Category: Contest News

  • NELLIE BLY Book Awards for the Best Non-Fiction Investigative and Long Form Journalism Works – 2019 CIBAs

    NELLIE BLY Book Awards for the Best Non-Fiction Investigative and Long Form Journalism Works – 2019 CIBAs

    Nellie Bly Awards

    Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the Nellie Bly Book Awards for Investigative and Journalistic Non-Fiction Works, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.

     

     

     

     

    The CIBAs Search for the Best in the Nellie Bly Book Awards!

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring investigative works, long-form journalism, and reporting/correspondence. The CIBA judges are seeking the best journalistic works in social science, data-driven reports, equality and justice, ethics, human rights, activist groups, crimes and corruption, environmental, whistle-blowers, health and medicine, and politics. We love them all.

     

    The 2019 Nellie Bly Awards First Place Category Winners and the Nellie Bly Grand Prize Winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of September 8-13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Washington.

    Sean Dwyer, author of A Quest for Tears: Overcoming a Traumatic Brain Injury, 2018 Journey 1st Place Category Winner.

    This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the Nellie Bly Awards First Place Category Winners and the Nellie Bly Grand Prize Winner. 

    2019 is the FIRST year of the NELLIE BLY Book Awards – a non-fiction division of the CIBAs! 

     

    Congratulations to These Authors who Inaugurate the Nellie Bly Book Awards! 

    • T.S. Lewis – The Why of War: An Unorthodox Soldier’s Memoirs
    • Maya Castro – The Bubble: Everything I Learned as a Target of the Political, and Often Corrupt, World of Youth Sports
    • John Hoyte – Persistence of Light
    • Judy Bebelaar and Ron Cabral – And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown
    • Patrick Hogan – Silent Spring – Deadly Autumn of the Vietnam War
    • Gordon Cross, Robert Fowler, Ted Neill – Finding St. Lo: A Memoir of War & Family

    The Nellie Bly Awards
    2019 Grand Prize Winner is:

    Shaping Public Opinion:

    How Real Advocacy Journalism Should Be Practiced

    by Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D.

     

    Cover of Shaping Public Opinion by Janice S. Ellis, PhD. A burning typewriter sits in a series of concentric circles

     

    How to Enter the Nellie Bly Awards?

    We are accepting submissions into the 2020 Nellie Bly Awards until  November 30, 2020. 

    All CIBA Division Winners for 2020 will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

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

    If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.

     

  • I & I Book Awards for the Best Non-Fiction Guide Books and How-To Books – 2019 CIBAs

    I & I Book Awards for the Best Non-Fiction Guide Books and How-To Books – 2019 CIBAs

    Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the I & I Book Awards for Non-Fiction Guides and How-To Books, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.

     

     

     

    The CIBAs Search for the Best in the I & I Book Awards!

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring HOW-TO, Guidance, Travel Guides, Cookbooks, Instruction, Insight, Self-Help, and more.We love them all.

    The 2019 I & I Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the I & I Grand Prize Winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of September 8-13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Washington.

    Gail Avery Halverson, author of The Skeptical Physick, 2019 Chatelaine Grand Prize Winner and Chaucer 1st in Category Winner for the same title.

    This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the I & I Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the I & I Grand Prize Winner. 

    Congratulations to All!

    • Margaret A Hellyer – A Home on the South Fork
    • Ellen Notbohm – Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
    • Donna Cameron – A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You
    • Brad Borkan and David Hirzel – When Your Life Depends on It: Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic
    • Donald M. Rattner – My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation, 48 Science-based Techniques
    • Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book One, Savoring the Olde Ways Series
    • Lisa Boucher – Raising The Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture
    • Ryan M. Chukuske – Bigfoot 200: Because, You Know, Why the #@&% Not? 

    The I & I Book Awards
    2019 Grand Prize Winner is:

    Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew

    by Ellen Notbohm

     

    This is the original badge for the 2018 I & I Grand Prize Winner – Explore Europe on Foot by Cassandra Overby.

     

    How to Enter the I & I Book Awards?

    We are accepting submissions into the 2021 I & I  Book Awards until  September 30, 2021. 

    The 2020 I & I Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

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

    If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.

     

  • JOURNEY Book Awards for the Best Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir Books – 2019 CIBAs

    JOURNEY Book Awards for the Best Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir Books – 2019 CIBAs

    Journey Narrative Non-Fiction Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the Journey Book Awards for Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoirs Works, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.

     

     

     

    The CIBAs Search for the Best in the Journey Book Awards!

