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.
1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Rick Steinke on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 at the Bellingham Yacht Club in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
This is the OFFICIAL 2025 LIST of the CYGNUS BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner.
Join us in celebrating our First Place Category Winners
in the 2024 CYGNUS Book Awards, a division of the CIBAs!
Timothy S. Johnston – A Blanket of Steel
Peter Dingus – Deep Time
A. R. Black – No Man’s Land
Thomas Weaver – Artificial Wisdom
Shami Stovall – The Half-Life Empire
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2024 CYGNUS Awards for Science Fiction is:
Attn CIBA Winners & Finalists: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!
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A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.
ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.
NOTE: We will post at least two 2024 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 14, 2025. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2024 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.
Thank you for participating in the 2024 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.
Team Chanticleer
Any questions? Please email us at info@ChantiReviews.com We will try our best to reply within 3 business days Pacific Standard Time.
These wonderful authors put themselves out there, and we are honored to have been able to promote them throughout the 2024 CIBA year and beyond! Good luck in these final rounds of judging!
The world of publishing continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace. Technology has become central to every aspect of the industry, from writing and editing to marketing and distribution. At Chanticleer, we take pride in offering a conference that embraces the latest in publishing technologies. Our event provides a comprehensive look at the best tools and strategies authors can use to build their brands, market their work, and increase sales. We’ll explore everything from AI and metadata management to cutting-edge marketing techniques, ensuring you are well-equipped to thrive in today’s digital landscape.
In addition to offering invaluable business and marketing insights, we are also featuring select advanced writing craft classes to help authors take their writing to the next level. Whether you’re looking to improve your storytelling techniques, explore new narrative structures, or refine your manuscript, CAC25 has something for everyone.
Headliners
J. D. BARKER- Int’l Bestselling Thriller Author
J.D. Barker is the New York Times and international best-selling author of numerous novels, including DRACUL and the wildly popular 4MK series. He is currently collaborating with James Patterson. His books have been translated into two dozen languages, sold in more than 150 countries, and optioned for both film and television. Barker resides in coastal New Hampshire with his wife, Dayna, and their daughter, Ember.
CHRISTINE FAIRCHILD – Author, Book Doctor, and Dialogue Expert
Christine Fairchild offers 35+ years experience as a writer, editor, and book doctor. She’s conducted celebrity interviews (XFiles, SciFiMall.com), edited for technical giants (Microsoft, Hitachi), and served as a marketing/readability specialist for consumer products (DHL, Cingular, AT&T). She now specializes in Suspense fiction and helps authors take their work, and their career, to the next level through her online workshops, classes at conferences and one-on-one book-doctoring of clients’ novels. She also writes suspense and historical fiction, so she understands the challenges authors face in their craft and the publishing industry.
KIM HORNSBY – USA Today Bestselling Author, Producer, and Screenwriter
Kim Hornsby is a USA Today Bestselling Author and Produced Screenwriter known for adapting her novels to screenplays. With 16 novels and as many screenplays Kim is also a movie producer, with Braving Rapids, a Family Adventure and Secret Life of My Other Wife, a Lifetime Thriller slated to release early ’25. Comfort & Joy starts filming for a Christmas ’25 release as well as Christmas in Crystal Creek. She teaches her method of adapting from book to film at conferences nationally including Chanticleer, the RWA and PNWA. Her Christmas Romance novels and Suspense Mystery novels have sold over half a million books and she’s thrilled write happy-ending stories for her readers.
A mother, dog owner, kayaker, painter, and avid adventurer, Kim loves to travel but when home she writes from a desk overlooking her forested acreage on an island off Seattle conjuring up entertainment with gutsy heroines amongst diverse and inclusive characters to represent real life.
Can’t make it on Friday? Saturday-only passes are available! These passes include lunch, the banquet, and participation in the Saturday Book Fair at the Bellingham Yacht Club, followed by the Village Books Book Fair the next day at their flagship store in Fairhaven!
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com. We try our best to reply within 3 business days.
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.
Thank you again to everyone who participated in the 2024 CIBAs! We wish you all the best of luck during these final rounds of judging and hope to see you at CAC25, April 3 – 6, 2025!
