These are two of the oldest mainstays of the Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards, and the quality improves every year!
Only 10 days left to submit your books to the prestigious CIBAs and embark on an extraordinary journey to success. With over $30,000 in prizes awarded annually, now is the time to make your mark!
The CIBAs offer more than just recognition — they provide a ladder to success with a range of achievement tiers and expert long tail marketing strategies. From the highly anticipated Long List to the prestigious Overall Grand Prize Winner, the CIBA lists energize both authors and readers, maximizing your digital footprint and expanding your fan base.
We are always eager to support the Best Books through the CIBAs. Join the ranks of celebrated authors who have already taken this critical step in their publishing.
Your book deserves to be discovered, celebrated, and shared with the world. Don’t miss the chance to showcase your talent and gain valuable exposure at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (April 3-6, 2025) where Winners from all 25 Book Award Divisions will be announced and honored.
In a world hungry for good books, your story deserves to be heard. Submit now and leave a lasting impression.
Captain Jean Luc Picard (played by Patrick Stewart) celebrating
The Cygnus Awards is one of the inaugural Book Award Divisions at Chanticleer, and we adore the worlds that they’ve created.
Science Fiction often asks the question: What Could Be? At Chanticleer, we seek to discover those strange new worlds, from Space Opera to Alternate History, and Cli-Fi to YA Sci-Fi. Wherever your book lands on the Speculative Fiction spectrum, there’s a good chance that it will fit in here with us!
Join us in celebrating these amazing Hall of Fame Grand Prize Cygnus Award Winners!
The Shadow of War By Timothy S. Johnston
The Chanticleer Editorial Review for The Shadow of War, book 5 in the Oceania Series is to come, but here’s what initial readers are saying:
A tightly plotted action-packed thriller about an undersea war. Beautiful and heartbreaking character development, best for those who want The Expanse but underwater. — Chanticleer
As always, Johnston has written a thriller with hot-off-the-presses technology, edge-of-your-seat moments, separated into heart-pounding seconds, and characters who don’t always do what they’re supposed to. — Kelly
Timothy S. Johnston delivers another page turner that keeps the pace moving. — Ian
You can find The Shadow of War locally on Bookshop or from Amazon today!
The Last Lumenian By S. G. Blaise
Nineteen-year-old Lilla could have an idyllic life, but in The Last Lumenian by S.G. Blaise, she comes face to face with a rebellion and their just cause.
Lilla’s father leads the Pax Septum Coalition, a nineteen-planet confederation. As a princess in her own right, she should be enjoying the status and wealth that comes from living on Uhna, the richest planet in the coalition due to the diamond mines found by her pirate ancestors centuries ago. She most definitely shouldn’t be worried about the rebellion brewing right under her father’s nose. However, when Lilla meets rebels in a refugee camp, she thinks she has found her destiny, a true purpose.
Wanting to fight against the injustice and horrific treatment of the refugees, Lilla tries desperately to prove herself, especially after a disastrous first mission where she not only crashes her ship but also ends up in the hands of General Callum, leader of the Teryn Praelium.
Musician-turned-time-traveler John Patrick Scott adds spy and saboteur to his resume while undercover in Germany in the final months of World War I, in A War in Too Many Worlds, the third installment of Elizabeth Crowen’s thrilling sci-fi series, The Time Traveler Professor.
Meanwhile, Scott’s once and future collaborator in psychic experiments, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is back in Britain sharing real time-travel adventures with the inventor of the fictional time machine, H.G. Wells.
Scott, after being wounded in the trenches, has finally been given an assignment in the Intelligence services. His extensive pre-war experience as a professor at the Conservancy of Music in Stuttgart, Germany, will do him good.
Rhett C. Bruno & Jaime Castle for The Luna Missile Crisis
Authors Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle come together to tell the tale of alien first contact gone awry in their epic science fiction release, The Luna Missile Crisis.
