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The LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards for Early Readers – the Long List for the 2020 CIBAs
The LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Reader Fiction. The Gertrude Warner 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 stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Storybooks, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books & Educational Books we will put them to the test to discover today’s best children’s books. Looking for Young Adult Fiction? Check out our Dante Rossetti contest! Looking for Middle Grade Fiction? Check out our Gertrude Warner contest!

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2020 Little Peeps entries to the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2020 Little Peeps Shortlist. The Long Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists and will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 17 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Sunday, April 25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalist Positions of the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers.

Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.
- Ellie Smith – Tex the Explorer Journey Through the Alphabet
- M. Lisa Rinaca – P Mind Your Q’s
- M. Lisa Rinaca – The Missing Punctuation Box
- M. Lisa Rinaca – Two Different Princesses
- Courtney Shannon Strand – Hollyhock Hill
- Robert Cole – Sollie
- Masoud Malekyari – Great As A Button
- Susan Faw – Poppy Ogopogo
- George M. Johnson – How Hope Became An Activist
- D.K. Brantley – Every Mummy Has a Mommy
- Carmela Dutra – Little Katie and the STEAM Team
- Carmela Dutra – Little Katie Explores the Coral Reefs
- Carmela Dutra – Little Katie Goes to the Moon
- Carmela Dutra – Little Katie How to Talk to Your Robot
- Dr. Justine Green – Completely Me
- Lisa Rojany – Tutusaurua Rex
- Courtney Shannon Strand – Ella’s Umbrella
- Lindy Ryan – Trick or Treat, Alistair Gray
- Peter R. Fernandez – Pia and The Trolls
- Dawn Marie Thompson – Sedwick the Seagull
- Mercy Hansen Mize – Samson’s Tail
- Stephanie Ryan – Let’s Learn about Chemistry
- Pamela Tomlin – My Truly Most Favorite Fluffy Friend
- Pamela Tomlin – Our Wounded Little Chickadee
- Alycyn Culbertson – Look What Happened While I Was Sleeping
- Raven Howell – So You Want a Puppy?
- Pj McIlvaine – Little Lena and The Big Table
- Dianne Moritz – Hey Little Beachcomber
- Savannah Hendricks – The Book Who Lost Its Title
- Mark Richardson – The Christmas War
- Teal Blake – J is for Jackalope
Congratulations to Trevor Young & Eleanor Long whose work Galdo’s Gift: The Boovie took home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Little Peeps Book Awards

Here is the link to the 2019 Little Peeps Book Award Winners!

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

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

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

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com.
December 17, 2020
The CHAUCER Book Awards for pre-1750s Historical Fiction – the Long List for the 2020 CIBAs
The CHAUCER Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in pre-1750s Historical Fiction. The Chaucer Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking for the best books featuring Pre-1750s Historical Fiction, including pre-history, ancient history, Classical, world history (non-western culture), Dark Ages and Medieval Europe, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Tudor, 1600s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them. These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2020 CHAUCER Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2020 CHAUCER Shortlist. The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2020 Chaucer Book Awards for pre-1750s Historical Fiction. Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
- James Hutson-Wiley – The Travels of ibn Thomas
- Patrick E. Craig – The Mennonite Queen
- Regan Walker – Summer Warrior
- N.L. Holmes – Bird in a Snare
- Leah Angstman – Out Front the Following Sea
- Bob Atkinson/Thoren Syndergaard – Ripley of Valor
- Seven Jane – The Isle of Gold
- Edward Rickford – The Bend of the River: Book Two in the Tenochtitlan Trilogy
- Helena P. Schrader – The Emperor Strikes Back
- B.L. Smith – The Fall of the Axe
- Catherine Meyrick – The Bridled Tongue
- Dave & Steve Curliss – To Give Thanks – Our Pilgrim Ancestors
- Dick Rosano – Islands of Fire: The Sicily Chronicles, Part I
- Brook Allen – Antonius: Son of Rome
- Sherry V. Ostroff – Caledonia
- Amy Wolf – A Woman of the Road and Sea
- Tony Dietz – Eve 1057
- Marilyn Pemberton – Song of the Nightingale: a Tale of Two Castrati
- K.M. Butler – The Welsh Dragon
- Robert Wright – The Stone Gardner’s Fire, Second Book of the Before They Awaken Trilogy
- Jim Fuxa – At War with Mars
- Wendy J. Dunn – Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters
- Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
- Marc Graham – Son of the Sea, Daughter of the Sun
- Indra Zuno – Freedom Dues
- Samary K. Birkline – MacGregor Strong
- Janet Wertman – The Path to Somerset
Good Luck to All in the Next Rounds!

