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The 2022 SERIES CIBAs Short List for Genre Fiction
The CIBA FICTION SERIES Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in any of our 16 Fiction Divisions where the author has written a series. The Fiction Series Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) is seeking for the best book series in all of its fifteen fiction divisions: Mysteries, Suspense Thrillers, Espionage/High Stakes, Young Adult, Middle-Grade Readers, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural and Paranormal, Romance, Historical Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2021 Series Book Awards Entries to the 2022 Series Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Series Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

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

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2021 Series Book Awards novel competition for Genre Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Amy S Peele – Medical Murder Mysteries
- M.J. Evans – The Skullington Family
- Richard Alan Schwartz – An American Journeys Novel
- Charlotte Stuart – Macavity & Me Mysteries
- Eileen Charbonneau – American Civil War Brides
- Vince Bailey – The Curtis Jefferson series
- Robin Elno – The Clown William Series
- Ian Crouch – A Pyrrhic Victory
- Rozsa Gaston – Anne of Brittany Series
- Davalynn Spencer – Front Range Brides
- Tamar Anolic – Triumph of a Tsar
- Miriam Verbeek – Songs of Si’Empra
- Charlotte Stuart – Discount Detective Mysteries
- Phil Bayly – Murder on Skis
- Terry Birdgenaw – The Antunite Chronicles
- Peter Curtis – The Kohut Trilogy
- Susan Lynn Solomon – Emlyn Goode Mysteries
- Kathi Bjorkman – Third Eye Witness
- T. P. Graf – The Life and Stories of Jaime Cruz
- Jodi Lea Stewart – Silki, the Girl of Many Scarves
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 Series Awards is Guinevere’s Trilogy – by Nicole Evelina

Mistress of Legend, Camelot’s Queen, and Daughter of Destiny

Click here to see the 2021 Series Book Award Winners for Genre Fiction.

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

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Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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February 17, 2023
The BOOK SERIES 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Genre Fiction
The CIBA FICTION SERIES Book Awards recognize outstanding series works in any of our 16 Divisions. The Fiction Series Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) is seeking for the best book series in all sixteen fiction divisions: Mysteries, Suspense Thrillers, Espionage/High Stakes, Young Adult, Middle-Grade Readers, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural and Paranormal, Romance, Historical Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

The 2021 BOOK SERIES Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the BOOK SERIES Grand Prize Winner were announced by Diane Garland on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar.

This is the OFFICIAL 2021 LIST of the BOOK SERIES BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the BOOK SERIES Grand Prize Winner.

Join us in Celebrating the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

Ozma Book Awards for Series – Fantasy Fiction
- M. K. Wiseman – The Bookminder series
Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Series – Young Adult
- Pamela Beason – Run for Your Life
Chatelaine Book Awards for Series – Romantic Fiction
- Janet K. Shawgo – Look For Me Series
CLUE Book Awards for Series – Thriller/Suspense
- Kaylin McFarren – Threads
Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards for Series – Mysteries / Cozy and Not-so-Cozy
- Amy S. Peele – A Transplant Medical Murder Mystery series
Chaucer Book Awards for Series – Historical Fiction
- Nicole Evelina – The Guinevere’s Tale Trilogy
Laramie Book Awards for Series – Americana / Western Fiction
- E. Alan Fleischauer – JT Thomas’s Series – Western series
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 BOOK SERIES Awards is:

The Guinevere’s Tale Trilogy

by Nicole Evelina

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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The 2022 BOOK SERIES Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2022 BOOK SERIES Book Awards are open until the end of November. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today!

A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in August. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for participating in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards!
July 8, 2022
The DEVIL’S BOOKKEEPERS: The Noose Closes, Book 3 by Mark H. Newhouse – Jewish Historical Fiction, WWII Historical Fiction, Jewish Literary Fiction

In The Noose Closes, book three of the award-winning series, The Devil’s Bookkeepers, author Mark H. Newhouse continues the story of his compelling characters and their difficult predicaments in the closing months of World War II in occupied Lodz, Poland.

Newhouse is a gifted writer and educator, born in Germany to Holocaust survivors. His series is a fictionalized account of what happened in the Lodz ghetto, a barbed-wire enclosed slum in Poland during the Nazi occupation. As he deftly utilizes the first-hand accounts of those who were there, we witness the ribbon of humanity and compassion woven through each book. This raises the series to premiere status – an exceptional if sobering examination of the immutable human spirit. His series should encourage all who read it that hope is a gift and kindness is the answer.

Jewish engineer Bernard Ostrowski records the daily events for the ghetto chairperson, whom many call the Devil. Bennie and his small team find the information more terrifying with each passing hour. They compose their reports in a manner that will mollify the infamous ghetto boss, Chairman Rumkowski. Rumkowski and his embattled assistant, Neftalin, must please their Nazi handlers. Rumkowski oversees every aspect of the city and forces its residents into BECOMING factory workers for the German military. He hopes to keep the Nazis from taking control of Lodz by doing so.

