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  • The Goethe 2023 Short List for Late Historical Fiction

    The Goethe 2023 Short List for Late Historical Fiction

    Post 1750s Historical Fiction Award

    The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in post-1750s Historical Fiction.  The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars before the 20th century, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    The other three Historical Fiction Genres are the Laramie Awards for Americana Fiction, the Chaucer Awards for Early Historical Fiction, and the Hemingway Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction.

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

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2023 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Post-1750s Historical Fiction!

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

    • Pat Wahler – The Rose of Washington Square: A Novel of Rose O’Neill, Creator of the Kewpie Doll
    • J. Stanion – My Place Among Them: A Novel
    • Sandra Wagner-Wright – Ambition, Arrogance & Pride: Families & Rivals in 18th Century Salem
    • Janis Robinson Daly – The Unlocked Path, A Novel
    • Lindsey S. Fera – Muskets and Masquerades
    • Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Crown
    • Colleen Coyne – The Unintended Heiress
    • Mitzi Zilka – Water Fire Steam
    • Jeff Schnader – The Serpent Papers
    • Miriam Polli – Birds Of Passage
    • Patrick Greenwood – Sunrise in Saigon
    • Jodi Lea Stewart – The Gold Rose
    • Chris Black – Chameleon
    • Lisa Voelker – The Spoon
    • Nichole Louise – Raven Rock
    • Susanne Dunlap – The Courtesan’s Daughter
    • Robert Brighton – The Unsealing
    • Gary Born – The File
    • Robert W Smith – A Long Way from Clare
    • Carrie Hayes – Naked Truth or Equality, the Forbidden Fruit
    • David Calloway – If Someday Comes
    • Michael Miller – High Bridge – Matilda and Grover Battle Learned Ignorance
    • Susanne Dunlap – The Portraitist: A Novel of Adelaide Labille-Guiard
    • Nina Romano – Dark Eyes
    • Susanne Dunlap – The Adored One
    • Alexandru Czimbor – The Soul Machines
    • Wendy Long Stanley – The Treason of Betsy Ross
    • Linda Ulleseit – The River Remembers
    • Ed Davis – Last Professional
    • Loretta Miles Tollefson – There Will Be Consequences
    • Don Jacobson – The Sailor’s Rest
    • Dean Cycon – Finding Home (Hungary, 1945)
    • Leslie K Simmons – Red Clay, Running Waters
    • William Maz – Bucharest Legacy: The Rise of the Oligarchs
    • Linda Rosen – The Emerald Necklace
    • T. M. Brown – The Last Laird of Sapelo
    • Nicole Evelina – Catherine’s Mercy
    • Jeanette Watts – My Dearest Miss Fairfax
    • J.L Oakley – The Brisling Code
    • Joan Koster – Censored Angel: Anthony Comstock’s Nemesis

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

    Eleonora and Joseph:

    Passion, Tragedy, and Revolution in the Age of Enlightenment

    by Julieta Almeida Rodrigues

    The Goethe Grand Prize Badge for Eleanora and Joseph by Julieta Almedia Rodrigues

     

    Click here to see the 2022 Goethe Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

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

    Please click here for more information.

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

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 18 – 21, 2024! Register Today!

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

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

  • The 2023 Ozma Book Awards Short List for Fantasy Fiction

    The 2023 Ozma Book Awards Short List for Fantasy Fiction

    The Ozma Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Fantasy Fiction. The Ozma Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards discovers the best books in the Ozma Awards featuring magic, the supernatural, imaginary worlds, fantastical creatures, legendary beasts, mythical beings, or inventions of fancy that author imaginations dream up without a basis in science as we know it. Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Dragons, Unicorns, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, or other out-of-this-world fiction. These books have advanced to the Long List in the 2023 CIBAs OZMA division.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 Ozma Fantasy Fiction Long List to the 2023 Ozma Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2023 Ozma Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction!

