The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring space, time travel, life on other planets, parallel universes, alternate reality, and all the science, technology, major social or environmental changes of the future that author imaginations can dream up for the CYGNUS Book Awards division. Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Genetic Modification, Aliens, Super Humans, Interplanetary Travel, Climate-Fiction, and Settlers on the Galactic Frontier, Dystopian, our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 CYGNUS Science Fiction Semi-Finalists to the 2022 Cygnus Book Awards Finalists! FINALISTS will be 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 April 29, 2023, at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the First Place Winners of the 2022 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
Jay Hartlove – The Insane God
Melissa Diyab – Crossing Over
Dana Dargos, Said Al Bizri – Einstein in the Attic
D. H. Ford – Rogue Reborn
O.E. Tearmann – Deuces Are Wild
Lou Dischler – Mona’s Odyssey
Ash Bishop – Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc.
S.G. Blaise – The Last Lumenian
S.G. Blaise – True Teryn
Nik Frank-Lehrer – Future Show
Sydney Raeburn-Power – The Sleepers
Dimple Desai – The Lambda Factor
Isaac Petrov – The Advent of Dreamtech
PA Vasey – Harbinger
Fulmer/Proto Dagg – Terminus
Joanna Evans – Sinai Unhinged
Prescott Harvey – In Beta
Bryn Smith – Magnus Nights: The Helios Incident
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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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, and 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. For Middle Grade Fiction check out ourGertrude Warner Awardsand for Children’s Literature see ourLittle Peeps Awards.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Dante Rossetti Young Adult Fiction Short List to the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. The Semi-Finalists will compete for the FINALIST positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalist. 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.
These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following Semi-Finalist authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
PJ Adair – The Viking Girl
Reenita Malhotra Hora – Operation Mom – My plan to get my mother a life and a man
Kristina Bak – Cold Mirage
Frances Howard-Snyder – Sighs of Fire
Michael J Cooper – Wages of Empire
Bird Jones – Blue-Eyed Slave
Glen Dahlgren – The House of Prophecy
Stavros Saristavros – The Tome of Syyx
Rebecca Garner – Why Won’t My Boobs Grow… and Other Annoyances
Brooke Maddaleni – Next Door
Steven Michael Beck – Soar a Burning Sky
Eileen Charbonneau – Missing at Harmony Festival
Michael Bialys – The Chronicles of the Virago: Book III the Triumviratus
Michele Kwasniewski – Burning Bright – Book Two of The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart series
Tomm A. Boyer – The Deceived
Jennifer Alsever – Burying Eva Flores
J. L. Sullivan – From Brick & Darkness
Lenore Borja – The Last Huntress (Mirror Realm Series Book I)
Laurel Anne Hill – Plague of Flies: Revolt of the Spirits, 1846
Jennifer Haskin – Princess of the Blood Mages
Shina Reynolds – A Light in the Sky
W.W. Marplot – Space Story
M.K. Lever – Surviving the Second Tier
Anne-Marie Amiel – Crusader’s Way: Book One of the St. Edmundsbury Mysteries
U.W. Leo – ARKO: The Dark Union (A Sci-fi Adventure Series)
Jeanne Roland – Journeys: the Archers of Saint Sebastian
Avis M. Adams – The Incident
Tamara Hart Heiner – Year 1: Renegade
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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The 2022DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 11-year Conference Anniversary!
Submissions for the 2023DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards are open now.Enter here!
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.
The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring space, time travel, life on other planets, parallel universes, alternate reality, and all the science, technology, major social or environmental changes of the future that author imaginations can dream up for the CYGNUS Book Awards division. Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Genetic Modification, Aliens, Super Humans, Interplanetary Travel, Climate-Fiction, and Settlers on the Galactic Frontier, Dystopian, our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 CYGNUS Science Fiction Short List to the 2022 Cygnus Book Awards Semi-Finalists! The Semi-Finalists will compete for the Finalist positions. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC23.
These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2022 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
Jay Hartlove – The Insane God
Melissa Diyab – Crossing Over
J. N. Johnson – Pig
Annie Williams – Maximized Entropy: Death of the Internet
Dana Dargos, Said Al Bizri – Einstein in the Attic
D. H. Ford – Rogue Reborn
O.E. Tearmann – Deuces Are Wild
Lou Dischler – Mona’s Odyssey
Ash Bishop – Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc.
