The GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of middle-grade readers, fiction and non-fiction, that compel children to read and explore. The Gertrude Warner Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs).
Named in honor of the author of the quintessential children’s series – The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Warner.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about eight to twelve. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Adventure we will put them to the test and choose the best Middle-Grade Books among them. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.)
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards LONG LIST and now have progressed to the 2020 SHORTLIST.
These titles have been Shortlisted for the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle-Grade Fiction
Catherine Grangaard –A Fairy’s Tails
Poem Schway –The Infinity Pendant
Jason Burrell –Ricky and the Abnormals
Ruthy Ballard –Frankie and the Gift of Fantasy
Pastel Gwendolyn Schway –Empire of Embers
Laura Gerhardt Schonberg –Joker
Ben Gartner –The Eye of Ra
Gregory Saur –Best Shot Forward
Molly Valentin –Francie is Afoot!
Wendy Leighton-Porter –The Shadow of the Witchfinder
Ian C Douglas –The Particle Beast
Carolina Ugaz-Moran –Aline and the Blue Bottle
Jay Spenser –The Barn Owl Mystery
Jay Spenser –The Phantom Airplane Mystery
Tricia L McDonald –The Sally Squad: Pals to the Rescue
Carmela Dutra – Little Katie and the STEAM Team
Carmela Dutra –Little Katie Goes to the Moon
John Middleton – Dillion and The Skeleton Hall
William X. Adams – Alien Body
Catherine M. O’Connor –Throwing the World
Alison Rice –Chasing Snow
Frank Saraco –Life in the Grand Pause
Suzanne Lowe –The Pirate Princess and the Golden Locket
Richard Groseclose – Henry Castlewaite and the Portrait of Doom
Kelly Oliver –Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter
Julie Lavender –Mrs. Amazing and The Seed
Andres Faza –Hishi-mochi in the Sky
Kling –CLI- The Colt
These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction.
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle-Grade Readers?
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Gertrude Warner Awards Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is June 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.
The LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Readers that invites children to read and explore. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards Reviews is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books & Educational Books we will put them to the test to discovery today’s best children’s books. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards LONG LIST and now have progressed to the 2020 SHORTLIST.
These titles have been Shortlisted for the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers
Ellie Smith –Tex the Explorer Journey Through the Alphabet
M. Lisa Rinaca –P Mind Your Q’s
M. Lisa Rinaca –The Missing Punctuation Box
M. Lisa Rinaca –Two Different Princesses
Courtney Shannon Strand –Hollyhock Hill
Masoud Malekyari –Great As A Button
Susan Faw –Poppy Ogopogo
Carmela Dutra – Little Katie and the STEAM Team
D.K. Brantley –Every Mummy Has a Mommy
Carmela Dutra –Little Katie Goes to the Moon
Dr. Justine Green –Completely Me
Courtney Shannon Strand –Ella’s Umbrella
Lindy Ryan –Trick or Treat, Alistair Gray
Dawn Marie Thompson –Sedwick the Seagull
Mercy Hansen Mize –Samson’s Tail
Pamela Tomlin –Our Wounded Little Chickadee
Johnny Ray Moore – ANTHILL FOR SALE
Alycyn Culbertson –Look What Happened While I Was Sleeping
Raven Howell –So You Want a Puppy?
Pj McIlvaine –Little Lena and The Big Table
Dianne Moritz –Hey Little Beachcomber
Savannah Hendricks –The Book Who Lost Its Title
Teal Blake –J is for Jackalope
Melodie Tegay – Hannah’s Two Homes: life in a “blended” family; a 5 year old’s perspective
These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers.
Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers?
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Little Peep Awards Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (#CIBAs).
Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, Literary, we will put them to the test to discover the best. (For Middle Grade Fiction see our Gertrude Warner Awards, and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.)
These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction.
