Tag: Long List

  • The 2021 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – CIBAs Long List

    The 2021 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – CIBAs Long List

    Dante Rossetti Awards for YA Fiction

    The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The 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 2021 Dante Rossetti Young Adult Fiction entries to the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Dante Rossetti Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the FINALIST positions. Finalists will be selected from the Short List.  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 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!

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

    • P.H.C. Marchesi – Florissant
    • K.C. Sprayberry – Sins of the Parents
    • Angela Yeh – A Phoenix Rises
    • Shadow Bleak – Riot Shield
    • B.L. Smith – The Last Golden Light
    • M.J. Evans – The Sand Pounder: Love and Drama on Horseback in WWII
    • Michael Tunison – The Shadow Kingdom
    • Dan Rice – Dragons Walk Among Us
    • Blue Spruell – TARO: Legendary Boy Hero of Japan
    • Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
    • E.A. Allen – Percy St. John and the Chronicle of Secrets
    • J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings
    • Glen Dahlgren – The Game of War: The Trials of Dantess, Warrior Priest
    • Mark Wakely – A Friend Like Filby
    • Rick Duffy – The Sigil Masters
    • Strider K – Stone (former title: You Rock my Life)
    • Eileen Charbonneau – Death at Little Mound
    • Jon Robinson – Sunshine and the Full Moon
    • J W Nelson – Pentagon Pirate Gang: The Secret of the Orchard
    • Rektok Ross – Ski Weekend
    • Nancy Thorne – The Somewhere I See You Again
    • Dennis D. Skirvin – The Treasure of Nonsense Woods
    • Susan Faw – Bone Dragon
    • Kourtney Spadoni – In The Underwood
    • Rebecca Danzenbaker – The Color of My Soul
    • John Thomas Everett – Aesop’s Fox
    • L. A. Thompson – Isle of Dragons
    • Shay Siegel – Fractured
    • Thomas Corrigan – The Good Life

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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    Click here to see the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Award Winners for Young Adult Fiction.

    Cover of The Best Week That Never Happened by Dallas Woodburn

     

    Blue and Gold Grand Prize 2020 Winner Badge for the Dante Rossetti Awards for The best week that never happened by Dallas Woodburn

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

    Please click here for more information.

    For our other Youth Reader 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.

  • The 2021 LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards for Early Readers & Picture Books – CIBAs Long List

    Two little chicks, fresh from their egg

    The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books, and Educational Books. These books have advanced to the Long List for the 2021 CIBAs. (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 all 2021 Little Peeps Early Readers entries to the 2021 Little Peeps Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Little Peeps 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 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Early Readers!

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

    • M. Lisa Rinaca – Matt Needs A Werewolf
    • Avril van der Merwe – I Don’t Want To Be a Hyena
    • Linda Harkey – The Remarkable Story of Willie the Crow
    • Once Upon a Dance – Belluna’s Big Adventure in the Sky: A Dance-It-Out Creative Movement Story for Young Movers
    • M. Lisa Rinaca – Just James
    • Susan Faw – Poppy Ogopogo
    • Stephanie Matolyak & Deborah Bailey – A Farm Animals’ Christmas-No Ordinary Farm
    • Brenda Faatz & Peter Trimarco – Now What?
    • Ellie Smith – Tex the Explorer Journey Through Our Solar System
    • Steven Haggard – There’s an Elephant in My Room!
    • Rita M Boehm – Bluebirds in the Garden
    • Zaynab Al-Yassiri – LunchBox Wisdom
    • Cindy A. Bell – I Love You, Fiorella, Flaws and All!
    • Dana Brackob – Molly: A Love Story
    • Carmela Dutra – A Lua
    • David Horn – Eudora Space Kid: The Great Engine Room Takeover
    • Rebecca Dwight Bruff – Stars of Wonder
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – Charlie Lou Goes to the Rodeo
    • Lauren Stockly – Mindful Monsters Therapeutic Workbook
    • Lauren Stockly – Be Mindful of Monsters
    • Cynthia Kern OBrien – I Don’t Want to go to Preschool, the Fairy Queen calls
    • JL Morin & Stephan Theo – Tuck-a-tuck Dragon
    • Denise Ditto – Tooth Fairy Day Celebration
    • Kevin Brougher – Grandpa Kevin’s…Jack and the Bean Stalk
    • Brooks Olbrys – Blue Ocean Bob Discovers His Purpose
    • Katy McQuaid – Everybody Loves Grace: An Amazing True Story of How Grace Brings Love to Everyone She Meets
    • Deborah Serani – Sometimes When I’m Mad
    • Vicky Wu – Patty Panda Gets a Potty!
    • Peggy Sullivan – Shadow Walkers, The Secret Lives of the Shy Sisters
    • Vincent Kelly – All People are Beautiful
    • Kyle Poehls – From Nicholas To Christmas
    • Michael Ferrone – Frankenbots: Sunken City of Scraps
    • Wanda Carter Roush – You Got This – A Tale of Courage
    • Karen B. Kurtz – Sophia’s Gift
    • Amy Leaf – Harry and the Pelican
    • Andrea Vaughan – Victoria and the Big, Brave Breath
    • Megan Herr – Lucas Takes His Food Allergies to Daycare

