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  • OZMA Book Awards (CIBAs) for Fantasy Fiction – the 2018 Long List

    OZMA Book Awards (CIBAs) for Fantasy Fiction – the 2018 Long List

    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).

     

    Information about the #CIBAs Long Lists and Short Lists and Announcement Rounds.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2018 Long List (aka the Slush Pile Survivors). We incorporate the Long List when the judges request an additional round of judging to accommodate the number and/or quality of entries received.  These entries are now in competition for the 2018 OZMA SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions.

    The coveted First  Place Category Winners of the 2018 OZMA Book Awards will be selected from the Semi-Finalists in the final rounds of judging.  The First Place Category Winners will be announced at the Chanticleer Awards Banquet and Ceremony. 

    The First Place Category winners will automatically be entered into the OZMA GRAND PRIZE AWARD competition.  The 16 CBR Grand Prize Genre Winners will compete for the CBR Overall Grand Prize for Best Book and its $1,000 purse. First Place Category and Grand Prize Awards will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Awards Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 27th, 2019, Bellingham, Washington.

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2018 OZMA Book Awards novel competition for Fantasy Fiction.

    The following works have made it to the 2018  OZMA Book Awards Long List:

    • Pamela LePage – Virtuous Souls
    • J.V. Rutz – The Illusion Killer
    • Megan Wong – Island Whispers
    • Allan Batchelder – Steel, Blood & Fire
    • Ea Bishop – RAGNAROK: Demon Seed
    • Daryl Ellerbe – The Amazons
    • Kristin Secorsky – Dragon Chosen: The Dragon Riders of Eryieth
    • Paul E. Vaughn – Luminess Legends: Dragon Ascendants
    • Kathleen Neeley – Master None
    • David M. Jarboe – Realm Portals “The Celtic Otherworld”
    • M.K Williams – The Phoenix Chronicles: Alone in the Light
    • Jennifer Allis Provost – Gallowglass
    • T.K. Riggins – Money Jane
    • Susan Faw – Heart Of Shadra
    • Glen Shipherd – Infinity – Rulers
    • Franklin Posner – Suburban Vampire Ragnarok
    • Kim Gjorsoe – Rogue’s Law
    • Nancy Guild Bendall – Nethermost Regained
    • Anthony Nordvik-Nash – Hedda Stein-Sun’s UnRemembered Islands
    • Paul E. Vaughn – Luminess Legends: Dragon Ascendants
    • Nancy Guild Bendall – Nethermost Regained
    • Elana A. Mugdan – Dragon Speaker
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Silent Meridian
    • Lindsay Schopfer – Into the North: A Keltin Moore Adventure
    • M. K. Wiseman – The Kithseeker
    • Miriam Cumming – Namesakes
    • Penny Pearson – A Girl’s Guide to Time Travel
    • Chris Dews – Antler Jinny and the Raven
    • Philip Carlisle – Surviving Eros: Heart of Phire
    • D.M. Cain – A Chronicle of Chaos

    To view the 2017 OZMA Book Awards winners, please click here.

    The OZMA Grand Prize Winner and the First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 27th, 2019 Chanticleer Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash. 

    We are now accepting entries into the 2019 OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction. For more information, please click here.

  • The SEMI-FINALISTS for the 2018 GOETHE BOOK AWARDS for Post 1750s Historical Fiction

    The SEMI-FINALISTS for the 2018 GOETHE BOOK AWARDS for Post 1750s Historical Fiction

    Post 1750s Historical Fiction AwardThe Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Late Historical Fiction set after the 1750s. The Goethe Book  Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBA).

     

     

     

    Chanticleer Book Reviews 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. (Looking for Chaucer Pre-1750 Book Awards or Laramie Western/Pioneer/Civil War Book Awards, just click on the links.)

    These Semi-Finalists will compete for the coveted five positions of the First  Place Category Winners of the 2018 GOETHE Book Awards in the final rounds of judging.  The First Place Category winners will automatically be entered into the Goethe GRAND PRIZE AWARD competition.  The 16 CBR Grand Prize Genre Winners will compete for the CBR Overall Grand Prize for Best Book and its $1,000 purse. First Place Category and Grand Prize Awards will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Awards Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 27th, 2019, Bellingham, Washington.

    These titles are in the running for the limited First Place positions of the 2018 GOETHE Book Awards novel competition for post-1750s Post Historical Novels.

    All Semi-Finalists will be recognized at the 2019 Chanticleer Authors Conference and CIBA Banquet & Ceremony.

    Good luck to all in these next final rounds of judging to see which titles will move forward.

    CONGRATULATIONS to:

    • Carol M. Cram – The Muse of Fire
    • J.L. Oakley – Mist-chi-mas: A Novel of Captivity
    • J. R. Collins – Living Where the Rabbits Dance
    • Jocelyn Cullity – Amah & the Silk-Winged Pigeons
    • Ellen Notbohm – The River by Starlight
    • Richard Alan –  A Female Doctor in the Civil War 
    • Josanna Thompson – A Maiden’s Honor
    • Rosalind Spitzer – Anna’s Home
    • Jeffrey K. Walker – None of Us the Same
    • Ronald E. Yates – The Lost Years of Billy Battles (Book 3, Finding Billy Battles Trilogy)
    • Kit Sergeant – 355: The Women of Washington’s Spy Ring
    • R. S. Rowland – Portrait of a Bitter Spy
    • Ruth Hull Chatlien – Blood Moon: A Captive’s Tale
    • John Hansen – Unfortunate Words
    • Patricia Suprenant – Behind the Scarlet Letter
    • Michelle Cox – A Promise Given 
    • Tom Edwards – Jane Sinclair
    • K. M. Sandrick – The Pear Tree

    All Short Listers and SemiFinalists will receive high visibility along with special badges to wear during the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala.