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We love them all.

     

    The 2019 Journey Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the Journey Grand Prize Winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of September 8-13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Washington.

    Janice Ellis, Ph.D., author of From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream, 2018 Journey Grand Prize Winner.

    This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the Journey Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the Journey Grand Prize Winner. 

     

    Congratulations to All!

    • Anna Carner – Blossom ~ The Wild Ambassador of Tewksbury
    • Linda Gartz – Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
    • Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson – The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug
    • John Hoyte – Persistence of Light
    • Nikki West – The Odyssey of the Chameleon
    • Eva Doherty Gremmert – Our Time To Dance 

    The Journey Book Awards
    2019 Grand Prize Winner is:
    Persistence of Light by John Hoyte

     

     

    This is the original badge for the 2018 Journey Grand Prize Winner – From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream by Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D.

     

    How to Enter the Journey Book Awards?

    We are accepting submissions into the 2021 Journey  Book Awards until  April 30, 2021. 

    The 2020 Journey Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

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

    If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.

     

  • SOMERSET Book Awards for the Best Contemporary and Literary Novels – 2019 CIBAs

    SOMERSET Book Awards for the Best Contemporary and Literary Novels – 2019 CIBAs

    Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the Somerset Book Awards for Contemporary and Literary Novels, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.

     

     

     

    The CIBAs Search for the Best in the Somerset Book Awards!

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is celebrating the best books featuring contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, satire, humor, magic realism, or women and family themes. We love them all.

    The 2019 Somerset Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the Somerset Grand Prize Winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of September 8-13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Washington.

    Michelle Rene, author of Hour Glass, Previous Laramie Grand Prize Winner and Overall Best Book Award Winner in 2017 announced the 2019 Somerset Book Award Winners.

    This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the Somerset Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the Somerset Grand Prize Winner. 

    Congratulations to All!

    • Donna LeClair – The Proprietor of the Theatre of Life
    • Carl Roberts The Trial of Connor Padget
    • Judith Kirscht – End of the Race
    • Patrick Finegan – Cooperative Lives
    • Santiago Xaman – After Olympus
    • Claire Fullerton – Little Tea
    • Maggie St. Claire – Martha
    • Jamie Zerndt – Jerkwater
    • R. Barber Anderson – The Sunken Forest, Where the Forest Came out of the Earth
    • HONORABLE MENTIONS:
      • Beth Burgmeyer – The Broken Road, ms
      • Bob Holt – Firebird, ms

    The Somerset Book Awards
    2019 Grand Prize Winner is a manuscript:
    The Proprietor of Theatre Life by Donna LeClair

     

    The Somerset Grand Prize for the 2019 Award Winner.

     

     

    This is the original badge for the 2018 Somerset Grand Prize Winner – Hard Cider by Barbara A. Stark-Nemon.

    How to Enter the Somerset  Book Awards?

    We are accepting submissions into the 2020 Somerset  Book Awards until  November 30, 2020. All submissions into this category after November 30, 2020, will automatically be entered into the 2021 Somerset Book Awards 

    The 2020 Somerset Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

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

    If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.

     

  • CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic and Romance Fiction – 2019 CIBAs

    CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic and Romance Fiction – 2019 CIBAs

    book award for Romance Novels The Chatelaine AwardsCongratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romance and Romantic Fiction novels, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.

    The Search for the Best New Romantic and Romance Books!

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is celebrating the best books featuring romantic themes and adventures of the heart, historical love affairs, a little steamy romance, paranormal, young adult, mystery, and any other genre with a romantic theme. We love them all.

    The 2019 Chatelaine Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the CHATELAINE Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of September 8-13, 2020, from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Washington.

    Janet Shawgo, author of Find Me Again – 2014 Chatelaine Grand Prize Winner announced the 2019 Chatelaine Book Awards.

    This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the CHATELAINE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the CHATELAINE Grand Prize Winner.

    Congratulations to All!

    • T.K. Conklin – Threads of Passion
    • Jule Selbo – Find Me in Florence 
    • Gail Avery Halverson – The Skeptical Physick 
    • Michelle Cox – A Veil Removed
    • Heather Novak – Headlights, Dipsticks, & My Ex’s Brother
    • Kari Bovee – Grace in the Wings
    • Joanne Jaytanie – Salvaging Truth, Hunters & Seekers
    • L.E. Rico – Mischief and Mayhem
    • HONORABLE MENTION: JP Kenna – A Terrible Freedom *

    The Chatelaine Book Awards
    2019 Grand Prize Winner is
    The Skeptical Physick by Gail Avery Halverson

     

     

    This is the digital badge for the 2018 Chatelaine Grand Prize Winner – The House at Ladywell by Nicola Slade.