Congratulations to James Conroyd Martin whose work Fortune’s Child: A Novel of Empress Theodora took home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Chaucer Book Awards and the overall BEST BOOK Grand Prize for 2019.

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

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

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

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

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com.
December 15, 2020
The MARK TWAIN Book Awards for Satire and Allegorical Fiction – a New Fiction Division in the Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards
You might say we like Samuel L. Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, just a little bit here in Bellingham. We only put a statue of him right out front of our flagship local bookstore Village Books.

Samuel Clemons writing as Mark Twain statue in front of Village Books, Fairhaven (Bellingham, Wash.)

But why? Well, Bellingham was one of the stops on his world tour to inspire himself to write and hopefully pay off some of the massive debt he had accrued from bad business investments. The tour proved to be successful: 122 shows in 71 cities around the world.

Editor’s Note: Here is a fascinating article from Time Magazine by Richard Zacks titled The 19th-Century Start-Ups That Cost Mark Twain His Fortune.

Twain came to Bellingham (aka Fairhaven currently – aka at that time as New Whatcom) in August of 1895 , and he lectured under smoky skies (they had a fire season that summer, too).

The fires caused the visit to Whatcom County to look like it wasn’t going to work out, as he arrived to see a spare audience, and unfriendly skies. Just read the description written by his manager, Major JD Pond:

Wednesday, August 14th, Seattle to Whatcom.

“Mark’s” cold is getting worse (the first cold he ever had). He worried and fretted all day; two swearing fits under his breath, with a short interval between them, they lasted from our arrival in town until he went to sleep after midnight. It was with great difficulty that he got through the lecture. The crowd, which kept stringing in at long intervals until half-past nine, made him so nervous that he left the stage for a time. I thought he was ill, and rushed back of the scenes, only to meet him in a white rage. He looked daggers at me, and remarked:

“You’ll never play a trick like this on me again. Look at that audience. It isn’t half in yet.”

I explained that many of the people came from long distances, and that the cars ran only every half hour, the entire country on fire causing delays, and that was why the last installment came so late. He cooled down and went at it again. He captured the crowd. He had a good time and an encore, and was obliged to give an additional story.

And his trip had the added effect of reinvigorating his writing and his bank account, both vital for him. Luckily, with prohibition twenty years down the line, he managed to find some liquor and cigars to round out the successful night at what is now Sycamore Square, just down the road from where he was staying.

As a well-known humorist, Mark Twain employed satire to gently rib his audience and point out inconsistencies in the world as it appeared then, such as when Huck wonders why he would go to Hell for helping his friend Jim escape slavery.

One of Twain’s more well-known sayings is “Better to remain silent and thought a fool than to open one’s mouth & remove all doubt.”

BRAND NEW FOR 2020

The Mark Twain Book Awards

for Satirical and Allegorical Fiction

With our Somerset Awards having grown beyond capacity with literary fiction and satire, we decided to name the new division for satire and allegory for Mark Twain, for both his excellence in writing and our connection to him here in Bellingham. And, of course for his excellent works in satire and allegory.
- The incomparable The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- The Innocents Abroad
Modern Satire examples:
- Matt Groening – The Simpsons, Futurama
- David Sedaris – Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Chuck Palahniuk – Fight Club
- Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five
- Evelyn Waugh – Brideshead Revisited
Allegory examples
- Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
- George Orwell – Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four
- L. Frank Baum’s – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Arthur Miller – The Crucible
- C.S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia
If your work is literary or contemporary, but not quite satire or allegory, check out our Somerset Awards!