S.G. Blaise – The Last Lumenian
S.G. Blaise – True Teryn
Nik Frank-Lehrer – Future Show
Sydney Raeburn-Power – The Sleepers
Dimple Desai – The Lambda Factor
Isaac Petrov – The Advent of Dreamtech
PA Vasey – Harbinger
John J. Spearman – Pike’s Passage
Fulmer/Proto Dagg – Terminus
Wilson Whitlow – Consent, Vol. 1: Erdos
Joanna Evans – Sinai Unhinged
Prescott Harvey – In Beta
Bryn Smith – Magnus Nights: The Helios Incident
Good luck to all as your works move on to 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.
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.
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, and 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. For Middle Grade Fiction check out ourGertrude Warner Awardsand for Children’s Literature see ourLittle Peeps Awards.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Dante Rossetti Young Adult Fiction Long List to the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Dante Rossetti Semi-Finalists. The Semi-Finalists will compete for the FINALIST positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalist. 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.
These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALIST of the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following Short List authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
PJ Adair –The Viking Girl
Elizabeth Maddaleni –The Beauty of a Spiral
Reenita Malhotra Hora –Operation Mom – My plan to get my mother a life and a man
Hermione Lee –Where the Magic Lies
Anna Finch –Voiceless: A Mermaid’s Tale
Jacqueline Pretty –Powerless
Frances Schoonmaker –Sid Johnson and the Phantom Slave Stealer
Alan Frost –The Slayer, the Seer, and the Dream Stealer
Kristina Bak –Cold Mirage
Frances Howard-Snyder –Sighs of Fire
Michael J Cooper –Wages of Empire
Bird Jones –Blue-Eyed Slave
Glen Dahlgren –The House of Prophecy
Stavros Saristavros –The Tome of Syyx
Rebecca Garner –Why Won’t My Boobs Grow… and Other Annoyances
Brooke Maddaleni –Next Door
Steven Michael Beck –Soar a Burning Sky
Michael Bialys –The Chronicles of the Virago: Book III the Triumviratus
Michele Kwasniewski –Rising Star – Book One of The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart series
Michele Kwasniewski –Burning Bright – Book Two of The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart series
Tomm A. Boyer –The Deceived
Jennifer Alsever –Burying Eva Flores
Endy Wright – Blood for the Fisher King
J. L. Sullivan – From Brick & Darkness
Lenore Borja – The Last Huntress (Mirror Realm Series Book I)
Laurel Anne Hill – Plague of Flies: Revolt of the Spirits, 1846
Jennifer Haskin – Princess of the Blood Mages
Shina Reynolds – A Light in the Sky
Marie Sontag – Yosemite Trail Discovered
W.W. Marplot – Space Story
M.K. Lever – Surviving the Second Tier
Anne-Marie Amiel – Crusader’s Way: Book One of the St. Edmundsbury Mysteries
U.W. Leo –ARKO: The Dark Union (A Sci-fi Adventure Series)
Jeanne Roland –Journeys: the Archers of Saint Sebastian
Avis M. Adams –The Incident
Tamara Hart Heiner –Year 1: Renegade
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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The 2022DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 11-year Conference Anniversary!
Submissions for the 2023DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards are open now.Enter here!
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.
The Military & Front Lines Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir, exploring the lives of those who serve their country and others. The Military & Front Lines Service Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).
All of us at Chanticleer have family that has served. Kiffer Brown grew up as a military brat with many members of her family serving.
2nd Lt Billy Wayne Flynn, U.S. Army. West Point Graduate
Second Lieutenant Billy Wayne Flynn was killed in action, Vietnam, January 23, 1967. He was 24 years old. Billy Wayne gave to me a book of poetry from his studies at West Point before he left for Viet Nam. He was my cousin. It was my first book of poetry and has his notes. I was in fourth grade. I still have it and treasure it. – Kiffer
Robert Gerard Beaumier Sr. who served in WWII
My father would often tell the story of how his dad, Robert, was in France during World War II. At one point a dog came and wouldn’t stop barking at his unit, no matter how much they told it to go away. Finally, Robert said “Va t’en!” and immediately the dog ran off. Everyone was suitably impressed that the dog spoke French! – David
The new Division honors the following Non-Fiction Narratives:
Military and Armed Forces Service Narratives
Medical Stories focused on Nurses, Doctors, Health Care Workers, and other Essential Workers
Stories of Community Service Workers such as Firefighters and Police
CARE, Peace Corps, Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, and other service organizations
Work in Agencies that serve their Community and Government
Families of those who serve in these Community Roles
FLY SAFE: Letters from the Gulf War and Reflections from Back Home By Vicki Cody
Not many people can capture the emotions that coincide with war, but Vicki Cody joins the ranks of those who do in her wartime memoir, Fly Safe: Letters from the Gulf War and Reflections from Back Home.
