Category: Contest News

  • The 2023 CIBA Series Award Short List for Genre Fiction

    A stack of books flying into the blue sky for the Book Series Awards

    The CIBA FICTION SERIES Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in any of our 16 Fiction 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. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Series Book Awards Entries to the 2022 Series Book Awards Short List. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Series Semi-Finalists. Finalists are then chosen from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finals of the 2023 Series Book Awards novel competition for Genre Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

    • David Fitz-Gerald – Ghosts Along the Oregon Trail
    • Eric J. Gates – The Cull
    • CK Van Dam – On the Dakota Frontier
    • Michele L. Sayre – Darke Realms
    • Chuck Morgan – Crime
    • Jode Millman – The Queen City Crimes Series
    • John J Spearman – Perseverance Andrews
    • John J Spearman – Halberd
    • Sharon Michalove – Global Security Unlimited
    • McKinley Aspen – Shadows in the Wind
    • James Hutson-Wiley – The Sugar Merchant
    • Holly Brandon – Chastity Series
    • Mary Seifert – Katie and Maverick Cozy Mysteries
    • Jeannée Sacken – The Annie Hawkins Series
    • Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Jake Fortina
    • Laura Teste – Book of Bad Manners Series
    • Jodi Lea Stewart – Silki, the Girl of Many Scarves
    • Mark A. Gibson – Hamilton Place
    • KD Sherrinford – Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler romantic mysteries
    • Murray Pura & Patrick E. Craig – Islands Series
    • C.K. Donnelly – The Kinderra Saga
    • McKinley Aspen – Praesidium
    • Alice McVeigh – Warleigh Hall Press Jane Austen Series
    • Michele Kwasniewski – The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart
    • Elizabeth R. Jensen – The Three Brothers Trilogy
    • Sophia Alexander – The Silk Trilogy
    • Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The MiddleGate Books
    • AG Flitcher – Boone and Jacque
    • Brooks Olbrys – The Adventures of Blue Ocean Bob
    • Lucinda Brant – Roxton Foundation Series
    • S. Lee Fisher – The Women of Campbell County
    • Andrew Sweet – Reality Gradient
    • Frank F. Weber – The Jon Frederick series
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – How the West was Won then Lost Annihilation
    • Elizabeth Woolsey – The Travels of Dr. Rebecca Harper
    • Tom Burkhalter – No Merciful War
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – Invisible Death
    • Dave Lager – The Ro Delahanty Novels
    • John J. Spearman – FitzDuncan
    • Marieke Lexmond – The Madigan Chronicles
    • Tony Johnson – The Story of Evil

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Series Awards is:
    The Curtis Jefferson Series
    By Vince Bailey

    The Series Grand Prize for the Curtis Jefferson Series by Vince Bailey

    Click here to see the 2022 Series Book Award Winners for Genre Fiction

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 Series Book Awards for Genre Fiction. The 2024 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2025. 

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

    April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

    Join us for our 12th annual conference and discover why!

     

  • The 2023 Shorts Award Short List for Short Stories and Essays

    The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Short Stories, Essays, Novelettes, Novellas, Short Story Collections and Anthologies. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.

    The Chanticleer International Book Awards program discovers today’s best works. The Short Stories Awards discovers the Best New Shorts in Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Long List to the Shorts Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24). The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Note: These are for Short Stories and Essays. There is a separate post for Novellas, Collections, and longer Essays

    These titles are in the running to be Semi-Finalists of the 2023 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Collections and Anthologies!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

