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.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the I & I Book Awards for Non-Fiction Guides and How-To Books, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.
The CIBAs Search for the Best in the I & I Book Awards!
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring HOW-TO, Guidance, Travel Guides, Cookbooks, Instruction, Insight, Self-Help, and more.We love them all.
The 2019 I & I Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the I & I Grand Prize Winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of September 8-13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Washington.
Gail Avery Halverson, author of The Skeptical Physick, 2019 Chatelaine Grand Prize Winner and Chaucer 1st in Category Winner for the same title.
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the I & I Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the I & I Grand Prize Winner.
Congratulations to All!
Margaret A Hellyer – A Home on the South Fork
Ellen Notbohm – Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
Donna Cameron – A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You
Brad Borkan and David Hirzel – When Your Life Depends on It: Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic
Donald M. Rattner – My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation, 48 Science-based Techniques
Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book One, Savoring the Olde Ways Series
Lisa Boucher – Raising The Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture
Ryan M. Chukuske – Bigfoot 200: Because, You Know, Why the #@&% Not?
The I & I Book Awards
2019 Grand Prize Winner is:
Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
by Ellen Notbohm
This is the original badge for the 2018 I & I Grand Prize Winner – Explore Europe on Foot by Cassandra Overby.
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.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the Journey Book Awards for Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoirs Works, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.
The CIBAs Search for the Best in the Journey Book Awards!
Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We love them all.
The 2019 Journey Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the Journey Grand Prize Winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of September 8-13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Washington.
Janice Ellis, Ph.D., author of From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream, 2018 Journey Grand Prize Winner.
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the Journey Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the Journey Grand Prize Winner.
Congratulations to All!
Anna Carner – Blossom ~ The Wild Ambassador of Tewksbury
Linda Gartz – Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson – The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug
John Hoyte – Persistence of Light
Nikki West – The Odyssey of the Chameleon
Eva Doherty Gremmert – Our Time To Dance
The Journey Book Awards
2019 Grand Prize Winner is: Persistence of Light by John Hoyte
This is the original badge for the 2018 Journey Grand Prize Winner – From Liberty to Magnolia: In Search of the American Dream by Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D.
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.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the Somerset Book Awards for Contemporary and Literary Novels, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.
The CIBAs Search for the Best in the Somerset Book Awards!
Chanticleer Book Reviews is celebrating the best books featuring contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, satire, humor, magic realism, or women and family themes. We love them all.
The 2019 Somerset Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the Somerset Grand Prize Winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of September 8-13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Washington.
Michelle Rene, author of Hour Glass, Previous Laramie Grand Prize Winner and Overall Best Book Award Winner in 2017 announced the 2019 Somerset Book Award Winners.
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the Somerset Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the Somerset Grand Prize Winner.
Congratulations to All!
Donna LeClair – The Proprietor of the Theatre of Life
Carl Roberts – The Trial of Connor Padget
Judith Kirscht – End of the Race
Patrick Finegan – Cooperative Lives
Santiago Xaman – After Olympus
Claire Fullerton – Little Tea
Maggie St. Claire – Martha
Jamie Zerndt – Jerkwater
R. Barber Anderson – The Sunken Forest, Where the Forest Came out of the Earth
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Beth Burgmeyer – The Broken Road, ms
Bob Holt – Firebird, ms
The Somerset Book Awards
2019 Grand Prize Winner is a manuscript: The Proprietor of Theatre Life by Donna LeClair
The Somerset Grand Prize for the 2019 Award Winner.
This is the original badge for the 2018 Somerset Grand Prize Winner – Hard Ciderby Barbara A. Stark-Nemon.
How to Enter the Somerset Book Awards?
We are accepting submissions into the2020 Somerset Book Awardsuntil November 30, 2020. All submissions into this category after November 30, 2020, will automatically be entered into the 2021 Somerset Book Awards
The 2020 Somerset Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.
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.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romance and Romantic Fiction novels, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.
The Search for the Best New Romantic and Romance Books!
Chanticleer International Book Awards is celebrating the best books featuring romantic themes and adventures of the heart, historical love affairs, a little steamy romance, paranormal, young adult, mystery, and any other genre with a romantic theme. We love them all.