The year is 1961, and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is set to become the first man in space. But when Yuri, snug inside the Vostok 1, is launched from the cosmodrome and into the coming night, he’s met with a collision that changes the course of history. The Vostok 1 crashes into an oncoming alien starship. Assuming the collision was actually a missile fired from Russia’s space race opponent, the United States, the soviet nation quickly launches an arsenal of nuclear warheads in response. But those warheads never make it to their target. Instead, they detonate against the hidden starship, sending a wave of nuclear destruction over eastern Europe.
In the coming weeks after contact day, military troops from both sides of the cold war are sent into the ruins of eastern Europe – into an area now called the Dead Curtain – to search for useful alien technology. During a skirmish between the Russians, the Americans, and the Vulbathi (the toad-like alien race aboard the damaged starship), a combat medic name Kyle McCoy stumbles into the chaos and sparks a ceasefire. His actions create a domino effect, bringing about relative peace between all three parties. Three years pass, and in exchange for aid in repairing their damaged ship, the Vulbathi agree to offer some of their exceptional technology to mankind. And Kyle McCoy, once foot soldier turned head of the Department of Alien Relations, is given a desk job with a title that suits his place in history.
The dramatic premise explored in a new novel, Insynnium, is a wild, immersive leap into a world-changing (but fictional) drug. In other hands, what could be a dystopian thriller goes one step further in author Tim Cole’s capable hands. He focuses on the humans who first discover and use the drug and weaves his story with a devilish charm.
This is somewhat Bill Murray/“Groundhog Day” territory, a film exploring one man’s reliving a day in his life over and over until he learned new behaviors, new skills, and came out of it a better man. Unlike “Groundhog,” Max McVista takes multiple doses of the drug against all advice, then somehow expands time itself in what he calls an “AUE” or “Alternative Universe Experience,” enabling him to spend months and sometimes years becoming or experiencing whatever he wishes. When returning to real-time, he’s only missed a day or two. (For E=MC squared fans, it’s basically reverse engineering of Einsteinian physics.)
From a man with few basic skills, a drunk who all but abandons his wife and sons, he returns to his family with outsized skills as a musician, entrepreneur, carpenter, medical savant, and pilot. Skills he could not have learned in any traditional manner. He lies about how he learned everything, tracing it back to an accident, choosing to bury his drug-induced years of time-traveling across the world, spending concentrated periods exploring whatever he fancies with no time “penalty” in the real world.
Remember to add your next reads to your StoryGraph or Goodreads account! Now that you’re set on your next five reads, what are you waiting for? The only way to join this amazing list of Cygnus Winners is to submit today!
You know you want it…
Will your science fiction story be next to join this stellar lineup? Those who submit and advance will have the chance to win the Overall Grand Prize of the CIBAs and $1000, but more importantly, you’ll join a community of visionary authors whose work shapes the future of the genre.
These celebrated works represent the best in contemporary science fiction—and your story could be next!
The Cygnus Awards are one of the first of the Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards ever! The quality and quantity grows annually, and we are so excited to see what 2024 brings! These are the categories:
Alternate History
Apocalyptic/Dystopian
Hard Science Fiction
Space Opera
Soft Sci-Fi/Young Adult
Speculative Fiction
Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction)
And even in within those, there is what one might call “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations” when it comes to genre.
Ethan Peck as Spock of Strange New Worlds now gets to offer the conventional Vulcan Wisdom
With plenty of exciting genres to choose from, it’s always fun to see new trends. For us Climate Fiction or Cli-Fi is one of the most exciting genres in SciFi today!
Cli-Fi often focuses on modern technologies and their impact on the environment, for good or ill.
This can be anything from a thriller looking at shadow governments fighting against progress meant to stem climate change, or it could even look at a dystopian world far in the future. The focus in Climate Fiction is closer to that of Hard Science Fiction and a cousin of Lab Lit, which you can see in the Global Thriller Awards rather than delving into Space Opera.
We’re delighted that the most recent Grand Prize Winner for the 2023 Cygnus Awards, Timothy S. Johnston, has won the Division Grand Prize coming from the Cli-Fi category!
