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The 2021 GOETHE Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction – The Semi-Finalists – CIBAs 2021
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

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

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Goethe Late Historical Fiction Short List to the 2021 Goethe Book Awards Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. 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 24 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.

These titles are the Semi-Finalists of the 2021 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Post-1750s Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- J.G. Schwartz – The Curious Spell of Madam Genova
- Andrew Schafer, M.D. – Unclean Hands
- Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
- Margaret Rodenberg – Finding Napoleon: A Novel
- Margaret Porter – The Limits of Limelight
- Paula Butterfield – The Goddesses of Tenth Street
- Adele Holmes, M.D. – Winter’s Reckoning
- Tammy Pasterick – Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash
- Ron Singerton – The Refused
- Alice McVeigh – Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel
- Jodi Lea Stewart – Triumph, a Novel of the Human Spirit
- S. Lee Fisher – Becoming Olive W. – The Women of Campbell County: Family Saga: Book 1
- Drema Drudge – Victorine
- Lorelei Brush – Chasing the American Dream
- Lee Hutch – Molly’s Song
- Orna Ross – After the Rising
- Glen Craney – The Cotillion Brigade: A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History
- Pamela Hamilton – Lady Be Good
- Lori McMullen – Among the Beautiful Beasts
- Mike Jordan – The Freedom Song
- Florence Reiss Kraut – How to Make a Life: a novel
- Kathleen Williams Renk – Vindicated: A Novel of Mary Shelley
- Michelle Rene – Maud’s Circus
- Judith Berlowitz – Home So Far Away
- Jenni L. Walsh – A Betting Woman: A Novel of Madame Moustache
Good Luck to All in the next rounds that will determine the which titles advance to the FINALISTS Level.

A few entries have been moved to the 2021 Laramie Book Awards as per judges recommendations for Americana, Prairie,
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Goethe Awards is Linda Ulleseit for The Aloha Spirit

Click here to see the 2020 Goethe Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Goethe Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:
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.
April 27, 2022
The 2021 GOETHE Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction – The Short List – CIBAs 2021
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

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

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Goethe Late Historical Fiction Long List to the 2021 Goethe Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 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.

These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finals of the 2021 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Post-1750s Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- J.G. Schwartz – The Curious Spell of Madam Genova
- Andrew Schafer, M.D. – Unclean Hands
- Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
- Margaret Rodenberg – Finding Napoleon: A Novel
- Anna Bullock – The Companion
- Margaret Porter – The Limits of Limelight
- Pamela Nowak – Never Let Go
- Paula Butterfield – The Goddesses of Tenth Street
- Adele Holmes, M.D. – Winter’s Reckoning
- Tammy Pasterick – Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash
- Ron Singerton – The Refused
- Alice McVeigh – Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel
- Jodi Lea Stewart – Triumph, a Novel of the Human Spirit
- S. Lee Fisher – Becoming Olive W. – The Women of Campbell County: Family Saga: Book 1
- Drema Drudge – Victorine
- Sophia Alexander – Silk: Caroline’s Story
- Lorelei Brush – Chasing the American Dream
- Lee Hutch – Molly’s Song
- Orna Ross – After the Rising
- Alfred Nicols – Lost Love’s Return
- Glen Craney – The Cotillion Brigade: A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History
- Bryan Ney – Absaroka War Chief
- Jenni L. Walsh – A Betting Woman: A Novel of Madame Moustache
- Dana Mack – All Things That Deserve to Perish
- Pamela Hamilton – Lady Be Good
- Lori McMullen – Among the Beautiful Beasts
- Mike Jordan – The Freedom Song
- Florence Reiss Kraut – How to Make a Life: a novel
- Kathleen Williams Renk – Vindicated: A Novel of Mary Shelley
- Michelle Rene – Maud’s Circus
- J. E. Dyer – Barons
- Judith Berlowitz – Home So Far Away
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Good luck to all as your works move on the next rounds of judging.