This powerful memoir shows us the behind-the-scenes lives of the women, children, and families left at home while their soldiers set off for war, bringing us close to their raw vulnerability. Fly Safe fascinates as it informs readers of what one wife experiences as her commander husband leads his battalion to the middle east.
DEAR BOB: Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II By Martha Bolton with Linda Hope
During World War II, Bob Hope traveled almost ceaselessly to outposts large and small, entertaining US troops – and inspiring them; Martha Bolton brings the extent of this work to light in Dear Bob.
Writer Martha Bolton worked with and for comedian Bob Hope. Now, with Hope’s daughter Linda, she has gathered and organized the letters written to Bob by the soldiers he helped.
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, and 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. For Middle Grade Fiction check out our Gertrude Warner Awards and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Dante Rossetti Young Adult Fiction entries to the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Dante Rossetti 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 (CAC23).
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2022 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
Eric A. Vasallo – The Mysterious Disappearance of Colby Blue
PJ Adair – The Viking Girl
Melodie Leclerc – A Rare Occupation
Elizabeth Maddaleni – The Beauty of a Spiral
John Henry Davis – eM
Reenita Malhotra Hora – Operation Mom – My plan to get my mother a life and a man
Hermione Lee – Where the Magic Lies
Aron Myers – Crescent
Anna Finch – Voiceless: A Mermaid’s Tale
Jacqueline Pretty – Powerless
Frances Schoonmaker – Sid Johnson and the Phantom Slave Stealer
Alan Frost – The Slayer, the Seer, and the Dream Stealer
Kristina Bak – Cold Mirage
James Gregory Kingston – The Girl From Potter’s Field
David Tenenbaum – The Last Plague
Nick Delmedico and Nick Delmedico – Aliens vs Dinosaurs: The Rise of Roughstone
Frances Howard-Snyder – Sighs of Fire
Michael J Cooper – Wages of Empire
Bird Jones – Blue-Eyed Slave
Glen Dahlgren – The House of Prophecy
Stavros Saristavros – The Tome of Syyx
Rebecca Garner – Why Won’t My Boobs Grow… and Other Annoyances
Brooke Maddaleni – Next Door
Steven Michael Beck – Soar a Burning Sky
Michael Bialys – The Chronicles of the Virago: Book III the Triumviratus
Umut Sasoglu – Evelyn
Michele Kwasniewski – Rising Star – Book One of The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart series
Michele Kwasniewski – Burning Bright – Book Two of The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart series
Tomm A. Boyer – The Deceived
Jennifer Alsever – Burying Eva Flores
Endy Wright – Blood for the Fisher King
J. L. Sullivan – From Brick & Darkness
Lenore Borja – The Last Huntress (Mirror Realm Series Book I)
Laurel Anne Hill – Plague of Flies: Revolt of the Spirits, 1846
Jennifer Haskin – Princess of the Blood Mages
Shina Reynolds – A Light in the Sky
Marie Sontag – Yosemite Trail Discovered
W.W. Marplot – Space Story
M.K. Lever – Surviving the Second Tier
Anne-Marie Amiel – Crusader’s Way: Book One of the St. Edmundsbury Mysteries
U.W. Leo – ARKO: The Dark Union (A Sci-fi Adventure Series)
Jeanne Roland – Journeys: the Archers of Saint Sebastian
Avis M. Adams – The Incident
Tamara Hart Heiner – Year 1: Renegade
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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The 2022 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 11-year Conference Anniversary!
Submissions for the 2023 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards are open now. Enter here!
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.
The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring space, time travel, life on other planets, parallel universes, alternate reality, and all the science, technology, major social or environmental changes of the future that author imaginations can dream up for the CYGNUS Book Awards division. Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Genetic Modification, Aliens, Super Humans, Interplanetary Travel, Climate-Fiction, and Settlers on the Galactic Frontier, Dystopian, our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 CYGNUS Science Fiction Long List to the 2022 Cygnus Book Awards Short List These entries are now in competition for the 2022 Cygnus Semi-Finalists. The Semi-Finalists will compete for the Finalist positions. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC23.
These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2022 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
Jay Hartlove – The Insane God
Timothy S. Johnston – An Island of Light
Melissa Diyab – Crossing Over
Charles Ross – The Future is a Memory
J. N. Johnson – Pig
Annie Williams – Maximized Entropy: Death of the Internet
Dana Dargos, Said Al Bizri – Einstein in the Attic
D. H. Ford – Rogue Reborn
O.E. Tearmann – Deuces Are Wild
Lou Dischler – Mona’s Odyssey
Ash Bishop – Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc.
