Tag: Romantic Fiction Awards

  • The 2021 CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction – The Short List – CIBAs 2021

    The 2021 CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction – The Short List – CIBAs 2021

    Romance Fiction Chatelaine Award

    The Chatelaine Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Romantic Fiction.  The Chatelaine Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best new books featuring romantic themes and adventures of the heart, historical love affairs, perhaps a little steamy romance, and stories that appeal especially to fans of affairs of the heart to compete in the Chatelaine Book Awards (the CIBAs). We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2021 Chatelaine Romantic Fiction Long List to the 2021 Chatelaine Book Awards SHORT LIST. 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 25h, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

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

    Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

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

    • Jayne Castel – Highlander Deceived
    • Anna Gomez and Kristoffer Polaha – Moments Like This
    • Valerie Taylor – What’s Not Said — A Novel
    • Lindy Miller – Aloha With Love         
    • Alex Sirotkin – The Long Desert Road
    • Evie Alexander – Highland Games
    • M. C. Bunn – Where Your Treasure Is  
    • A.D. Brazeau – Love Between the Lines
    • Chera Thompson & NF Johnson – A Time to Wander
    • Brooke Skipstone – Crystal’s House of Queers
    • Bobbi Groover – Inside the Grey 
    • Pierre G. Porter – 49 So Fine
    • Elizabeth St. Michel – Surrender the Storm
    • Susan Faw – Bone Dragon
    • Kana Wu – No Secrets Allowed
    • Chris Karlsen – The Ack Ack Girl
    • John W. Feist – The Color of Rain
    • Edie Cay – The Boxer and the Blacksmith
    • Emily A. Myers – The Truth About Unspeakable Things
    • Frannie James – The Sylvan Hotel, A Seattle Story     
    • Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Breath, Book One in the Desert Hills Trilogy
    • Adriana Girolami – The Zamindar’s Bride
    • Phillip Vega – Searching for Sarah
    • Emma Lombard – Discerning Grace
    • F. E. Greene – In the Sweet Midwinter
    • Kelle Z. Riley – Read My Lips       

          PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

          The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 CHATELAINE Awards is Mary Ting for When the Wind Chimes

          Cover of When the Wind Chimes by Mary Ting

          Blue and Gold Grand Prize 2020 Chatelaine Badge for When the Wind Chimes by Mary Ting

          Click here to see the 2020 Chatelaine Book Award Winners for Romantic Fiction.

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

          Please click here for more information.

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

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

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

          Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

        • The 2021 CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction – The Long List – CIBAs 2021

          The 2021 CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction – The Long List – CIBAs 2021

          Romance Fiction Chatelaine Award

          The Chatelaine Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Romantic Fiction.  The Chatelaine Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

          Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best new books featuring romantic themes and adventures of the heart, historical love affairs, perhaps a little steamy romance, and stories that appeal especially to fans of affairs of the heart to compete in the Chatelaine Book Awards (the CIBAs). 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 Chatelaine Romantic Fiction entries to the 2021 Chatelaine Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Chatelaine 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 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 Chatelaine Book Awards novel competition for Romantic Fiction!

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

          • Jayne Castel – Highlander Deceived
          • Anna Gomez and Kristoffer Polaha – Moments Like This
          • Valerie Taylor – What’s Not Said — A Novel
          • Lindy Miller – Aloha With Love
          • Alex Sirotkin – The Long Desert Road
          • Evie Alexander – Highland Games
          • Jared Morrison – Of Dreams and Angels
          • M. C. Bunn – Where Your Treasure Is
          • A.D. Brazeau – Love Between the Lines
          • Chera Thompson & NF Johnson – A Time to Wander
          • A. L. Cleven – Running Into Mountains
          • Meredith Pechta – Political Theatre
          • Brooke Skipstone – Crystal’s House of Queers
          • Bobbi Groover – Inside the Grey 
          • Pierre G. Porter – 49 So Fine
          • Liz Whitehurst – Messenger
          • Elizabeth St. Michel – Surrender the Storm
          • Susan Faw – Bone Dragon
          • Kelle Z. Riley – Read My Lips
          • Kana Wu – No Secrets Allowed
          • John W. Feist – The Color of Rain
          • Chris Karlsen – The Ack Ack Girl
          • Edie Cay – The Boxer and the Blacksmith
          • Emily A. Myers – The Truth About Unspeakable Things
          • Frannie James – The Sylvan Hotel, A Seattle Story
          • Deborah Swenson – Till My Last Breath, Book One in the Desert Hills Trilogy
          • Adriana Girolami – The Zamindar’s Bride
          • Phillip Vega – Searching for Sarah
          • Emma Lombard – Discerning Grace
          • F. E. Greene – In the Sweet Midwinter
          • HK Jacobs – Wilde Type