     

    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 Little Peeps Book Award Winners for Early Readers Fiction.

    Cover for Great as a Button by Masoud Malekyari

     

    A blue and gold badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Winner for Little Peeps Children’s Books Great as a Button by Masoud Malekyari

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Little Peeps Book Awards for Children’s Literature. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

    Please click here for more information.

    For our other Youth Reader 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.

  • The 2021 GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction – The Long List – CIBAs 2021

    The Boxcar Children from the famed series by Gertrude Warner

    The Gertrude Warner Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Middle Grade Fiction.  The Gertrude Warner Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    The Gertrude Warner Book Awards competition is named for Gertrude Chandler Warner, the wonderful author of The Boxcar Children.

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Contemporary Middle Grade, SFF & Paranormal Middle Grade, Mystery Middle Grade, Historical Middle Grade, Adventure Middle Grade, and Graphic Novels. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them. For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards here and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards here.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Gertrude Warner Middle Grade  Fiction entries to the 2021 Gertrude Warner Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Gertrude Warner Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the FINALIST positions. Finalists will be selected from the Short List.  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 Gertrude Warner Book Awards novel competition for Middle Grade Fiction!

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

    • Didem Saracel – Story of Carbon
    • Didem Saracel – Story of Oxygen
    • Ryan O’Connor – Ting Ting, the Girl Who Saved China
    • Clayton Marshall Adams – The Mask
    • Mary K. Savarese – The Girl in the Toile Wallpaper
    • Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
    • McKemie Huston – Return of the Last Prism
    • M.L. Smith – Serious Business on Albatross Lane
    • B.L. Smith – Irritating Adventures on Albatross Lane
    • K.P. Boardman – The Falling Sisters
    • Murray Richter – Fishing for Luck
    • J. B. Spector – The Sunlit Curse, Book 1 of The Mer-Prince Adventures
    • J. B. Spector – The Amethyst Tower, Book 2 of The Mer-Prince Adventures
    • Sean March – Little Wade and Watchtower: Abigail and the Great Gang Trap
    • Ronnie Swire Siegel – Displaced: A Story About Climate Change and How Displaced Animals Ring the Alarm
    • James Love – Max Voltage: Multiverse Mayhem
    • Ben Gartner – Sol Invictus
    • Esta Lemon – The Loser Blog
    • KS Mitchell – The Mystery of the Golden Ball: Pen & Quin International Agents of Intrigue
    • Emmett J Hall – RUNAWAY
    • Norman L. Johnson, MD – TR Tommy to the Rescue
    • Dane S. Skorup – Kid Kingmaker
    • Moira Siobhan – Dilly Cooper Hat-astrophe
    • Laurie Calkhoven – Roosevelt Banks, Good-Kid-in-Training
    • Peter Solomon – The Stardust Mystery
    • D. H. Timpko – The Firma Twins and the Flute of Enchantment
    • Susan McCormick – The Antidote
    • Raea Gragg – Mup
    • Gloria Two-Feathers – Buck Keeper of the Meadow
    • Barbara Glazier-Robinson – Grace from Space: A Race to Save Earth(Dream Catcher Series, Book One)
    • Jay Spencer – The Phantom Airplane Mystery
    • Laura Gerhardt Schonberg – Joker

    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.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Twitter’s handle is @ChantiReviews

    Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.