S.G. Blaise – The Last Lumenian
S.G. Blaise – True Teryn
Michael Simon – Extinction
Nik Frank-Lehrer – Future Show
Sydney Raeburn-Power – The Sleepers
Dimple Desai – The Lambda Factor
Isaac Petrov – The Advent of Dreamtech
PA Vasey – Harbinger
John J. Spearman – Pike’s Passage
E. R. Harris – Surf the Milky Way
U.W. Leo – ARKO: The Dark Union (A Sci-fi Adventure Series)
Fulmer/Proto Dagg – Terminus
Kristopher Clewell – The Penrose Triangle
Wilson Whitlow – Consent, Vol. 1: Erdos
Joanna Evans – Sinai Unhinged
Prescott Harvey – In Beta
Bryn Smith – Magnus Nights: The Helios Incident
Good luck to all as your works move on to 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.
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.
The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring space, time travel, life on other planets, parallel universes, alternate reality, and all the science, technology, major social or environmental changes of the future that author imaginations can dream up for the CYGNUS Book Awards division. Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Genetic Modification, Aliens, Super Humans, Interplanetary Travel, Climate-Fiction, and Settlers on the Galactic Frontier, Dystopian, our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 CYGNUS Science Fiction entries to the 2022 Cygnus Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2022 Cygnus Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC23.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2022 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
Jay Hartlove – The Insane God
Timothy S. Johnston – An Island of Light
Melissa Diyab – Crossing Over
Charles Ross – The Future is a Memory
Sebastian Dax – Grasp of Erebus
J. N. Johnson – Pig
Annie Williams – Maximized Entropy: Death of the Internet
Dana Dargos, Said Al Bizri – Einstein in the Attic
D. H. Ford – Rogue Reborn
O.E. Tearmann – Deuces Are Wild
Lou Dischler – Mona’s Odyssey
Ash Bishop – Intergalactic Exterminators, Inc.
S.G. Blaise – The Last Lumenian
S.G. Blaise – True Teryn
Steven Paul Terry – Star Revelations
Michael Simon – Extinction
Nik Frank-Lehrer – Future Show
Sydney Raeburn-Power – The Sleepers
Dimple Desai – The Lambda Factor
Isaac Petrov – The Advent of Dreamtech
PA Vasey – Harbinger
Sandra J. Jackson – Dancing in the Wind, Book 3 Escape Series
Dana Hayward – Entropy
John J. Spearman – Pike’s Passage
Steve Ramirez – The Great Migration
E. R. Harris – Surf the Milky Way
U.W. Leo – ARKO: The Dark Union (A Sci-fi Adventure Series)
Fulmer/Proto Dagg – Terminus
J. B. Christensen – Dylan McLeod-Vexor City
Lucien Telford – The Sequence
Kristopher Clewell – The Penrose Triangle
Wilson Whitlow – Consent, Vol. 1: Erdos
Chris Black – NORAD’s Ghost
Joanna Evans – Sinai Unhinged
James McGill Jr – The Alien Agenda: The Earth is a Garden
Prescott Harvey – In Beta
Alex Usher – The Age Of Obsidian
Bryn Smith – Magnus Nights: The Helios Incident
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!
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There exists a bond between sisters, and often that bond becomes a connection so strong that time cannot erase the love and the longing for the other. Andrea Wilson Woods defines such a bond in Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days.
Woods details the choreographed life she lives with her sister Adrienne, who has been diagnosed with cancer. Together they begin their dance, pirouetting around IV ports and long lists of medications. Sisters in life, love, and an all-out war against liver cancer.
Woods retells her story with compassion and a rational eye for detail while embracing all the deep emotions that ravage her as she records every one of the 147 days after the initial diagnosis.
Their confusion about how this could have happened and their hope that they can beat this “thing” growing inside Adrienne are present on each page. Woods makes note of the doctors by name, the nurses by nicknames, and the hospital visits by hours spent waiting, waiting, waiting for help to come and rescue them from the nightmare that cancer has made of their lives.
Adrienne, during this nightmare, remains her fifteen-year-old self, a bright, cheerful, optimistic imp who has brought so much joy to Andrea’s life. Adrienne’s love of music and the artists who create it becomes the beacon for her as her body begins a transformation caused by her cancer and the effect of the drugs used to fight it.