In the world’s undersea realms, the superpowers are pressing. Climate change is ravaging the surface nations, and their militaries are surging into the oceans to seek out new resources to sustain their exploding populations. Now Truman McClusky, mayor of the underwater city, Trieste, must gather a team of operatives and travel the world to steal the most unique and deadly weapon ever invented for use underwater. War is looming, and to win a war, one must do whatever it takes, even if it means embracing your darker side.
The Shadow of War is book 5 in The Rise of Oceania series! We recommend adding it all to your TBR for a look at what The Expanse would be like if it took place underwater.
While the full review for An Island of Light is still forthcoming, we do have three reviews for Johnston’s series the Tanner Sequence you can see below:
Past Cygnus Book Awards Winners have been published by Titan, U.K. (of Dr. Who fame), Harper Collins Voyager, Vesuvian Media Group, Atheon Books, and others have gone on to be USA Today Bestsellers and Nebula nominated.
Thank you to everyone who submitted to the 2023 Cygnus Awards! We can’t believe that the whole adventure starts again when the first Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards close on June 30, 2024.
This is the journey from beginning to end for the CIBAs Levels of Achievement is so worthwhile! Every list you make means more promotion for you and your work as each list is posted right here on our website, on our social media, and also out in our newsletter! Your book deserves to be discovered.
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. For Middle Grade Fiction check out our Gertrude Warner Awards and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.
1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Alex Paul on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
This is the OFFICIAL 2023 LIST of the DANTE ROSSETTI BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the DANTE ROSSETTI Grand Prize Winner.
Join us in congratulating the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.
Maryanne Melloan Woods – Sour Flower
Kerry Chaput – Chasing Eleanor
Lynn Yvonne Moon – Fish Scales
Sophia Krich-Brinton – A Song Like the Wind
J.A. Nielsen – The Claiming
Trish MacEnulty – Cinnamon Girl
S.R. Klusman – Luna: Book 2 of The Adventures of Rhone & Stone
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards is:
Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!
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A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting inJune. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.
NOTE: We will post at least two 2023 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 24, 2024. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2023 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.
Thank you for participating in the 2023 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.
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.
1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners were announced at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony by Robert Phillips on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
This is the OFFICIAL 2023 LIST of the CYGNUS BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the CYGNUS Grand Prize Winner.
Join us in celebrating our First Place Category Winners in the 2023 CYGNUS Book Awards, a division of the CIBAs!
Alexandra Almeida – Unanimity
N. John Williams – In the Shadow of Humanity: A Novel
Gareth Worthington – Dark Dweller
Timothy S. Johnston – The Shadow of War
Dylan McFadyen – Oblivion’s Cloak
Sarena Straus – ReInception
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 CYGNUS Awards for Science Fiction is:
The Shadow of War
By Timothy S. Johnston
Here is the link to the 2023 CYGNUS FINALISTS for Speculative Fiction:
Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!
This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, for Facebook to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews.
Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Facebook and Twitter handle is @ChantiReviews
Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.
A Note to ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.
The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify and confirm your mailing address and other items. We thank you for participating in the 2023 Chanticleer International Book Awards!
NOTE: We will post at least two 2023 CIBA Divisions’ OFFICIAL Winners per business day starting April 24, 2024. We do a final sweep and reconciliation prior to making the Official CIBA Posts for the 2023 First Place and Grand Prize Winners. We thank you in advance for your patience and understanding. There are many moving parts involved with the Chanticleer International Book Awards Program.
Thank you for participating in the 2023 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.
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 the 2023 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Semi-Finalists List and have advanced to the FINALISTS. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are the FINALISTS of the 2023 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.