HOW DO YOU HAVE YOUR BOOKS RECOGNIZED? Submit them to the Chanticleer International Book Awards – Click here for more information about The CIBAs!

The last day to submit your work is November 30, 2018. We invite you to join us, to tell us your stories, and to find out who will take home the prize ribbons at CAC21 in April.

As our deadline draws near, don’t miss this opportunity to earn the distinction your literary novel deserves! Enter today!

The MARK TWAIN Book Awards for Satirical and Allegorical fiction is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards – the CIBAs.

ENTER NOW!

Don’t delay! Enter today!
November 13, 2020
Part Three – The 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards Overall Grand Prize Winner, Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners – CIBAs
We are deeply honored and excited to announce the 2019 Winners of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs). Part Three of Three – 2019 CIBA Winner Announcements

CIBA Grand Prize Ribbons! You know that you want one!

The winners were recognized at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Ceremonies that were held on during VCAC September 8 – 13, 2020 by ZOOM webinars based at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.

We want to thank each and everyone of the CIBA judges who read each and every entry and then comment, rate, and rank within each of the 17 CIBA Divisions. Without your passion and labor of love for books, the Chanticleer International Book Awards would not exist and we could not fulfill our mandate: Discovering Today’s Best Books!

THANK YOU JUDGES!

Each year, we find the quality of the entries and the competitiveness of the division competitions increasing exponentially. We added a new level to the judging rounds in 2019—the premier Level of FINALIST per each CIBA Division. The CIBA judges wanted to add the Finalist Level of Achievement as a way to recognize and validate the entries that had outstanding merit but were not selected for the very few First Place Award positions within each genre division.

We are honored to present the

2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards

Grand Prize Winners

The 2019 CIBA Winners!

The CHATELAINE Book Awards for

Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction

Grand Prize Winner is

The SKEPTICAL PHYSCICK

by Gail Avery Halverson
- - T.K. Conklin – Threads of Passion
    
    Jule Selbo – Find Me in Florence
    
    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
The SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary, Contemporary, and Mainstream Fiction

Grand Prize Winner is

A MANUSCRIPT

The PROPRIETOR of the THEATRE of LIFE

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

Narrative Non-Fiction, Memoirs, and Biographies

Grand Prize Winner is

PERSISTENCE of LIGHT by John Hoyte
- - 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
    
    Nikki West – The Odyssey of the Chameleon
    
    Eva Doherty Gremmert – Our Time To Dance
The INSTRUCTION and INSIGHT Book Awards for How-To Guides, Travel Guides, Cook Books, Self-Help, and Enlightenment

Grand Prize Winner is

TEN THINGS EVERY CHILD with AUTISM

WISHES YOU KNEW

by Ellen Notbohm
- - Margaret A Hellyer – A Home on the South Fork
  - 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 NELLIE BLY Book Awards for Investigative and Long Form Journalism Non-Fiction

Grand Prize Winner is

SHAPING PUBLIC OPINION:

How Real Advocacy Journalism

Should Be Practiced

by Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D.
- 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
CONGRATULATIONS to ALL!

And NOW for the

2019 CHANTICLEER INT’L BOOK AWARDS

BEST BOOK

and

OVERALL GRAND PRIZE WINNER

FORTUNE’S CHILD:

A Novel of Empress Theodora

by

James Conroyd Martin

James Conroyd Martin will also be awarded $1,000 USD in recognition of his 2019 BEST BOOK of the YEAR – Chanticleer International Book Awards – Sponsored by Chanticleer Reviews & Media.