Michelle Rene –The Canyon Cathedral: The Witches of Tanglewood,Book Two
John Middleton –Dillion and The Skeleton Hall
Strider S. R. Klusman –Within Reach
Zoe Hauser –Jaguar Spirit
Sue C Dugan –Suppressed
Richard Groseclose –Henry Castlewaite and The Portrait of Doom
Michael Bialys –The Chronicles of the Virago
B. L. Smith –The Fall of the Axe
Liana Gardner –Speak No Evil
D.C. Carlisle –Surviving Eros: The Girl Under the Stars
Brooke Skipstone –Some Laneys Died
Brooke Skipstone –Someone To Kiss My Scars
Sara Hosey –Iphigenia Murphy
Susanne Dunlap –The Paris Affair
Strider Klusman –My Ransom
Susan Wingate –How the Deer Moon Hungers
Felicia Farber –Ice Queen
PJ Devlin –The Chamber — A Wissahickon Monsters Story
Dallas Woodburn –The Best Week That Never Happened
Kelly Vincent –Finding Frances
Chynna Laird –Just Shut Up and Drive
L.L. Eadie –Yearning for the Unattainable
Jodi Lea Stewart –Blackberry Road
Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire –The Mission to End Slavery
Tory Gates –Searching for Roy Buchanan
Cris Harding –Red Wing
Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl –Merged
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at theApril 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala,which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
The GLOBAL THRILLERS Book Awards recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Lab Lit and Global Thrillers. The GLOBAL THRILLERS Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Novel Book Awards and Writing Competitions. (The CIBAs)
Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring suspense, thrilling stories that put the balance of world power or that will end the world as we know it. We include with Global Thrillers the Lab Lit genre. Lab Lit is when Fiction Meets Real Science and Research or stories that are based on real science and research up to a certain “what if” point.
The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will compete for FINALISTS positions.
The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at theApril 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala,which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
The 2020 Shortlist for the Global Thriller Book Awards
The 2020 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards Short-Listers
Matt Andrus – UFO
Lynn Yvonne Moon – The Agency – Tablet of Destinies
Avanti Centrae – Kiss of the Cobra – An M2 Action Thriller
Courtney Leigh Pahlke – Life Force Preserve; West End William
Gwen M. Plano – The Culmination, a new beginning
E. Alan Fleischauer – Just Die
Rafael Amadeus Hines – Bishop’s Law
Marc McGuire – Missions
William Mazanitis – The Daedalus Project
Domenick Venezia – Do No Harm
William Maz – A Cure for the Living
William Maz – The Bucharest Dossier
Erik Foge – One Way Roads
David Tunno – Intrepid Spirit
Tony Irvin – Waking the Sleepers
James G. Skinner – Samaritan Drug Lords
JL Morin – Loveoid
Randall Krzak – Colombian Betrayal
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards writing competition. The deadline for submissions is October 21st, 2021. Please click here for more information.
As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring space, time travel, life on other planets, parallel universes, alternate reality, and all the science, technology, major social or environmental changes of the future that author imaginations can dream up for the CYGNUS Book Awards division. Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Genetic Modification, Aliens, Super Humans, Interplanetary Travel, and Settlers on the Galactic Frontier, Dystopian, our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.
The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. The Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists.
The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at theApril 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala,which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
Congratulations to the 2020 Cygnus Book Awards SHORT LISTERS!