    Good Luck to each of you as your works competes for the 2018 GOETHE  Book Awards First Place positions and the Goethe 2018 Grand Prize.  

    To view the 2017 Goethe Book Awards winners, please click here.

    The Goethe Grand Prize Winner and the First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 27th, 2019 Chanticleer Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash. 

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2019 GOETHE Book Awards writing competition. The deadline for submissions is June 30th, 2019. Please click here for more information. 

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

  • GLOBAL THRILLERS Sharing NOVEMBER SPOTLIGHT! – Writing Competition, Thrillers/Suspense, Int’l Mystery & Crime

    GLOBAL THRILLERS Sharing NOVEMBER SPOTLIGHT! – Writing Competition, Thrillers/Suspense, Int’l Mystery & Crime

    Scene:  President James Marshall (played by Harrison Ford) “Get off my plane!” —  Air Force One (the 1997 film).

    Now just imagine…

    The President’s motorcade is stopped by a mob dressed in black wearing Guy Fox masks. The leader jumps onto the limousine’s hood and exposes an explosive-loaded torso with a pressure release in his hand. He starts counting down from five. From out of nowhere, Spiderman swoops down, shoots a web around the assailant’s fist and takes him out. But now, the rest of the Guy Foxes reveal their explosive-ready torsos…

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    An international human trafficking consortium is meeting in Belguim and you get wind of it. It’s your job to capture as many individuals as possible,  but you can’t kill them because any one of them may know the whereabouts of a group of children taken from a school bus in Maine. Your six-year-old daughter was on that bus…

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    Welcome to the Global Thrillers Awards, a category of literature where life as we know it hangs in the balance – and when bad things happen, the fallout is global. 

    We’re talking James Bond-worthy.

     

    We’re talking it’s time to call in the X-Men and X-Women.

     

    We’re talking about Global Thrillers!

     

    This is the category for Science Fiction that is set – or really could be set in our understanding of how things work. This is called “Lab Lit” in the industry. Even Star Wars and Star Trek are good examples because Global Thrillers covers Science Fiction and BIG Storytelling, EPIC Storytelling.

    Here are what we are looking for: 

    Photo by Huie Dinwiddie from Pexels

    stories that rock us right out of our seats, where the suspense is so strong we cannot put the book down. Something that will have us saying these lines to our poor hungry families,  “Dinner? Are you crazy? The world is about to end in the next chapter!”

     

    Thrill us. Chill us. Make us believers in your masterpiece or published novel. We read every single submission that is sent in and we relish in the good stuff.

     

     

    International Bestselling Thriller author J.D. Barker (aka Master of Suspense) to present at CAC19. 

    Our Global Thriller Book Awards categories are:

    So, does your thriller have what it takes?

    Find out by entering the GLOBAL THRILLER AWARDS because time is running out!

     

    The deadline for submissions the  GLOBAL THRILLERS Book Awards  is

    November 30, 2018.

     

     

    We are honored to recognize the  Global Thrillers Book Awards Hall of Fame Grand Prize winners!

    The Ariadne Connection by Sara Stamey took home the 2017 Grand Prize for the GLOBAL THRILLERs Book Awards.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    The Ariadne Connection by Sara Stamey

    As radical climate swings, drought, famine, flood, and pestilence take on Biblical proportion, deep inside the earth’s core, a violent shift of its geomagnetic poles – a shift paired with cataclysmic seismic activity commences. With planetary life headed for extinction, mankind reaches out to its “gods,” both secular and non-secular, for salvation. At the same time whisperings on the NeuroLink claim that there is a savior among them—Saint Ariadne.

    Global Thriller Winners Lawrence Verigin & Sara Stamey

     

    Because the GLOBAL THRILLER Awards is a new division in the CIBAs, we also recognize the following kicking novels that won their category in the 2017 Global Thrillers Awards: 

    • The Han Agent by Amy Rogers
    • What They Don’t Know by K.V. Scruggs
    • Stormfront by James Tacy Cozad
    • Seed of Control by Lawrence Verigin
    • The Kafir Project by Lee Burvine

     

    Here are some winners that came before: 

    From the 2016 CLUE Awards:

     

    From the 2015 CLUE Awards:

    • Blended Genre: Timothy S. Johnston – The Tanner Sequence: The Furnace, The Freezer, The Void
    • Espionage/Spy: Michele Daniel – The Red Circle

    We also had Cybertech Thrillers and Political Thrillers such as John Trudel’s Raven’s Resurrection and the Raven’s Series.

    Now you know why we had to add the GLOBAL THRILLERS division to the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs). 