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

    • Derek Wachter – Crete
      Ben G. Price – Ogden
    • Jenn Lees – The Quest: Arlan’s Pledge Book Two
    • Nicholas Varner – Seasons of the Blue Pearl
    • Tim Facciola – A Vengeful Realm: Book One: The Scales of Balance
    • L.R. Braden – Of Mettle and Magic
    • A.S. Norris – The Wayward Mage: The Adventures of Jack Wartnose
    • Lilla Glass – The Unseen
    • Ross Hightower – Argren Blue
    • John Diaz – Rogues of the Crosslands: Azoria’s Blade
    • Amber Kirkpatrick – Unleashed
    • Amber Kirkpatrick – Until the Rising
    • Charles Allen – The Order of the Red God
    • Jaime Castle & Andy Peloquin – Black Talon
    • Crystal D. Grant – Shadowcast
    • Ekta R. Garg – In the Heart of the Linden Wood
    • L.L. Gray – Shadows and Relics
    • Richard C. Brusca – The Time Travelers
    • AG Flitcher – Boone and Jacque: Sahon
    • D. K. Willis – The Unexpected
    • Celaine Charles – Seam Keepers
    • McKinley Aspen – Praesidium
    • D.A Mucci – Ignatius and the Battle at Dinas Affaraon
    • David V. Mammina – The Angels of Resistance
    • Dale Griffin – The Last Lion of Karkov
    • Jonathan Uffelman – Book of Leprechauns: The Lore Gatherers
    • PM Black – The Solar Realm – Silver Slayer
    • K.M.Messina – Gemja – The Message
    • Omayra Vélez – Ultima Skylar
    • PJ Devlin – The Chamber
    • Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Kingdom of Trolls
    • L. Ryan Storms – Temper the Dark
    • Alex B. Harper – Of Light and Nightmares: The Ashes of Magic Trilogy, Volume I
    • S.G. Blaise – Proud Pada

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

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

    Soar a Burning Sky

    By Steven Michael Beck

    The Ozma Grand Prize Badge for Soar a Burning Sky by Steven Michael Beck

    See the full list of 2022 Ozma Award Winners here.

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

    Submissions for the 2024 OZMA Book Awards are open now. Enter here!

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

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

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

    Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA Badge

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

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring a Journey of true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

    These titles have moved forward in the Long List Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2023 Journey Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2023 Journey Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

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

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

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

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

    • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Saint Bloodbath
    • Qin Sun Stubis – Once Our Lives
    • Rebecca Olmstead – Loved So Much It Hurts: Purpose in the Pain
    • Tina Davidson – Let Your Heart Be Broken, Life and Music of a Classical Composer
    • Hollie Stuart – I Can See for Miles
    • Cathryn Vogeley – I Need To Tell You
    • Lori Lee Peters – God, the Mafia, My Dad and Me
    • Cort Casady – Not Your Father’s America
    • Francesca Miracola – I Got It From Here
    • Patricia Angeles – Midpoint: A Memoir
    • Francesca Grossman – Not Weakness: Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain
    • Sara Alvarado – Dreaming In Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story in Puerto Vallarta
    • Joel Harris – Searching for Steve
    • Leslie Ferguson – When I Was Her Daughter
    • Kathy Sechrist – Success Is The Best Revenge
    • Antonia Deignan – Underwater Daughter: A Memoir of Survival and Healing
    • Phyllis Dyson – Among Silent Echoes: A Memoir of Trauma and Resilience
    • Andrew Saltarelli – Leaving Home
    • Nanette J. Davis Ph.D. – Raging Currents: Mental Illness and Family
    • Aurita Maldonado – The Zen of Dancing in the Rain: Becoming One with the Storm
    • Barbara Wolf Terao – Reconfigured: A Memoir
    • Trisha T Pritiin – The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices From the Fight for Atomic Justice
    • T.C. Fuller – Painting Over Rust: Stories From a 20-Year Odyssey in the FBI
    • Sarah Martin – Dear Psychosis
    • Julie Morrison – Barbed: A Memoir
    • Jarie Bolander – Ride or Die: Loving Through Tragedy, A Husband’s Memoir
    • Mikky Eagle – Transcending to Power – the Freya Files : A Survivor’s Memoir Uncovering the Aftermath of Child Sexual-Abuse
    • Erika Shepard – Trans-Formations From Field Boots to Sensible Heels
    • Karen DeBonis – Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived
    • Mike Nixon – Life Travel And The People In Between

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

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

    A Fraction Stronger 

    by Mark Berridge 

    A Fraction Stronger Cover

    See our full list of 2022 Journey Winners here.

