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The 2020 LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards for Early Readers and Picture Books – the Short List for the 2020 CIBAs
The LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Readers that invites children to read and explore. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards Reviews is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books & Educational Books we will put them to the test to discovery today’s best children’s books. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

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

These titles have been Shortlisted for the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers
- Ellie Smith – Tex the Explorer Journey Through the Alphabet
- M. Lisa Rinaca – P Mind Your Q’s
- M. Lisa Rinaca – The Missing Punctuation Box
- M. Lisa Rinaca – Two Different Princesses
- Courtney Shannon Strand – Hollyhock Hill
- Masoud Malekyari – Great As A Button
- Susan Faw – Poppy Ogopogo
- Carmela Dutra – Little Katie and the STEAM Team
- D.K. Brantley – Every Mummy Has a Mommy
- Carmela Dutra – Little Katie Goes to the Moon
- Dr. Justine Green – Completely Me
- Courtney Shannon Strand – Ella’s Umbrella
- Lindy Ryan – Trick or Treat, Alistair Gray
- Dawn Marie Thompson – Sedwick the Seagull
- Mercy Hansen Mize – Samson’s Tail
- Pamela Tomlin – Our Wounded Little Chickadee
- Johnny Ray Moore – ANTHILL FOR SALE
- Alycyn Culbertson – Look What Happened While I Was Sleeping
- Raven Howell – So You Want a Puppy?
- Pj McIlvaine – Little Lena and The Big Table
- Dianne Moritz – Hey Little Beachcomber
- Savannah Hendricks – The Book Who Lost Its Title
- Teal Blake – J is for Jackalope
- Melodie Tegay – Hannah’s Two Homes: life in a “blended” family; a 5 year old’s perspective
These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers.

Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers?

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

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

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

Please click here for more information.

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
February 10, 2021
The 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – the Short List
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs).

Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, Literary, we will put them to the test to discover the best. (For Middle Grade Fiction see our Gertrude Warner Awards, and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.)

These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction.
- Michelle Rene – The Canyon Cathedral: The Witches of Tanglewood, Book Two
- John Middleton – Dillion and The Skeleton Hall
- Strider S. R. Klusman – Within Reach
- Zoe Hauser – Jaguar Spirit
- Sue C Dugan – Suppressed
- Richard Groseclose – Henry Castlewaite and The Portrait of Doom
- Michael Bialys – The Chronicles of the Virago
- B. L. Smith – The Fall of the Axe
- Liana Gardner – Speak No Evil
- D.C. Carlisle – Surviving Eros: The Girl Under the Stars
- Brooke Skipstone – Some Laneys Died
- Brooke Skipstone – Someone To Kiss My Scars
- Sara Hosey – Iphigenia Murphy
- Susanne Dunlap – The Paris Affair
- Strider Klusman – My Ransom
- Susan Wingate – How the Deer Moon Hungers
- Felicia Farber – Ice Queen
- PJ Devlin – The Chamber — A Wissahickon Monsters Story
- Dallas Woodburn – The Best Week That Never Happened
- Kelly Vincent – Finding Frances
- Chynna Laird – Just Shut Up and Drive
- L.L. Eadie – Yearning for the Unattainable
- Jodi Lea Stewart – Blackberry Road
- Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
- Tory Gates – Searching for Roy Buchanan
- Cris Harding – Red Wing
- Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl – Merged
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

We are now accepting entries into the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for YA Fiction.

As always, please contact us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions!
February 10, 2021
The GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards for High Stakes and Lab Lit Novels – the SHORT LIST – for the Global Thriller Division of the 2020 CIBAs
The GLOBAL THRILLERS Book Awards recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Lab Lit and Global Thrillers. The GLOBAL THRILLERS Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Novel Book Awards and Writing Competitions. (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.

The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will compete for FINALISTS positions.