    The Global Thriller Awards ~ Thriller and Lab Lit Fiction Novel Writing Contest ~2018
    The search for 2018’s best Thriller & Suspense Fiction Books

    Deadline November 30, 2018

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring suspense, thrilling stories that put the balance of world power or that will end the world as we know it. We include with Global Thrillers the Lab Lit genre. Lab Lit is when Fiction Meets Real Science and Research or stories that are based on real science and research up to a certain “what if” point.

    Examples from www.LabLit.com:

    • Enigma by Robert Harris; A brilliant mathematician struggles to crack German codes in the second world war. Historical Fiction
    • The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch; A budding marine biologist has an unforgettable summer.
    • Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis; A scientist/medic leans the hard way that pure research is nobler – and cures plague in the process.

    GLOBAL Thriller examples:

    • Best examples of these are James Bond books, X-Men, Tom Clancy novels, and Star Wars/Star Trek where humankind is at stake or the planet is doomed.

    (For light-hearted, cozy, or classic Mystery and Suspense entries see our Mystery & Mayhem Awards and for Thriller/Suspense/Hardboiled-Detective series, please see the CLUE Awards)

    Don’t delay! Enter today!

    Tick Tock…

     

  • NOVEMBER SPOTLIGHT on SOMERSET Awards – Literary Works, Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Novels

    NOVEMBER SPOTLIGHT on SOMERSET Awards – Literary Works, Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Novels

    The Somerset Book Awards are named for the prolific writer W. Somerset Maugham

    A quote from the Irish Times 

    Permeated with cynicism from a blighted childhood onwards, Maugham had few illusions about himself or his work. In his 1938 memoir, The Summing Up, he acknowledged: “I am a made writer. I do not write as I want to; I write as I can . . . I have had small power of imagination . . . no lyrical quality . . . little gift of metaphor I had an acute power of observation, and it seemed to me that I could see a great many things that other people missed.” W. Somerset Maugham

    Have you seen the films inspired by his books?

    Some of Kiffer’s collection of Somerset Maugham’s books
    With Bette Davis 1934

    Of Human Bondage

    with Kim Novak 1964

    Of Human Bondage

    A young medical student finds himself attracted to a beautiful but ambitious unfeeling waitress who ultimately may destroy them both. 

    The Razor’s Edge

    with Bill Murray 1984

    The Razor’s Edge 

    An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.

    He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor’s edge.

    The Moon and Sixpence debuting Lawrence Olivier  1959  Written 1919 at the end of WWI

    “The Moon and Sixpence is not, of course, a life of Paul Gauguin in the form of fiction. It is founded on what I had heard about him, but I used only the main facts of his story and for the rest trusted to such gifts of invention as I was fortunate enough to possess.” W. Somerset Maugham

    Maugham describes the idea for the book arising during a year that he spent living in Paris in 1904: “…I met men who had known him and worked with him at Pont-Aven. I heard much about him. It occurred to me that there was in what I was told the subject of a novel.” The idea remained in his mind for ten years, until a visit to Tahiti in 1914, where Maugham was able to meet people who had known Gauguin, inspired him to start writing.

    The film adaptions of W. Somerset Maugham’s works are too lengthy to list here. However, you can find them on the IMBD and on Wikipedia.

    Writing advice from Somerset Maugham

    Every writer hits now and then upon a thought that seems to him so happy, a repartee that amuses him so much, that to cut it is worse than having a tooth out. It is then that it is well to have engraved on his heart the maxim:  If you can cut, cut.

    William Somerset Maugham, better known as W. Somerset Maugham was a British author who wrote plays and short stories and novels. He was a dashing and daring man who did not wish to follow the other men in his family to practice law. Imagine, an individual in the Victorian Era… He was born January 25, 1874, in Paris (at the British Embassy) and died on December 16th, 1965, Nice, France. 

    During the First World War, our Somerset proved his valor by serving with the Red Cross in the ambulance corps (remember his earlier medical training) and was recruited by the British Secret Intelligence Service right before the October Revolution in 1917.

    Somerset dove into medicine and was fairly good at it until he wrote his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897) and all bets were off. The book flew off the shelves and people were reportedly wrestling in the streets for copies to gift their loved ones as gifts. (*Creative license at work – however, you don’t know that this did not happen…) He was known to say, “I took to it (writing) as a duck takes to water.”

    At the age of sixty-six, he had to flee with only a suitcase from the encroaching Nazis as they advanced across Europe. He escaped to England and then on to South Carolina, in the U.S. where he continued to work on the screenplay for Razor’s Edge. He moved to Hollywood and then eventually back to France.

    Did we mention that W. Somerset Maugham was repudiated to be the highest paid author of the 1930s?

    Is it any wonder why we chose Somerset to represent our Literary & Contemporary Fiction Awards?

    Oak Ridge High School Cheer Leaders 1946

     

    Somerset, Somerset,

    He’s our man!

    If you didn’t know him

    Now you can! 

     

    Somerset Cheer by Sharon Anderson

    Welcome to the Somerset Awards where we comb through entries dealing with contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, satire, humor, magic realism, women and family themes. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    You might notice that the connection between the works below is that they are commentaries on society. Time frames may differ, but the human condition is central to the story.

    Here is a listing of the Somerset Book Awards Hall of Fame Grand Prize winners!