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

    April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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

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

  • Discover your next great read with the 2023 Somerset Awards Hall of Fame

    Contemporary tales of literary proportions?

    Submit to the Somerset Awards by October 31st!

    ***Submit Your Novel Today!***

    The Badge for the Somerset Awards for Literary and Contemporary Literature

    Are the pages of your book full of rich literary themes, captivating contemporary narratives, a touch of magical realism, or heartfelt explorations of family dynamics? If so, it’s time to put your work to the test by submitting it to the Somerset Awards! These awards seek to celebrate and honor books that shine with literary brilliance, offering a platform for those that delve into the complexities of human existence through the written word. Whether your work weaves enchanting tales of magical realism, delves into the intricacies of modern life, or delves deep into the bonds that tie families together, the Somerset Awards is your chance to gain recognition and acclaim for your extraordinary storytelling.

    For Humor, Satire, or Allegorical works, we suggest that you consider the Mark Twain Book Awards division of the CIBAs.

    Lets take a look at the Grand Prize Winners of the Somerset Awards!

    Everything That Was Cover

    Everything That Was
    By Conon Parks, Chris Sempek, Mike MacNeil and Larry Knight

    Everything That Was echoes myriad broken emotions born of the world in turmoil after 9/11, intricate and politically bold, and as disturbing in its brutal humanity as it is satisfying with witty jests.

    The 9/11 terrorist attack has shattered the psyche of the American people. A volcanic eruption of questions demands the whys and hows of the attack. From this anger, a massive war on terror begins. This historical fiction reflects the chaos of 9/11 and its ensuing global chaos – resulting in a series of violent endeavors and events. Throughout Everything That Was, one can find a swarm of fragmented ideologies, mini memoirs of war veterans, and witness accounts – all screeching reasons for the attack, the ensuing war, and its consequences: political, ideological, and theological.

    Read More Here

     

    Lies in Bone Cover

    Lies In Bone
    By Natalie Symons

    From the first paragraph of Lies in Bone, Natalie Symons’ debut novel delves into human darkness.

    Lies in Bone, set in a factory town in 1986 Pennsylvania after its industrial boom faded, is told from the point of view of a girl who struggles with more than usual teenage angst. Symons relentlessly reveals the fear, ignorance, and poverty which often suffuse a community left behind.

    The residents of Slippery Elm, Pennsylvania, were bewildered and ill-equipped to deal with their new reality when the steel mill shut down seven years before, leaving many unemployed and discouraged.

    Frances Coolidge, known as Frank, knows the struggle of being left behind.

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    A Season in Lights Cover

    A Season in Lights
    By Gregory Erich Phillips

    Gregory Erich Phillips’ A Season in Lights is a well-crafted, engaging exploration of creatives, each following their heart and trying to reach their dream.

    Against backdrops of the 1980s AIDS crisis and the more recent COVID-19 pandemic, the story entwines the lives of a 30-something dancer and an older musician as they strive to make their artistic mark in the cultural capital of New York City.

    Here in a two-fold unveiling, the story comes to life from the first-person perspective of Cammie, a starry-eyed aspiring dancer from Lancaster, PA, and the third-person reveal of Tom, a more seasoned black pianist. He longs for a classical career but is too often labeled a jazz musician. Cammie first encounters Tom in a studio dance class where he’s taken a job as the musical accompanist. Befriended by the gay dance instructor, Tom heeds the worldly advice offered about surviving in the Big Apple. “All you’ve got to do is convince people that you belong. You’ve got to tell them who you are before they tell you.”