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

    Click here to see the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Award Winners for Middle Grade Fiction.

    Cover of Kassy O'Roarke Cub Reporter by Kelly Oliver

    A blue and gold badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Winner for Gertrude Warner Middle Grade Readers Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter by Kelly Oliver

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

    Please click here for more information.

    For our other Youth Reader 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.

  • The 2021 CHAUCER Book Awards for Pre-1750s Historical Fiction – The Long List – CIBAs 2021

    The 2021 CHAUCER Book Awards for Pre-1750s Historical Fiction – The Long List – CIBAs 2021

    A picture of Geoffery Chaucer as a white man with a gray goatee with the words "Chaucer Awards" across the bottom

    The Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in pre-1750s Historical Fiction.  The Chaucer Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

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

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Chaucer Early Historical Fiction entries to the 2021 Chaucer Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Chaucer Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Finalist positions.  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 17 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 Chaucer Book Awards novel competition for Pre-1750s Early Historical Fiction!

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

    • John A. Martino and Michael P. O’Kane – Olympia: The Birth of the Games
    • B.L. Smith – The Last Golden Light
    • Alana White – Medici Man: The Hearts of All on Fire
    • Griffin Brady – The Heart of a Hussar
    • Leah Angstman – Out Front the Following Sea
    • James Conroyd Martin – Too Soon the Night: A Novel of Empress Theodora (The Theodora Duology Book 2)
    • David Martyn – The Epistle a Story of the Early Church
    • Vivienne Brereton – The House of the Red Duke. Book One: A Phoenix Rising
    • PJ Devlin – The Chamber
    • Virginia Crow – The Year We Lived
    • David Fitz-Gerald – The Curse of Conchobar: A Prequel to the Adirondack Spirit Series
    • Seven Jane – The Isle of Gold
    • Janet Wertman – The Boy King
    • Wendy J. Dunn – Falling Pomegranate Seeds: All Manner of Things
    • Edward Rickford – The Bend of the River: Book Two in the Tenochtitlan Trilogy
    • Sherry V. Ostroff – Mannahatta, The Sequel
    • James Hutson-Wiley – The Travels of ibn Thomas
    • Tim Schooley – The Wool Translator
    • Patricia Bracewell – The Steel Beneath the Silk
    • Gail Meath – Countess Jacqueline
    • Ron Destro – The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne
    • Rebecca D’Harlingue – The Lines Between Us: A Novel
    • Amy Wolf – A Woman of the Road and Sea
    • Toni Kief – Saints, Strangers and Rosehip Tea
    • Kelly Nichols and Alyn Rockwood – Beyond the Dragonhead

    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.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Twitter’s handle is @ChantiReviews

    Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.

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

    Click here to see the 2020 Chaucer Book Award Winners for Early Historical Fiction.

    Cover of Bird in a Snare by N.L. HolmesGold and blue Grand Prize badge for the 2020 Chaucer Awards won by N.L. Holmes' Bird in a Snare

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Chaucer Book Awards for Pre-1750s Early 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.

  • The 2021 LARAMIE Book Awards for Americana Fiction Long List – CIBAs 2021

    The 2021 LARAMIE Book Awards for Americana Fiction Long List – CIBAs 2021

    Laramie Americana, Western Pioneer, Civil War Fiction Award

    The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana and Westerns fiction genre.  The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring Americana themes, First Nation stories, early North American History, cowboys & cowgirls in the Wild West, pioneering, and Civil War, and 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 Laramie Americana entries  to the 2021 Laramie Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Laramie Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The 2021 Laramie Finalists will be selected from the Laramie Semi-Finalists.