Best regards, Kiffer Brown, David Beaumier, Dena Weigel, Anya Mueller, Scott Taylor, Argus Brown and Team Chanticleer
The Chanticleer Cover Design Awards (The CCDAs) for Non-Fiction recognizes artistic excellence across genre in great cover design. The CCDAs are a new Award Division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Our design is inspired by books designed by the incomparable Coraline Bickford-Smith. Her simple, beautiful, and evocative designs do so much to make the book work as a visual ambassador, capturing the essence of story and compelling potential readers to pick it up, click on it, or share it with others. A well-designed cover signals professionalism, sets expectations for your genre, and serves as a powerful marketing tool to stand out in both digital and physical spaces.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring clear genres, audience, time periods, typography, and longevity across genres of Non-Fiction.
These titles have moved forward from the Short List of the 2024 CCDA Non-Fiction Awards to the 2024 CCDA Non-Fiction FINALISTS. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 CCDA Non-Fiction First Place and Grand Prize Winners. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE and GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Chanticleer Cover Design Awards novel competition for Non-Fiction Books!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
Anne Gately – Sunburnt a Memoir of Sun Surf and Skin Cancer
Marianna Marlowe – Portrait of a Feminist a Memoir in Essays
Linda M. Lockwood – Sky Ranch Reared in the High Country
Meredith Wargo – Dawgs a True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them
Kathryn Caraway – Unfollow Me
Genét Simone – Teaching in the Dark a Memoir
Kathleen Watt – Rearranged an Opera Singers Facial Cancer and Life Transposed
Kasey Claytor – Finding the Light
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.
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.
The Chanticleer Cover Design Awards (The CCDAs) for Fiction recognizes artistic excellence across genre in great cover design. The CCDAs are a new Award Division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Our design is inspired by books designed by the incomparable Coraline Bickford-Smith. Her simple, beautiful, and evocative designs do so much to make the book work as a visual ambassador, capturing the essence of story and compelling potential readers to pick it up, click on it, or share it with others. A well-designed cover signals professionalism, sets expectations for your genre, and serves as a powerful marketing tool to stand out in both digital and physical spaces.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring clear genres, audience, time periods, typography, and longevity across genres of Historical Fiction, Romance, Literary, Satire, Speculative Fiction, and Youth Reads.
These titles have moved forward from the 2024 CCDA Fiction Semi-Finalists to the 2024 CCDA Fiction FINALISTS. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 CCDA Fiction First Place Category Winners and Division Grand Prize Winners! FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.
We will announce the First Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE and GRAND PRIZE WINNER of the 2024 Chanticleer Cover Design Awards novel competition for Fiction Books!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
J. Shep – The December Issue
Margaret Porter – A Change of Location
Chris Bennett – The Road To Revolution
Travis Davis – One of Four
Abbe Rolnick –The Underpainting
Ann Philipp – Grand Theft Death
Lucinda Brant – Their Graces Roxton Foundation Series
Laura C. Rader – Hatfield 1677
Kim Gottlieb-Walker –Lenswoman in Love
Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
Mark A. Gibson – A Song that Never Ends
Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Book of Rules
C.L. Olsen – Old Crabby Turtle
Michelle Morningstar – The Space Between the Divine and the Unholy
R.W. Meek – The Dream Collector Book I – Sabrine and Sigmund Freud
Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Breath Book One in the Desert Hills Trilogy
Strider S.R. Klusman – Luna – The Adventures of Rhone & Stone, book 2
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.
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.
The Chanticleer Cover Design Awards (The CCDAs) for Fiction recognizes artistic excellence across genre in great cover design. The CCDAs are a new Award Division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Our design is inspired by books designed by the incomparable Coraline Bickford-Smith. Her simple, beautiful, and evocative designs do so much to make the book work as a visual ambassador, capturing the essence of story and compelling potential readers to pick it up, click on it, or share it with others. A well-designed cover signals professionalism, sets expectations for your genre, and serves as a powerful marketing tool to stand out in both digital and physical spaces.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring clear genres, audience, time periods, typography, and longevity across genres of Historical Fiction, Romance, Literary, Satire, Speculative Fiction, and Youth Reads.