    The Rabbi’s Gift by Chuck Gould

    Somerset Grand Prize Winner

    Babylonian astrology and Jewish mysticism combine with Roman history to create a timeless story of passion and fate in Chuck Gould’s The Rabbi’s Gift.  Babylonian astrology and Jewish mysticism combine with Roman history to create a timeless story of passion and fate in Chuck Gould’s The Rabbi’s Gift.

     

    The UglyThe Ugly by Alexander Boldizar 

    Words thrown as hard as boulders are easy to catch – if you’ve had practice. Just ask our hero, Muzhduk the Ugli the Fourth…In the great tradition of existentialism, Boldizar brings us a book that is hard to classify. It has aspects of the existential with a fair amount of satirical wordplay and a bit of theater of the absurd thrown in.

     

    Alexandrite by RIck LenzThe Alexandrite by Rick Lenz

    Marilyn Monroe, time travel, second chances – all steeped in mid-Century Hollywood history, culture, and magic.

     

     

     

    The Manipulator by Steve LundinThe Manipulator by Steve Lundin

    With a fast-paced storyline and a rich cast of characters, this award-winning winning novel offers a uniquely hilarious, but scary, perspective on the how the businesses of public relations and marketing can take technology to its precipice to take advantage of a media addicted public.

     

     

    Individually Wrapped by Jeremy Bullian

    Individually Wrapped tells us the bizarre tale of Sam Gregory’s descent over the condensed course of a couple of days. Set in a 21st-century futuristic city, technology has permeated every aspect of the city dwellers’ lives… Self-delusion is an interesting state of mind because everyone can see it except yourself, as it propels you ever deeper into oblivion, where not even technology can save you.

     

    We would be amiss by not featuring and recognizing Judith Kirscht, our very own Pacific Northwest Somerset inspired author. Judith specializes in family sagas and societal issues.

    Judith was born and educated in  Chicago during the Great Depression and then WWII. She taught school during the upheavals of the Vietnam protests and the Civil Rights movement. Later in life, she found herself in California, divorced and with two daughters. Judith taught creative writing at universities of very different cultures: University of Michigan and U of California, Santa Monica. Her novels continuously are awarded CIBA First Place Category ribbons for the Somerset Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction.

    The Camera’s Eye  by  Judith Kirscht

    In a world where too many rocks are thrown at those who represent anything other than the norm in middle-class white America, two friends decide to take matters into their own hands and stand up to the hatred with which they are targeted in order to save their home and ultimately their lives.

     

     

     

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    Hawkins Lane Cover

     

    Hawkins Lane by Judith Kirscht

    Hawkins Lane is excellent and, ultimately, a redemptive story about the heart-wrenching tragedies a family can survive, and about the healing powers of nature and friendship. The characters and the story will linger long after the last page is read and you will be captivated from the first page.

     

     

    The Inheritors   by Judith Kirscht

    “The Inheritors” by Judith Kirscht is a novel of one woman grappling to find her cultural and personal identity. Tolerance of others and the need for communication is required from each of us is an overriding theme in this latest work of Kirscht that explores the complexities of human nature and family bonds.

     

     

    Home Fires  by Judith Kirscht

    “Home Fires” is an intelligently written, fast-paced family drama that unfolds into a suspenseful page-turner. Although this novel masterfully renders the emotional hardships and tragedies that are sometimes part of dysfunctional relationships, it is not a depressing read.

     

     

     

     

    Nowhere Else to Go by Judith Kirscht

    “Nowhere Else to Go” is a tightly woven and insistently engaging novel about racial prejudice and the blackboard jungle of the 1960s.

     

     

     

    LOOKING TO HAVE YOUR BOOKS RECOGNIZED? Submit them to the Chanticleer International Book Awards – Click here for more information about The CIBAs! 

    The last day to submit your work is November 30, 2018. We invite you to join us, to tell us your stories, and to find out who will take home the prize at CAC19 on April 27th.

     As our deadline draws near, don’t miss this opportunity to earn the distinction your literary novel deserves!  Enter today!

    The SOMERSET Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards – the CIBAs.

    The winners will be announced at the CIBA  Awards Ceremony on April 27, 2019,  that will take place during the 2019 Chanticleer Authors Conference. All Semi-Finalists and First Place category winners will be recognized, the first place winners will be whisked up on stage to receive their custom ribbon and wait to see who among them will take home the Grand Prize. It’s an exciting evening of dinner, networking, and celebrations! 

    First Place category winners and Grand Prize winners will each receive an  awards package. Whose works will be chosen? The excitement builds for the 2018 SOMERSET Book Awards competitions.

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    Our Chanticleer Review Writing Contests feature more than $30,000.00 worth of cash and prizes each year! 

    ~$1000 Overall Grand Prize Winner
    ~$30,000views, prizes, and promotional opportunities awarded to Category Winners

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    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

     

     

     

  • Semi-Finalists for the GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards for Middle-Grade Readers – 2018 CIBAs

    Semi-Finalists for the GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards for Middle-Grade Readers – 2018 CIBAs

    Gertrude Warner Children's Chapter BooksThe Gertrude Warner Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Middle-Grade Readers Children’s books division. The Gertrude Warner Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).

     

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from Long Listers (Slush Pile Survivors) to the SHORTLIST and have now moved on to the SEMI-FINALISTS list of the 2018 Gertrude Warner Book Awards.