A Chanticleer Review of Fortune’s Child will be featured in the in the SPRING 2021 quarterly edition of the Chanticleer Reviews Magazine (print and epub) along with other promotional and marketing opportunities.

Thank you James Conroyd Martin for participating in the 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards. We look forward to receiving the sequel to Fortune’s Child in the 2021 Chaucer Book Awards, a division of the CIBAs.

We look forward to toasting James in person at our next gathering–hopefully in 2021. We are so happy that he joined us virtually for the CIBA announcements at VCAC20.

CONGRATULATIONS JAMES CONROYD MARTIN!

From all of us at Chanticleer International Book Awards and Chanticleer Reviews.

THANK YOU to VCAC20 SPONSORS and FRIENDS

And to FRIENDS of CHANTICLEER REVIEWS:

J.D. Barker, Robert Dugoni, and Scott Steindorff.

Link to Part One of the 2019 CIBA Announcements:

The 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards Overall Grand Prize and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners (CIBAs) – Part One

Link to Part Two of the 2019 CIBA Announcements:

Part Two – The 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards Overall Grand Prize Winner and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners

We will post more photographs and information. Do check back and subscribe to the Chanticleer Reviews e-news letter.

The video recordings of VCAC 20 are available on VIMEO. More information to come.

We have exciting news for the Chanticleer Community on the horizon so do stay tuned!

You know you want a coveted Chanticleer Reviews Blue Ribbon!

Submit your works (manuscripts or novels published after or on January 1, 2018, are accepted) to the prestigious Chanticleer International Book Awards today! Entries are being accepted into the 2020 CIBAs in all 17 fiction divisions and five non-fiction divisions.

Be sure to register early for the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference that will start on April 16th, 2021 with the 2020 CIBA banquet and ceremony scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 17th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. If we cannot move forward with CAC21 due to the coronavirus, we will host another LIVE and HYBRID Chanticleer Authors Conference and 2020 Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards ceremony.

Pivot and Oscillate are the Words for Today’s Challenging Times.

An email will go out to all 2019 CIBA award winners prior to October 30, 2020, with instructions, links, and more information about the awards packages. We appreciate your patience. As stated many times before “One does not need to be present at the CIBA ceremony and banquet to win. But it sure is a lot more fun!” –even if it is virtual!

As always, please contact us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions!

Be well. Stay Healthy. Take Care!

The Chanticleer Reviews Team
October 12, 2020
Part Two – The 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards Overall Grand Prize Winner and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners
We are deeply honored and excited to continue to announce the 2019 Winners of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The winners were recognized at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Ceremonies that were held on during VCAC September 8 – 13, 2020 by ZOOM webinars based at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.

We cheered on the CIBA Premier Finalists with our bubbly of choice from wherever we were Zooming!

The CIBA announcements were made LIVE with Chanticleerians participating and interacting from around the globe and North America. A virtual happy hour was held following each evening’s announcements.

We want to thank all of the CIBA judges who read each and every entry and then comment, rate, and rank within each of the 17 CIBA Divisions. Without your labors of love for books, the Chanticleer International Book Awards would not exist. THANK YOU!

We want to thank all of the authors and publishers who participated in the 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs). Each year, we find the quality of the entries and the competitiveness of the division competitions increasing exponentially. We added a new level to the judging rounds in 2019—the premier Level of FINALIST per each CIBA Division. The CIBA judges wanted to add the Finalist Level of Achievement as a way to recognize and validate the entries that had outstanding merit but were not selected for the very few First Place Award positions within each genre division.

Grand Prize Ribbons!

We are honored to present the

2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards

Grand Prize Winners

The 2019 CIBA Winners!