Woods is not only Adrienne’s sister but also her legal guardian, since approximately the age of eight. So, as well as the bond of sisterhood, they have the bond of parent and child. They have relied solely on one another for years, and the love they have for one another grows stronger and brighter. As an educator, Andrea’s love for her sister drives her to research to find a cure.
Andrea quits her job to care for Adrienne.
Her partner John and her biological father help her financially and emotionally. She struggles to remain positive and supportive of this beautiful child being ravaged by an enemy she cannot look in the eye.
Meanwhile, Adrienne salvages her teenage self by hanging out with her boyfriend and other friends when she can.
She goes to the movies with John, the only father she’s ever known, and meets Jay Leno and her musician hero Dave Navarro twice. Woods captures the essence of Adrienne’s youthful exuberance as they all learn to cope with the diagnosis and the grueling treatments that take Adrienne’s hair and strength.
Through this journey, hope reigns supreme, and to the last page, there is a winning spirit that will not be denied. The sisters cling to hope and each other in this candid tale. She gives us glimpses of their lives with their mother and the hardships they overcame for Andrea to gain custody of Adrienne. We see glimpses of the mischievous Adrienne, who doesn’t want to brush her teeth and is the honor student Adrienne who wants to get good grades and go to college.
Woods brings captions and paragraphs from Adrienne’s journal and emails to head each chapter and lead us through the days from 1 to 147. The love she had for her sister shines on every page, and as we root for Adrienne and hold out hope. Andrea navigates us through the labyrinth of the medical profession, becoming well versed in treatments and experimental drugs.
Andrea Wilson Woods’ Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days reflects a time of crushing grief and determination.
She grieves, yes, but she carries on the work of finding a cure for her sister’s cancer. She has devoted her life to making Adrienne’s experience matter, and we learn how much love can drive one to be a positive force. Better off Bald is a must-read for people of all walks of life because each of us is touched by cancer through our family, friends, or our own experiences. Woods’ experiences show us that “winning,” even though it may not be what we think it should be, can be a blessing and a comfort.
We are deeply honored and excited to continue to announce the 2021 Winners of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) with our third and final of three official postings.
CIBA Grand Prize Ribbons!
The winners were recognized at the CIBA ceremonies held on June 25th, 2022 in-person and by ZOOM webinars at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.
The CIBA announcements were made LIVE with Chanticleerians participating and interacting from around the globe and North America.
Raising our glasses to cheer the CIBA Winners!
We want to thank all of the CIBA judges who read each and every entry and then comment, rate, and rank within each of the 25 CIBA Divisions. Without your labors of love for books, the Chanticleer International Book Awards would not exist. THANK YOU!
We want to thank all of the authors and publishers who participated in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs). Each year, we find the quality of the entries and the competitiveness of the division competitions increasing exponentially. We added a new level to the judging rounds in 2019—the premier Level of FINALIST per each CIBA Division. The CIBA judges wanted to add the Finalist Level of Achievement as a way to recognize and validate the entries that had outstanding merit but were not selected for the very few First Place Award positions within each genre division.
This post will recognize the First Place and Grand Prize Winners for the
Seven Non-Fiction Divisions:
Journey, Hearten, Harvey Chute, Mind and Spirit, I & I, Military & Frontline and Nellie Bly
along with the FIRST Winners for the
Short Story, and Book Series Awards,
and concluding with the
OVERALL 2021 GRAND PRIZE WINNER
for the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards
J.W. Zarek will also be awarded $1,000 USD in recognition of her 2021 BEST BOOK of the YEAR – Chanticleer International Book Awards – Sponsored by Chanticleer Reviews & Media.
A Chanticleer Review ofThe Devil Pulls the Stringswill be featured in the in the Chanticleer Reviews OnWord Magazine (print and epub) along with other promotional and marketing opportunities along with an interview with the author, J.W. Zarek.
Thank you J.W. Zarek for participating in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards. We look forward to receiving future work in our CIBAs.
CONGRATULATIONS J.W. Zarek!
Six Grand Prize Winners with J.W. Zarek, the 2021 Overall Grand Prize Winner!
From all of us at Chanticleer International Book Awards and Chanticleer Reviews.
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Be sure to register early for the 11th Chanticleer Authors Conference that will start on April 23rd, 2023 with the 2022 CIBA banquet and ceremony scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 25th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.
Be well. Stay Healthy. Take Care!
An email will go out to all 2021 CIBA award winners prior to October 30, 2022, with instructions, links, and more information about the awards packages. We appreciate your patience. As stated many times before “One does not need to be present at the CIBA ceremony and banquet to win. But it sure is a lot more fun!”
As always, please contact us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions!