          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

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

          Click here to see the 2020 Chatelaine Book Award Winners for Romantic Fiction.

          Cover of When the Wind Chimes by Mary Ting

          Blue and Gold Grand Prize 2020 Chatelaine Badge for When the Wind Chimes by Mary Ting

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

          Please click here for more information.

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

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

          FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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

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

          Featuring: International Best Selling Authors: Cathy Ace and  Robert Dugoni along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.

        • The CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction – the Long List for the 2020 CIBAs

          The CHATELAINE Book Awards for Romantic Fiction – the Long List for the 2020 CIBAs

          Romance Fiction Award

          The CHATELAINE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of  Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction. The Chatelaine  Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).

          Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best new books featuring romantic themes and adventures of the heart, historical love affairs, perhaps a little steamy romance, and stories that appeal especially to fans of affairs of the heart to compete in the Chatelaine Book Awards (the CIBAs). The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremonies April 21-25th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. at the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

          These works have survived the infamous slush pile (all entries) and are now competing to advance to the Chatelaine 2020 Long List

          • Sara Stamey – Pause
          • Mike Owens – Bernie & Bertie (Serial Killers Need Love Too)
          • Linda Stewart Henley – Estelle: A Novel
          • Tabetha Waite – Behind a Moonlit Veil
          • Lindy Miller – The Magic Ingredient
          • Alexandrea Weis – The Christmas Spirit
          • Mary Ting – When the Wind Chimes
          • Linda Lee Graham – A Thimbleful of Honor
          • Betty Codd – Abigail
          • Patricia A. Williams – We’ll Always Have Paris
          • Laura O’Hare – Frangipani Escape
          • F. E. Greene – Some Place Like Home
          • L.A. Liechty – Winter Mountain
          • Ramcy Diek – Eagles in Flight
          • Gayle Woodson – After Kilimanjaro
          • Rebekah N. Bryan – Jenna with the Red Pen
          • Michael Aloysius O’Reilly – Romeo and Juliet Are Alive and Well in California
          • R.Harrington – Veronica
          • Kelly Miller – Death Takes a Holiday at Pemberley
          • R.A.R. Clouston – Cry Savage Tears
          • James G. Skinner – When a Conscience Knocks
          • Eileen Charbonneau – Mercies of the Fallen
          • Tammy Mannersly – Drawn to Him
          • Beverly Allie – Where the Monarchs Dance
          • Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
          • Bat Maxwell – The Color of Honey
          • Harper McDavid – Zapata
          • Carol VanDenHende – Goodbye, Orchid: To Love Her, He Had to Leave Her
          • Mona Sedrak – Gravity
          • Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse
          • Lindsey Cowherd – My Texas Streak
          • Holly Brandon – Life in the Chastity Zone
          • Michelle Cox – A Child Lost
          • Ursula Sinclair & Kassanna – Defiant
          • Rachela Marie Lavita – Within the Stars
          • Betsy Dudak – Wanna Bet
          • Charlene Johnson – Homecoming, Sterling Wood Series, Book 1
          • Roxanne Kelly – If I Should Stay
          • M.M. Routson – Jealousy Burning
          • Tina Sloan – Chasing Cleopatra
          • Barb Warner Deane – The Whistle Stop Canteen
          • J M Liner – Big Easy Passion

          Good luck to all! 

          Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards for Romantic Fiction?

          Congratulations to Gail Avery Halverson whose work The Skeptical Physick took home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Chatelaine Book Awards.

           

           

           

          Here is the link to the 2019 Chatelaine Book Award Winners!

          Our next Chanticleer International Book Awards Ceremonies  will be held  April 21 – 25, 2021, for the 2020 CIBA winners. Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

          Don’t Delay! Enter Today! 

           Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

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

          As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com. 

        • Part Three – The 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards Overall Grand Prize Winner, Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners – CIBAs

          Part Three – The 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards Overall Grand Prize Winner, Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners – CIBAs

          We are deeply honored and excited  to announce the 2019 Winners of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs). Part Three of Three – 2019 CIBA  Winner Announcements

          CIBA Grand Prize Ribbons! You know that you want one!

          The winners were recognized at the Virtual Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Ceremonies that were held on during VCAC September 8 – 13, 2020 by ZOOM webinars based at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether, Bellingham, Wash.

          We want to thank each and everyone  of the CIBA judges who read each and every entry and then comment, rate, and rank within each of the 17 CIBA Divisions. Without your passion and labor of love for books, the Chanticleer International Book Awards would not exist and we could not fulfill our mandate:  Discovering Today’s Best Books!

          THANK YOU JUDGES!

           

          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.

          We are honored to present the

          2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards

          Grand Prize Winners 

          The 2019 CIBA Winners! 


          Romance Fiction Award

          The CHATELAINE Book Awards for

          Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction

          Grand Prize Winner is

          The SKEPTICAL PHYSCICK

          by Gail Avery Halverson

                • T.K. Conklin – Threads of Passion
                • Jule Selbo – Find Me in Florence 
                • Michelle Cox – A Veil Removed
                • Heather Novak – Headlights, Dipsticks, & My Ex’s Brother
                • Kari Bovee – Grace in the Wings
                • Joanne Jaytanie – Salvaging Truth, Hunters & Seekers
                • L.E. Rico – Mischief and Mayhem

          The SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary, Contemporary, and Mainstream Fiction

          Grand Prize Winner is

          A MANUSCRIPT

          The PROPRIETOR of the THEATRE of LIFE

          by Donna LeClair

              • Carl Roberts for The Trial of Connor Padget
              • Judith Kirscht for End of the Race
              • Patrick Finegan for Cooperative Lives
              • Santiago Xaman  for After Olympus
              • Claire Fullerton for Little Tea
              • Maggie St. Claire for Martha
              • Jamie Zerndt for  Jerkwater
              • R. Barber Anderson for  The Sunken Forest, Where the Forest Came out of the Earth
                • HONORABLE MENTIONS:
                  • Beth Burgmeyer – The Broken Road, ms
                  • Bob Holt – Firebird, ms

          Journey Narrative Non-Fiction

          The JOURNEY Book Awards for

          Narrative Non-Fiction, Memoirs, and Biographies 

          Grand Prize Winner is

          PERSISTENCE of LIGHT by John Hoyte

              • Anna Carner – Blossom ~ The Wild Ambassador of Tewksbury
              • Linda Gartz – Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
              • Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson – The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug
              • Nikki West – The Odyssey of the Chameleon
              • Eva Doherty Gremmert – Our Time To Dance 

          The INSTRUCTION and INSIGHT Book Awards for How-To Guides, Travel Guides, Cook Books, Self-Help, and Enlightenment

          Grand Prize Winner is 

          TEN THINGS EVERY CHILD with AUTISM

          WISHES YOU KNEW

          by Ellen Notbohm

            • Margaret A Hellyer – A Home on the South Fork
            • Donna Cameron – A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You
            • Brad Borkan and David Hirzel – When Your Life Depends on It: Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic
            • Donald M. Rattner – My Creative Space: How to Design Your Home to Stimulate Ideas and Spark Innovation, 48 Science-based Techniques
            • Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book One, Savoring the Olde Ways Series
            • Lisa Boucher – Raising The Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture
            • Ryan M. Chukuske – Bigfoot 200: Because, You Know, Why the #@&% Not? 