These titles have moved forward from the 2024 CCDA Fiction Short List to the 2024 CCDA Fiction SEMI-FINALISTS. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 CCDA Fiction Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Chanticleer Cover Design Awards novel competition for Fiction Books!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
J. Shep – The December Issue
Neal Rabin – Flat an Edgy Voyage of Accidental Discovery
Raymond Paul Johnson – Conspiracy Ignited
Margaret Porter – A Change of Location
Chris Bennett – The Road To Revolution
Travis Davis – One of Four
Abbe Rolnick – The Underpainting
Ann Philipp – Grand Theft Death
Lucinda Brant – Their Graces Roxton Foundation Series Book
Jason Farrell & Michael De Weever – Secret of the Emerald Star
Laura C. Rader – Hatfield
Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Day Book Two in the Desert Hills Trilogy
Kim Gottlieb-Walker – Lenswoman in Love
Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
Dave Lager – Losses
Mark A. Gibson – Roses in December
Mark A. Gibson – A Song That Never Ends
Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Book of Rules
C.L. Olsen – Old Crabby Turtle
Michelle Morningstar – The Space Between the Divine and the Unholy
R.W. Meek – The Dream Collector Book Book I Sabrine Sigmund Freud
Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Breath Book One in the Desert Hills Trilogy
Shami Stovall – Time-Marked Warlock
Strider S.R. Klusman – Luna – The Adventures of Rhone & Stone, book 2
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.
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.
The Chanticleer Cover Design Awards (The CCDAs) for Fiction recognizes artistic excellence across genre in great cover design. The CCDAs are a new Award Division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Our design is inspired by books designed by the incomparable Coraline Bickford-Smith. Her simple, beautiful, and evocative designs do so much to make the book work as a visual ambassador, capturing the essence of story and compelling potential readers to pick it up, click on it, or share it with others. A well-designed cover signals professionalism, sets expectations for your genre, and serves as a powerful marketing tool to stand out in both digital and physical spaces.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring clear genres, audience, time periods, typography, and longevity across genres of Historical Fiction, Romance, Literary, Satire, Speculative Fiction, and Youth Reads.
These titles have moved forward from the 2024 CCDA Fiction Long List to the 2024 CCDA Fiction SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 CCDA Fiction Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Chanticleer Cover Design Awards novel competition for Fiction Books!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
J. Shep – The December Issue
Neal Rabin – Flat an Edgy Voyage of Accidental Discovery
Meredith Forde – The Protectee
Raymond Paul Johnson – Conspiracy Ignited
Judy Lannon – The Making of Genevieve
Margaret Porter – A Change of Location
Chuck Morgan – Resurrection the Deadly Mission
L. J. Aldon – The Riddle of the Jeweled Cipher
Chris Bennett – The Road To Revolution
Travis Davis – One of Four
Robert Brighton – The Phantom of Forest Lawn
Abbe Rolnick – The Underpainting
Marlene M. Bell – A Hush at Midnight
Ann Philipp – Grand Theft Death
Lucinda Brant – Noble Satyr Roxton Foundation Series Book One
Lucinda Brant – Their Graces Roxton Foundation Series Book
Jason Farrell & Michael De Weever – Secret of the Emerald Star
Laura C. Rader – Hatfield
Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Day Book Two in the Desert Hills Trilogy
Kim Gottlieb-Walker – Lenswoman in Love
Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
Dave Lager – Losses
Mark A. Gibson – Roses in December
Mark A. Gibson – A Song That Never Ends
Joy Ann Ribar – The Medusa Murders
Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Book of Rules
C.L. Olsen – Old Crabby Turtle
M.J. Evans – Coal Dust and Dreams
Graydon Dee Hubbard – Network Apprentice Behind the Scenes in Talk Television
Michelle Morningstar – The Space Between the Divine and the Unholy
R.W. Meek – The Dream Collector Book Book I Sabrine Sigmund Freud
Lois Cahall – The Many Lives Loves of Hazel Lavery
Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Breath Book One in the Desert Hills Trilogy
Shami Stovall – Time-Marked Warlock
Strider S.R. Klusman – Luna – The Adventures of Rhone & Stone, book 2
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.
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.
Who doesn’t love a good book? It’s full of angst, misunderstandings, sultry moments, and intriguing characters who break our hearts and sweep us off our feet. Like chocolate, romance is one of those extraordinary genres that can go with almost anything—Historical Romance, Mystery Romance, YA Romance, SciFi Romance, Fantasy Romance, the list goes on!
Nothing is better than sharing a book you love with someone you know will love it just as much as you.