    • Catherine Brown – The Heart of Kublai Khan’s Menagerie Keeper
    • Catherine Brown – Finding Namaste
    • Luray Embers – No Cat Is An Island
    • A.J. McCarthy – A Rock
    • A.J. McCarthy – The Strike
    • Brian Feutz – Pity the Peasants
    • Alice McVeigh – Pride and Perjury: A Jane Austenesque short story
    • Brittany Eden – Candles in the Dark from Fantasea
    • Logan D. Irons – Bridge of Kings
    • Sallie Barr Palmer – Conversation with a Vampire
    • Susan Lynn Solomon – Sabbath
    • Marie Sutro – Son Down
    • Larry Sherrer – Spirit Letters
    • PJ Devlin – Sea Purses
    • Morgan Sloan – The Awakening
    • Sharon E. Cathcart – Rose in Bloom
    • S.M. Stevens – The Wallace House of Pain
    • Robert S Phillips – The Great River
    • George T. Arnold – Confession of a “Grammarholic”

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

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 SHORTS Awards is:

    God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me

    by Lori Lee Peters

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Short Story Awards is:

    Old Man Baseball

    by Mike Murphey

    The Grand Prize for Short Stories and Essays in the Shorts Awards for Old Man Baseball by Mike Murphey

    See the full list of Shorts 2022 Winners here (Collections)

    and here (Short Stories and Essays)

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Shorts Book Awards for Romance Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024. 

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

    Join us for our 12th annual conference and discover why!

  • The 2023 CIBAs I&I Short List for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction

    The 2023 CIBAs I&I Short List for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction

    I&I or Instruction & Insight Awards CIBA BadgeThe I & I Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction that are self-help, how-to, guides, or explanatory. In non-fiction works, the author assumes responsibility (in good faith) for the truth, accuracy, people, places, or information presented. The I & I Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best Instruction and Insight books featuring How-To, Guidance, Travel Guides, Cookbooks, Self-Help, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them.

    Click here for the full list of the Non-Fiction Divisions. 

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 I&I Non-Fiction Long Listto the 2023 I&I Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2023 I&I Book Awards novel competition for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following Short List authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

    • Julian C.E. Clauss-Ehlers and Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers – Eating Together Being Together: Recipes, Activities, and Advice from a Chef Dad and Psychologist Mom
    • Annette Levesque – eLearning Gold – The Ultimate Guide for Leaders
    • James Baker – Live Forever & Fix Everything: A Practical Plan for a Future That Works for Everyone
    • Wendela Whitcomb Marsh – Relating While Autistic: Fixed Signals for Neurodivergent Couples
    • Mina Wasfi – Doubt to Certainty: A Practical Guide to Finding Confidence and Clarity in Making Complex Decisions
    • Kim Harms – Are you Ready?
    • Dr. Karl Muth – Self-Inflicted
    • Jill Schultz – Liberated
    • Rachel Rider – Who You Are Is How You Lead
    • Cat White – The Imperfect Vegan | Making a difference on a (mostly) plant-based diet
    • Jennifer M Sukalo – Claim Your SWAGGER: Stop Surviving and Start Thriving
    • Rachel Durchslag – While I Walk: Solo Adventuring In The Vast, Beautiful World
    • Duncan McLauren – Owning Your Destiny: A Woman’s Guide to Harnessing The Power Within
    • Christopher R. Manske – Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS
    • Karen Stein – Be your own leadership coach (self coaching strategies to lead your way)
    • Andy Chaleff – The Connection Playbook: A Practical Guide to Building Deep, Meaningful, Harmonious Relationships
    • Rachel A. Winston – The College Guidebook: Biological & Biomedical Engineering: University Profiles & Admissions Information on the Top University Programs
    • Charles D. McCarrick – Lessons My Brothers Taught Me: How to Transform Your Personal Qualities Into A Successful Business
    • Judy Taylor – The New Joy of Hooking With Yarn!
    • Kyle Campbell – Beyond Belief: How Living with a Brain Stem Tumor brought Faith and Purpose to Life
    • George T. Arnold – Media Writer’s Handbook, a Guide to Common Writing and Editing Problems, 7th edition
    • Julie Jason – The Discerning Investor: Personal Portfolio Management in Retirement for Lawyers (and Their Clients)
    • Rich Redmond with Jennifer Della’Zanna – Making it in Country Music: An Insider’s Look at the Industry
    • Dr. Kelly Rabenstein – Psychological Secrets for Emotional Success

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

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

    Emotional Magnetism

    By Sandy Gerber 

    Emotional Magnetism Cover 

    Click here to see the 2022 I&I Book Award Winners for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction

    We are now accepting submissions to the 2023 I&I Book Awards for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024. 