Brent Golembiewski –Flat Earth
Jonas Saul –The Immortal Gene
Tiffany Meuret –A Flood of Posies
R. Welsh – The Great Filter
Mark T. Sneed – Bully Nation
Brooke Skipstone – Some Laneys Died
B.T. Keaton – Transference
Mark D. Owen – Impact
JL Morin – Loveoid
Charis Himeda – CRISPR Evolution
Bryan K. Prosek – Paradoxal
R.S. Harmon – Captain’sCovenant
Liam King – Grit
Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl – Merged
Timothy S. Johnston – The Savage Deeps
Alex McIntosh – Upstream Revolt #6
Samuel Finn – A Voice From The Moon
Mike Meier – JoinWith.Me
Palmer Pickering – Moon Deeds
Ted Neill – Reaper Moon: Race War in the Post Apocalypse
C. Hofsetz – Enemy of the Gods #4
Dr. Anay Ayarovu – STAZR the World Of Z: The Dawn of Athir
PA Vasey – Trinity’s Fall
Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle – The Luna Missile Crisis
William X. Adams – Alien Body
KeJo Black – A Kingdom in Shards
Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
C.M. Aquavella – Transformation: The Circusity
J.T. Blossom – Lenore and the Problem With Love – When You Go to College Save the Planet
Alexander Usher – Experience Extracted
Russ Colson – The Arasmith Certainty Principle
Zach Fortier – Volk: Book one of The Overseer series
Cary Allen Stone – SEEDS: The Journey Begins
Susan Wingate – The Lesser Witness
Dennis M. Clausen – The Accountant’s Apprentice
Courtney Leigh Pahlke – Life Force Preserve
Marc Corwin – The Optical Lasso
Alan J. Steinberg – To be Enlightened
Michelle Tanmizi – Late Dawn
Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.
The next round of judging will decide which books move on to the Semifinalist positions for the 2020 CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction novels.
The ShortListers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists, and then all Finalists will be recognized at the VCAC21 ceremonies. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 22 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 live at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 CYGNUS Awards writing competition. The deadline for submissions is April 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Young Adult Fiction. The Rossetti Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).
Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, Literary, we will put them to the test and choose the best Young Adult Books among them for the winners of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. Looking for middle grade contests? Check out our Gertrude Warner Awards.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2020 Dante Rossetti entries to the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2020 Dante Rossetti Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the next level of achievement in the CIBAs. Semi-Finalists and Finalists 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 Ceremonies on April, 21 – 25, 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 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction.
Michelle Rene – The Canyon Cathedral: The Witches of Tanglewood, Book Two
John Middleton – Dillion and The Skeleton Hall
Strider S. R. Klusman – Within Reach
Zoe Hauser – Jaguar Spirit
Sue C Dugan – Suppressed
Victory Witherkeigh – The Girl
Richard Groseclose – Henry Castlewaite and The Portrait of Doom
Michael Bialys – The Chronicles of the Virago
B. L. Smith – The Fall of the Axe
Liana Gardner – Speak No Evil
D.C. Carlisle – Surviving Eros: The Girl Under the Stars
Brooke Skipstone – Some Laneys Died
Sara Hosey – Iphigenia Murphy
Susanne Dunlap – The Paris Affair
Strider Klusman – My Ransom
Susan Wingate – How the Deer Moon Hungers
Felicia Farber – Ice Queen
PJ Devlin – The Chamber — A Wissahickon Monsters Story
Dallas Woodburn – The Best Week That Never Happened
Seven Jane – The Isle of Gold
Kelly Vincent – Finding Frances
David Pearson – Upon a Peak in Darien
Professor W. W. Marplot – Dwarf Story
Chynna Laird – Just Shut Up and Drive
L.L. Eadie – Yearning for the Unattainable
Jodi Lea Stewart – Blackberry Road
Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
Brooke Skipstone – Someone To Kiss My Scars
Tory Gates – Searching for Roy Buchanan
R.B. Shifman – Everyone Leaves This Place
Cris Harding – Red Wing
Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl – Merged
Good Luck to All as Your Works Compete to Advance to the Next Level of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.
Good luck to all as your works compete to advance to the next rounds of judging rounds of the CIBAs.
Congratulations to Jan Von Schleh whose work But Not Forever took home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Dante Rossetti Book Awards
“When Sonnet McKay, her siblings, and cousins discover a deserted Victorian mansion in the middle of the woods outside a ghost town near Seattle, they get much more than they bargained for.“– Chanticleer Reviews
The 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 2020 M&M entries to the 2020 M&M Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2020 M&M Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the next level of achievement in the CIBAs. Semi-Finalists 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 Ceremonies on April, 21 – 25, 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 M&M Book Awards for Mystery & Mayhem
Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.