The Science Behind Love
Science tells us that two people falling in love is a mix of biological, chemical, and psychological factors. Wouldn’t these same factors play into a reader falling in love with a book? Picture this, you’re in a bookstore scanning the shelves, suddenly, you see a cover that is beautiful, intriguing, mysterious. You pick it up and read the blurb. It teases you with just enough information to make you want to learn more. You read the first page and find out that what it is telling you is exactly what you were hoping for. Your excitement increases as you envision the night ahead, snuggling under the covers, turning the pages as you fall in love with the characters and join them in their journey to find love. As you read, your heart starts to race with anticipation, you cry, you laugh, and you swear your devotion to the love you’ve found between the covers of a book.
Is there anything better than a great love story?
The Love You Find Between the Covers
Romance is one of the bestselling genres out there, and it’s clear we’re all looking for love stories that move us. But falling in love isn’t a one step process. First, your curiosity is peaked when you first look at a cover, you judge it by look, page count, and other factors to see if it’s a book that fits you, then you find yourself fascinated when something unexpected happens in the first few pages. You’re hooked!
As you continue reading you find yourself captivated by the characters. Perhaps they are way more complex than you had anticipated, and you can’t bear the thought of leaving the story half-read, so you march on, feeling nervous, stressed, afraid, and hopeful as the characters go through the trials and tribulations they face in the plot. Now you are infatuated! You can’t put it down! What’s going to happen? Will they, or won’t they?
As you draw closer to the climax, you find yourself on the same rollercoaster as the characters. You empathize with the characters and want to see the love match made. You fight the despair of coming to the last page, knowing you’ll have to put these wonderful characters away when you are finished. Ohh! The agony!
As you place the book on your own bookshelf you find yourself thirsting for more. More love, more conflict, more moments where you think all is lost, but then…
You realize you’ve fallen in love!
The Chatelaine Awards finds the best romantic novels of the year!
At Chanticleer we love Romance Books, and we love to show it off with ourChatelaine Awards! Check out our current Finalists here! First Place Winners will be announced at the Chanticleer Authors Conference!
The Chatelaine Awards are where we find all our romance books about bookstores and beyond!
Are you looking for your next great romance novel? Find your perfect literary match with these Chanticleer romance authors!
A Sea of Glass By Gail Avery Halverson
CIBA Grand Prize winner Chatelaine division
A Sea of Glass by Gail Avery Halverson is a sweeping historical novel that captivates readers as it takes us from the bustling world of Colonial Boston to the shores of Barbados. But the island’s burgeoning sugar industry harbors dark secrets for those trapped there, either by circumstance or by slavery.
The colonial backdrop is brimming with conflict. Businesses struggle under British taxation enforced by the hated Red Coats. With the dangers of traveling through pirate—and privateer—infested waters, there are more than enough shifting winds to keep readers engaged until the very end.
Lady Catherine Abbott-McKensie, her physician husband Simon McKensie, and their daughter Charlotte, enjoy the pace of life in Colonial Boston, but their peace does not last long.
In Loving Beth, a Christian historical romance by Bonnie Rose Ward, a young woman finds herself in dire straits when her widowed mother dies unexpectedly.
Beth’s father had taken out loans to improve their property, but he was killed in the Civil War, leaving his wife and daughter to struggle to keep up with the payments. Now, Beth is alone without any means to keep her home—finding and taking in two young, abandoned children certainly doesn’t help. But even amidst her troubles, Beth’s thoughts keep going back to the mysterious and handsome stranger who found and brought home the body of her mother.
Edged in Purple by John W. Feist welcomes readers to a place outside of time and space, a liminal space where characters of myth wait to return to their fated stories.
The Fold is a beautiful land, a near-utopia shepherded– literally– by Thetis and Peleus of Greek mythology. They raise the heroine of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Perdita, after her father had accused her mother of betraying him with another, the whole sad story a product of his own paranoia.
Perdita’s story is proceeding as it was written. She has already met Florizel, the man who should be the hero of her romance– when her story is intersected by another. Just as The Winter’s Tale features royal courts, doomed relationships, mistaken identities, and family murder, so too does an ancient Greek drama: the Oresteia of Aeschylus, the story of Agamemnon after the Trojan War.