The 2019 Chatelaine Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the CHATELAINE Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of September 8-13, 2020, from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Washington.
Janet Shawgo, author of Find Me Again – 2014 Chatelaine Grand Prize Winner announced the 2019 Chatelaine Book Awards.
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the CHATELAINE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the CHATELAINE Grand Prize Winner.
Congratulations to All!
T.K. Conklin – Threads of Passion
Jule Selbo – Find Me in Florence
Gail Avery Halverson – The Skeptical Physick
Michelle Cox – A Veil Removed
Heather Novak – Headlights, Dipsticks, & My Ex’s Brother
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.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the CHAUCER Book Awards for Pre-1750s historical fiction, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.
The Search for the Best New Pre-1750s Historical Fiction
Chanticleer Book Reviews is celebrating the best books featuring Pre-1750s Historical Fiction, Including Pre-History, Ancient History, Classical, World History (non-western culture), Dark Ages and Medieval Europe, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Tudor, and 1600s. We love them all.
The 2019 CHAUCER Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the CHAUCER Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Michelle Cox, author of the Henrietta and Inspector Howard Mystery Series, the 2016 M & M Grand Prize Winner, announced the 2019 CHAUCER Book Awards.
This is the Official 2019 LIST of the CHAUCER Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the CHAUCER Grand Prize Winner.
Congratulations to All!
Gail Avery Halverson – The Skeptical Physick
Linda Cardillo – Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarotti
June Hall McCash – Eleanor’s Daughter: A Novel of Marie de Champagne
James Hutson-Wiley – The Sugar Merchant
James Conroyd Martin – Fortune’s Child: A Novel of Empress Theodora
Catherine Mathis – Death in Coimbra
Patricia J. Boomsma – The Way of Glory
A.L. Cleven – 26.2
The CHAUCER Book Awards
2019 Grand Prize Winner is
Fortune’s Child: A Novel of Empress Theodora
by James Conroyd Martin
This is the digital badge for the 2018 CHAUCER Grand Prize Winner – The Serpent and the Eagle by Edward Rickford
How to Enter the Chaucer Book Awards?
We are accepting submissions into the2021 CHAUCER Book Awardsuntil June30, 2021. Submissions into the 2020 CHAUCER Book Awards are closed.
The 2020 CHAUCER Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.
A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in mid-October. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
If you have any questions, please email info@ChantiReviews.com == we will try our best to reply in 3 or 4 business days.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the M & M Book Awards for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.
The CIBAs Search for the Best M&Ms!
Chanticleer Book Reviews is celebrating the best books featuring “mystery and mayhem”, Amateur Sleuthing, Light Suspense, Travel Mystery, Classic Mystery, British cozy, Hobby Sleuths, Senior Sleuths, or Historical Mystery, perhaps with a touch of romance or humor. We love them all.
The 2019 M & M Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the M & M Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Wendy Delaney, author of The Working Stiffs Mysteries– Previous M & M Grand Prize Winner announced the 2019 M & M Book Award Winners.
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the Mystery & Mayhem Grand Prize Winner.
Congratulations to All!
Susan Lynn Solomon for Writing is Murder
Kari Bovee for Girl with a Gun
Susan Z. Ritz for A Dream to Die For
MJ O’Neill for The Corpse Wore Stilettos
Henry G. Brinton for City of Peace
Vee Kumari for Dharma, A Rekha Rao Mystery
M. J. Simms-Maddox for Mystery in Harare
Liese Sherwood-Fabre for The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife
Michelle Cox for A Veil Removed
The Mystery and Mayhem Book Awards
2019 Grand Prize Winner is
Dharma, A Rekha Rao Mystery
by Vee Kumari
This is the digital badge for the 2018 M&M Grand Prize Winner – A Promise Given by Michelle Cox
How to Enter the Mystery and Mayhem Book Awards?
We are accepting submissions into the2021 M & M Book Awardsuntil April 30, 2021. Submissions into the 2020 M& MY Book Awards is closed.
The 2020 M&M Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.
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.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards for High Stakes Fiction, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.