    How to Enter the Chatelaine Book Awards?  September 30, 2020 is the last day to enter the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards.

    The 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.

    Then we will accept submissions into the 2021 CHATELAINE Book Awards until September 30, 2021. 

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

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

    If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.

     

  • GOETHE Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction – 2019 CIBAs

    GOETHE Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction – 2019 CIBAs

    Post 1750s Historical Fiction AwardCongratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the GOETHE Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.

     

    The Search for the Best New Post-1750s Historical Fiction

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is celebrating 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 – all set after the 1750s. We love them all.

    The 2019 GOETHE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GOETHE Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

    Kaylin McFarren, CLUE Grand Prize winner 2017 – Twisted Threads, announced the 2019 GOETHE Book Awards.

    This is the Official 2019 LIST of the GOETHE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GOETHE Grand Prize Winner.

    Congratulations to All! 

    • Vanda Writer – Paris, Adrift 
    • Kari Bovee – Peccadillo at the Palace  
    • PJ Devlin – Wissahickon Souls   
    • Mary Adler – Shadowed by Death: An Oliver Wright WWII Mystery   \
    • Mike Jordan – The Runner     
    • J.G. Schwartz – The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy 

    The GOETHE Book Awards

    Grand Prize Winner is

    Peccadillo at the Palace – An Annie Oakley Mystery

    by Kari Bovee

     

    This is the digital badge for the 2018 GOETHE Grand Prize Winner – The LOST YEARS of BILLY BATTLES by Ronald E. Yates.

    How to Enter the GOETHE Book Awards?

    We are accepting submissions into the 2021 GOETHE Book Awards until June 30, 2021. Submissions into the 2020 CHAUCER Book Awards are closed. 

    The 2020 GOETHE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

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

    If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.

  • CHAUCER Book Awards for Pre-1750s Historical Fiction – 2019 CIBAs

    CHAUCER Book Awards for Pre-1750s Historical Fiction – 2019 CIBAs

    Pre 1750 Historical Fiction AwardCongratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the CHAUCER Book Awards for Pre-1750s historical fiction, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.

     

     

    The Search for the Best New Pre-1750s Historical Fiction 

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is celebrating 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, and 1600s. We love them all.

    The 2019 CHAUCER Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the CHAUCER Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

    Michelle Cox, author of the Henrietta and Inspector Howard Mystery Series, the 2016 M & M Grand Prize Winner, announced the 2019 CHAUCER Book Awards.

    This is the Official 2019 LIST of the CHAUCER Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the CHAUCER Grand Prize Winner.

    Congratulations to All! 

    • Gail Avery Halverson – The Skeptical Physick
    • Linda Cardillo – Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarotti
    • June Hall McCash – Eleanor’s Daughter: A Novel of Marie de Champagne
    • James Hutson-Wiley – The Sugar Merchant
    • James Conroyd Martin – Fortune’s Child: A Novel of Empress Theodora
    • Catherine Mathis – Death in Coimbra
    • Patricia J. Boomsma – The Way of Glory
    • A.L. Cleven – 26.2

    The CHAUCER Book Awards

    2019 Grand Prize Winner is 

    Fortune’s Child: A Novel of Empress Theodora

    by James Conroyd Martin 

     

    This is the digital badge for the 2018 CHAUCER Grand Prize Winner – The Serpent and the Eagle by Edward Rickford

    How to Enter the Chaucer Book Awards?

    We are accepting submissions into the 2021 CHAUCER Book Awards until June30, 2021. Submissions into the 2020 CHAUCER Book Awards are closed. 

    The 2020 CHAUCER Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

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

    If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.

  • LARAMIE Book Awards for Western and Americana Fiction – 2019 CIBAs

    LARAMIE Book Awards for Western and Americana Fiction – 2019 CIBAs

    Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction AwardCongratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the LARAMIE Book Awards for Western, Civil War, Pioneer, First Nation Novels and Americana Fiction, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.

    The Search for the Best New Western and Americana Books!

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is celebrating the best books featuring, the Wild West, Pioneers, Civil War, Americana, and First Nation Novels. We love them all.

    The 2019 Laramie Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the LARAMIE Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

    Jacquie Rogers, author of Honey Beaulieu, Many Hunter series   2016 Laramie  Grand Prize Winner announced the 2019 Laramie  Book Award Winners.