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Goethe Awards is Linda Ulleseit for The Aloha Spirit

Click here to see the 2020 Goethe Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Goethe Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:
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.
January 30, 2022
COMMISSAR: A Novel of Civil War Russia by DV Chernov – Russian 20th Century Historical Fiction, Military Historical Fiction, War Fiction

DV Chernov delivers the first book of the Anna Sokolova series, an historical thriller Commissar: A Novel of Civil War Russia destined to capture readers’ attentions and have them coming back for more.

Chernov seamlessly blends historical figures with fictional characters in Commissar. Shining above them all is Anna Sokolova, a revolutionary who fights to protect the newly formed Cheka. Her idealistic goal is to improve the lives of her fellow countrymen.

Anna Sokolova steps off the pages as a gutsy and beautiful woman who is also vulnerable and idealistic. She will do anything it takes to find the British spy “Reilly,” a real character from history, who threatens her country’s new political system.

Chernov sets the scene in Moscow in 1918, after the revolution.

The big players in this international espionage thriller are broken down into two opposing forces: the Red and the White armies. However, outside influences from Britain and the United States complicate the struggles. Anna pursues the British spy, but he eludes capture even with her best agents’ intelligence.

Chernov expertly exposes the British and American desires of maintaining their outside capitalist ideologies within Russia. This forces the Reds to fight harder to preserve the newly formed government.

Anna’s romantic involvement with Sergei, her longtime friend and mentor, falls apart when Sergei becomes withdrawn and places the party over her. Anna’s family disappoints her as well. They intend to flee Russia to Switzerland and resume their bourgeoisie life of wealthy business owners. Anna stays behind and throws herself into her work. Will she ever catch the spy Reilly?

One day, Anna meets William, a representative of the American Red Cross, and with him plans the mission that will change her path forward. Together with Egorov and William, she drives a Rolls Royce, of all things, to southwestern Ukraine to entice a group of anarchists to help her catch the elusive Reilly.

There is another reason for her mission, one involving the Russian treasury and the Bolshevik cause.

Anna approaches Makhno, who helps her organize an ambush and attack of the heavily armed and guarded train transporting the gold, but he has two conditions. He gets all the gold as well as the train. Anna convinces him to split the gold 50/50, and she gets Reilly. Soon the mission details fall into place.

The mission unfolds in a tense battle that claims the life of Anna’s friend and comrade in arms, Egorov. The many deaths weigh on Anna. Coupled with another failure to capture Reilly, Anna’s confidence is rocked, which leaves her questioning the decisions made by her superiors and what the Bolsheviks have come to represent.

Even after her successful retrieval of three times the amount of gold she’d anticipated, Anna loses her drive for the cause. Her successful mission assures her a place in the government as a rising star, and as the winds of war change, the Reds gain control of the government.

Chernov’s masterful blending of fictional with non-fictional characters and events creates a blockbuster read. He gives us a high espionage thriller through the eyes of a daring protagonist, Anna Sokolova, and delivers a riveting story that will keep readers up into the night. Moreover, Chernov’s attention to detail will impress the most avid historian, and his storytelling will appeal to lovers of historical fiction and spy thrillers alike. Highly recommended

January 14, 2022
THE ALOHA SPIRIT by Linda Ulleseit – Hawaiian Cultural Fiction, World War II Historical Fiction, Women’s Divorce Fiction

In Linda Ulleseit’s novel The Aloha Spirit, we meet the plucky heroine, Dolores, as her father leaves her.

“Dolores’s father deemed her useless when she was seven. Neither he nor her older brother, Pablo, ever said that, but every detail of their leaving told her so. Papa had tried to explain the Hawaiian custom of hānai to her. All she understood was the giving away, leaving her to live with a family not her own.”

Her story starts in 1922; the place, multiethnic, multilingual Hawaii. Papa, a sugar cane cutter from Spain who worked in Hawaii, decides to take his son Pablo with him to seek his fortune in California. His wife died five years earlier. He leaves 7-year-old Dolores with a large family on Oahu in an arrangement called hānai, an informal adoption. Dolores doesn’t know the family well. She feels abandoned, with no idea when or if her father will send for her or return.