The LARAMIE Book Awards for American, Western, Pioneer, Civil War, and First Nation Novels

The Grand Prize Winner is

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

Pre-1750s Historical Fiction

Grand Prize Winner is

FORTUNE’S CHILD: A Novel of Empress Theodora

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

Post-1750’s Historical Fiction

Grand Prize Winner is

PECCADILLO at the PALACE by Kari Bovee
- - Vanda Writer for Paris, Adrift
    
    PJ Devlin for Wissahickon Souls
    
    Mary Adler for Shadowed by Death: An Oliver Wright WWII Mystery
    
    Mike Jordan for The Runner
    
    J.G. Schwartz for The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy
LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards for

Early Readers and Picture Books

Grand Prize Winner is

GALDO’S GIFT: The Boovie

by Trevor Young & Eleanor Long
- - Sylva Fae and Katie Weaver for Elfabet
    
    Lauren Mosback for My Sister’s Super Skills
    
    Norma Lewis for Totem Pole
    
    Kizzie Jones for A Tall Tale About Dachshunds in Costumes: How MORE Dogs Came to Be
    
    Justine Avery forWhat Wonders Do You See… When You Dream?
    
    Kasey J. Claytor for Pinky and The Magical Secret He Kept Inside
    
    Robert Wright Jr for Mummy in the Museum
GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards for

Middle-Grade Books

Grand Prize is

The VALLEY of DEATH, Book 5 by Alex Paul
- - Amber L. Wyss – Phoenix Rising
    
    M.J. Evans – PINTO!
    
    Beth Stickley – Tarnation’s Gate
    
    Rey Clark – Legends of the Vale
    
    Laura M. Kemp – Burnt Feathers
    
    Alex Paul – The Valley of Death, Book 5, Arken Freeth and the Adventure of the Neanderthals
    
    C.R. Stewart – Britfield and the Lost Crown
    
    Trayner Bane – Windhollow and the Axe Breaker (Windhollows, Book 3)
    
    Carolyn Watkins – The Knock…a collection of childhood memories
The DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards

for Young Adult Fiction

Grand Prize Winner is

BUT NOT FOREVER by Jan Von Schleh
- - Michelle Rene – Manufactured Witches
    
    Nancy Thorne – Victorian Town
    
    Susan Brown – Twelve
    
    Sandra L Rostirolla – Cecilia
    
    David Patneaude – Fast Backward
    
    John Middleton – Dillion & The Curse of Arminius
Congratulations to ALL!

We will email each winner with more information about their prize packages and more information.

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Please standby for our next posts that will honor:
- Chatelaine Book Award Winners
- Somerset Book Award Winners
- Journey Book Award Winners
- Nellie Bly Book Award Winners
- Instructional and Insight Book Award Winners
And the OVERALL GRAND PRIZE for the 2019 CIBAs!

Here is the link to the first installment for announcing the 2019 CIBAS.

Stay tuned for PART 3 of the 2019 Chanticleer International Book Award Winners

We are now accepting entries into the 2020 and 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards.

Click here for more information and submission deadlines: https://www.chantireviews.com/contests/

As always, if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please email us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com We will try to respond within 3 business days.

Thank you for joining us in celebrating the 2019 CIBA Winners! – The Chanticleer Team
October 11, 2020
The FINALISTS for the SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary, Contemporary, and Satire Fiction – a division of the 2019 CIBAs
The SOMERSET Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary, Contemporary, and Satire Fiction. The Somerset Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, satire, humor, magic realism or women and family themes. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Somerset Book Awards?

Editor’s Note: Some works have been moved to the new 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satirical and Allegorical Fiction. This new division is in response to the request from the Chanticleer International Book Awards judges to acknowledge the many outstanding works that were entered into the Somerset Book Awards that should have their own division in which to compete. The Mark Twain Book Awards recognize outstanding Satire, Humor, Political Ideology, Parody, Allegory/Fable works.

So without further ado, please join us in cheering on the following authors whose works have advanced to the premier FINALIST Level of Achievement in the Somerset Book Awards for Literary, Contemporary, and of the I & I Book Awards for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction.