    This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the LARAMIE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the LARAMIE Grand Prize Winner.

    Congratulations to All! 

    • E. Alan Fleischauer – Rescued  
    • Lynwood Kelly – The Gamble: Lost Treasures    
    • David Fitz-Gerald– Wanders Far-An Unlikely Hero’s Journey     
    • Eileen Charbonneau – Seven Aprils  
    • Juliette Douglas – Bed of Conspiracy  
    • John Hansen – Hard Times
    • J. R. Collins – Spirit of the Rabbit Place   

    The Laramie Book Awards

    2019 Grand Prize Winner is

     Seven Aprils  by Eileen Charbonneau 

    This is the digital badge for the 2018 Laramie Grand Prize Winner – Blood Moon: A Captive’s Tale by Ruth Hull Chatlien.

    Laramie Book Awards

    How to Enter the Laramie Book Awards?

    We are accepting submissions into the 2021 LARAMIE  Book Awards until July 31, 2021. Submissions into the 2020 Laramie Book Awards are closed. 

    The 2020 Laramie Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

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

    If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.

    • MYSTERY & MAYHEM Book Awards for Cozy and Not-So Cozy Mysteries – 2019 CIBAs

      MYSTERY & MAYHEM Book Awards for Cozy and Not-So Cozy Mysteries – 2019 CIBAs

      Cozy Mystery Fiction AwardCongratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the M & M  Book Awards for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries,  a division of the 2019 CIBAs.

      The CIBAs Search for the Best M&Ms!

      Chanticleer Book Reviews is celebrating 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 love them all.

      The 2019 M & M  Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the M & M Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

      Wendy Delaney, author of The Working Stiffs Mysteries Previous M & M   Grand Prize Winner announced the 2019 M & M Book Award Winners.

      This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the Mystery & Mayhem Grand Prize Winner.

       

      Congratulations to All! 

      • Susan Lynn Solomon  for Writing is Murder
      • Kari Bovee for Girl with a Gun
      • Susan Z. Ritz for A Dream to Die For
      • MJ O’Neill for The Corpse Wore Stilettos
      • Henry G. Brinton for City of Peace
      • Vee Kumari for Dharma, A Rekha Rao Mystery
      • M. J. Simms-Maddox for Mystery in Harare
      • Liese Sherwood-Fabre for The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife 
      • Michelle Cox for A Veil Removed

      The Mystery and Mayhem Book Awards 

      2019 Grand Prize Winner is

      Dharma, A Rekha Rao Mystery

      by Vee Kumari

      This is the digital badge for the 2018 M&M Grand Prize Winner – A Promise Given by Michelle Cox

       

      How to Enter the Mystery and Mayhem  Book Awards?

      We are accepting submissions into the 2021 M & M   Book Awards until April 30, 2021. Submissions into the 2020 M& MY Book Awards is closed. 

      The 2020 M&M Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.

      Don’t delay! Enter today! 

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

      If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.

       

    • GLOBAL Book Awards for High Stakes Thrillers – 2019 CIBAs

      GLOBAL Book Awards for High Stakes Thrillers – 2019 CIBAs

      Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards for High Stakes Fiction, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.

      The CIBAs Search for the Best Suspense High Stakes Thriller and Lab Lit  Novels

      Chanticleer Book Reviews is celebrating 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. We love them all.

      The 2019 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GLOBAL THRILLER  Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

      Sara Stamey, author of The Ariadne Connection –  2017 GLOBAL THRILLER  Grand Prize Winner announced the 2019 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Award Winners.

      This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GLOBAL THRILLER Grand Prize Winner.

      Congratulations to:

      • Randall Krzak for Carnage in Singapore
      • Courtney Leigh Pahlke for Life Force Preserve
      • Jett Ward for Execute Order
      • Nicole Mabry for Past This Point
      • Avanti Centrae for VanOps: The Solstice Shadows
      • Joanne Jaytanie for Salvaging Truth, Hunters & Seekers, Book 1

      The GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards 

      2019 Grand Prize Winner is 

      SOLSTICE SHADOWS – A VanOps Thriller

      by Avanti Centrae

       

      This is the badge for the 2018 GLOBAL THRILLER Grand Prize Winner – The Moving Blade by Michael Pronko

       

      How to Enter the 2020 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards?

      We are accepting submissions into the 2020 GLOBAL THRILLER  Book Awards until October  31, 2020. After this date, all entries will go into the 2021 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards. 

      The 2020 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.

      Don’t delay! Enter today! 

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

      If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.