There follow years of drudgery in which she works as an adult, laundering clothes for many people at least six days a week as part of her hānai arrangement. The hard-working couple she lives with struggles to survive. Befriended by Maria, an older hānai girl, Dolores escapes her situation when Maria leaves to marry Peter. Dolores goes to live with them, to help Maria through her pregnancy, and for a while, she gets to share their happy family and have some things of her own.

At age 16, Dolores marries Manolo Medeiros, a boy she met on the beach and barely knows.

She becomes part of his large, extended Portuguese family, which includes Alberto, a nephew four years younger than Dolores. She hopes the Medeiroses will be the family she always wished for. When she met him on the beach, Manolo gave his interpretation of the aloha spirit: “Aloha begins with love.”… “Love yourself first.”… “Love the land.”… “Love the people.”… “Aloha is the joyous sharing of life’s energy.”

Dolores has her first child at age 17. But Manolo’s serious drinking problem, anger, and physical abuse of Dolores estranges him from her and the family, forcing her to take more control of her own life and protect her daughters. As Manolo’s behavior worsens, Alberto steps up to support Dolores, and they fall in love. But as part of a devout Catholic family, Dolores can’t possibly divorce Manolo.

Novelist Ulleseit gives us a vivid picture of the life of a hard-working Hawaiian woman and her community in the early decades of the 20th century.

Anyone interested in the history of Hawaii or in women’s history will enjoy this book. This book centers on abuse, overwork, and alcoholism as major themes, described in a matter-of-fact way. Dolores lives through interesting times, including the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the United States’ entry into the war, rationing, and the removal of Japanese Americans from Hawaii. Dolores goes to California and visits the World’s Fair, so we get to see the fair through her eyes. A glossary at the end of the book provides translations and a pronunciation guide for the many Hawaiian and Spanish words.

Linda Ulleseit was born and raised in Saratoga, California, and taught elementary school in San José. In addition to The Aloha Spirit, she wrote Under the Almond Trees, another historical novel, which takes place in California starting in 1896. She has also written a series of Flying Horse books, young adult fantasy books set in medieval Wales. She has an MFA in writing from Lindenwood University, serves as marketing chair of Women Writing the West, and is a founding member of Paper Lantern Writers.

Linda Ulleseit’s The Aloha Spirit won Grand Prize in the 2020 CIBA Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Novels.

December 2, 2021
The 2021 GOETHE Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction – The Long List – CIBAs 2021
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

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

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Goethe Late Historical Fiction entries to the 2021 Goethe Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Goethe Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 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 in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Post-1750s Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Sandra Vasoli – The Masterpiece Pursuit
- J.G. Schwartz – The Curious Spell of Madam Genova
- Andrew Schafer, M.D. – Unclean Hands
- Leah Angstman – Falcon in the Dive
- Margaret Rodenberg – Finding Napoleon: A Novel
- Anna Bullock – The Companion
- Margaret Porter – The Limits of Limelight
- Pamela Nowak – Never Let Go
- Michael J. Coffino – Truth Is in the House
- Georgia Nicolle – Maiden Scars
- Paula Butterfield – The Goddesses of Tenth Street
- Adele Holmes, M.D. – Winter’s Reckoning
- Tammy Pasterick – Beneath the Veil of Smoke and Ash
- Ron Singerton – The Refused
- Alice McVeigh – Susan: A Jane Austen Prequel
- Jodi Lea Stewart – Triumph, a Novel of the Human Spirit
- S. Lee Fisher – Becoming Olive W. – The Women of Campbell County: Family Saga: Book 1
- Victoria Laurienzo – Toolie
- Drema Drudge – Victorine
- Sophia Alexander – Silk: Caroline’s Story
- Lorelei Brush – Chasing the American Dream
- Lee Hutch – Molly’s Song
- Julie Weary – Skeleton World
- Orna Ross – After the Rising & Before the Fall
- Alfred Nicols – Lost Love’s Return
- Glen Craney – The Cotillion Brigade: A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History
- Bryan Ney – Absaroka War Chief
- Emmett J Hall – Runaway
- Jenni L. Walsh – A Betting Woman: A Novel of Madame Moustache
- Dana Mack – All Things That Deserve to Perish
- Pamela Hamilton – Lady Be Good
- Adriana Girolami – The Zamindar’s Bride
- Lori McMullen – Among the Beautiful Beasts
- Mike Jordan – The Freedom Song
- Florence Reiss Kraut – How to Make a Life: a novel
- Kathleen Williams Renk – Vindicated: A Novel of Mary Shelley
- Michelle Rene – Maud’s Circus
- J. E. Dyer – Barons
- Judith Berlowitz – Home So Far Away
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the FB post. However, for FB to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews. FB rules — not ours.