    All Semi-Finalists in attendance of the Chanticleer Authors Conference and CIBA ceremony will receive special name-tag ribbons to wear during the conference and will be recognized.

    The limited  First Place Category Positions for the 2018 Gertrude Warner Book Awards will be selected from the  Semi-Finalists and will be announced at the 2019 Chanticleer Authors Conference CIBA Ceremony and Banquet on Saturday, April 27th, 2019.

    Deadline for 2018 Gertrude Warner  Book Awards submissions was May 31, 2018. We are now accepting entries into the 2019 Gertrude Warner Awards.

    We looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about eight to twelve. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Adventure. Our judges will put them to the test and select the best Middle-Grade Books among them.

    Chanticleer Book Reviews discovers today’s best books!

    Congratulations to the 2018 Gertrude Warner Book Awards Semi-Finalists!

    • Aric Cushing – Vampire Boy
    • Alexander Edlund – Keelic and the Pathfinders of Midgarth
    • M. P. Follin – Dakota Joy and the Traveling Stones
    • Joanna Cook – The Life of Bonnie Dickens
    • Victoria Adler – Emma and Mia
    • Cheryl Carpinello – Guinevere: At the Dawn of Legend
    • K. B. Shaw – From the Shadows
    • Jules Luther – The Portals of Peril 
    • Diane Rios – Bridge of the Gods
    • Kay M. Bates – The Adventures of Rug Bug: The Revolution
    • Gloria Two-Feathers – Tallulah’s Flying Adventure

    Thank you to all who entered their works into the 2018 Gertrude Warner Book Awards. It is always tough to decide which titles move forward and which ones must fall away. Thank you, again, for participating.

    Good Luck to each Semi-Finalist as your work competes in the 2018 Gertrude Warner Book Awards. 

    2017 Gertrude Warner Award Winners Bek Castro, Paul Aertker, and Murray Richter

    Grand Prize and First Place Ribbons!   You know want one! 

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2019 Gertrude Warner Book  Awards writing competition. The deadline for submissions is May 30th, 2019. Please click here for more information and to enter.

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

  • The M & M Book Awards for Mystery Novels Semi-Finalists for the 2018 CIBAs

    The M & M Book Awards for Mystery Novels Semi-Finalists for the 2018 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 genre.  The M & M Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).

     

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from Long Listers (Slush Pile Survivors) to the SHORTLIST and have now moved on to the SEMI-FINALISTS list of the 2018 M & M Book Awards. These entries are now in competition for the limited  First Place Category Positions for the 2018 M & M Book Awards. The M & M Book Awards Semi-Finalists will be recognized at the 2019 Chanticleer Authors Conference. The First Place Positions along with the M & M Grand Prize Award Winner will be selected from this Semi-Finalist list and will be announced at the Awards Gala on Saturday, April 27th, 2019.

    We will make the SEMIFINALISTS Digital Badge and Book Stickers available before the end of November 2018 and will email the link and the Semi-Finalist notification to those whose works made the list.

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

    Deadline for 2018 M & M Book Awards submissions was April 30, 2018. We are now accepting entries into the 2019 M & M Awards.

    Congratulations to the 2018 M & M Book Awards Semi-Finalists!

    • Mary Adler – Shadowed by Death: An Oliver Wright WW2 Mystery Novel  
    • B.L. Smith – Bert Mintenko and the Minor Misdemeanors    
    • Charlotte Stuart – Why Me?  
    • Becky Clark – Fiction Can Be Murder  
    • Christine Evelyn Volker – Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City   
    • Alan Chaput – Savannah Sleuth  
    • Michelle Cox – A Promise Given  
    • Traci Andrighetti – Campari Crimson   
    • M. Louisa Locke – Pilfered Promises: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery  
    • C.A. Larmer – Evil Under The Stars: The Agatha Christie Book Club  #3   
    • Nancy J. Cohen – Hair Brained  
    • Stone Winkler – Blood on a Blue Moon: A Sheaffer Blue Mystery  
    • Carl and Jane Bock – Death Rattle  
    • Kelly Oliver – FOX: A Jessica James Mystery  
    • Deborah Rich – Under the Radar  
    • Anna Castle – Moriarty Takes His Medicine  
    • Julie Chase – Cat Got Your Secrets  

    All Semi-Finalists will receive high visibility along with special badges to wear during the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala.

    Congratulations to the Semi-Finalists in this fiercely competitive contest! 

    Good Luck to each of you as your work competes in the 2018 M & M Book Awards. 

    Grand Prize Ribbons!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2019 M & M Awards writing competition. The deadline for submissions into the 2019 M & M Book Awards is April 30th, 2019. Please click here for more information and to enter.

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

  • CLUE Book Awards (CIBAs) for Suspense/Thriller/Crime Novels – The 2018 Long List

    CLUE Book Awards (CIBAs) for Suspense/Thriller/Crime Novels – The 2018 Long List

    Thriller Suspense Fiction Award

    The CLUE Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Suspense, Thriller, Crime, & Mystery Novels. The CLUE Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).

     

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring suspense, thrilling adventure, detective work, private eye, police procedural, and crime solving, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them. (For light-hearted Mystery and Suspense entries see our Mystery & Mayhem Awards)

    Information about the #CIBAs Long Lists and Short Lists and Announcement Rounds.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2018 Long List (aka the Slush Pile Survivors). We incorporate the Long List when the judges request an additional round of judging to accommodate the number and/or quality of entries received.  These entries are now in competition for the 2018 CLUE SHORT LIST. Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions.