    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 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Americana Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • Kimberly Burns – The Mrs. Tabor
    • E.E. Burke – Tom Sawyer Returns
    • David Fitz-Gerald – Waking Up Lost
    • Chase Pletts – The Loving Wrath of Eldon Quint
    • E.E. Burke – Tom Sawyer Returns
    • Kimberly Burns – The Mrs. Tabor
    • Leah Angstman – The Only Way to Cheat a Hangman
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – Tommies
    • Kalen Vaughan Johnson – Raid of Souls 
    • Catherine M. O’Connor – Dust Covered Lies
    • Michael Eisenhut – Brothers of War, The Iron Brigade at Gettysburg
    • Pamela Nowak – Never Let Go
    • Forest B. Dunning – Death at Lame Deer
    • Will Astrike – The Knack and The Skills of Ezra Lacey – Series
    • Samantha Specks – Dovetails in Tall Grass
    • Kenneth Arbogast – Sorrow Ledge
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – Kidnapped
    • EM Abner – Hollow Eyes on Tennessee: From Shiloh to Perryville
    • Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Breath, Book One in the Desert Hills Trilogy
    • T.K. Conklin – Outlaw’s Redemption
    • Bryan Ney – Absaroka War Chief
    • Betty Willis – Texas Quest
    • Glen Craney – The Cotillion Brigade: A Novel of the Civil War and the Most Famous Female Militia in American History
    • David Fitz-Gerald – The Curse of Conchobar: A Prequel to the Adirondack Spirit Series
    •  George T. Arnold – Wyandotte Bound
    • James Musgrave – The Dancing Murders
    • Bert Entwistle – Leftover Soldiers, Aftermath, & Opportunity
    • Michael R. Frontani – Dante’s Forge
    • Chris Bennett – Road to the Breaking
    • Michael L. Ross – Across the Great Divide: Book 2 The Search
    • Daniel Herman – The Feudist: A Novel of the Pleasant Valley War
    • Daniel Greene – Northern Hunt (Northern Wolf Series Book 2)

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

    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.

    Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

    Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Twitter’s handle is @ChantiReviews

    Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.

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

    Click here to see the 2020 Laramie Book Award Winners for Americana Fiction.

    Cover of Trouble The Water by Rebecca Dwight BruffA blue and gold badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Winner for Laramie Westerns for Trouble the Water, a novel by Rebecca Dwight Bruff

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Laramie Book Awards for Americana and Western Fiction.

    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.

  • The 2021 MYSTERY & MAYHEM Book Awards for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries – The Long List – CIBAs 2021

    The 2021 MYSTERY & MAYHEM Book Awards for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries – The Long List – CIBAs 2021

    Cozy Mystery Fiction Award

    The M & M Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem fiction genre.  The M & M Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The 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 and for International High Stakes Thrillers and Lab Lit, see our Global Thriller Awards)

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 M&M Cozy and Not-So-Cozy entries  to the 2021 M&M Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2021 M&M Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

    The 2021 M&M FINALISTS will be selected from the M&M Semi-Finalists.

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 17 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on 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 M&M Book Awards novel competition for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    • Craig Allen Heath – Where You Will Die
    • Andrew Hunkins – Evil Alive
    • Michael Scott Garvin – Ophelia’s Room
    • J.W. Zarek – The Devil Pulls the Strings
    • Joy Ann Ribar – Deep Green Envy
    • Codi Schneider – Cold Snap: A Viking Cat Mystery
    • David Martyn – Called Into Service: A Robert Curtis Mystery
    • Vicki Batman – Temporarily Out of Luck
    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Double Exposure
    • Mally Becker – The Turncoat’s Widow
    • Tina deBellegarde – Winter Witness
    • Alexander Mukte – The Recruiter
    • Traci Andrighetti – Marsala Maroon
    • B.L. Smith – Bert Mintenko and the Serious Business
    • B.L. Smith – The Irritating Misadventures of Bert Mintenko
    • Patricia Catacalos – Lurking in the Darkness (1832 Regency Book 4)
    • Arlene McFarlane – Murder, Curlers & Kilts
    • Eileen Charbonneau – Death at Little Mound
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