Congratulations to the Somerset Book Awards Finalists!
- Beth Burgmeyer – The Broken Road
- Judith Kirscht – End of the Race
- R. Barber Anderson – The Sunken Forest, Where the Forest Came out of the Earth
- Domenick Venezia – Liberator Legacy Book 1
- Donna LeClair – The Proprietor of the Theatre of Life
- Bob Holt – Firebird
- Dd Jaseron – Wheelboys
- Santiago Xaman – After Olympus
- Sara Stamey – Pause
- Patricia Averbach – Resurrecting Rain
- Maggie St. Claire – Martha
- Lisa Reddick – The Same River
- Nick Mancuso – Fever
- Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg – The Nine
- Claire Fullerton – Little Tea
- Linda Bledsoe – Through the Needle’s Eye
- Carl Roberts – The Trial of Connor Padget
- Patrick Finegan – Cooperative Lives
- Mike Murphey – Section Road
- Jamie Zerndt – Jerkwater
- Prue Batten – Passage
- Joanne Jaytanie – Salvaging Truth, Hunters & Seekers, Book 1
Congratulations to all! Good Luck to all as your works compete for the First Place Category positions.

The Finalists and the Semi-Finalists will be recognized at the VIRTUAL 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference and at the 2019 CIBA ceremonies

The Virtual CAC 20 and 2019 CIBA Ceremonies will take place Tuesday, September 8th through Sunday, September 13th, 2020.

We are now accepting entries into the 2020 CIBAs. https://www.chantireviews.com/contests/

Don’t delay. Enter today!

2020 Somerset Book Awards

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

2020 Mark Twain Book Awards
July 12, 2020
The FINALISTS Announcement for the LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards for Early Readers and Picture Books – a division of the 2019 CIBAs
The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers and Children’s Picture Books. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Storybooks, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books & Educational Books that appeal to children to compete in the Little Peeps Awards that discover today’s best children’s books.

The 2019 CIBAs received an unprecedented number of entries making this book awards program even more competitive. More entries along with more competitive works make the final rounds of judging even more demanding. The judges have requested a new level of achievement to be added to the rounds to acknowledge the entries that they deemed should receive a high level of recognition.

We decided that this was the time to incorporate the new level – The FINALISTS – as requested by the CIBA judges. This new level will be incorporated into the 2019 CIBAs Levels of Achievement. The FINALISTS were selected from the entries that advanced to the 2019 Little Peeps Book Awards Semi-Finalists.

Congratulations to the 2019 LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards Finalists
- Sylva Fae and Katie Weaver – Elfabet
- Lauren Mosback – In Grandpaw’s Pawprints
- Lauren Mosback – My Sister’s Super Skills
- Dawn Marie Thompson – Double Trouble
- Trevor Young & Eleanor Long – Galdo’s Gift: The Boovie
- Norma Lewis – Let All Things Now Living
- Norma Lewis – Totem Pole
- Robert Wright Jr – Mummy in the Museum
- Kizzie Jones – A Tall Tale About Dachshunds in Costumes: How MORE Dogs Came to Be
- Justine Avery – What Wonders Do You See… When You Dream?
- Oleg Kush – 1 & 0, Lion & Mouse, Aries the Sheep and Other Fairy-Tales
- Kasey J. Claytor – Pinky and The Magical Secret He Kept Inside
- Melodie Tegay – Hannah’s Two Homes: life in a “blended” family; a 5-year-old’s perspective
These titles are in the running for the First Place positions of the 2019 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers and Picture Books.

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

The Finalists and the Semi-Finalists will be recognized at the 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference and at the 2019 CIBA banquet and ceremony.

Congratulations for advancing to the Premier Finalists Level of Achievement in the 2019 CIBAs!

The 16 divisions of the 2019 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners, the First Place Category Position Award Winners, and all Semi-Finalists will be announced at the postponed (due to the Covid-19 pandemic) 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Gala, now re-scheduled for Saturday, September 5th, 2020.

Join us at the Chanticleer Authors Conference at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. Use our link above to register now for this exciting event!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2020 LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is August 31st, 2020. The winners will be announced in April 2021.