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    Hard Cider
    By Barbara Stark-Nemon

    Abbie Rose Stone is a woman determined to follow her newly discovered dream of producing her own craft hard apple cider while navigating the ups and downs of family life with her grown sons and husband.

    Abbie Rose knows how to deal with adversity, and dives headfirst into this new chapter of her life with energy and passion. She describes her early adulthood years of infertility struggles and the hardscrabble way she built her young family through invasive medical procedures, a surrogate attempt, and adoption barriers.

    After finishing a successful career in education and raising her three sons, Abbie Rose now sees an opportunity to create a new segment of her life’s work in a blossoming business venture. She’s set to take on this new venture by herself, determined to succeed, with or without her husband’s support. Yet, while she lays out her meticulous plans for her cider business, life keeps happening around her, attempting to derail Abbie Rose at every turn.

    Read More Here

    Now that you’re set on your next reads, what are you waiting for? The only way to join this amazing list of Somerset Winners is to submit today!

    Those who submit and advance will have the chance to win the Overall Grand Prize of the CIBAs and $1000!

    Submit to the CIBAs Today!

    Now is your chance to touch the hearts of readers everywhere. Your Contemporary story deserves to be discovered, and you can submit to the 2023 Somerset Awards by the end of the month. Don’t miss this chance to give your book the recognition it deserves.

    The Somerset Awards is your chance to shine!

    And remember! Our 12th Anniversary Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24) will be April 18-21, 2024, where our 2023 CIBA winners will be announced. Space is limited and seats are already filling up. Sign up and see the latest updates here!

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

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

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

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

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 M&M entries to the 2023 M&M Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2023 M&M Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the next level of achievement in the CIBAs. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBAs divisions’ Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies on April, 20, 2024 in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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

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

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

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

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

    A Spying Eye

    A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel

    by Michelle Cox 

    The M&M Grand Prize for Mystery and Mayhem M&M Awards goes to A Spying Eye by Michelle Cox

    See the Full List of M&M Winners here!

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

    Submissions for the 2024 CLUE Book Awards are open now. Enter here!

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

    April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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

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

  • The 2023 CLUE Book Awards for Suspense/Thrillers – CIBAs Long List

    The 2023 CLUE Book Awards for Suspense/Thrillers – CIBAs Long List

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

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

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 Clue Suspense/Thriller Fiction entries to the 2023 Clue Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Clue Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

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

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 21st, 2024 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