Trish MacEnulty – Cinnamon Girl
Rande Goodwin – The Witchfinder’s Serpent
J.A. Nielsen – The Claiming
Lynn Yvonne Moon – Mirrors: Book 2 of Journey’s Travels
Stephen Haunts – Diary of a Martian: Soul Soldiers
M.J. Evans – Finding Fionn – A Mystery Inspired by the Kidnapping of the Irish Racehorse Shergar
Maryanne Melloan Woods – Sour Flower
S.P. Somtow – Club X: Vampire in the Closet
Brooke Maddaleni – Let Me Go
Liz Alterman – He’ll Be Waiting
S.R. Klusman – Luna: Book 2 of The Adventures of Rhone & Stone
Janilise Lloyd – The Whisperer’s Wish
V. Romas Burton – Fortified
Joan Wright Mularz – Slate
Kerry Chaput – Chasing Eleanor
Lynn Yvonne Moon – Fish Scales
Michael J Cooper – Crossroads of Empire
Jennifer Haskin – Hierarchy of Blood
Sophia Krich-Brinton – A Song Like the Wind
Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Kingdom of Trolls
Susan Dwyer – Strangers Saints and Sinners
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.
Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Twitter’s handle is @ChantiReviews
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Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards is:
Wages of Empire
by Michael J. Cooper
The 2023 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 21, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!
Submissions for the 2024 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards are open now. Enter here!
Featuring authors like D.D. Black, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!
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 our Gertrude Warner Awards and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Short List and have advanced to the SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2023 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.
Trish MacEnulty – Cinnamon Girl
Marie Powell – Spirit Sight (Last of the Gifted: Book 1)
Rande Goodwin – The Witchfinder’s Serpent
J.A. Nielsen – The Claiming
Lynn Yvonne Moon – Mirrors: Book 2 of Journey’s Travels
B. Lynn Carter – The Eyes Have It
Jack O’Brien – The Last U-Boat
Lou Dischler – Jokes to Tell When You’re Dead
Stephen Haunts – Diary of a Martian: Soul Soldiers
M.J. Evans – Finding Fionn – A Mystery Inspired by the Kidnapping of the Irish Racehorse Shergar
Maryanne Melloan Woods – Sour Flower
S.P. Somtow – Club X: Vampire in the Closet
George R. Wolfe – Into the River of Angels
Brooke Maddaleni – Let Me Go
Michele Kwasniewski – Falling Star: Book 3 of The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart
Liz Alterman – He’ll Be Waiting
S.R. Klusman – Luna: Book 2 of The Adventures of Rhone & Stone
Janilise Lloyd – The Whisperer’s Wish
Yun Johnson – The Book of Lost Spirits
V. Romas Burton – Fortified
Joan Wright Mularz – Slate
Aurora Winter – Magic, Mystery, and the Multiverse: The Marvelous Multiverse App
Kerry Chaput – Chasing Eleanor
Lynn Yvonne Moon – Fish Scales
K.M. Messina – Gemja – The Message
Michael J Cooper – Crossroads of Empire
M.J. Evans – The Stallion and His Peculiar Boy
John Blossom – The Last Football Player
Jennifer Haskin – Hierarchy of Blood
Jennifer Haskin – The Clockwork Pen
Sophia Krich-Brinton – A Song Like the Wind
Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Kingdom of Trolls
Susan Dwyer – Strangers Saints and Sinners
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.
Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Twitter’s handle is @ChantiReviews
Orclick hereto go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards is:
Wages of Empire
by Michael J. Cooper
The 2023 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 21, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!
Submissions for the 2024 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards are open now. Enter here!
Featuring authors like D.D. Black, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!
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 our Gertrude Warner Awards and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.
These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Dante Rossetti Book Awards Long List and have advanced to the SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2023 Dante Rossetti Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.
We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024Chanticleer Authors Conference.
These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2023 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.