Chris Karlsen – A Venomous Love
Susan McCormick – The Fog Ladies
Patrick M. Garry – The Discovery
Sigrid Vansandt – Murder On The Caledonian Queen
Sigrid Vansandt – A Ghost’s Tale
Karen Steur – Miner Pines
Lori Roberts Herbst – Suitable for Framing
Cindy Sample – Dying for a Double
Christine A Brady – Don’t leave, Miss Riley
Sharon Clark – The Murder Cat
Elaine Orr – Demise of a Devious Suspect
D.R. Ransdell – Substitute Soloist
CB Wilson – Cavaliered to Death
P.K. Adams – Silent Water
Kari Bovee – Bones of the Redeemed
Sarah Yarwood-Lovett – A Murder of Crowes
Kate Vale – Unanswered Questions
Michelle Cox – A Child Lost
Maria Ostrowski – Yet From Those Flames No Light
Prudence Ambergast – The Mystery at Fig Tree Hall
Ana T. Drew – The Murderous Macaron
Pat Camalliere –The Mystery at Mount Forest Island
Mary Seifert – Titanic Tea
Lina Hansen – In My Attic – A Magical Misfits Mystery
J.L. Anderson – Secrets of Willow Lane
F. Della Notte – Catwalk Dead
Kim Davis – Sprinkles of Suspicion
Shelby Chase – Devil’s Kiss
Debbie De Louise – Love on the Rocks
Chuck Morgan – Crime Denied, A Buck Taylor Novel
Traci Andrighetti – Galliano Gold
Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
Arlene McFarlane – Murder, Curlers & Kegs
Rita M Boehm – Missing on Maple Street
Mark Daniel Seiler – Shave Ice Paradise
Nellie H. Steele – The Secret of Dunhaven Castle
Nicole Asselin – Murder at First Pitch
Elizabeth Tschurr – Wrongs Hushed Up
Perry Miller – Lethal Injection
Mary Alice Kressler – Not So Silent Night
Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Bernie, I’m Glad You’re Dead
Lucinda Brant – Deadly Kin: A Georgian Historical Mystery
Nancy Blaha – Finding James
Nancy Good – Killer Calories, A Melanie Deming Manhattan Mystery
Carl and Jane Bock – The White Heron
Molly Flewharty – Short Line to Death
Betty Jean Craige – Saxxons in Witherston
Jane Ritzenthaler – Green Ice
Good Luck to All as Your Works Compete to Advance to the Next Level of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.
Congratulations to Vee Kumari whose work Dharma, a Rekha Rao Mystery took home the Grand Prize for the 2019 M&M Book Awards
“A murder mystery set against an intriguing backdrop of Indian mysticism and archaeology make this a very good pick.”– Chanticleer Reviews
Our next Chanticleer International Book Awards Ceremony will be held during VCAC21 April 21 – 25, 2021 for the 2020 CIBA winners.
We are thrilled to announce that the 2021 Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards will feature international bestselling cozy mystery and crime author CATHY ACE author of the Cait Morgan mystery series.
October helps us understand why campfires are a good idea, why it’s never safe to go down into the cellar alone on certain nights of the year, and, among other things, why it’s prudent to know the history of a house before you buy it.
In October, strange things happen when these bits of wisdom are ignored.
I’ve said it before, and I am going to reaffirm it now, October is my favorite time of year. I love the goblins, ghosts, monsters of the dark as much as the next person (okay, maybe more) and so it’s no surprise that I love October because October means Halloween! I can even put it into a mathematical formula:
And this year’s a little different. In a very real sense, we all are living in a global nightmare because of a horrible virus that supposedly came from (wait for it!) BATS.
We know what it’s like to be afraid, to be brave, to yearn for companionship, and not be able to hug our loved ones. We know what it’s like to run out of hand sanitizer and toilet paper. And we wonder when things will get better.