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

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

    • Roxana Arama – Extreme Vetting: A Thriller
    • Craig H. Bowlsby – Requiem for a Lotus
    • Nancy Adair – The Appearance of Guilt
    • Margaret Mizushima – Standing Dead: A Timber Creek K-9 Mystery
    • Joanne Jaytanie – Retrieving Remy, The Winters Sisters Book 5
    • Jeremy Gluck – Face Value
    • Ana Manwaring – Backlash Venom and Vendetta from ‘Nam
    • Mikky Eagle – Burden of Proof – the Freya Files – A Most Despicable Deed of Arson
    • B. C. Howard – SEL
    • Chuck Morgan – Crime Scene, A Buck Taylor Novel
    • Linda Moore – Five Days in Bogotá
    • Kevin G. Chapman – The Other Murder
    • T.O. Paine – The Excursion
    • Corey Lynn Fayman – Gillespie Field Groove
    • Paty Jager – Damning Firefly
    • Mary Desch – Tangled Darkness
    • Jonny Thompson – Ash and Sun
    • Jonny Thompson – Atlantis
    • Charlotte Stuart – The Sham Shamus
    • Charlotte Stuart – Forget or Forgive? NEVER
    • Jim Nesbitt – The Dead Certain Doubt: An Ed Earl Burch Novel
    • Caroline Taylor – The Pit Road War
    • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Saint Bloodbath
    • Gar Mallinson – Night Moves: The Stroll Murders
    • Mark Shaiken – Cram Down
    • Joshua Cohen – Past Imperfect
    • Jacqueline Boulden – Her Past Can’t Wait
    • Ron Roman – Of Ashes and Dust
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – Sherlock and the Tiger
    • J. Luke Bennecke – Echo from a Bayou
    • Mark James – Friendship Games
    • George Brown – Who Killed Jerusalem?
    • Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
    • Dave Lager – Sniper’s Day
    • Daniel V. Meier Jr. – Guidance to Death
    • Michelle Cox – A Haunting at Linley
    • Anne Moose – When You Read This I’ll Be Gone
    • Jode Millman – The Empty Kayak
    • Alexandrea Weis & Lucas Astor – River of Ashes
      Kamille Roach – Pine Creek
    • Justin M. Kiska – Fact & Fiction
    • Melissa L. Berger – What Mae Brings: A Novel
    • Mike Van Horn – Controlled Flight
    • Decima Blake – Hingston: Smoke and Mispers
    • Cathi Stoler – With A Twist: A Murder On The Rocks Mystery
    • Richard C. Brusca – The Time Travelers
    • Bill Mesce, Jr – Median Gray
    • Kathryn Lane – Missing in Miami
    • Leslie Kain – Secrets In The Mirror
    • D. R. Berlin – The Third Estate: Secrets of the Manor
    • Lisa Towles – The Ridders
    • Rita M Boehm – The Price of Revenge
    • Philip Derrick – Saigon Spring
    • Tejas Desai – The Dance Towards Death
    • Martha Crites – Danger to Others
    • Raymond Paul Johnson – The Raven Society: Conspiracy Ignited
      Chris Chan – Ghosting My Friend
    • Nina Romano – Dark Eyes
    • McKinley Aspen – Praesidium
    • Robert W. Smith – Long Way From Clare
    • Jason Kapcala – Hungry Town
    • V. S. Anderson – Three Strides Out: A Horse Show Novel of Suspense
    • Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock
    • T.E. Lane – The Cornbread Letters
    • Brigitte Goldstein – Death of a Diva-From Berlin to Broadway
    • Mary Keliikoa – Deceived
    • Mary Keliikoa – Hidden Pieces

     

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

    Have You Seen Me?

    By Alexandrea Weis

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

    Submissions for the 2024 CLUE Book Awards are open now. Enter here!

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

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

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

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

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

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the Short List of the 2023 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Collections and Anthologies!

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

    • Catherine Brown – The Heart of Kublai Khan’s Menagerie Keeper
    • Catherine Brown – Finding Namaste
    • Luray Embers – No Cat Is An Island
    • A.J. McCarthy – A Rock
    • A.J. McCarthy – The Strike
    • Brian Feutz – Pity the Peasants
    • Alice McVeigh – Pride and Perjury: A Jane Austenesque short story
    • DL Fowler – Lincoln & the Dead
    • Brittany Eden – Candles in the Dark from Fantasea
    • Brittany Eden- Wishes
    • Logan D. Irons – Bridge of Kings
    • Sallie Barr Palmer – Conversation with a Vampire
    • Susan Lynn Solomon – Sabbath
    • Marie Sutro – Son Down
    • Larry Sherrer – Spirit Letters
    • Jay Ashkinos – June 18th, 2292: To the Forgotten
    • PJ Devlin – Sea Purses
    • Morgan Sloan – The Awakening
    • Sharon E. Cathcart – Rose in Bloom
    • Margaret Arross – Secret Pass
    • S.M. Stevens – The Wallace House of Pain
    • Robert S Phillips – The Great River
    • George T. Arnold – Confession of a “Grammarholic”

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

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

    God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me

    by Lori Lee Peters

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

    Old Man Baseball

    by Mike Murphey

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

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

    And Here (Short Stories and Essays)

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

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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  • The 2023 Shorts Award Long List for Novellas, Essays, and Collections

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

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

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Entries to the Shorts Book Awards Long List. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Shorts Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Finalist positions.

    All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the Short List of the 2023 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Collections,  Novellas, and Essays!