Trish MacEnulty – Cinnamon Girl
Lou Dischler – Locking Up Daddy
Marie Powell – Spirit Sight (Last of the Gifted: Book 1)
Rande Goodwin – The Witchfinder’s Serpent
J.A. Nielsen – The Claiming
Lynn Yvonne Moon – Mirrors: Book 2 of Journey’s Travels
B. Lynn Carter – The Eyes Have It
Jack O’Brien – The Last U-Boat
Lou Dischler – Jokes to Tell When You’re Dead
Stephen Haunts – Diary of a Martian: Soul Soldiers
M.J. Evans – Finding Fionn – A Mystery Inspired by the Kidnapping of the Irish Racehorse Shergar
Maryanne Melloan Woods – Sour Flower
S.P. Somtow – Club X: Vampire in the Closet
Robert Wright Jr – Red Snow – A Twisted Fairy Tale
Brendan Corbett – The Thief and the Historian
George R. Wolfe – Into the River of Angels
Art Lionson – Woodland
Brooke Maddaleni – Let Me Go
Michele Kwasniewski – Falling Star: Book 3 of The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart
Liz Alterman – He’ll Be Waiting
S.R. Klusman – Luna: Book 2 of The Adventures of Rhone & Stone
Janilise Lloyd – The Whisperer’s Wish
Yun Johnson – The Book of Lost Spirits
V. Romas Burton – Fortified
Joan Wright Mularz – Slate
Aurora Winter – Magic, Mystery, and the Multiverse: The Marvelous Multiverse App
W.W Marplot – Time Story
Kerry Chaput – Chasing Eleanor
Lynn Yvonne Moon – Fish Scales
Addison Martinez – Astro
K.M. Messina – Gemja – The Message
Tamar Anolic – Two Sisters of Fayetteville
Vincent J. DeVito – Where the Crane Lands
Michael J Cooper – Crossroads of Empire
W.T. Kosmos – Blaze Union and the Puddin’ Head Schools
M.J. Evans – The Stallion and His Peculiar Boy
John Blossom – The Last Football Player
Jennifer Haskin – Hierarchy of Blood
Jennifer Haskin – The Clockwork Pen
Sophia Krich-Brinton – A Song Like the Wind
Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Kingdom of Trolls
Susan Dwyer – Strangers Saints and Sinners
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.
Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Twitter’s handle is @ChantiReviews
Orclick hereto go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards is:
Wages of Empire
by Michael J. Cooper
The 2023 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 21, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!
Submissions for the 2024 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards are open now. Enter here!
Featuring authors like D.D. Black, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!
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 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 2023 Dante Rossetti Young Adult Fiction entries to the 2023 Dante Rossetti Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2023 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 (CAC24).
The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the Finalists.
These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2023 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.
Trish MacEnulty – Cinnamon Girl
Lou Dischler – Locking Up Daddy
Marie Powell – Spirit Sight (Last of the Gifted: Book 1)
Rande Goodwin – The Witchfinder’s Serpent
J.A. Nielsen – The Claiming
Lynn Yvonne Moon – Mirrors: Book 2 of Journey’s Travels
B. Lynn Carter – The Eyes Have It
Carrie Sword – Gospel of the Reindeer
Jack O’Brien – The Last U-Boat
Lou Dischler – Jokes to Tell When You’re Dead
Stephen Haunts – Diary of a Martian: Soul Soldiers
M.J. Evans – Finding Fionn – A Mystery Inspired by the Kidnapping of the Irish Racehorse Shergar
Maryanne Melloan Woods – Sour Flower
S.P. Somtow – Club X: Vampire in the Closet
Richard Harland – Ferren and the Angel
Robert Wright Jr – Red Snow – A Twisted Fairy Tale
Vincent M. Miceli – The Last Triceracorn (Book One)
Brendan Corbett – The Thief and the Historian
Sue C Dugan – Cat-astrophic
George R. Wolfe – Into the River of Angels
Brooke Maddaleni – Let Me Go
Michele Kwasniewski – Falling Star: Book 3 of The Rise and Fall of Dani Truehart
Liz Alterman – He’ll Be Waiting
S.R. Klusman – Luna: Book 2 of The Adventures of Rhone & Stone
Janilise Lloyd – The Whisperer’s Wish
Yun Johnson – The Book of Lost Spirits
Lawson McDowell – The Concert
V. Romas Burton – Fortified
Joan Wright Mularz – Slate
Aurora Winter – Magic, Mystery, and the Multiverse: The Marvelous Multiverse App
W.W Marplot – Time Story
Kerry Chaput – Chasing Eleanor
Lynn Yvonne Moon – Fish Scales
Addison Martinez – Astro
K.M. Messina – Gemja – The Message
Tamar Anolic – Two Sisters of Fayetteville
Zachary Ryan – Camp Afterlife
Vincent J. DeVito – Where the Crane Lands
Michael J Cooper – Crossroads of Empire
W.T. Kosmos – Blaze Union and the Puddin’ Head Schools
M.J. Evans – The Stallion and His Peculiar Boy
John Blossom – The Last Football Player
Jennifer Haskin – Hierarchy of Blood
Jennifer Haskin – The Clockwork Pen
Sophia Krich-Brinton – A Song Like the Wind
Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Kingdom of Trolls
Susan Dwyer – Strangers Saints and Sinners
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 DANTE ROSSETTI Awards is:
Wages of Empire
by Michael J. Cooper
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The 2023 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 21, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!
