand Prize Winner were announced by Seán Dwyer on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar and Facebook Live.

        It is our privilege and profound honor to announce the 1st in Category winners of the 2020 CHATELAINE Awards, a division of the 2020 CIBAs.

        This is the OFFICIAL 2020 LIST of the CHATELAINE BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the CHATELAINE Grand Prize Winner.

        Congratulations to all!

        • 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
        • Carol Van Den Hende – Goodbye, Orchid        
        • Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse    
        • Barb Warner Deane – The Whistle Stop Canteen
        • T.K. Conklin – Promise of Spring

        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 CHATELAINE Awards is:

        Mary Ting for

        When the Wind Chimes

        Cover of When the Wind Chimes by Mary Ting

        Blue and Gold Grand Prize 2020 Chatelaine Badge for When the Wind Chimes by Mary Ting

        The 2021 CHATELAINE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC22 on April 10, 2022. Save the date for CAC22, scheduled April 7-10, 2022, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

        Submissions for the 2022 CHATELAINE Book Awards are open until the end of August. Enter here!

        Don’t delay! Enter today! 

        A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in July. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.

        • HEMINGWAY BOOK AWARDS for 20th Century Wartime Fiction – a division of the 2020 CIBAs

          HEMINGWAY BOOK AWARDS for 20th Century Wartime Fiction – a division of the 2020 CIBAs

          Ernest Hemingway looking off to the right

          The  Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging talent in 20th Century Wartime Historical Fiction. The Hemingway Book Awards is a NEW division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs). 

           

          Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring 20th Century Wartime Fiction in Historical Fiction; Romance and Romantic Fiction; Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense Fiction of the time; Literary works and Satire and anything else that author imaginations can dream up for the HEMINGWAY Book Awards division. These books have advanced to the Premier Level of Achievement in the 2020 CIBAs in this new and important division.

          New Division at the CIBAs: The Hemingway Book Awards

          Ernest Hemingway 1923 passport photo
          Public Domain: Wikimedia

          The Hemingway Book Awards competition is our nod to one of our favorite 20th Century American novelists, journalists, and short story authors, Ernest Hemingway. Born on July 21, 1899, Hemingway was one of many who experienced the massive global shift from regional wars to large-scale, world wars. The events he lived through made him the man we know today. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, Hemingway’s influence reaches virtually all genres of literature. (Find out more about the man here.)

          The 2020 HEMINGWAY Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the HEMINGWAY Grand Prize Winner were announced by Gregory Erich Phillips, Overall Grand Prize Winner in the 2014 CIBAs for his manuscript, Love of Finished Years, which is now a top-selling historical fiction novel that deals with World War I.

           

          Congratulations to all!

          • Helena P. Schrader – Where Eagles Never Flew: A Battle of Britain Novel
          • J.L.Oakley  The Quisling Factor
          • Conor Bender – Jubilee
          • Leslie K. Barry – Newark Minutemen
          • Catherine A. Hamilton –Victoria’s War
          • Kathryn Gauci – The Poseidon Network
          • Brigitte Goldstein – Babylon Laid Waste-A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols
          • Jon Duncan – Heart of the Few
          • Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse 

           

          The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 HEMINGWAY Awards is:

          J. L. Oakley

          The QUISLING FACTOR

          Cover of The Quisling Factor by JL Oakley

          Blue and Gold Grand Prize Winner Badge for the 2020 Hemingway Awards for JL Oakley's The Quisling Factor

          The 2021 HEMINGWAY Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC22 on April 10, 2022. Save the date for CAC22, scheduled April 7-10, 2022, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

          The HEMINGWAY Book Awards is  open to take submissions for 2021! Click here to enter the Hemingway Book Awards

          Don’t delay! Enter today! 

          A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in July. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.