    The coveted First  Place Category Winners of the 2018 CLUE Book Awards will be selected from the Semi-Finalists in the final rounds of judging.  The First Place Category Winners will be announced at the Chanticleer Awards Banquet and Ceremony. 

    The First Place Category winners will automatically be entered into the CLUE GRAND PRIZE AWARD competition.  The 16 CBR Grand Prize Genre Winners will compete for the CBR Overall Grand Prize for Best Book and its $1,000 purse. First Place Category and Grand Prize Awards will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Awards Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 27th, 2019, Bellingham, Washington.

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2018 CLUE Book Awards novel competition for Suspense, Thriller, Crime, and Mystery Novels.

    • Deb Pierce McCabe – Red and Blue
    • Pamela Beason – The Only One Left
    • Timothy S. Johnston – The War Beneath
    • A.J. McCarthy – Cold Betrayal
    • Saralyn Richard – Murder in the One Percent
    • Timothy Burgess – California Son
    • Philip Derrick – Facing The Dragon
    • Ginnie Padden – Holy Ones
    • Cheryl L. Reed – Poison Girls
    • E. V. Stephens – Shortcuts
    • Nick Airus – The Manifesto Murders
    • Lawrence Verigin – Beyond Control
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Bernie, I’m Glad You’re Dead
    • John Young – The Nexus
    • Melodie Hernandez – Forgotten Rage
    • Dan M Portillo – The Lone Escapist
    • CL Gibson – The Urge
    • Lyle Howard – A Trace of Revenge
    • Zach Fortier – Chakana
    • Nicholas Kellum – Briar Falls
    • Catherine Ketchum – The Gatekeeper
    • Kara Wolfe – Number Four
    • John W. Howell and Gwen M. Plano – The Contract Between Heaven and Earth
    • Elaine Williams Crockett – Do Not Ask
    • Carl and Jane Bock – Swamp Guide
    • Karen Dodd – Scare Away the Dark: A Stone Suspense
    • Alex Usher – Active Shooter
    • Kelly Oliver – FOX, A Jessica James Mystery
    • John Stafford – Prayer of Vengeance
    • Susan Wingate – The Death of Vultures
    • Ernesto H Lee – Out of Time
    • Pat W Coffey – Changing Habits
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mr. Hitchcock
    • Laurie Scott – In Like a Lion
    • Lisa Towles – Choke
    • Paul McHugh – The Blind Pool
    • Tom Edwards – No Greater Freedom
    • Marilynn Larew – Hong Kong Central
    • Ken Malovos – One Night In Amboise
    • Chief John J. Mandeville – Pine Village Co-op Murders
    • Zach Fortier – Cachbachie
    • Kara Lumbley – As the Ribbons Fall
    • Lauren E. Rico – Reverie (Reverie Trilogy, Book 1)
    • Lauren E. Rico – Rhapsody (Reverie Trilogy, Book 2)
    • Lauren E. Rico – Requiem (Reverie Trilogy, Book 3)
    The ribbons were laid out on the table with

    All Short Listers and SemiFinalists will receive high visibility along with special badges to wear during the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala.

    To view the 2017 CLUE Book Awards winners, please click here.

    The CLUE Grand Prize Winner and the First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 27th, 2019 Chanticleer Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash. 

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2018 CLUE  Book Awards writing competition. The deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2019. Please click here for more information. 

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

  • The JOURNEY Book Awards for Narrative Non-fiction Semi-Finalists List for 2018 CIBAs

    The JOURNEY Book Awards for Narrative Non-fiction Semi-Finalists List for 2018 CIBAs

    The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey Book  Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBA).

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the Shortlist to the 2018 Journey Book Awards Semi-Finalists.  First Place Category winners and the Journey Grand Prize winners will be selected from the Semi-Finalists and the winners will be announced at the Awards Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 27th, 2019.

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them.

    These Semi-Finalists titles are in the running for the 2018 JOURNEY Book Awards First Place Category Positions and the Journey Grand Prize Book Award for the Narrative Non-fiction Fiction and Memoir CIBA Awards. Good Luck to all of the 2018 CIBA Journey Semi-Finalists!

    • Sean Dwyer – A Quest for Tears: Overcoming a Traumatic Brain Injury
    • Philip Muls – Mind on Fire: A Case of Successful Addiction Recovery
    • Andrew Jurkowski and Lisa Wright – Between The Swastika and the Bear: A Polish Memoir 1925 – 1948
    • Janice S. Ellis – From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream
    • Kayce Stevens Hughlett – SoulStroller: experiencing the weight, whispers, & wings of the world
    • Liberty Elias Miller – The Heart of the Runaway
    • Jeff O’Driscoll, MD – Not Yet
    • GySgt L Christian Bussler – No Tougher Duty, No Greater Honor – a memoir of a Mortuary Affairs Marine
    • Terry Milos – North of Familiar: A Woman’s Story of Homesteading and Adventure in the Canadian Wilderness
    • Dennis M. Clausen – Goodbye to Main Street
    • Russell Vann – Ghetto Bastard, A Memoir
    • Rebecca Brockway – Miss Matched at Midlife: Dating Episodes of a Middle-Aged Woman
    • Donna LeClair: Waking Reality – Overcoming the Heartache of Abuse
    • Austin M Hopkins – The Loose Ends Became Knots
    • Janis Couvreux – Sail Cowabunga! A Family’s Ten Years at Sea
    • Katrina Shawver – HENRY: A Polish Swimmer’s True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America
    • Joy Ross Davis – Mother Can You Hear Me?
    • Cheryl Hughes Musick – The Day the Musick Died

    Good Luck to each of you as your works compete for the JOURNEY Book Awards First Place Category  positions. 