Please click here for more information.

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
June 9, 2020
The Semi-Finalists Announcement for the CHAUCER Book Awards for pre-1750s Historical Fiction – a division of the 2019 CIBAs
The CHAUCER Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in pre-1750s Historical Fiction. The CHAUCER Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

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

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the LONG LIST to the CHAUCER Shortlist and have now advanced to the CHAUCER Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be recognized at the 2020 Chanticleer Authors Conference and the 2019 CIBA banquet and ceremony. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 16 CIBA divisions Semi-Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2020 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Congratulations to the 2019 CHAUCER Book Awards for pre-1750s Historical Fiction Semi-Finalists.
- James Conroyd Martin – Fortune’s Child: A Novel of Empress Theodora
- Gail Avery Halverson – The Skeptical Physick
- Susanne Dunlap – Listen to the Wind
- E. L. Diamond – The Wolf of God
- Linda Cardillo – Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarotti
- Stephanie Renee dos Santos – Cut from the Earth
- Cryssa Bazos – Severed Knot
- Kate Murdoch – The Orange Grove
- June Hall McCash – Eleanor’s Daughter: A Novel of Marie de Champagne
- James Hutson-Wiley – The Sugar Merchant
- Alexandrea Weis – Realm
- K.M. Pohlkamp – Shadows of Hemlock
- Catherine Mathis – Death in Coimbra
- Patricia J. Boomsma – The Way of Glory
- A.L. Cleven – 26.2
- Robert Cole – The Falcons of Gebtu
- Anna Belfrage – The Cold Light of Dawn
- Vince Pantalone – Incident on the Road to Canterbury
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

The 16 divisions of the 2019 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners along with recognizing the Semi-Finalists will be announced at the April 18th, 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2020 CHAUCER Book Awards for pre-1750s Historical Fiction. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2020. The 2020 winners will be announced in April 2021.

As always, please contact us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions!
January 24, 2020
The I & I Book Awards for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction – the Long List for the 2019 CIBAs
The I & I Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in non-fiction for instruction, guidance, self-help, how-to, and insight. The I & I Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring HOW-TO, Guidance, Travel Guides, Cookbooks, Instruction, Insight, Self-Help, and more. This books have been put to the test and the best will advance to be declared winners of the prestigious I & I Book Awards.

The following Instructional and Insightful non- fiction works have moved forward from the Slush Pile to the Long List of the 2019 I & I Book Awards:
- Marcus Kirsch – The Wicked Company
- Ryan M. Chukuske – Bigfoot 200: Because, You Know, Why the #@&% Not?
- Anthony Delauney – Owning the Dash
- David A. Bossert – Kem Weber: Mid-Century Furniture Designs for The Disney Studios
- Jean-Philippe Soule – DANCING WITH DEATH: An Epic and Inspiring Travel Adventure
- Rob Davis – What Goes Around Comes Around – A Guide To How Life REALLY Works
- Phoebe Walker – My Freedom Central
- Corinne Miller Schaff – Art For All Ages: Reignite Your Artistic Self
- Cindy Klement, MS, CNS, MCHES – Your Body’s Environmental Chemical Burden
- Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D. – Shaping Public Opinion: How Real Advocacy Journalism Should Be Practiced
- Jennifer R. Karchmer – A Proofreading Companion: Tips, Tools & Strategies for the Professional Proofreader
- Susan Faw – The Clever Artist: An Actionable Guide To Launching Your Artistic Career
- Brad Lancaster – Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape
- Donald M. Rattner – My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation, 48 Science-based Techniques
- Donna Cameron – A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You
- Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book One, Savoring the Olde Ways Series
- Isaac Samuel Miller – Just Get Up And Manifest Your Inner Genius
- Nancy J. Cohen – A Bad Hair Day Cookbook
- Margaret A Hellyer – A Home on the South Fork
- Ellen Notbohm – Ten Thing Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
- Thomas Wise – Why Can’t We Trust God?
- Lisa Boucher – Raising The Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture
- Tikiri Herath – Your Rebel Dreams: Discover Your Purpose and Passions to Power Up Your Life
- Tracee Dunblazier – Master Your Inner World- Embrace Your Power with Joy
- Brad Borkan and David Hirzel – When Your Life Depends on It: Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic
- Anthony Delauney – Owning the Dash
- Ryan M. Chukuske – Bigfoot 200: Because, You Know, Why the #@&% Not?
- David A. Bossert – Kem Weber: Mid-Century Furniture Designs for The Disney Studios Design
- Tracee Dunblazier – Heal Your Soul History- Activate the True Power of Your Shadow
- Kate Kaufmann – Do You Have Kids? Life When the Answer is No
- Jean-Philippe Soul – DANCING WITH DEATH: An Epic and Inspiring Travel Adventure
- Paula Forget – Guided to the Higher Realms: a Personal Journey of Ascension through Meditation
The judges are going to have some tough choices to make with these powerhouse entries!