Even Ostrowski and his educated co-workers struggle to comprehend the desperation and death in the place they once called home. The sight of bony children fighting in garbage heaps for anything edible is unfathomable. How can this be happening in their city? Surely Rumkowski will help them.

Ostrowski doesn’t quite know what to make of the masses of used shoes and other clothing that arrive via trucks, while Lodz Jews are shipped out of the ghetto almost daily. Are the Germans shepherding the Jews out of Lodz to safety from the war, as they and Rumkowski say?

Rumors begin to slip in. The Jews are being taken to camps where only death awaits.

The novel continues to weave in the story of Ostrowski’s love for his wife. Nearly defeated by the shocking events in book 2, Ostrowski longs for any news about his wife Miriam and his daughter Regina. The couple had become estranged when Bennie suspected Miriam of having an affair with the young and reckless Singer before the man disappeared.

When Singer returns, now a resistance fighter, he attempts to enlist Ostrowski into an underground Jewish resistance movement. What follows are acts of bravery and sacrifice readers will remember long after the book is put down.

Newhouse’s parents were among the 5,000 Jews of more than 200,000 trapped in the Lodz ghetto who survived the Nazi occupation. Will any of the novel’s characters survive as The Noose Closes around them?

Newhouse utilizes the shocking events described in The Chronicle of The Lodz Ghetto (Yale University Press, 1984), placing sobering quotes from the historical account at the beginning of each chapter. Readers will feel as if they are on the streets of Lodz due to the vividly depicted sights, sounds, and smells during this bleak and desolate time. The Nazis’ wanted to annihilate an entire race of human beings. The incontestable proof became all too clear only as WWII came to a close.

In The Noose Closes and the other books in The Devil’s Bookkeepers series, Newhouse interjects the ironic humor that brings the epic tale to life, gallows humor, if you like. These people are real – and readers feel it. Newhouse skillfully weaves into the story the profound depth of faith and belief that enabled desperate people to cling to hope, despite their dire circumstances.

In fact, this bold human spirit enables the residents to find courage in the face of danger that rests at the heart of the series. His characters believe that relying on faith overcomes fear, and above all else, love will always be triumphant. This powerful series reminds us that the more we learn about the Holocaust, the more we remember this time of terror, the more likely it is that we can genuinely say, “Never again – to anyone!”

The Devil’s Bookkeepers series won Grand Prize in the 2020 CIBA Fiction Series Awards and is a series that is not only timely, but one we highly recommend.

Please read our reviews of the first two books in The Devil’s Bookkeepers by clicking on their titles, The Noose and The Noose Tightens.

April 13, 2022
The 2021 SERIES Book Awards for Genre Fiction – FINALISTS – CIBAs 2021
The CIBA FICTION SERIES Book Awards recognize outstanding series works in any of our 16 Divisions. The Fiction Series Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) is seeking for the best book series in all of its fifteen fiction divisions: Mysteries, Suspense Thrillers, Espionage/High Stakes, Young Adult, Middle-Grade Readers, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural and Paranormal, Romance, Historical Fiction. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Series Book Awards entries to the 2021 Series Book Awards FINALISTS. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Series First Place Positions and the Overall SERIES Grand Prize. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 2021 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

These titles are FINALISTs in the 2021 Series Book Awards novel competition for Genre Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

Speculative Fiction Divsions

CYGNUS Book Awards for SERIES – Science Fiction
- Black Mariah Author Collective – Black Mariah Series – Dystopian Sci-Fi Series
- Mike Murphey – Physics, Lust and Greed – Science Fiction Time Travel
OZMA Book Awards for SERIES – Fantasy Fiction
- AG Flitcher – Boone and Jacque – Fantasy Young Adult series
- M. K. Wiseman – The Bookminder series – Fantasy Young Adult series
Varied Divisions

Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Series – Young Adult
- Wendy Leighton-Porter – Shadows of the Past – Middle-Grade Readers Series
- Pamela Beason – Run for Your Life Young Adult Trilogy
- Courtney Leigh Pahlke – Life Force Preserve – Young Adult series
Chatelaine Book Awards for Series – Romantic Fiction
- Lucinda Brant – Roxton Family Saga – Romantic Series
- Janet K. Shawgo – Look For Me Series – Action / Adventure Romance Series
Mystery Divisions

Global Thriller Book Awards for Series – High Stakes Fiction
- Randall Krzak – The Bedlam Thriller Series – Global Thrillers
- Domenick Venezia – Linc Malloy – Adventure series
CLUE Book Awards for Series – Thriller/Suspense
- Kaylin McFarren – Threads Thriller/Suspense series
- John W. Feist – The Three Heirs Thriller /Suspense series
- Mary Deal – Sara Mason Mysteries series – Thriller/Suspense
CLUE Book Awards for Series – Crime / Police Procedural
- Daniel J. Waters – Mickey Cleary: The Jersey Shore Series –
  Chuck Morgan – Buck Taylor Crime Series
Mystery & Mayhem Book Awards for Series – Mysteries / Cozy and Not-so-Cozy
- Suzi Weinert – Garage Sale Mystery Series
- Amy S. Peele – A Transplant Medical Murder Mystery series
- Carl and Jane Bock – Arizona Borderlands Mysteries series
- Betty Jean Craige – Witherston Murder Mystery series
Historical Divisions