Still, I am a BIG fan of horror. Why? Because fiction helps us here. Especially horror. Between the pages of the scariest novel, we see our own humanity, our own hopes, and our own fears. Our defeats – and also our victories. It is cathartic to dip into an imaginary world where things are falling apart and monsters are real. It gives us a sense of control. A sense that even though things are bad, they will get better (and then worse…). Yes, we’re in a major pandemic here. People are sick and things are confusing, but the vampires haven’t risen from the grave yet, and Frankenstein’s Monster is not coming to dinner. Ghost stories are simply that. Stories.
Ghostbusters
So gather around (while you’re social distancing) the campfire and tell us your favorite spooky stories. Because, I don’t know about you, but I could sure use some fictional horror in my life… Are you ready?
Welcome to the PARANORMAL Book Awards!
Send us your stories of dark places, alien abductions, magic and magical beings, the supernatural, vampires & werewolves, angels & demons, fairies & mythological beings, weird otherworldly tales… and gothic horror stories. We will put them to the test and discover the best among them for the 2018 Paranormal Book Awards, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards – the CIBAs.
But don’t wait too long. The deadline for the Paranormal Awards is October 31, 2020. Enter here, and don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Travel with me through the Paranormal Awards Hall of Fame…
The 2019 PARANORMAL Book Awards Grand Prize for Supernatural Fiction is:
The 2018 PARANORMAL Book Awards Grand Prize for Supernatural Fiction is:
Joy Ross Davis, Paranormal Grand Prize Book Award Winner
The Madwoman of Preacher’s Cove “One man searches for the truth in the quiet hamlet of his childhood, only to uncover the terrifying reality. Thrilling and spinetingling! Joy Ross Davis knows how to keep you up at night! Highly recommended.”
Joy Ross Davis is more than an eloquent storyteller. A college professor, mother, daughter of Irish descent whose family settled in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, Joy loves all things Irish, including the Green Isle itself.
2018 Paranormal Book Awards First Place Winners for Supernatural Fiction Novels:
The 2017 PARANORMAL Book Awards Grand Prize for Supernatural Fiction is:
Van Ops – The Lost Poweris a story in which “Alexander the Great’s obscure Egyptian weapon has been lost for eons. Can Maddy Marshall and covert agent Bear Thorenson find the ancient weapon in time to stop fragile post-Cold War peace from being forever shattered?”
Avanti Centrae is the author of the international award-winning VanOps thriller series. Her work has been compared to that of James Rollins, Steve Berry, Dan Brown, and Preston/Child’s Pendergast series.
2017 Paranormal Book Awards First Place Winners for Supernatural Fiction Novels:
Almost Mortal “Blending the high-octane thrust of a contemporary legal thriller with the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Almost Mortal” cleaves a new, inventive niche in the legal thriller genre. This fast-paced legal thriller will leave the reader hungering for more. A terrific read!”
Christopher Leibig is a novelist and a criminal defense attorney. He thinks about Fiction like this…”Fiction, while by its definition invented, need not tell that lie. In fiction, the devil is everywhere. And everyone has their story.”
2016 Paranormal Book Awards First Place Winners for Supernatural Fiction Novels :
The Aurora Affair(retitled asMobius) “… is a story about a skeptical heroine who discovers that her love affairs are the key to harnessing her own power to influence the world—for better if she does it right, or for worse if she fails.”
Carolyn Haley “… is a freelance writer and editor who lives in rural Vermont. I write a mix of commercial copy, articles for regional and national publications.” She writes award-winning novels in her spare time.
2015 Paranormal Book Awards First Place Winners for Supernatural Fiction Novels :
An Ex to Grind in Deadwoodis a wickedly funny paranormal mystery romance series that takes place in its namesake city in South Dakota.
Ann Charles, USA Bestselling Author
Ann Charles“…lives in the beautiful Northern Arizona mountains with her clever husband, charming kids, and an incredibly sassy cat. After many years and several colleges, she managed to obtain her Bachelor’s Degree in English with an emphasis on creative writing from the University of Washington.”
2014 Paranormal Book Awards First Place Winners for Supernatural Fiction Novels:
The Watcher is a story where “…ancient history is only the beginning.”