    Please click here for more information.

    See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Screenwriter Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and coach and inspiring Mark Berridge, with more to be announced. CAC is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author and achieving your publishing goals.

    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

    Join us for our 12th annual conference and discover why!

     

  • The 2023 Finalists JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

    The 2023 Finalists JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

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

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring a Journey of 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. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here

    These titles have moved forward from the Semi-Finalist Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2023 Journey Book Awards FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

     

    These are the FINALISTS of the 2023 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the Finalist authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

    • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Saint Bloodbath
    • Hollie Stuart – I Can See for Miles
    • Cathryn Vogeley – I Need To Tell You
    • Lori Lee Peters – God, the Mafia, My Dad and Me
    • Francesca Miracola – I Got It From Here
    • Francesca Grossman – Not Weakness: Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain
    • Sara Alvarado – Dreaming In Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story in Puerto Vallarta
    • Joel Harris – Searching for Steve
    • Leslie Ferguson – When I Was Her Daughter
    • Antonia Deignan – Underwater Daughter: A Memoir of Survival and Healing
    • Barbara Wolf Terao – Reconfigured: A Memoir
    • Phyllis Dyson – Among Silent Echoes: A Memoir of Trauma and Resilience
    • Andrew Saltarelli – Leaving Home
    • Nanette J. Davis Ph.D. – Raging Currents: Mental Illness and Family
    • Aurita Maldonado – The Zen of Dancing in the Rain: Becoming One with the Storm
    • Trisha T Pritiin – The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices From the Fight for Atomic Justice
    • Sarah Martin – Dear Psychosis
    • Julie Morrison – Barbed: A Memoir
    • Erika Shepard – Trans-Formations From Field Boots to Sensible Heels
    • Mike Nixon – Life Travel And The People In Between

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

     

    Blue and Gold Badge for the finalists of the Journey non-fiction awards

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 JOURNEY Awards is:

    A Fraction Stronger 

    by Mark Berridge 

    A Fraction Stronger Cover

    See our full list of 2022 Journey Winners here

    The 2023 JOURNEY Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12 year Conference Anniversary!

    Submissions are already open for the 2024 Journey Awards! Learn more here!

    April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

    Join us for our 12th annual conference and discover why!

  • The 2023 FINALIST CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction

    The 2023 FINALIST CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction

    The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring space, time travel, life on other planets, parallel universes, alternate reality, and all the science, technology, major social or environmental changes of the future that author imaginations can dream up for the CYGNUS Book Awards division. Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Genetic Modification, Aliens, Super Humans, Interplanetary Travel, Climate-Fiction, and Settlers on the Galactic Frontier, Dystopian, our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 CYGNUS Science Fiction Semi-Finalists to the 2023 Cygnus Book Awards Finalists. These entries are now in competition for the 2023 Cygnus 1st Place and Grand Prize Winners. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC24.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These are the FINALISTS of the 2023 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    Good Luck to All!

    • Lou Dischler – The Rising
    • E.T. Gunnarsson – Abandon Us
    • E.T. Gunnarsson – Remember Us
    • J.L. Birchwood – The Southron Deception
    • Alexandra Almeida – Unanimity
    • S.G. Blaise – Proud Pada
    • Diane Lilli – The Last Invention
    • N. John Williams – In the Shadow of Humanity: A Novel
    • Julia Tvardovskaya – Identifiable
    • Gareth Worthington – Dark Dweller
    • Michael Simon – Extinction
    • Timothy S. Johnston – The Shadow of War
    • Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock
    • Jeanne Hull Godfroy – Midgard
    • Rob Brownell – Invention Is a Mother
    • Dylan McFadyen – Oblivion’s Cloak
    • Donald Firesmith – Hell Holes: A Slave’s Revenge
    • Stu Jones – The Zone: A Cyberpunk Thriller
    • Nikki Kallio – Finding the Bones: Stories & A Novella
    • Sarena Straus – ReInception
    • Melissa Gowdy Baldwin – The Marriage Wars: Book One