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

The 2020 Shortlist for the Global Thriller Book Awards

The 2020 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards Short-Listers
- Matt Andrus – UFO
- Lynn Yvonne Moon – The Agency – Tablet of Destinies
- Avanti Centrae – Kiss of the Cobra – An M2 Action Thriller
- Courtney Leigh Pahlke – Life Force Preserve; West End William
- Gwen M. Plano – The Culmination, a new beginning
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Just Die
- Rafael Amadeus Hines – Bishop’s Law
- Marc McGuire – Missions
- William Mazanitis – The Daedalus Project
- Domenick Venezia – Do No Harm
- William Maz – A Cure for the Living
- William Maz – The Bucharest Dossier
- Erik Foge – One Way Roads
- David Tunno – Intrepid Spirit
- Tony Irvin – Waking the Sleepers
- James G. Skinner – Samaritan Drug Lords
- JL Morin – Loveoid
- Randall Krzak – Colombian Betrayal
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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

We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards writing competition. The deadline for submissions is October 21st, 2021. 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.
February 3, 2021
The MYSTERY & MAYHEM Book Awards for Cozy and Not So Cozy Mystery novels – the Short List for the M&Ms Division of the 2020 CIBAs
The M & M Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem fiction genre. The M & M Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring “mystery and mayhem,” amateur sleuthing, light suspense, travel mystery, classic mystery, British cozy, not-so-cozy, hobby sleuths, senior sleuths, or historical mystery, perhaps with a touch of romance or humor, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them. (For suspense, thriller, detective, crime fiction see our Clue Awards, and for international intrigue see our Global Thriller Awards)

Congratulations to the M&M 2020 Shortlisters!

Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.
- Chris Karlsen – A Venomous Love
- Susan McCormick – The Fog Ladies
- Patrick M. Garry – The Discovery
- Sigrid Vansandt – A Ghost’s Tale
- Lori Roberts Herbst – Suitable for Framing
- Cindy Sample – Dying for a Double
- Christine A Brady – Don’t leave, Miss Riley
- Sharon Clark – The Murder Cat
- Elaine Orr – Demise of a Devious Suspect
- D.R. Ransdell – Substitute Soloist
- CB Wilson – Cavaliered to Death
- P.K. Adams – Silent Water
- Kari Bovee – Bones of the Redeemed
- Kate Vale – Unanswered Questions
- Michelle Cox – A Child Lost
- Maria Ostrowski – Yet From Those Flames No Light
- Prudence Ambergast – The Mystery at Fig Tree Hall
- Ana T. Drew – The Murderous Macaron
- Pat Camalliere –The Mystery at Mount Forest Island
- Lina Hansen – In My Attic – A Magical Misfits Mystery
- J.L. Anderson – Secrets of Willow Lane
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Denied, A Buck Taylor Novel
- Traci Andrighetti – Galliano Gold
- Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
- Arlene McFarlane – Murder, Curlers & Kegs
- Rita M Boehm – Missing on Maple Street
- Mark Daniel Seiler – Shave Ice Paradise
- Nellie H. Steele – The Secret of Dunhaven Castle
- Nicole Asselin – Murder at First Pitch
- Perry Miller – Lethal Injection
- Mary Alice Kressler – Not So Silent Night
- Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Bernie, I’m Glad You’re Dead
- Lucinda Brant – Deadly Kin: A Georgian Historical Mystery
- Nancy Good – Killer Calories, A Melanie Deming Manhattan Mystery
- Carl and Jane Bock – The White Heron
- Molly Flewharty – Short Line to Death
- Betty Jean Craige – Saxxons in Witherston
Good Luck to All as Your Works Compete to Advance to the Next Level of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

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

The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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

We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards.
February 3, 2021
The 2020 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction – The Short List for the CYGNUS Division of the 2020 CIBAs
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, and Settlers on the Galactic Frontier, Dystopian, our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