After decades spent in a loveless, broken marriage, Crisa wants another chance at love. In Splintered Dreams, a romance novella by Diana Lynn, she must first stumble through her own insecurities to find it.
When Crisa’s husband, Alan, dies unexpectedly she is left with a stark emptiness inside her heart. Her marriage had been a sham. Her husband’s infidelity and lies crushed her idea of love and left her with questions about who she is, what she wants, and will she ever trust someone with her heart again. Casual sexual relationships can’t fill the void. She needs true love.
Physical intimacy is only part of what Crisa desires. She yearns for the kind of love that lasts a lifetime.
Air Boat: Love is an Adventure By Jacek Waliszewski
For readers interested in a unique romance,Air Boat: Love is an Adventureby Jacek Waliszewski offers a distinctive cast of characters and tense excitement in the sky.
Air Boatbrings together a former Special Forces soldier, Luke, who prefers to keep to himself, an independent and sarcastic female pilot, Stella, and a three-legged Husky named Saint who marches to the beat of his own drum. These captivating characters embark on a fast-paced, page-turning tale.
Author Jacek Waliszewski starts this romantic adventure with a suspenseful scene of a vintage plane barreling towards the Twin Cities, accompanied by two F-16 fighter jets, before setting the stage for the two main characters to meet. The mystery of this scene will stick in the reader’s mind, drawing them forward with stark curiosity that only grows in excitement.
Featuring authors like J.D Barker, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and publisher Brooke Warner, our 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.
The Chanticleer Cover Design Awards (The CCDAs) for Non-Fiction recognizes artistic excellence across genre in great cover design. The CCDAs are a new Award Division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Our design is inspired by books designed by the incomparable Coraline Bickford-Smith. Her simple, beautiful, and evocative designs do so much to make the book work as a visual ambassador, capturing the essence of story and compelling potential readers to pick it up, click on it, or share it with others. A well-designed cover signals professionalism, sets expectations for your genre, and serves as a powerful marketing tool to stand out in both digital and physical spaces.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring clear genres, audience, time periods, typography, and longevity across genres of Non-Fiction.
These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 CCDA Non-Fiction entries to the 2024 CCDA Non-Fiction SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 CCDA Non-Fiction Finalists List. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Short List and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Chanticleer Cover Design Awards novel competition for Non-Fiction Books!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
Anne Gately – Sunburnt a Memoir of Sun Surf and Skin Cancer
Judy Taylor – Magpie Times Marshmallow World
Marianna Marlowe – Portrait of a Feminist a Memoir in Essays
Linda M. Lockwood – Sky Ranch Reared in the High Country
Kim Sloan – Memoirs From the Frontlines Four States Two Years One Pandemic
Meredith Wargo – Dawgs a True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them
Karen Elizabeth Lee – The Village That Betrayed Its Children
Kathryn Caraway – Unfollow Me
Genét Simone – Teaching in the Dark a Memoir
Kathleen Watt – Rearranged an Opera Singers Facial Cancer and Life Transposed
Kasey Claytor – Finding the Light
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.
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.
The Chanticleer Cover Design Awards (The CCDAs) for Fiction recognizes artistic excellence across genre in great cover design. The CCDAs are a new Award Division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Our design is inspired by books designed by the incomparable Coraline Bickford-Smith. Her simple, beautiful, and evocative designs do so much to make the book work as a visual ambassador, capturing the essence of story and compelling potential readers to pick it up, click on it, or share it with others. A well-designed cover signals professionalism, sets expectations for your genre, and serves as a powerful marketing tool to stand out in both digital and physical spaces.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring clear genres, audience, time periods, typography, and longevity across genres of Historical Fiction, Romance, Literary, Satire, Speculative Fiction, and Youth Reads.