Submissions for the 2024 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards are open now. Enter here!
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We recently reorganized our Book Awards program at the request of our readers to keep a more even balance for reading and to lighten the load during the holiday season. As we settle into this new schedule, we’re hearing great feedback from authors regarding the best times for them to submit their work. This depends on conferences and workshops (many of which are genre specific) where they can regularly receive feedback and writing retreats that allow them to finish their manuscripts. Thank you to everyone who reaches out and makes our Awards a success every year!
You now have until the end of September to submit to the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction.
The Dante Rossetti Awards are named for the young British painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, seen on our badge for the Rossetti Awards in a self-portrait.
La Viuda Romana by Dante Rossetti
Chanticleer chose Dante Rossetti as the namesake of our young adult fiction awards, because of Rossetti’s strong connection to works of beauty and emotions as swift as the changing seasons. Both aspects embody what it means to be young. We feel that the sentiment expressed by the Pre-Raphaelite movement exemplifies what inspires many authors to pick up their proverbial pens to express their emotions and their observations of the visceral dynamics of living.
In the spirit of Young Adult Literature, we’d like to celebrate some of our favorite YA reads by Chanticleer Authors in the last year.
PLAGUE Of FLIES: Revolt of the Spirits, 1846
By Laurel Anne Hill Ozma Grand Prize Winner Dante Rossetti First Place Winner
Sixteen-year-old Catalina Delgado’s hopes of marrying her love are troubled by strange, unnatural dangers, in Laurel Anne Hill’s novel, Plague of Flies.
Like every dutiful daughter in 1846, Catalina worries about her reputation. However, she must also gain the approval of Ángelo Ortega’s family. Unfortunately, when three strangers ride onto her family’s small ranch in Alta California, she knows that more than her dreams are at risk. Alta California has just been invaded by the men of the Bear Flag, and Catalina fears what will become of her homeland now that it has been claimed by the Yankees. The nearby ranch owned by the valiant General Vallejo has been raided, owners and their servants terrorized and held captive. Plus Bear Flaggers have murdered additional friends of Catalina’s family on a beach.
In connection with the recent killings, the three strangers are harbingers of a dire prophecy repeated to Catalina by a dying vaquero. Catalina is destined to be carried off by a spirit man riding a black Andalusian stallion. She will be tasked to do the bidding of Coyote, a trickster spirit who is trying to stop the advancement of the Bear Flaggers. Catalina grapples with her uncertainty and disbelief, but she desperately wants to save her family. When Spirit Man appears to her, she must ask herself how far she is willing to go to keep her loved ones alive.
THE HIDDEN LIBRARY: Book 2 of the Isle of Dragons Series
By L.A. Thompson
Isle of Dragons: The Hidden Library by L.A. Thompson is a breathtaking race to seize the reins of destiny and find a magical library that was once the subject of stories and lore. Jade and Kaylen, once friends, oppose each other in search of this hidden library and its world-changing secrets.
Demoted and dejected, Kaylen reels from her valiant but failed attempt to bring back the final item that King Jarrod needs to fulfill a prophecy. The iconic stone remains out of reach. Kaylen is summoned for an audience with the king. A glimmer of hope for the future flickers, but the king demands an even more ambitious mission of her. He will restore her rank and honors if she finds for him the mysterious hidden library that can open a gateway between worlds. It’s a deadly challenge that will once again pit her against an old friend.