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

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    Congratulations once more to the 2022 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner

    The Last Lumenian

    By S. G. Blaise

    The Blue and Gold Badge for the Cygnus 2022 Grand Prize Book Award for the CIBAs The Last Lumenian by S.G. Blaise

    Click here to see the full list of 2022 CYGNUS Book Award Winners for Science Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 CYGNUS  Book Awards for Science Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Screenwriter Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and coach and inspiring Mark Berridge, with more to be announced. CAC is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author and achieving your publishing goals.

    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

    Join us for our 12th annual conference and discover why!

  • The M&M 2023 Short List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    The M&M 2023 Short List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    Cozy Mystery Fiction AwardThe M&M Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Cozy and not-so-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem. The M&M Book  Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

    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.)

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 M&M Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2023 M&M Semi-Finalists. The Finalists will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBAs divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles have advanced to the SHORT LIST of the 2023 M&M Book Awards for Mystery & Mayhem

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

    • Trish MacEnulty – The Whispering Women
    • Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Dead Man’s Pose
    • Craig H. Bowlsby – The Cyrano Solution
    • Ruud Richardson – The Girl Who Never Was
    • B.T. Polcari – Fire and Ice
    • B.T. Polcari – Against My Better Judgment
    • Tawn H. Skousen – Seashells and Scoundrels
    • Jeremy Gluck – Face Value
    • Ron Destro – The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne
    • Liese Sherwood-Fabre – The Adventure of the Purloined Portrait
    • Gail Grant Park – We Are Shadows: An Irish Ghost Story
    • Rebecca Olmstead – Dreams and Illusions
    • Charlotte Stuart – In$ured to the Hilt
    • Anna St. John – Doomed by Blooms
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles
    • Topper Jones – All that Glisters
    • Patrick E. Craig – The Quilt That Knew
    • A.J. McCarthy – A Stranger in the Family
    • Traci Andrighetti – Tuaca Tan
    • Marlene M. Bell – Copper Waters
    • E. W. Finke – Coyote’s Wail
    • Mary Seifert – Fishing, Festivities & Fatalities
    • Sharon Michalove – At the Ready
    • Liz Larson – Fireflies and Zeroes
    • Michel Prince – Always a Groomsman
    • M.K. Dean – A Corpse in the Condo
    • Kate Hallock – Nine Ways to Die: An Enneagram Murder Mystery
    • Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
    • Cindy Sample – Birthdays Are Murder
    • Nancy J. Cohen – Star Tangled Murder
    • Carolyn Summer Quinn – Cloudy with a Chance of Answers
    • Michelle Cox – A Haunting at Linley
    • Charlotte Whitney – The Unveiling of Polly Forrest
    • Kim Herdman Shapiro – The Raven’s Cry
    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Negative Reaction
    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Photo Finished
    • Joni M Fisher – East of Evil
    • D.R. Ransdell – Party Wine
    • Connie Berry – The Shadow of Memory
    • Hadley K. Knox – Murder Sundae
    • Christine Knapp – Murder on the Widow’s Walk
    • Christine Knapp – Murder at the Wedding
    • M. A. Monnin – Death In The Aegean
    • Paisley Summer – Walk in the Light
    • Patricia Sorg – Habits that Haunts Me
    • Erica Miner – Aria for Murder
    • Wendy Bayne – Guilds and Gunpowder
    • Matthew Cost – Velma Gone Awry
    • Jule Selbo – 9 DAYS, A Dee Rommel Mystery
    • Amy S. Peele – Hold
    • Kim Davis – Buttercream Betrayal
    • Kamille Roach – A Matchbox Full of Pearls
    • D. J. Adamson – With a Vengeance
    • Lyn Squire – Immortalised to Death
    • Jeffrey Matthews – The Case of the Disappearing Beaune: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Story
    • Brigitte Goldstein – Death of a Diva–From Berlin to Broadway
    • Eleanor Tatum – Countess of Change
    • Kim Davis – Muddled Matrimonial Murder
    • Brandon Lawniczak – Riding in Circles
    • J. Ivanel Johnson – Just A Stale Mate
    • Mary Seifert – Santa, Snowflakes & Strychnine
    • T.K. Sheffield – Vintage Model, the Backyard Model Mysteries Book 1