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

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

Congratulations to the 2020 Cygnus Book Awards SHORT LISTERS!
- Brent Golembiewski –Flat Earth
- Jonas Saul –The Immortal Gene
- Tiffany Meuret –A Flood of Posies
- R. Welsh – The Great Filter
- Mark T. Sneed – Bully Nation
- Brooke Skipstone – Some Laneys Died
- B.T. Keaton – Transference
- Mark D. Owen – Impact
- JL Morin – Loveoid
- Charis Himeda – CRISPR Evolution
- Bryan K. Prosek – Paradoxal
- R.S. Harmon – Captain’s Covenant
- Liam King – Grit
- Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl – Merged
- Timothy S. Johnston – The Savage Deeps
- Alex McIntosh – Upstream Revolt #6
- Samuel Finn – A Voice From The Moon
- Mike Meier – JoinWith.Me
- Palmer Pickering – Moon Deeds
- Ted Neill – Reaper Moon: Race War in the Post Apocalypse
- C. Hofsetz – Enemy of the Gods #4
- Dr. Anay Ayarovu – STAZR the World Of Z: The Dawn of Athir
- PA Vasey – Trinity’s Fall
- Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle – The Luna Missile Crisis
- William X. Adams – Alien Body
- KeJo Black – A Kingdom in Shards
- Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
- C.M. Aquavella – Transformation: The Circusity
- J.T. Blossom – Lenore and the Problem With Love – When You Go to College Save the Planet
- Alexander Usher – Experience Extracted
- Russ Colson – The Arasmith Certainty Principle
- Zach Fortier – Volk: Book one of The Overseer series
- Cary Allen Stone – SEEDS: The Journey Begins
- Susan Wingate – The Lesser Witness
- Dennis M. Clausen – The Accountant’s Apprentice
- Courtney Leigh Pahlke – Life Force Preserve
- Marc Corwin – The Optical Lasso
- Alan J. Steinberg – To be Enlightened
- Michelle Tanmizi – Late Dawn
Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

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

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

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

Don’t wait! Click here to enter today!
February 3, 2021
The 2020 MARK TWAIN Book Awards for Satire and Humor Fiction – the Short List
The MARK TWAIN Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Humor and Satire Fiction. The Mark Twain Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire Fiction, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards is the first year that this division is offered as a book awards competition division in the CIBAs.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring satire, humor, political ideology, parody, fantasy, and allegory or fable. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Somerset Book Awards? We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person. (For contemporary and literary fiction see our Somerset Book Awards.)

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: “Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together”. Mark Twain

Twain’s prediction was accurate; he died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Stormfield, (Twain’s mansion where he lived from 1908 until his death) one day after the comet’s closest approach to Earth.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards the 2020 SHORTLIST. The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Finalists positions.

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

These titles have been Shortlisted for the 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire and Humor Fiction
- Charlie Suisman – Arnold Falls
- Stephanie Alexander – Charleston Green
- J.P. Kenna – Toward A Terrible Freedom
- Wayne Edmiston – UNfatally Dead: to thaw or not to thaw?
- Haris Orkin – You Only Live Once
- Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Bernie, I’m Glad You’re Dead
- Alex J. Tremari – Dragoncast
- Michael Aloysius O’Reilly – The Billionaire’s Daughter
- Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
- Steven Mayfield – Treasure of the Blue Whale
- St John Karp – Quake City
- Ivy Cayden – Everything All At Once (Chorduroys and Too Many Boys?)
- Ted Neill – Reaper Moon: Race War in the Post Apocalypse
- Erik Segall – Not Yet
- Lenore Rowntree – Cluck
- K.N. Salustro – Cause of Death: ???
- Conon Parks – Some Kind of Ending
- Beth Wareham and Jason Davis – Hair Club Burning
- Steven Mayfield – Treasure of the Blue Whale
- Anastasia Fox – Trout Fishing in the Cretaceous
- Adam Cliff – Exposure
- David B. Seaburn – Gavin Goode
- Lou Dischler – Too Pretty for a Hit Man
Good Luck to All!