           

          Nellie Bly Awards

          The NELLIE BLY Book Awards for Investigative and Long Form Journalism Non-Fiction 

          Grand Prize Winner is

          Cover of Shaping Public Opinion by Janice S. Ellis, PhD. A burning typewriter sits in a series of concentric circles

          SHAPING PUBLIC OPINION:

          How Real Advocacy Journalism

          Should Be Practiced

          by Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D.

          • T.S. Lewis – The Why of War: An Unorthodox Soldier’s Memoirs
          • Maya Castro – The Bubble: Everything I Learned as a Target of the Political, and Often Corrupt, World of Youth Sports
          • John Hoyte – Persistence of Light
          • Judy Bebelaar and Ron Cabral – And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown
          • Patrick Hogan – Silent Spring – Deadly Autumn of the Vietnam War
          • Gordon Cross, Robert Fowler, Ted Neill – Finding St. Lo: A Memoir of War & Family

          CONGRATULATIONS to ALL! 

           

          And NOW for the 

          2019 CHANTICLEER INT’L BOOK AWARDS

          BEST BOOK

          and

          OVERALL GRAND PRIZE WINNER

          FORTUNE’S CHILD:

          A Novel of Empress Theodora 

          by

          James Conroyd Martin

          James Conroyd Martin will also be awarded $1,000 USD in recognition of his 2019 BEST BOOK of the YEAR – Chanticleer International Book Awards – Sponsored by Chanticleer Reviews & Media. 

          A Chanticleer Review of Fortune’s Child will be featured in the in the SPRING 2021 quarterly edition of the Chanticleer Reviews Magazine (print and epub) along with other promotional and marketing opportunities.

          Thank you James Conroyd Martin for participating in the 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards. We look forward to receiving the sequel to Fortune’s Child in the 2021 Chaucer Book Awards, a division of the CIBAs.

          We look forward to toasting James in person at our next gathering–hopefully in 2021. We are so happy that he joined us virtually for the CIBA announcements at VCAC20.

          CONGRATULATIONS JAMES CONROYD MARTIN! 

          From all of us at Chanticleer International Book Awards and Chanticleer Reviews. 


          THANK YOU to VCAC20 SPONSORS and FRIENDS

          And to FRIENDS of CHANTICLEER REVIEWS:

          J.D. Barker, Robert Dugoni, and Scott Steindorff.

           


          Link to Part One of the 2019 CIBA Announcements:

          The 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards Overall Grand Prize and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners (CIBAs) – Part One

          Link to Part Two of the 2019 CIBA Announcements:

          Part Two – The 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards Overall Grand Prize Winner and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners

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          The video recordings of VCAC 20 are available on VIMEO. More information to come.

          We have exciting news for the Chanticleer Community on the horizon so do stay tuned!  

          You know you want a coveted Chanticleer Reviews Blue Ribbon! 

          Submit your works (manuscripts or novels published after or on January 1, 2018, are accepted) to the prestigious Chanticleer International Book Awards today! Entries are being accepted into the 2020 CIBAs in all 17 fiction divisions and five non-fiction divisions. 

          Be sure to register early for the 2021 Chanticleer Authors Conference that will start on April 16th, 2021 with the 2020 CIBA banquet and ceremony scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 17th, 2021 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. If we cannot move forward with CAC21 due to the coronavirus, we will host another LIVE and HYBRID Chanticleer Authors Conference and 2020 Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards ceremony.

          Pivot and Oscillate are the Words for Today’s Challenging Times.

          An email will go out to all 2019 CIBA award winners prior to October 30, 2020, 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!” –even if it is virtual!

          As always, please contact us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions!

          Be well. Stay Healthy. Take Care!

          The Chanticleer Reviews Team