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

Click here to see the 2020 Goethe Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Goethe Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023.

Please click here for more information.

For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:
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 Authors: Cathy Ace and Robert Dugoni along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
September 18, 2021
The GOETHE Book Awards for post 1750s Historical Fiction – the Long List for the 2020 CIBAs
The GOETHE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian,18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we 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. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBA 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 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
- James Hockenberry – Send The Word
- Helena P. Schrader – Where Eagles Never Flew: A Battle of Britain Novel
- Conor Bender – Jubilee
- Linda Ulleseit – The Aloha Spirit
- Eileen O’Finlan – Erin’s Children
- Jon Duncan – Heart of the Few
- Grahame Shannon – Bay of Devils
- Leslie K. Barry – Newark Minutemen
- T. Matt Ryan – One Hell of a Shipmate
- Richard Alan Schwartz – Wind Chimes, War and Consequence A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
- Kari Bovee – Folly at the Fair
- James Padian – A Patriot’s Challenges
- Betty Bolte – Becoming Lady Washington
- Betty Bolte – Notes of Love and War
- Carrie Kwiatkowski – Revolution
- Kit Sergeant – The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII
- J.P. Kenna – The Anarchist Girl’s Confession
- Jomo Merritt – Sons of a Mauffen King
- Lindsey Fera – Muskets and Minuets
- J.L.Oakley – The Quisling Factor
- Brigitte Goldstein – Babylon Laid Waste-A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols
- D.V Chernov – Commissar
- Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse
- Michelle Cameron – Beyond the Ghetto Gates
- Kathryn Gauci – The Poseidon Network
- Dorothea Hubble Bonneau – Once in a Blood Moon
- Kate Dike Blair – The Hawthorne Inheritance
- Nancy H. Wynen – We Did What We Could
- John M. Millar – The Wars Among the Paines
- Pamela Jonas – Beneath a Radiant Moon
- John Hansen – Secrets of the Gros Ventre
- Elizabeth Bell – Necessary Sins (Lazare Family Saga, Book One)
- Eileen Harrison Sanchez – Freedom Lessons – A Novel
- Elizabeth St. Michel – Lord of the Wilderness
- Donna Scott – The London Monster
- Jerena Tobiasen – The Destiny, Book III of The Prophecy
- Jerena Tobiasen – The Emerald, Book II of The Prophecy
- Jerena Tobiasen – The Crest, Book I of The Prophecy
- Jenny Ferns – Ripple Effect: Because of the War
- Gin Westcott – Tangle of Time
- James Ross – Hunting Teddy Roosevelt
- Jule Selbo – Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
- Linda Stewart Henley – Estelle: A Novel
- Gregory Erich Phillips – Guilty as Angels
- Vicky Oliver – Love and Suffrage in Manhattan
- Roger Newman – Will O’ the Wisp: Madness, War and Recompense
- Theo Czuk – Hastings Street: Boulevard of Blues
- Sandra Perez Gluschankoff – Thorns for Raisel
- Ben Wyckoff Shore – Terribilita
- Carmela Cattuti – Between the Cracks: one woman’s journey from Sicily to America
- Wendy Long Stanley – The Power to Deny
- David Selcer – The Old Stories, a.k.a Da Alt Geshikhtem
- Pyram King – Destiny’s War – Part 1: Saladin’s Secret
- Lucinda Brant – Deadly Kin: A Georgian Historical Mystery
- Cris Harding – Red Wing
Good Luck to All!

Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction?

Congratulations to Kari Bovee whose work Peccadillo at the Palace – An Annie Oakley Mystery took home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Goethe Book Awards.

Here is the link to the 2019 Goethe 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 Goethe 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 21, 2020
GOETHE Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction – 2019 CIBAs
Congratulations to the First Place Category Winners and the Grand Prize Winner of the GOETHE Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction, a division of the 2019 CIBAs.

The Search for the Best New Post-1750s Historical Fiction

Chanticleer Book Reviews is celebrating the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars, History of Non-Western cultures – all set after the 1750s. We love them all.

The 2019 GOETHE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GOETHE 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.

Kaylin McFarren, CLUE Grand Prize winner 2017 – Twisted Threads, announced the 2019 GOETHE Book Awards.

This is the Official 2019 LIST of the GOETHE Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the GOETHE Grand Prize Winner.

Congratulations to All!
- Vanda Writer – Paris, Adrift
- Kari Bovee – Peccadillo at the Palace
- PJ Devlin – Wissahickon Souls
- Mary Adler – Shadowed by Death: An Oliver Wright WWII Mystery \
- Mike Jordan – The Runner
- J.G. Schwartz – The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy
The GOETHE Book Awards

Grand Prize Winner is

Peccadillo at the Palace – An Annie Oakley Mystery

by Kari Bovee

This is the digital badge for the 2018 GOETHE Grand Prize Winner – The LOST YEARS of BILLY BATTLES by Ronald E. Yates.

How to Enter the GOETHE Book Awards?

We are accepting submissions into the 2021 GOETHE Book Awards until June 30, 2021. Submissions into the 2020 CHAUCER Book Awards are closed.

The 2020 GOETHE Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC 21 on April 17, 2021.

Don’t delay! Enter today!

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.
September 29, 2020
ALL THINGS GOETHE! June 2020 SPOTLIGHT on Post-1750 Historical Fiction
Welcome to the SPOTLIGHT on post-1750 Historical Fiction novels… in other words,
Welcome to the GOETHE Book Awards!

Why do we like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe so very much? It’s simple! He’s the guy who wrapped up everything we believe in with this simple sentence:

“Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe

Of course, this was also said about Goethe (Super Goethe by Ferdinand Mount) that “…[his] company could be exhausting. One minute he would be reciting Scottish ballads, quoting long snatches from Voltaire, or declaiming a love poem he had just made up; the next, he would be smashing the crockery or climbing the Brocken mountain through the fog.”

So…, moving on… Goethe was also a very cool guy. In his lifetime, he saw the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1750 through Mary Shelley’s publishing of Frankenstein in 1818 – and everything in between! Check out the list of what happened during those nearly seventy decades at the end of this post – you will be A-Mazed!

Now, Welcome to the GOETHE Hall of Fame!

We wish to congratulate 2018’s Goethe Book Awards Grand Prize Winner –

The Lost Years of Billy Battles by Ronald E. Yates

Billy Battles is as dear and fascinating a literary friend as I have ever encountered. I learned much about American and international history, and you will too if you read any or all of the books. Each is an independent work, but if read in relation to the others, the reader experiences that all too rare sense of complete transport to another world, one fully realized in these pages because the storytelling is so skillful and thoroughly captivating. Trust me; you’ll want to read all three volumes. Chanticleer Reviewer’s Note

Mr. Ronald Yates not only won Grand Prize in the CIBAs 2018 GOETHE Awards – he won OVERALL GRAND PRIZE!