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

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    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

    Here is the link to the 2022 M&M Book Award Winners!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 M&M Book Awards for Cozy-And-Not-So-Cozy Mysteries!.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

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  • The 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Awards Short List for 20th Century Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the rightThe Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works for 20th Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    The Hemingway Book Awards competition is named for Ernest Hemingway who was born July 21, 1899.

    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. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    For Post-1750s Historical Fiction, see our Goethe Awards here. For other Historical Fiction categories, please see more details here.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Long List to the Hemingway SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Hemingway SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA division Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2023 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for 20th Century Wartime Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

    • Linda Joy Myers – The Forger of Marseille
    • Elaine Aucoin Schroller – Dare Not Tell
    • Elaine Aucoin Schroller – The Bravest Soldiers
    • William McClain – Alice’s War
    • J.L. Oakley – The Brisling Code
    • Gary Baysinger – Margaret’s Last Prayer
    • Patricia Wilson – An Island Promise
    • Glenn Dyer – Trust No One
    • Kathryn Gauci – In the Shadow of the Pyrenees
    • Michael J Cooper – Crossroads of Empire
    • Kathryn Brown Ramsperger – A Thousand Flying Things
    • Lou Dischler – The Last Newsreel
    • Martin Roy Hill – Codename: Parsifal
    • Trish MacEnulty – Secrets and Spies
    • Marina Osipova – The Drau River Flows to Siberia: The Victims of Victory
    • Donald Willerton – Teddy’s War
    • J.A. Wright – Eat and Get Gas
    • Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee – The Long March Home
    • Jacek Waliszewski – Midnight in Syria
    • Linda Stewart Henley – Kate’s War
    • Jodi Lea Stewart – The Gold Rose
    • Richard LaMotte – Follow His Lead
    • Ivan Luiz Hernandez – Isla Vulnerable
    • Richard Bareford – Veterans Key
    • Jeff Schnader – The Serpent Papers
    • Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Crown
    • John Winn Miller – The Hunt for the Peggy C
    • Suzanne Trauth – What Remains of Love
    • Robert L. Decker – Not to Reason Why
    • Kevin Miller – The Silver Waterfall: A Novel of the Battle of Midway
    • Shirley Miller Kamada – No Quiet Water
    • Kathryn Gauci – The Song of the Partisans: A Powerful and Unforgettable Novel of Resistance

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    Click here to see the 2021 Hemingway Book Award Winners for 20th c. WartimeFiction.

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Hemingway Book  Awards is:

    Running with Cannibals

    by Robert W. Smith

    Running with Cannibals Cover

    The Hemingway Grand Prize for Running with Cannibals by Robert W. Smith

    See the full list of 2022 Hemingway Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024. 

    Please click here for more information.

    For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

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  • The 2023 CLUE Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Suspense/Thrillers

    The 2023 CLUE Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Suspense/Thrillers

    Thriller Suspense Fiction AwardThe Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Suspense and Thriller Mysteries. The Clue Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring suspense, thrilling adventure, detective work, private eye, police procedural, and crime-solving, we will put them to the test to discover the best! (For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards).

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction Short List to the 2023 Clue Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2023 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Thriller/Suspense Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs. 