These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 CCDA Fiction entries to the 2024 CCDA Fiction LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 CCDA Fiction Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Chanticleer Cover Design Awards novel competition for Fiction Books!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
J. Shep – The December Issue
Neal Rabin – Flat an Edgy Voyage of Accidental Discovery
Jim Antonini – Bullets for Silverware
Jim Antonini – The Butcher and the Butterfly
Meredith Forde – The Protectee
Raymond Paul Johnson – Conspiracy Ignited
Judy Lannon – The Making of Genevieve
Jean Rover – And Then Spring Comes
Margaret Porter – A Change of Location
Chuck Morgan – Resurrection the Deadly Mission
L. J. Aldon – The Riddle of the Jeweled Cipher
Jeff Hartman – How To Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Chris Bennett – The Road To Revolution
Travis Davis – One of Four
Robert Brighton – The Phantom of Forest Lawn
Abbe Rolnick – The Underpainting
Marlene M. Bell – A Hush at Midnight
Natia Khaduri – A Soldier’s Burden
William Robert Reeves – The In-House Politician
Ann Philipp – Grand Theft Death
Lucinda Brant – Noble Satyr Roxton Foundation Series Book One
Lucinda Brant – Their Graces Roxton Foundation Series Book
Jason Farrell & Michael De Weever – Secret of the Emerald Star
J.P. Rieger – Sunscreen Shower
Laura C. Rader – Hatfield
Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Day Book Two in the Desert Hills Trilogy
Kim Gottlieb-Walker – Lenswoman in Love
Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
Dave Lager – Losses
Mark A. Gibson – Roses in December
Mark A. Gibson – A Song That Never Ends
Joy Ann Ribar – The Medusa Murders
Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Book of Rules
C.L. Olsen – Old Crabby Turtle
M.J. Evans – Coal Dust and Dreams
Graydon Dee Hubbard – Network Apprentice Behind the Scenes in Talk Television
Michelle Morningstar – The Space Between the Divine and the Unholy
Michael J Bowler – Forever Boy
R.W. Meek – The Dream Collector Book Book I Sabrine Sigmund Freud
Lois Cahall – The Many Lives Loves of Hazel Lavery
Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Breath Book One in the Desert Hills Trilogy
Shami Stovall – Time-Marked Warlock
Strider S.R. Klusman – Luna – The Adventures of Rhone & Stone, book 2
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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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.
A Huge Congratulations to all of the Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards (CIBAs) Shorts, Series, and CCDA Finalists!
Every tier of the CIBAs is an important one, though few manage to rise this far in the ranks.
For our Shorts and Series Authors, this post has links to all of the Finalist Awards for the 3 CIBA Division Lists we have for Longform work like collections, anthologies, and novellas; Short Prose like Short Stories and Essays; and Series. We will have a separate post for Fiction and Non-Fiction.
All Finalists in attendance will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, and we will announce the Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies on Saturday, April 5th at the Chanticleer Banquet. We can’t express how excited we are to be able to do this in person with our fully vaccinated and boosted staff in a healthy metro area.
Now let’s take a step back and look at where we came from to make this happen.
The remaining tiers are the First Place Winner, the Grand Prize Winners, and finally, the coveted Overall Grand Prize Winners. The Overall Grand Prize Winner takes home the $1000 and more! See the Book Award details here.
Now, presenting the links to the CCDAs, Series, and Short Awards Finalists
The Official 2024 CIBA Lists of the First Place and Grand Prize Winners for all Divisions of the CIBAs will start to be posted after April 8th, 2025.
We have badges available starting with the Short List. If you need a digital badge reflecting your tier level, please email info@ChantiReviews.com with your division and rank, and we will send you one as soon as possible.
The 2023 CIBA Grand Prize Winners!
The Annual Chanticleer Authors Conference is April 3-6, 2025
Make sure your Award gets the attention it deserves on Goodreads.com
In the Librarian Manual on Goodreads, you can go to your Book Edit Page — Literary Awards.
You want to list the Award for Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBA) Winners, and be sure to include the year and what place you received. For example:
The year Long List, Short List, Semi-Finalist, or Finalist.
Note from Goodreads: “To add a new award or edit an existing award, you’ll need help from one of our volunteer librarians or a staff member.” For assistance, post in the Goodreads Librarians Group.
Always double check that you’ve written everything correctly before posting it. The search function for Awards on Goodreads is both case and punctuation sensitive.
Remember, you don’t have to be present to win, but it sure is a lot more fun!
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.
KIM HORNSBY – USA Today Bestselling Author, Producer, and Screenwriter
The Chanticleer Cover Design Awards (The CCDAs) for Non-Fiction recognizes artistic excellence across genre in great cover design. The CCDAs are a new Award Division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
The Chanticleer Cover Design Awards (The CCDAs) for Fiction recognizes artistic excellence across genre in great cover design. The CCDAs are a new Award Division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