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

    • Michele L. Sayre – A Ghoulish Good Time – Tales to Make You Scream
    • Seán Thomas Dwyer – Tiptoeing Past the Dragon
    • Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. – Miami Vengeance: A Griffin Knight Conspiracy Mystery
    • Elizabeth Chesla – You Cannot Forbid the Flower
    • David Joseph – I Didn’t Know What to Say, So I Just Said Thanks
    • Louise Lenahan Wallace – The Windows of his Heart
    • Brittany Eden – Wishes
    • J. I. Rogers – The Korpes File Series – Short Stories: Vol 1
    • Susan Lynn Solomon – Sabbath
    • Liese Sherwood-Fabre – The Life and Times of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 4
    • D. C. Gomez – Recruited
    • Maziar Lahooti – Comanche & Djinn VS Grown-ups
    • Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. – The Nocturnal Devil: A Griffin Knight Mystery Thriller
    • Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. – The Windy City Terror: A Griffin Knight Horror Mystery
    • Vali Benson – Blood and Silver
    • Mary Ann Bernal – AnaRose and the Templar’s Quest
    • JuJu – The Costly Wish
    • Elizabeth R. Jensen – Fire and Wolves: A Tale of Etria
    • Ekta R. Garg – The Truth About Elves
    • Gary Baysinger – A Kind of Homecoming
    • Paper Lantern Writers – Unlocked
    • Celaine Charles – Stained Glass Secrets and Star Wishes
    • Scott Swanson – Philly’s Bridge And Other Northwest Stories
    • Charlie Aquavella – The Elevator – Forever Young
    • Antonia Gavrihel – Back to One: Take 3 Cinéma Vérité
    • Turtle – A Grading of the Human Species
    • Laurie Stevens – The Devil and Daniela Webster
    • Mack Little – Shelter in a Hostile World
    • Tori Ross – Rocks

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

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

    God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me

    by Lori Lee Peters

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

    Old Man Baseball

    by Mike Murphey

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

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

    And Here (Short Stories and Essays)

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

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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

    Join us for our 11th annual conference and discover why!

  • The 2023 HEARTEN Book Awards Long List for Inspiring & Uplifting Non-Fiction

    The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Hearten Book  Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 Hearten Non-Fiction entries to the 2023 Hearten Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Hearten Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

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

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

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2023 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspirational Non-Fiction!

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

    • Lynne M. Kolze – Please Write: Finding Joy and Meaning in the Soulful Art of Handwritten Letters
    • Anna Casamento Arrigo – Patience Insanity & Wisdom
    • Lisa Niver – Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty
    • Syril Levin Kline – Inspiring Legacy: David and Carmen Kreeger’s Journey to Philanthropy
    • Lally Pia – The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy: A Memoir of an Unlikely Doctor
    • Alexander V. Girman & Cynthia J Girman – A Voice from Heaven: From Earthly Struggles to Thriving in the Afterlife
    • Duncan McLauren – Owning Your Destiny
    • Terri Kim – The Enlightenment Stories Represented in the Samgook Yusa and the Princess Bari
    • Julie Morrison – Barbed: A Memoir
    • Alex Bisset – The Destination Birth
    • Shanita Liu – Dear Durga: A Mom’s Guide to Activate Courage and Emerge Victorious
    • Theo Boyd – My Grief is Not Like Yours: Learning to Live After Unimaginable Loss, A Daughter’s Journey
    • Trudy Wells-Meyer – Some Things Are Simply Meant to Be
    • Maria C. Palmer and Ruthie Robbins – On the Rocks
    • Tony Jeton Selimi – The Unfakeable Code®
    • Tony Jeton Selimi – A Path to Excellence
    • Art Berman – Art in the Middle Ages: A Memoir of Midlife Renaissance
    • Nove Meyers – Running Away From the Circus
    • Patrick M. Garry – The Power of Gratitude: Charting a Path Toward a Joyous and Faith-Filled Life
    • Nove Meyers – Running Away From the Circus
    • Kate Hudson-Hall – Anxiety Hacks: Proven Techniques, Tools and Tips to Calmness
    • Hollie Stuart – I Can See For Miles
    • Cory Mortensen – The Buddha and the Bee
    • Julie Scolnik – Paris Blue
    • Cort Casady – Not Your Father’s America
    • Elizabeth Rau – The Good Slope
    • Joel Harris – Searching for Steve
    • Steven Greenebaum – An Afternoon’s Dictation: Inclusive Revelation for the 21st Century
    • Dian Seidel – Kindergarten at 60: A Memoir of Teaching in Thailand
    • Aurita Maldonado – The Zen of Dancing in the Rain: Becoming One with the Storm
    • Grant Harper Reid – The Apocalypto Kid Goes to College
    • Nanette J. Davis Ph.D. – Raging Currents: Mental Illness and Family
    • Catherine DeMonte – Beep! Beep! Get Out of My Way!: Seven Tools for Powerful Creation and Living Your Unstoppable Life
    • Dr. Kelly Rabenstein – Psychological Secrets for Emotional Success (It’s All About Love)