Good luck to all as these works compete to advance to the Semi-Finals.

The coveted First Place Category Winners of the 2019 I & I Book Awards will be selected from the Semi-Finalists in the final rounds of judging. The First Place Category Winners will be announced at the Chanticleer Awards Banquet and Ceremony, which is hosted by the Chanticleer Authors Conference.

The First Place Category winners will automatically be entered into the I & I GRAND PRIZE AWARD competition. The 16 CBR Grand Prize Genre Winners will compete for the CBR Overall Grand Prize for Best Book and its $1,000 purse. First Place Category and Grand Prize Awards will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Awards Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2020, Bellingham, Washington. Hosted by the Chanticleer Authors Conference.

We are now accepting entries into the 2020 CIBAs. https://www.chantireviews.com/contests/

Questions? Please email us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com

Don’t delay. Enter today!
January 7, 2020
The 2019 CHAUCER Book Awards for pre-1750s Historical Fiction–the Short List for the CIBAs
The CHAUCER Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in pre-1750s Historical Fiction. The CHAUCER Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

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

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2019 CHAUCER Book Awards LONG LIST and now have progressed to the 2019 SHORTLIST.

These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists positions of the 2019 CHAUCER Book Awards for pre-1750s Historical Fiction. Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
- James Conroyd Martin – Fortune’s Child: A Novel of Empress Theodora
- Gail Avery Halverson – The Skeptical Physick
- Susanne Dunlap – Listen to the Wind
- JC Corry – The Storyteller’s Reputation
- K.M. Pohlkamp – Shadows of Hemlock
- E. L. Diamond – The Wolf of God
- Linda Cardillo – Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarotti
- Stephanie Renee dos Santos – Cut from the Earth
- Cryssa Bazos – Severed Knot
- Kate Murdoch – The Orange Grove
- June Hall McCash – Eleanor’s Daughter: A Novel of Marie de Champagne
- Catherine Mathis – Death in Coimbra
- Patricia J. Boomsma – The Way of Glory
- A.L.Cleven – 26.2
- Alexandrea Weis – Realm
- F. Scott Kimmich – The Magdalene Malediction
- Susan Heldt Davis – The Mother’s Tale
- James Hutson-Wiley – The Sugar Merchant
- Robert Cole – The Falcons of Gebtu
- Anna Belfrage – The Cold Light of Dawn
- Vince Pantalone – Incident on the Road to Canterbury
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2019 CHAUCER Book Awards for pre-1750s Historical Fiction?

The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC20 banquet and ceremony. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 16 CIBA divisions Semi-Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 18th, 2020 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

The 16 divisions of the 2019 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners along with recognizing the Semi-Finalists will be announced at the April 18th, 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2020 CHAUCER Book Awards for pre-1750s Historical Fiction. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2020. The 2020 winners will be announced in April 2021.

As always, please contact us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions!
November 25, 2019