These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire and Humor Fiction.

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

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

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

We are now accepting entries into the 2021 Mark Twain Book Awards, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is November 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com.
January 4, 2021
The SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction – the Long List for the 2020 CIBAs
The SOMERSET Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary and Contemporary Fiction. The Somerset Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, magical realism, or women and family themes. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Somerset Book Awards? We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person. Looking for Satire? Keep an eye out for our Mark Twain Long List.

The following literary and contemporary fiction works have advanced from all of the entries to the Long List of the 2020 Somerset Book Awards:
- Susan Dobson – Bomerang
- Sara Stamey – Pause
- R Barber Anderson – Jumeau
- Gregory Erich Phillips – A Season in Lights
- Candi Sary – Magdalena
- Kathleen Reid – Sunrise in Florence
- Ivy Cayden – Everything All At Once (Chorduroys and Too Many Boys?)
- George M. Taylor – Careful by the Railing
- Amy L Cleven – Look Up
- Kasie Whitener – After December
- T P Graf – As the Daisies Bloom
- Patrick M. Garry – The Donor
- Katherine Johnson – Grit & Granite
- Jennifer Gold – Keep Me Afloat
- Catherine Hamilton – Victoria’s War
- Jessica O’Dwyer – Mother Mother
- Lauren J. Sharkey – Inconvenient Daughter
- Pierce Koslosky Jr. – A Week at Surfside Beach
- Victor Acquista – Serpent Rising
- John Danenbarger – Entanglement: Quantum and Otherwise
- Julie Weary – Knowing Marjorie Thane
- B. K. Stubblefield – Scars of the Past
- Ted Neill – Reaper Moon: Race War in the Post Apocalypse
- Dan V. Jackson – Rainbow Bridge
- Kathleen M. Rodgers – The Flying Cutterbucks
- Abbe Rolnick – Founding Stones
- Liana Gardner – Speak No Evil
- Susan Wingate – How the Deer Moon Hungers
- Lainey Cameron – The Exit Strategy
- Barbara Linn Probst – Queen of the Owls
- Alice Early – The Moon Always Rising
- Judy Keeslar Santamaria – Jetty Cat Palace Cafe
- Joanne Kukanza Easley –Sweet Jane
- Erik Segall – Not Yet
- Steven Mayfield – Treasure of the Blue Whale
- Dennis M. Clausen – The Accountant’s Apprentice
- Ted Neill – Reaper Moon: Race War in the Post Apocalypse
- Charlie Suisman – Arnold Falls
Good Luck to ALL!

Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Somerset Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction?

Congratulations to Donna LeClair whose manuscript The Proprietor of Theatre Life took home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Somerset Book Awards.

Here is the link to the 2019 Somerset Book Award Winners!

Our next Chanticleer International Book Awards Ceremonies will be held April 21 – 25, 2021, for the 2020 CIBA winners. Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

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

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com.
January 4, 2021
The CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction – the Long List for the 2020 CIBAs
The CHATELAINE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction. The Chatelaine Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best new books featuring romantic themes and adventures of the heart, historical love affairs, perhaps a little steamy romance, and stories that appeal especially to fans of affairs of the heart to compete in the Chatelaine Book Awards (the CIBAs). The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