To learn more about Ronald E. Yates, please click here.

Congratulations to the 2018 Goethe Book Awards First Place Category Winners!
- - The Muse of Fire by Carol M. Cram
    
    Mist-chi-mas: A Novel of Captivity by J.L. Oakley
    
    The River by Starlight by Ellen Notbohm
    
    Anna’s Home by Rosalind Spitzer
    
    None of Us the Same by Jeffrey K. Walker
    
    Behind the Scarlet Letter by Patricia Suprenant
    
    The Pear Tree by K. M. Sandrick
The GOETHE Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction Grand Prize is awarded to:

Paladin’s War: The Adventures of Jonathan Moore by Peter Greene

Congratulations to the 2017 Goethe Book Awards First Place Category Winners!
- A Cherry Blossom in Winter by Ron Singerton
- The Boy Who Danced With Rabbits by J.R. Collins
- Full Circle: A Refugee’s Tale by Joe Vitovec
- Fenian’s Trace by Sean P. Mahoney
- The Shape of the Atmosphere by Jessica Dainty
The Goethe Grand Prize Ribbon for Historical Fiction Post 1750s 2016 was awarded to:

The Jøssing Affair by J.L. Oakley

Congratulations to the 2018 Goethe Book Awards First Place Category Winners!
- Women’s Historical: A Seeping Wound by Darryl Wimberley
- Manuscript World Wars and Other Wars: In Their Finest Hour by Duncan Stewart
- North American Turn of the Century: The Depth of Beauty by A.B. Michaels
- Regency, Victorian, 1700s/1800s: A Woman of Note by Carol M. Cram
- British/Europe Turn of the Century: Silent Meridian by Elizabeth Crowens
- Historical Fiction Manuscript: Running Before the Wind by Carrie Kwiatkowski
- 20th Century: The Boat House Cafe by Linda Cardillo
The deadline for entering manuscripts and recently published works into the 2020 Goethe Book Awards is coming up fast! JUNE 30, 2019 is the deadline!

For more information, please click here!

Submit your manuscript or recently released Historical Fiction (post-1750s) to the Chanticleer International Book Awards!

Want to be a winner next year? The deadline to submit your book for the Goethe Awards is June 30, 2020. Enter here!

Grand Prize and First Place Winners for 2019 will be announced during our 2020 conference, #CAC20.

The Grand Prize and First Place for 2020 CIBA winners will be held on April 17, 2021.

Any entries received on or after June 30, 2020, will be entered into the 2021 Goethe Book Awards that will be announced in April 2022.

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

The GOETHE Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards – the CIBAs.

The 2020 winners will be announced at the CIBA Awards Ceremony during #CAC20. All Semi-Finalists and First Place category winners will be recognized, the first-place winners will be whisked up on stage to receive their custom ribbon and wait to see who among them will take home the Grand Prize. It’s an exciting evening of dinner, networking, and celebrations!

Goethe

Some events that occurred during Goethe’s lifetime:

1750 – The Industrial Revolution began in England
1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg Austria
1761 – The problem of calculating longitude while at sea was solved by John Harrison
1765 – James Watts perfects the steam engine
1770 – Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany
1774 – Goethe’s romantic novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, propels him into European fame
1774 – Goethe’s play Gotz von Berlichingen, a definitive work of Sturm und Drang premiers in Berlin
1776 – America’s 13 Colonies declare independence from England. Battles ensue.
1776 – Adam Smith publishes the Wealth of Nations (the foundation of the modern theory of economics)
1776 – The Boulton and Watt steam engines were put to use ushering in the Industrial Revolution
1783 – The Hot Air Balloon was invented by the Montgolfier brothers in France.
1786 – Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart premiered in Vienna
1789 – George Washington is elected the first president of the United States of America
1780 – Antoine Lavoisier discovers the Law of Conservation of Mass
1789 – The French Revolution started in Bastille
1791 – Thomas Paine publishes The Rights of Man
1792 – Napoleon begins his march to conquer Europe
1799 – Rosetta Stone discovered in Egypt
1802 – Beethoven created and performed The Moonlight Sonata
1802 – A child’s workday is limited to twelve hours per day by the British parliament when they pass their first Factory Act
1804 – Napoleon has himself proclaimed Emperor of France
1808 – Atomic Theory paper published by John Dalton
1811 – Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro publishes a hypothesis, about the number of molecules in gases, that becomes known as Avogadro’s Law
1811 – Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility was published anonymously. It was critically well-received
1814 – Steam-driven printing press was invented which allowed newspapers to become more common
1818 – Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein
1832 – Goethe’s Faust, Parts 1 & 2 are published posthumously (March 22, 1832)