    • Roxana Arama – Extreme Vetting: A Thriller
    • Nancy Adair – The Appearance of Guilt
    • Margaret Mizushima – Standing Dead: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery
    • Joanne Jaytanie – Retrieving Remy, The Winters Sisters Book 5
    • Chuck Morgan – Crime Scene, A Buck Taylor Novel
    • Linda Moore – Five Days in Bogotá
    • Jonny Thompson – Atlantis
    • Kevin G. Chapman – The Other Murder
    • T.O. Paine – The Excursion
    • Corey Lynn Fayman – Gillespie Field Groove
    • Paty Jager – Damning Firefly
    • Charlotte Stuart – Forget or Forgive? NEVER
    • Jim Nesbitt – The Dead Certain Doubt: An Ed Earl Burch Novel
    • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Saint Bloodbath
    • Joshua Cohen – Past Imperfect
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – Sherlock and the Tiger
    • J. Luke Bennecke – Echo from a Bayou
    • Mark James – Friendship Games
    • Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
    • Dave Lager – Sniper’s Day
    • Daniel V. Meier Jr. – Guidance to Death
    • Michelle Cox – A Haunting at Linley
    • Anne Moose – When You Read This I’ll Be Gone
    • Jode Millman – The Empty Kayak
    • Alexandrea Weis & Lucas Astor – River of Ashes
    • Kamille Roach – Pine Creek
    • Justin M. Kiska – Fact & Fiction
    • Melissa L. Berger – What Mae Brings: A Novel
    • Mike Van Horn – Controlled Flight
    • Decima Blake – Hingston: Smoke and Mispers
    • Cathi Stoler – With A Twist: A Murder On The Rocks Mystery
    • Richard C. Brusca – The Time Travelers
    • Kathryn Lane – Missing in Miami
    • Leslie Kain – Secrets In The Mirror
    • D. R. Berlin – The Third Estate: Secrets of the Manor
    • Lisa Towles – The Ridders
    • Rita M Boehm – The Price of Revenge
    • Philip Derrick – Saigon Spring
    • Martha Crites – Danger to Others
    • Raymond Paul Johnson – The Raven Society: Conspiracy Ignited
    • Nina Romano – Dark Eyes
    • Mary Keliikoa – Deceived
    • Robert W. Smith – Long Way From Clare
    • V. S. Anderson – Three Strides Out: A Horse Show Novel of Suspense
    • Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock
    • T.E. Lane – The Cornbread Letters
    • Mary Keliikoa – Hidden Pieces

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

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 CLUE Awards is:

    Have You Seen Me?

    By Alexandrea Weis

    The Clue Awards Grand Prize Badge for the 2022 Winner Have You Seen Me? by Alexandrea Weis

     See the Full List of 2022 Clue Award Winners here!

    The 2023 CLUE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 21, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!

    Submissions for the 2023 CLUE Book Awards are open until the end of September. Enter here!

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

    Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

    Join us for our 12th annual conference and discover why!

  • The 2023 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards Semi-Finalists for High Stakes Suspense

    The 2023 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards Semi-Finalists for High Stakes Suspense

    Global ThrillerThe Global Thriller Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in High Stakes Thriller Fiction. The Global Thriller Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    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.

    For other Mystery Divisions see our Clue Awards for Suspense/Thriller Novels and our M&M Awards for Cozy-and-not-so-Cozy Novels.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Global Thriller Book Awards Short List to the 2023 Global Thriller SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2023 Global Thriller Book Awards novel competition for High Stakes Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

    • E.S. Ramirez – In the Fangs of Jackals
    • Thomas R. Weaver – Artificial Wisdom
    • Jayson Adams – Ares
    • D. L. Wilburn Jr. – The God Protocol: Dragon
    • Glenn Dyer – Trust No One
    • Mark James – Friendship Games
    • Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Cobra Pose
    • Joanne Jaytanie – Retrieving Remy (The Winters Sisters Book 5)
    • Randall Krzak – Ultimate Escalation
    • Dr. Frank J. Sapienza – The Greater Good
    • Hank Scheer – Fade to Blue
    • Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock
    • Jacek Waliszewski – Midnight in Syria
    • Ron Roman – Of Ashes and Dust
    • J. Lee – The Deadly Deal
    • Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Jake Fortina and the Roman Conspiracy
    • David Wickenden – The Home Front
    • E Alan Fleischauer – The Doctor is Invisible
    • Jeff Sheckter – The Daedalus Protocol