Jade summons all her strength and courage with others who stand against the king who has made her family suffer. When she and Kaylen clash, sparks will ignite as hot as a dragon’s roar.
OPERATION MOM: My Plan to Get My Mom a Life and a Man
By Reenita Malhotra Hora Chatelaine Grand Prize Winner Dante Rossetti First Place Winner
Master storyteller Reenita Malhotra Hora’s YA romance Operation Mom: My Plan to Get My Mom a Life and a Man takes us on a charming journey through the life of one teen, Ila Isham.
Hora introduces Ila and her best friend Deepali, two boy-crazy teens on a summer quest. Readers will fall in love with the smart, sassy, angst-filled, rebellious Ila. A typical teenage girl, Ila lives in Mumbai with her mom and Sakkubai, their house manager. Ila’s mother calls her obsessed, but that seems unfair. Is she obsessed just because her every waking minute is spent thinking of Ali Zafar, famous pop icon, singer, and heartthrob? Or is she obsessed with fellow classmate Dev?
No, Ila couldn’t be taken with Dev because he’s one of three young men that her best friend Deepali is juggling in her summer experiment of exploring her “feminine mystique.” This turn of phrase becomes just one of many opportunities for Hora’s humor to shine as Ila remarks, “That’s a book by Gloria Steinem . . . no Betty Friedan.” Deepali’s response? “Yaar. Don’t be so literal.” The delightful balance between Ila’s book smarts versus Deepali’s street smarts carries us through Hora’s expertly crafted story.
TARO: The Legendary Boy Hero of Japan By Blue Spruell, illustrated by Miya Outlaw Dante Rossetti Grand Prize Winner
Adventure, classic tales, fantasy, and exciting action combine in TARO: Legendary Boy Hero of Japan, a well-poised debut novel by award-winning author Blue Spruell.
In the turbulent final decades of the sixteenth century, feudal Japan reeled in mayhem as the central hereditary dictatorship collapsed, and tyrannical powers fought to control the empire. TARO: The Legendary Boy Hero of Japan is the story of how one man revolutionized a nation by taking its reigns and forging a new destiny through his depths of compassion and determination.
The story begins with Taro as a young boy. As an heir to the Takeda family, Taro enjoyed reading, much to his father’s disapproval, as he wanted him to follow in his footsteps as a skilled Samurai. Tragedy changes Taro’s presumed destiny when his parents are murdered in a fierce power struggle, leaving him an orphan. Shortly after, a witch saves him from drowning and begins Taro’s new life of adventure, introducing him to a world of mythical creatures. On this new journey, Taro discovers shocking secrets about his lineage, and with them, his ultimate purpose in medieval Japan.
FROM BRICK and DARKNESS
By J. L. Sullivan Ozma First Place Winner
Dreams become a reality for a high schooler who gets more than he bargains for when he unwittingly releases a demon in J. L. Sullivan’s urban fantasy novel, From Brick and Darkness.
Fifteen-year-old Baxter (Bax) Allen encounters a creepy homeless-looking man at his apartment complex with purple eyes. The stranger, who asks for Greg, Bax’s estranged father, hands him a ring affixed with a purple stone. The man says that the costume jewelry is valuable, although Bax has difficulty believing his claim.
At school the next day, as he shares his weird experience with his best friend, Jason, Bax accidentally rubs the ring, the stone emits a hypnotic glow, and a small monkey-like creature appears, saying, “How can it serve?” Once Bax and Jason realize that the ring summoned a genie (or Janni, as the creature says), the two plan to investigate this strange phenomenon further at Bax’s house. One thing leads to the next, and before the boys know what’s going on, Ashley, Bax’s neighbor catches a glimpse of Janni. She joins the boys and is sworn to secrecy about this enchanted creature.
Thank you to everyone who has entered the CIBAs, and a special thanks to those who keep reading alive for the Young Adults in the world! Good books for young people matter!
The winners of the Dante Rossetti Awards will be announced during the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. First-place winners receive the coveted Chanticleer Blue Ribbon, and the Grand Prize laureate commands the spotlight, epitomizing the exceptional YA Fiction genre talent.
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).
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).