    The JOURNEY Grand Prize Winner and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 27th, 2019 Chanticleer Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash. 

    2017 Journey Book Award Winners – The CIBAs

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2019 JOURNEY Awards writing competition. The deadline for submissions is April 30th, 2019. Please click here for more information. 

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

     

  • What Goes Bump in the Night? October Spotlight on the PARANORMAL Awards, of course…by Sharon Anderson, Horror Writer

    What Goes Bump in the Night? October Spotlight on the PARANORMAL Awards, of course…by Sharon Anderson, Horror Writer

    October isn’t just for OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction

    … October helps us answer the burning questions, What’s under the bed? Who’s hiding in the closet? Is our house built on a graveyard? Is that a ghost or did you just poke holes in the new set of sheets? Did you just say ‘ALIEN’? 

    Paranormal Fiction Awards

     

    Here we settle in on my favorite time of the year.

    Every October, poor Ichabod Crane races through Sleepy Hollow, fearing for his head. We carve out Jack O’Lanterns and set them burning on our porches to light the way for trick or treaters. We decorate our homes in spider webs and skeletons and all sorts of creepy crawlies. Now is the time of year we binge on all things haunted, possessed, inexplicable, unseen.

    Why?

    Because we are thrilled by the experience of riding high on candied apples and candy corn and relish being frightened – just a little – especially when we know the thing we’re frightened of is just a story, some tale we tell over and over at this time of year. Because this is the season when it’s perfectly acceptable to scream.

    We’re ready. Are you?

    Welcome to the PARANORMAL Book Awards!

    Send us your stories of dark places, alien abductions, magic and magical beings, the supernatural, vampires & werewolves, angels & demons, fairies & mythological beings, weird otherworldly tales… and gothic horror stories. We will put them to the test and discover the best among them for the 2018 Paranormal Book Awards, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards – the CIBAs.

    But don’t wait too long. The deadline for the Paranormal Awards is October 31, 2018. Enter here, and don’t say we didn’t warn you.

     

     

    Travel with me through the Paranormal Awards Hall of Fame…

    The 2017 PARANORMAL Book Awards Grand Prize for Supernatural Fiction is awarded to:

    Van Ops – The Lost Power is a story in which “Alexander the Great’s obscure Egyptian weapon has been lost for eons. Can Maddy Marshall and covert agent Bear Thorenson find the ancient weapon in time to stop fragile post-Cold War peace from being forever shattered?”

    Avanti Centrae is the author of the international award-winning VanOps thriller series. Her work has been compared to that of James Rollins, Steve Berry, Dan Brown, and Preston/Child’s Pendergast series.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    2017 Paranormal Book Awards First Place Winners for Supernatural Fiction Novels are:

    • Willow’s Discovery by Joanne Jaytanie
    • Virtuous Souls by Pamela LePage
    • Rea by Lydia Staggs
    • A Pocketful of Lodestones, Time Traveler Professor Book 2 by Elizabeth Crowens
    • Dark Water by Chynna Laird

     

    The 2016 PARANORMAL Book Awards Grand Prize:

    Almost Mortal “Blending the high-octane thrust of a contemporary legal thriller with the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Almost Mortal” cleaves a new, inventive niche in the legal thriller genre. This fast-paced legal thriller will leave the reader hungering for more. A terrific read!”

    Christopher Leibig is a novelist and a criminal defense attorney. He thinks about Fiction like this…”Fiction, while by its definition invented, need not tell that lie. In fiction, the devil is everywhere. And everyone has their story.”

     

     

     

    2016 Paranormal Book Awards First Place Winners for Supernatural Fiction Novels are:

     

    The 2015 PARANORMAL Book Awards Grand Prize:

    The Aurora Affair (retitled as Mobius) “… is a story about a skeptical heroine who discovers that her love affairs
    are the key to harnessing her own power to influence the world—for better if she does it right, or for worse if she fails.”

    Carolyn Haley “… is a freelance writer and editor who lives in rural Vermont. I write a mix of commercial copy, articles for regional and national publications, and edits diverse projects in fiction and nonfiction.” She writes award-winning novels in her spare time.

     

     

    2015 Paranormal Book Awards First Place Winners for Supernatural Fiction Novels are:

     

    The 2014 PARANORMAL Book Awards Grand Prize:

     An Ex to Grind in Deadwood is a wickedly funny paranormal mystery romance series that takes place in its namesake city in South Dakota.

     

    Ann Charles, USA Bestselling Author

    Ann Charles “…lives in the beautiful Northern Arizona mountains with her clever husband, charming kids, and an incredibly sassy cat. After many years and several colleges, she managed to obtain her Bachelor’s Degree in English with an emphasis on creative writing from the University of Washington.”