These works have survived the infamous slush pile (all entries) and are now competing to advance to the Chatelaine 2020 Long List
- Sara Stamey – Pause
- Mike Owens – Bernie & Bertie (Serial Killers Need Love Too)
- Linda Stewart Henley – Estelle: A Novel
- Tabetha Waite – Behind a Moonlit Veil
- Lindy Miller – The Magic Ingredient
- Alexandrea Weis – The Christmas Spirit
- Mary Ting – When the Wind Chimes
- Linda Lee Graham – A Thimbleful of Honor
- Betty Codd – Abigail
- Patricia A. Williams – We’ll Always Have Paris
- Laura O’Hare – Frangipani Escape
- F. E. Greene – Some Place Like Home
- L.A. Liechty – Winter Mountain
- Ramcy Diek – Eagles in Flight
- Gayle Woodson – After Kilimanjaro
- Rebekah N. Bryan – Jenna with the Red Pen
- Michael Aloysius O’Reilly – Romeo and Juliet Are Alive and Well in California
- R.Harrington – Veronica
- Kelly Miller – Death Takes a Holiday at Pemberley
- R.A.R. Clouston – Cry Savage Tears
- James G. Skinner – When a Conscience Knocks
- Eileen Charbonneau – Mercies of the Fallen
- Tammy Mannersly – Drawn to Him
- Beverly Allie – Where the Monarchs Dance
- Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
- Bat Maxwell – The Color of Honey
- Harper McDavid – Zapata
- Carol VanDenHende – Goodbye, Orchid: To Love Her, He Had to Leave Her
- Mona Sedrak – Gravity
- Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse
- Lindsey Cowherd – My Texas Streak
- Holly Brandon – Life in the Chastity Zone
- Michelle Cox – A Child Lost
- Ursula Sinclair & Kassanna – Defiant
- Rachela Marie Lavita – Within the Stars
- Betsy Dudak – Wanna Bet
- Charlene Johnson – Homecoming, Sterling Wood Series, Book 1
- Roxanne Kelly – If I Should Stay
- M.M. Routson – Jealousy Burning
- Tina Sloan – Chasing Cleopatra
- Barb Warner Deane – The Whistle Stop Canteen
- J M Liner – Big Easy Passion
Good luck to all!

Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards for Romantic Fiction?

Congratulations to Gail Avery Halverson whose work The Skeptical Physick took home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Chatelaine Book Awards.

Here is the link to the 2019 Chatelaine Book Award Winners!

Our next Chanticleer International Book Awards Ceremonies will be held April 21 – 25, 2021, for the 2020 CIBA winners. Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

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

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com.
December 26, 2020
The CLUE Book Awards for Suspense & Thriller Fiction – the Long List for the 2020 CIBAs
The CLUE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Suspense and Thriller Fiction. The Clue Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring suspense, thrilling adventure, detective work, private eye, police procedural, and crime-solving, we will put them to the test to discover the best! (For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards). We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

These works have survived the infamous slush pile and have advanced to the 2020 CLUE Book Awards Long List. They will compete in the next rounds of judging for the CLUE 2020 Short List.
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Denied, A Buck Taylor Novel
- Toni Bird Jones – The Measure of Ella
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Just Die
- Grahame Shannon – Bay of Devils
- Mike Langan – North Country
- Kari Bovee – Bones of the Redeemed
- Blaise Ramsay – BloodLaw
- Elizabeth Lewes – Little Falls
- Hal Malchow – 42 Million to One
- Avanti Centrae – Kiss of the Cobra – An M2 Action Thriller
- Kari Bovee – Folly at the Fair
- Dana J. Summers – Downhill Fast
- Rafael Amadeus Hines – Bishop’s Law
- Ken Farmer – Three Creeks
- Kevin G. Chapman – Lethal Voyage (Mike Stoneman Thriller)
- J.P. Kenna – The Anarchist Girl’s Confession
- John Danenbarger – Entanglement: Quantum and Otherwise
- Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
- Ronald Lamont – Post-Mortem Narrative
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Conspiracy: A Buck Taylor Novel
- J. L. Oakley – The Quisling Factor
- Charles Evans – Love Minefields
- Sheila McGraw – The Knife Thrower’s Wife
- Martin Roy Hill – The Fourth Rising
- Chris Karlsen – A Venomous Love
- Christopher Leibig – Almost Damned
- Brooke Skipstone – Someone To Kiss My Scars
- Brooke Skipstone – Some Laneys Died
- J.J. Clarke – Dared to Run
- Laura Wolfe – Top Producer
- James B. Cohoon – Do No Harm
- Megan Allen – The Slave Players
- Megan Allen – The Meat Hunter
- Michelle Cox – A Child Lost
- Valerie J. Brooks – Revenge in 3 Parts
- Corey Lynn Fayman – Ballast Point Breakdown
- Kevin G. Chapman – Deadly Enterprise (Mike Stoneman Thriller)
- Shanessa Gluhm – Enemies of Doves
- Chris Karlsen – A Venomous Love
- C.L. Stuart – Raven’s Grave
- Chuck Morgan – Crime Denied, A Buck Taylor Novel
- Suanne Schafer – Hunting the Devil
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Sherlock & Tiger
- Steve Bassett – Payback: Tales of Love, Hate and Revenge
- Tina Sloan – Chasing Cleopatra
- John DeDakis – Fake
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 CLUE Book Awards?