Chaucer Book Awards for Series – Historical Fiction
- Alexander Geiger – The Ptolemaios Saga- Historical Fiction series
- Nicole Evelina – The Guinevere’s Tale Trilogy Historical series
- N.L. Holmes – The Lord Hani Mysteries – Historical mystery series
- Lucinda Brant – Alec Halsey Mystery Series – Historical Detective series
Laramie Book Awards for Series – Americana / Western Fiction
- Will Astrike – The Knack and The Skills of Ezra Lacey – Western series
- T P Graf – The Life and Stories of Jaime Cruz – Western series
- E. Alan Fleischauer – JT Thomas’s Series – Western series
Good Luck as we move onto the next round of judging!

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Series Awards is The Devil’s Bookkeepers – Three Books by Mark Newhouse

The Noose, The Noose Tightens, & The Noose Closes

Click here to see the 2020 Series Book Award Winners for Genre Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Series Book Awards for Genre Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

VIRTUAL and IN-Person – June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

Join us for our 10th annual conference and discover why!

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
February 22, 2022
Chanticleer Fiction Series Book Awards – 2020 First Place Division and Grand Prize Winners
The CIBA FICTION SERIES Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in any of our 18 Divisions where the author has written a series. The Fiction Series Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) is seeking for the best book series in all of its fifteen fiction divisions: Mysteries, Suspense Thrillers, Espionage/High Stakes, Young Adult, Middle-Grade Readers, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Supernatural and Paranormal, Romance, Historical Fiction

Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners

for the CIBAs New Division for Fiction Series Book Awards!

CHATELAINE Book Series Awards for Romantic Fiction

Multi-cultural/Inter-racial Romance Series:
- The Prodigy Slave by Londyn Skye
  - The Prodigy Slave: Journey to Winter Garden
  - The Prodigy Slave: The Old World
  - The Prodigy Slave: The Ultimate Grand Finale
Regency/Georgian Romance Series:
- The Donet Trilogy by Regan Walker
  - To Tame the Wind
  - Echo in the Wind
  - A Fierce Wind
Historical Romance Series:
- The Lavender Meuse Trilogy by Gail Noble-Sanderson
  - The Lavender House in Meuse
  - The Passage Home to Meuse
  - The Lavender Bees of Meuse
HEMINGWAY Book Series Awards for Wartime Historical Fiction

The Devil’s Bookkeepers – Three Books by Mark Newhouse
- - The Noose
  - The Noose Tightens
  - The Noose Closes
CLUE Awards Series for Mystery & Suspense
- The Annie Oakley Mystery Series – Three Books by Kari Bovee
  - Girl with a Gun
  - Peccadillo at the Palace
  - Folly at the Fair
LARAMIE Series Awards Western, Americana, Civil War Fiction

Americana Fiction
- An American Journey Novel Series – Four Books by Richard Alan Schwartz
  - The Emigrant
  - The Pioneer
  - The Surgeon
  - The Soldier
GOETHE for Historical Fiction Series, post-1750s
- The Poland Trilogy – Eastern European Literature -Three Books by James Conroyd Martin
  - Push Not the River
  - Against a Crimson Sky
  - The Warsaw Conspiracy
DANTE ROSSETTI Book Series Awards for Young Adult Fiction
- The Adventures of Jonathan Moore Book Series – Three Books by Peter Greene
  - Warship Poseidon
  - Castle of Fire
  - Paladin’s War
M & M Book Series Awards for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries
- The Henrietta and Inspector Howard Mystery Series – Five Books by Michelle Cox
  - A Girl Like You
  - A Ring of Truth
  - A Promise Given
  - A Veil Removed
  - A Child Lost
OZMA Book Series Awards for Fantasy Fiction
- Terribly Serious Darkness Gaslamp Fantasy Book Series – Three Books by Sam Hooker
  - Peril in the Old Country
  - Soul Remains
  - Now Before the Dark
PARANORMAL Book Series Awards for Supernatural Fiction
- The Winters Sisters – a Paranormal Romantic Suspense Series – Four Books by Joanne Jaytanie
  - Chasing Victory
  - Payton’s Pursuit
  - Willow’s Discovery
  - Corralling Kenzie
SOMERSET Book Series Awards for Contemporary, Literary, & Mainstream Fiction
- The Anne McFarland Book Series – American Literature – Three Books by Jill G. Hall
  - The Black Velvet Coat
  - The Silver Shoes
  - The Green Lace Corset
The GRAND PRIZE Winner of the 2020 CIBA New Division in BOOK SERIES:

is Proudly Awarded to

The Devil’s Bookkeepers – Three Books by Mark Newhouse

The Noose, The Noose Tightens, & The Noose Closes

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

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

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June 22, 2021