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

    Inner Trek
    a reluctant pilgrim to the Himalayas

    By Mohan Ranga Rao

    Inner Trek Cover

    The 2022 Hearten Grand Prize Badge for Inner Trek by Mohan Ranga Rao

     

    Click here to see the 2022 Hearten Book Award Winners for Uplifting Non-Fiction

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC24. 

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

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

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  • The 2023 Laramie Book Awards Long List for Americana Fiction

    The 2023 Laramie Book Awards Long List for Americana Fiction

    Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction AwardThe Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre.  The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring Americana themes, First Nation stories, early North American History, cowboys & cowgirls in the Wild West, pioneering, and Civil War, and we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 Laramie Americana entries to the 2023 Laramie Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Laramie Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

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

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2023 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Americana Fiction!

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

    • Leah Angstman – The Only Way to Cheat a Hangman
    • Heidi M. Thomas – Rescue Ranch Rising
    • Barbara Salvatore – The Trail to Niobrara
    • Barbara Toomer – Season of Our Reckoning
    • Deborah Hufford – Blood to Rubies
    • George T. Arnold – The Heart Beneath the Badge
    • Kimberly Burns – The Redemption of Mattie Silks
    • Leslie K Simmons – Red Clay, Running Waters
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – Chip Heller Man of Valor
    • Loretta Miles Tollefson – There Will Be Consequences
    • Donna E. Lane – This Hallowed Ground
    • Susan Rounds – The Winds of Autumn: A Marquette Legacy Epic Romance
    • Martha Engber – The Falcon, the Wolf, and the Hummingbird
    • James Holland – Vigilante Love Song: Alice Roosevelt and The White House Gunfighters
    • Leslie K Simmons – Red Clay, Running Waters
    • Myra Hargrave McIlvain – The Knotted Ring
    • K.S. JONES – Tastefully Texas
    • Venetia Hobson Lewis – Changing Woman
    • T.K. Conklin – Promise of Spring
    • Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
    • Joan Koster – That Dickinson Girl: A Novel of the Civil War
    • Thomas Goodman – The Last Man: A Novel of the 1927 Santa Claus Bank Robbery
    • J. Stanion – My Place Among Them
    • Shanna Hatfield – Love on Target
    • JR Holland – Alice Roosevelt and the White House Gunfighters
    • John Hansen – Grays Lake
    • John W. Jarrett – The Dark Prairie
    • Michael L. Ross – Across the Great Divide: Book 3 The Founding
    • Julia Brewer Daily – The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch
    • David Calloway – If Someday Comes
    • K. S. JONES – Change of Fortune
    • Elizabeth Woolsey – The Travels of Dr. Rebecca Harper A Matter of Time
    • Lloyd Mullins – A Rare and Dangerous Beast
    • T. M. Brown – The Last Laird of Sapelo
    • Sophia Alexander – Homespun
    • Daniel Greene – Northern Dawn (Northern Wolf Series Book 4)

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

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

    Guarded Hearts 

    by T.K. Conklin

    The 2022 Laramie Grand Prize Badge for Guarded Hearts by T.K. Conklin

    Click here to see the 2022 Laramie Book Award Winners for Americana Fiction.

    The 2024 Laramie Awards are now open! Click here for more information!

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

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    CAC24 –April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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