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

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the 2022 GLOBAL THRILLER Awards is:

    Hybrid Hysteria

    By Charlie Robinson

    The Grand Prize Badge for the Global Thriller Awards for Hybrid Hysteria by Charlie Robinson

        The 2023 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12 year Conference Anniversary!

        Submissions for the 2024 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards are open until the end of October. Enter here!

        Don’t delay! Enter today! 

        Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

        The Chanticleer Authors Conference

        Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

        Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

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      • The Chaucer 2023 Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Early Historical Fiction

        The Chaucer 2023 Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Early Historical Fiction

        A picture of Geoffery Chaucer as a white man with a gray goatee with the words "Chaucer Awards" across the bottomThe Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in pre-1750s Historical Fiction.  The Chaucer Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

        The Chaucer Book Awards competition is named for Geoffrey Chaucer the author of the legendary Canterbury Tales. The work is considered to be one of the greatest works in the English language. It was among the first non-secular books written in Middle English to be printed in 1483.

        Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring Pre-1750s Historical Fiction, including pre-history, ancient history, Classical, world history (non-western culture), Dark Ages and Medieval Europe, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Tudor, 1600s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

        These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Chaucer Early Historical Fiction Short List to the 2023 Chaucer Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. Winners will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

        We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

        These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2023 Chaucer Book Awards novel competition for Pre-1750s Early Historical Fiction!

        Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

        • Gail Avery Halverson – A Sea of Glass
        • Gina Buonaguro – The Virgins of Venice
        • Griffin Brady – The Hussar’s Duty
        • James Hutson-Wiley – The Merchant from Sepharad
        • Regan Walker – The Strongest Heart
        • Juliette Godot – From the Drop of Heaven
        • Stefan Scheuermann – Kyra
        • Kelly Evans – Turning the World to Stone – The Life of Caterina Sforza Part One 1472 – 1488.
        • Yvonne Korshak – Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
        • Robert S Phillips – Elodia’s Knife
        • C.V. Lee – Token of Betrayal
        • Rebecca D’Harlingue – The Map Colorist: A Novel
        • Rozsa Gaston – Margaret of Austria
        • Mary Pat Ferron Canes with JR Foley – Dark Queen of Donegal
        • Kerry Chaput – Daughter of the Shadows
        • Margaret Porter – The Myrtle Wand
        • Anthony R. Licata – Caesar Obsessed: Passion, Conquest, and Tragedy in Gaul
        • Rebecca Kightlinger – The Lady of the Cliffs: The Bury Down Chronicles, Book Two
        • Adrienne Dillard – Keeper of the Queen’s Jewels: a novel of Jane Seymour
        • Brigitte Goldstein – Princess of the Blood-A Tapestry of Love and War in 16th-Century France
        • Adam Alexander Haviaras – Sincerity is a Goddess: A Dramatic and Romantic Comedy of Ancient Rome
        • K.M. Butler – House Aretoli
        • David Tory – Exploration: The Stanfield Chronicles
        • A. L. Kucherenko – Knight’s Pawn

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

        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 CHAUCER Awards is:

        Mack Little, author of

        Daughter of Hades

         

        Click here to see the 2022 Chaucer Book Award Winners for Early Historical Fiction.

        We are now accepting submissions for the 2024 Chaucer Book Awards for Pre-1750s Early Historical Fiction. The 2024 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2025. 

        Please click here to submit to the 2024 Chaucer Awards

        For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:

        Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

        The Chanticleer Authors Conference

        Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

        Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

        Join us for our 12th annual conference and discover why!

         

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