    2014 Paranormal Book Awards First Place Winners for Supernatural Fiction Novels are:

     

    The 2013 PARANORMAL Book Awards Grand Prize:

    The Watcher is a story where “…ancient history is only the beginning.”

     

     

    Lisa Voisin “… spent her childhood daydreaming and making up stories, but it was my love of reading and writing in her teens that drew her to Young Adult fiction.” 

     

     

    2013 Paranormal Book Awards First Place Winners for Supernatural Fiction Novels are:

    • Spirit Legacy by E.E. Holmes
    • Poe, Nevermore by Rachel M. Martens
    • The Immortal American by L. B. Joramo
    • The Dream Jumper’s Promise by Kim Hornsby
    • Montana Mustangs by Danica Winters
    • The Third Option by Ben A. Sharpton
    • Witch’s Malice by David Hutchison
    • Dancing on the Dark Side by Mairin Fisher-Fleming

     

    2012 1st Place Winner in the Paranormal Awards,

    Sacred Fires is a well written and crafted romantic paranormal novel with elements of intrigue and suspense along with a story set in a lush locale with mystic Aztec undercurrents. Greenfeder has succeeded in writing a fast-paced romantic suspense novel that is refreshingly different.

     

    Catherine Greenfeder “… continues to pursue her dream of getting her work published. To date, she has had five novels including a western historical, two adult paranormal novels, and two young adult paranormal novels published. She anticipates a few short stories and another young adult novel published in the near future.”

    Who will win the PARANORMAL Book Awards Blue Ribbons for 2018?

    Submit your works today!

    The last day for submissions into the 2018 Paranormal Book Awards is August 31, 2018.

    Click here for more information and submission form! 

    Don’t Delay! Enter Today! 

  • SHORTLIST for the 2018 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers

    SHORTLIST for the 2018 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers

    Early Readers and Picture books

    The Little Peeps  Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works of Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer Reviews International Book Awards – the CIBAs.

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Storybooks, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books & Educational Books we will put them to the test and choose the best Children’s Books among them.

    Congratulations to the following titles that made the 2018 Little Peeps Book Awards Shortlist. They are now competing for the SEMI-FINALISTS  Positions.  The Semi-Finalists will compete for the limited First Place Category Positions.

     

    Good Luck to All as Your Works Compete for the Semi-Finalists Positions!

    • Carolyn Watkins – The Knock...a collection of childhood memories
    • Pamela Tomlin – My Truly Most Favorite Fluffy Friend
    • Ashley Davidson-Fisher – La Petite Josette en Provence Going To Les Baux-de-Provence (Voyage aux Baux-de-Provence)
    • A. & C. Kruspe – I’m Car 55, But I Want to Be Number 1
    • Leea Baltes – Goodnight Wishes!
    • Lisa Rinaca – Kelsey’s Summer Kitchen
    • Sylva Fae – Yoga Fox
    • Sylva Fae – Mindful Monsters
    • Carolyn Leeper – My Stars! 
    • Lauren Mosback – Braving the Bully
    • Eva Newermann – The Universe: A Work of Art
    • Denise Ditto – The Tooth Collector Fairies: Home from Decay Valley
    • Cathy Venette – Silent Simon
    • Stephanie Warner – Mopsey and the Diverse Dog Show
    • Leah Venegas – Wobbles
    • Stacy Einfalt – Go Team!
    • Stacy Einfalt – Logan & The Lonesome Moose
    • Theresa A. O’Kane – Dragonfly Surprise
    • Peggy Sullivan – Tevye the Magical Theater Cat
    • Sheree K. Nielsen & Pat Wahler – Midnight The One-Eyed Cat
    • Lauren Mosback – My Sister’s Super Skills
    • Veronica Ruth Fischer – Oscar’s Christmas Wish
    • Ellie Smith – Tex the Explorer: Journey to Mars

    The 2018 Little Peeps  Shortlisters will compete for the Semi-finalists positions.   First-In-Category Positions will be selected from the Semi-Finalists.  First Place Category Award winners will automatically be entered into the Little Peeps  GRAND PRIZE AWARD competition.  The CBR Grand Prize Genre Winners will compete for the CBR Overall Grand Prize for Best Book.

    Little Peeps Awards Winners, Sara Dahmen, Denise Ditto, and Donna Washington

    All Semi-Finalists will receive high visibility along with special badges to wear during the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala.

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

    The Little Peeps Grand Prize Winner and the  First Place Category Position award winners along with all Short Listers in attendance will be announced at the April 27th, 2019 Chanticleer Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash. 

    To compete in the 2019 Little Peeps Book Awards or for more information, please click here.

    Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media, L.L.C. retains the right to not declare “default winners.” Winning works are decided upon merit only. Please visit our Contest Details page for more information about our writing contest guidelines.

    CBR’s rigorous writing competition standards are why literary agencies seek out our winning manuscripts and self-published novels. Our high standards are also why our reviews are trusted among booksellers and book distributors.

    Please do not hesitate to contact Info@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions about CBR writing competitions. Your input and suggestions are important to us.

    Thank you for your interest in Chanticleer Book Reviews International Book Awards –the CIBAs.