Good Luck to All!

Congratulations to Joanne Jaytaine whose work Salvaging Truth took home the Grand Prize for the 2019 CLUE Book Awards.

Here is the link to the 2019 CLUE Book Award Winners!

Our next Chanticleer International Book Awards Ceremonies will be held April 21 – 25, 2021, for the 2020 CIBA winners. Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

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

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com.
December 26, 2020
The PARANORMAL Awards for Supernatural Fiction – the Long List for the 2020 CIBAs
The PARANORMAL Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Paranormal and Supernatural Fiction. The Paranormal Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs) is looking for the best books featuring magic, the supernatural, weird otherworldly stories, superhumans (ex. Jessica Jones, Wonder Woman), magical beings & supernatural entities (ex. Harry Potter), vampires & werewolves (ex. Twilight), angels & demons, fairies & mythological beings, magical systems and elements. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

The following fantasy fiction works have moved forward from the infamous Slush Pile to the Long List of the 2020 Paranormal Book Awards:
- Christopher Leibig – Almost Damned
- K.A. Banks – Seven Sisters Road
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Just Die
- Lydia Staggs – Azrael
- Christine Mager Wevik – Borrowed Memories
- Brooke Skipstone – Someone To Kiss My Scars
- James Kirst – Magic Once Removed
- Meg Evans – Enthrallment
- Blaise Ramsay – Blood Law
- Endy Wright – The Omicron Six
- Claudia Herring – Shimmers of Truth
- Kaylin McFarren – Soul Seeker
- Joy Ross Davis – The Magnificent Celestine
- Stephanie Alexander – Charleston Green
- Lindy Ryan – Throw Me to the Wolves
- Franklin Posner – Boston Betty
- R.B. Woodstone – Chains of Time
- Sheryl M. Frazer – When She Touches
- Ryan Young – The Shepherd’s Burden
- David W. Thompson – ‘Possum Stew
- Carissa Andrews – Secret Legacy
- Shane Boulware – Soulstealer
- Neil Chase – Iron Dogs
- S.K. Andrews – Bay of Darkness
- Matt Tompkins – Odsburg
- James Gish, Jr. – Snake Prayers
- Randy Overbeck – Blood on the Chesapeake
- TK Lawyer – Serenade
- Nellie H. Steele – Shadows of the Past: A Shadow Slayers Story
- Sarah Lampkin – To Dream is to Die (Dead Dreamer #1)
- T. L. Augury – What’s Brewing Now? (Witches Brew Series)
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Paranormal Book Awards?

Good Luck to All!

Congratulations to Susan Lynn Solomon whose work Abigail’s Window took home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Paranormal Book Awards.

Here is the link to the 2019 Paranormal Book Award Winners!

Our next Chanticleer International Book Awards Ceremonies will be held April 21 – 25, 2021, for the 2020 CIBA winners. Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

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

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com.
December 26, 2020