Lisa Voisin “… spent her childhood daydreaming and making up stories, but it was my love of reading and writing in her teens that drew her to Young Adult fiction.”
2013 Paranormal Book Awards First Place Winners for Supernatural Fiction Novels:
Sacred Firesis a well written and crafted romantic paranormal novel with elements of intrigue and suspense along with a story set in a lush locale with mystic Aztec undercurrents. Greenfeder has succeeded in writing a fast-paced romantic suspense novel that is refreshingly different.
Catherine Greenfeder “… continues to pursue her dream of getting her work published. To date, she has had five novels including a western historical, two adult paranormal novels, and two young adult paranormal novels published. She anticipates a few short stories and another young adult novel published in the near future.”
Our 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs) feature more than $30,000.00 worth of cash and prizes each year!
The 2020 PARANORMAL Grand Prize Winner is namedChanticleer ReviewsBest Supernatural Fiction Book of the Year and goes on to compete for the Chanticleer Overall Grand Prize Best Book of the Year
The Overall Grand Prize Winner is namedChanticleer Reviews Best Book of the Year and awarded the$1000 prize
All winners receive a Chanticleer Prize Packagewhich includes a digital badge, a ribbon, and a whole assortment of goodies detailed below (winners outside the US pay a shipping & handling fee)
That’s more than $30,000.00 worth of cash and prizes! The Fine Print.
~$1000 for one lucky Overall Grand Prize Winner
~$30,000+ in reviews, prizes, and promotional opportunities awarded to Category Winners
Currently accepting entries. Deadline: Oct. 31st, 2020.
What are you waiting for? Enter today!Who will win the PARANORMAL Book Awards Blue Ribbons for 2020?
Submit your works today!
The last day for submissions into the 2020 Paranormal Book Awards is October 31, 2020.
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
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.
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!
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the Nellie Bly Book Awards for Investigative and Journalistic Non-Fiction Works, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.
The CIBAs Search for the Best in the Nellie Bly Book Awards!
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring investigative works, long-form journalism, and reporting/correspondence. The CIBA judges are seeking the best journalistic works in social science, data-driven reports, equality and justice, ethics, human rights, activist groups, crimes and corruption, environmental, whistle-blowers, health and medicine, and politics.We love them all.
The 2019 Nellie Bly Awards First Place Category Winners and the Nellie Bly Grand Prize Winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of September 8-13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Washington.
Sean Dwyer, author of A Quest for Tears: Overcoming a Traumatic Brain Injury, 2018 Journey 1st Place Category Winner.
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the Nellie Bly Awards First Place Category Winners and the Nellie Bly Grand Prize Winner.
2019 is the FIRST year of the NELLIE BLY Book Awards – a non-fiction division of the CIBAs!
Congratulations to These Authors who Inaugurate the Nellie Bly Book Awards!
T.S. Lewis – The Why of War: An Unorthodox Soldier’s Memoirs
Maya Castro – The Bubble: Everything I Learned as a Target of the Political, and Often Corrupt, World of Youth Sports
John Hoyte – Persistence of Light
Judy Bebelaar and Ron Cabral – And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown
Patrick Hogan – Silent Spring – Deadly Autumn of the Vietnam War
Gordon Cross, Robert Fowler, Ted Neill – Finding St. Lo: A Memoir of War & Family
The Nellie Bly Awards
2019 Grand Prize Winner is:
Shaping Public Opinion:
How Real Advocacy Journalism Should Be Practiced
by Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D.
How to Enter the Nellie Bly Awards?
We are accepting submissions into the2020 Nellie Bly Awardsuntil November 30, 2020.
All CIBA Division Winners for 2020 will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.
A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in October. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Gertrude Warner Awards Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is June 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.
The GLOBAL THRILLERS Book Awards recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Lab Lit and Global Thrillers. The GLOBAL THRILLERS Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Novel Book Awards and Writing Competitions. (The CIBAs)
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).
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The Watcher is a story where “…ancient history is only the beginning.”
Catherine Greenfeder