In 1830, Eugene Delacroix created Liberty Leading the People to epitomize the French Revolution. The movement officially began with the Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, a day that is still celebrated in France. The French people were rebelling against the extreme wealth of the French royal family who overtaxed and underpaid the people of France to the point where they could not even feed themselves and had nothing to lose by going to battle. They were starving to death. The uprising of 1830 was featured in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables (1862)

Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s (1980s) musical can look at Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People and hear the lyrics of the song that serves as a call to revolution:

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people. Who will not be slaves again.

Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix, 1830. On display at the Lourve, Paris.

Resources

*Britannica Encyclopedia

** Oxford Reference

***New Yorker Magazine
June 29, 2020
The FINALISTS Announcement for the GOETHE Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction, a division of the 2019 CIBAs
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

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

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 GOETHE Book Awards Semi-Finalists.

Congratulations to the 2019 GOETHE Book Awards FINALISTS
- Vanda Writer – Paris, Adrift
- Kari Bovee – Peccadillo at the Palace
- Kari Bovee – Girl with a Gun
- PJ Devlin – Wissahickon Souls
- John Hansen – Hard Times
- Mary Adler – Shadowed by Death: An Oliver Wright WWII Mystery
- Lee Hutch – So Others May Live
- Mike Jordan – The Runner
- Sandra Wagner-Wright – Two Coins: A Biographical Novel
- J.G. Schwartz – The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy
- Marina Osipova – How Dare The Birds Sing
- Lisa Braver Moss – SHRUG: A Novel
These titles are in the running for the First Place positions of the 2019 GOETHE Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction

Good luck to all as your works move on to the next 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 to the authors whose works have advanced to the FINALISTS Level of Achievement!

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 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 GOETHE Awards Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is June 30th, 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.
May 27, 2020
The 2019 GOETHE Book Awards for post 1750s Historical Fiction – the Short List
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian,18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, 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 Goethe Book Awards LONG LIST and have now progressed to the 2019 SHORTLIST.

The 2019 Shortlist for the Goethe Book Awards
- James Anderson O’Neal – Riley and the Great War
- James Anderson O’Neal – Riley and the Roaring Twenties
- Vanda Writer – Paris, Adrift
- Lori Swerda – Star-Spangled Scandal
- Kari Bovee – Peccadillo at the Palace
- Kari Bovee – Girl with a Gun
- Kari Bovee – Grace in the Wings
- PJ Devlin – Wissahickon Souls
- John Hansen – Hard Times
- Patricia Suprenant – Journey to the Isle of Devils
- GS Johnston – Sweet Bitter Cane
- Lee Hutch – So Others May Live
- Mike Jordan – The Runner
- Lisa Braver Moss – SHRUG: A Novel
- Sandra Wagner-Wright – Two Coins: A Biographical Novel
- J.G. Schwartz – The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy
- Marilyn Pemberton – The Jewel Garden
- Rebecca Rosenberg – The Secret Life of Mrs. London
- Marina Osipova – How Dare The Birds Sing 6.10
These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2019 Goethe Book Awards for post-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.
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 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2020. The 2020 winners will be announced in April 2021.
December 4, 2019