The CIBAs Search for the Best Suspense High Stakes Thriller and Lab Lit Novels
Chanticleer Book Reviews is celebrating the best books featuring Suspense, Thrilling stories that put the balance of world power or that will end the world as we know it. We include with Global Thrillers the Lab Lit genre. Lab Lit is when Fiction Meets Real Science and Research or stories that are based on real science and research up to a certain “what if” point. We love them all.
The 2019 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GLOBAL THRILLER Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Sara Stamey, author of The Ariadne Connection – 2017 GLOBAL THRILLER Grand Prize Winner announced the 2019 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Award Winners.
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GLOBAL THRILLER Grand Prize Winner.
Congratulations to:
Randall Krzak for Carnage in Singapore
Courtney Leigh Pahlke for Life Force Preserve
Jett Ward for Execute Order
Nicole Mabry for Past This Point
Avanti Centrae for VanOps: The Solstice Shadows
Joanne Jaytanie for Salvaging Truth, Hunters & Seekers, Book 1
The GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards
2019 Grand Prize Winner is
SOLSTICE SHADOWS – A VanOps Thriller
by Avanti Centrae
This is the badge for the 2018 GLOBAL THRILLER Grand Prize Winner – The Moving Bladeby Michael Pronko
How to Enter the 2020 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards?
We are accepting submissions into the2020 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awardsuntil October 31, 2020. After this date, all entries will go into the 2021 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards.
The 2020 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.
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.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards for Middle-Grade Readers, a division of the CIBAs.
The CIBAs Search for the Best Middle-Grade Books
Chanticleer International Book Awards is celebrating 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 love them all.
The 2019 GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GERTRUDE WARNER Grand Prize winner were announced at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference that was broadcast via ZOOM webinar the week of Sept 8 -13, 2020 from the Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Peter Greene, author of The Jonathan Moore Adventures (and previous GOETHE CIBA Grand Prize Winner), announced the Gertrude Warner Book Award Winners.
This is the OFFICIAL 2019 LIST of the GERTRUDE WARNER BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the GERTRUDE WARNER Grand Prize Winner.
Congratulations to ALL!
Amber L. Wyss – A Flash of Fire
M.J. Evans – PINTO!
Beth Stickley – Tarnation’s Gate
Rey Clark – Legends of the Vale
Laura M. Kemp – Burnt Feathers
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 GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards
2019 Grand Prize Winner is
The Valley of Death – Arken Freeth Series by Alex Paul
This is the badge for the 2018 Grand Prize Winner of the 2018 Gertrude Warner – Portals of Peril by Jules Luther
We are accepting submissions into the2021 Gertrude Warner Book Awardsuntil June 30, 2021.
The 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards winners 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.
Announcement and Recognition of the Chanticleer International Book Awards Winners will take place at the 2019 CIBA Ceremonies as hosted by the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference. #VCAC20
Thursday, Friday, and Sunday September 17 & 18, and 20, 2020
The 2019 CIBA Ceremonies
All 2019 CIBA Finalists will be recognized at the daily CIBA ceremonies that will announce 3 or 4 of the seventeen CIBA Divisions each day on Tuesday – Saturday at 5:00 p.m. PST.
The First Place Category Awards Winners whose works have advanced from the premier Finalists Level of Achievement will be announced the daily ceremonies.
The 2019 Grand Prize Winners for all 17 Divisions of the CIBAs plus the Overall Best Book will be announced on Sunday, September 13, 2020. The Sunday CIBA Ceremony will begin at 5:30 p.m. PST.
The CIBA Ceremonies will be ZOOMed Live and recorded at the Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.
The CIBA Ceremony Schedule of Announcements is at the end of this post along with a downloadable WORD Doc file that may be printed for your convenience.
The Links to the 2019 CIBA Finalists –
This will be the LAST ANNOUNCEMENT BEFORE THE 2019 CIBA CEREMONIES that will take place at VCAC 20.
We have tried to email each author/publisher whose works have advanced to the Premier FINALISTS LEVEL in the 2019 Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards – at least twice. This is final notification before the 2019 CIBA Ceremonies.
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romance and Romantic Fiction novels, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.
