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The 2020 GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction – the Semi-Finalists, 2020 CIBAs
The GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of middle-grade readers, fiction and non-fiction, that compel children to read and explore. The Gertrude Warner Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs).

Named in honor of the author of the quintessential children’s series – The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Warner.

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 eight to twelve. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Adventure we will put them to the test and choose the best Middle-Grade Books among them. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.)

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards LONG LIST to the 2020 SHORT LIST and now have progressed to the 2020 Semi-finalists.

These titles have reached the Semi-Finalists for the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle-Grade Fiction
- Catherine Grangaard – A Fairy’s Tails
- Poem Schway – The Infinity Pendant
- Ruthy Ballard – Frankie and the Gift of Fantasy
- Laura Gerhardt Schonberg – Joker
- Ben Gartner – The Eye of Ra
- Gregory Saur – Best Shot Forward
- Wendy Leighton-Porter – The Shadow of the Witchfinder
- Ian C Douglas – The Particle Beast
- Carolina Ugaz-Moran – Aline and the Blue Bottle
- Jay Spenser – The Barn Owl Mystery
- Jay Spenser –The Phantom Airplane Mystery
- Tricia L McDonald – The Sally Squad: Pals to the Rescue
- Carmela Dutra – Little Katie and the STEAM Team
- Carmela Dutra – Little Katie Goes to the Moon
- John Middleton – Dillion and The Skeleton Hall
- William X. Adams – Alien Body
- Catherine M. O’Connor – Throwing the World
- Alison Rice – Chasing Snow
- Frank Saraco – Life in the Grand Pause
- Richard Groseclose – Henry Castlewaite and the Portrait of Doom
- Kelly Oliver – Kassy O’Roarke, Cub Reporter
These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle Grade Fiction.

The 2020 CIBA FINALISTS will be announced at VCAC 21, April 22 – 24, 2021.

Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Gertrude Warner Book Awards for Middle-Grade Readers?

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

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Gertrude Warner Awards Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is June 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.

Please click here for more information.

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
April 8, 2021
The 2020 Semi-Finalists Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire and Humor – the Semi-Finalists for the MARK TWAIN Division of the 2020 CIBAs
The MARK TWAIN Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Humor and Satire Fiction. The Mark Twain Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire Fiction, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards is the first year that this division is offered as a book awards competition division in the CIBAs.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring satire, humor, political ideology, parody, fantasy, and allegory or fable. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Somerset Book Awards? (For contemporary and literary fiction see our Somerset Book Awards.)

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: “Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.” — Mark Twain

Twain’s prediction was accurate; he died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Stormfield, (Twain’s mansion where he lived from 1908 until his death) one day after the comet’s closest approach to Earth.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards LONG LIST to the 2020 SHORT LIST and now have progressed to the 2020 SEMI-FINALISTS.

The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in LIVE virtually Bellingham, Wash.

These titles have advanced to the Semi-Finalists for the 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire and Humor Fiction
- Charlie Suisman – Arnold Falls
- Steven Mayfield – Treasure of the Blue Whale
- St John Karp – Quake City
- Lenore Rowntree – Cluck
- J.P. Kenna – Toward A Terrible Freedom
- Wayne Edmiston – UNfatally Dead: to thaw or not to thaw?
- Haris Orkin – You Only Live Once
- Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Bernie, I’m Glad You’re Dead
- Alex J. Tremari – Dragoncast
- Michael Aloysius O’Reilly – The Billionaire’s Daughter
- Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mom, The Killer is Among Us
- Ivy Cayden – Everything All At Once (Book 1, Chorduroys and Too Many Boys™)
- Erik Segall – Not Yet
- Anastasia Fox – Trout Fishing in the Cretaceous
- K.N. Salustro – Cause of Death: ???
- Conon Parks – Some Kind of Ending
- Beth Wareham and Jason Davis – Hair Club Burning
- Adam Cliff – Exposure
- David B. Seaburn – Gavin Goode
- Matt Tompkins – Odsburg
- Lou Dischler – Too Pretty for a Hit Man
Good Luck to All!

These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2020 Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire and Humor Fiction.

The 2020 CIBA FINALISTS will be announced during VCAC21 – April 22 – 24, 2021.

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today!

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

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

Enter your book or manuscript in a contest today!

We are now accepting entries into the 2021 Mark Twain Book Awards, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is November 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com.
April 8, 2021
The 2020 SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction – the Semi-Finalists for the SOMERSET Division of the 2020 CIBAs
The SOMERSET Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary and Contemporary Fiction. The Somerset Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, magical realism, or women and family themes. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Somerset Book Awards?

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 Somerset Book Awards LONG LIST to the 2020 SHORT LIST and now have progressed to the 2020 SEMI-FINALISTS.

Congratulations to the following titles who have advanced to the 2020 SOMERSET Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS!
- Susan Dobson – Boomerang
- Sara Stamey – Pause
- R Barber Anderson – Jumeau
- Gregory Erich Phillips – A Season in Lights
- Candi Sary – Magdalena
- Kathleen Reid – Sunrise in Florence
- T P Graf – As the Daisies Bloom
- Patrick M. Garry – The Donor
- Katherine Johnson – Grit & Granite
- Jennifer Gold – Keep Me Afloat
- Catherine Hamilton – Victoria’s War
- Pierce Koslosky Jr. – A Week at Surfside Beach
- John Danenbarger – Entanglement: Quantum and Otherwise
- Julie Weary – Knowing Marjorie Thane
- Dan V. Jackson – Rainbow Bridge
- Kathleen M. Rodgers – The Flying Cutterbucks
- Abbe Rolnick – Founding Stones
- Liana Gardner – Speak No Evil
- Susan Wingate – How the Deer Moon Hungers
- Lainey Cameron – The Exit Strategy
- Barbara Linn Probst – Queen of the Owls
- Judy Keeslar Santamaria – Jetty Cat Palace Cafe
- Joanne Kukanza Easley –Sweet Jane
NOTE: Some titles have been transferred to the Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire, Allegory, Humor, and Alternative Histories (non-SciFi).

These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2020 Somerset Book Awards for Contemporary and Literary Fiction.

The 2020 CIBA FINALISTS will be announced at VCAC 21, April 22 – 24, 2021.

Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Somerset Book Awards for Contemporary and Literary Fiction?

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

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Somerset Awards Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is November 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.

Please click here for more information.

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
April 8, 2021
The GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards for High Stakes and Lab Lit Novels – Semi-Finalists for the Global Thriller Division of the 2020 CIBAs
The GLOBAL THRILLERS Book Awards recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Lab Lit and Global Thrillers. The GLOBAL THRILLERS Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Novel Book Awards and Writing Competitions. (The CIBAs)

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring suspense, thrilling stories that put the balance of world power or that will end the world as we know it. We include with Global Thrillers the Lab Lit genre. Lab Lit is when Fiction Meets Real Science and Research or stories that are based on real science and research up to a certain “what if” point.

The Short Listers’ works will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will compete for FINALISTS positions.

The CIBA Finalists will be announced at VCAC 21, April 22 – 24, 2021.

The 23 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the June 5th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place after the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.

The 2020 Semi-Finalists for the Global Thriller Book Awards

Congratulations to the 2020 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards Semi-Finalists
- Matt Andrus – UFO
- Lynn Yvonne Moon – The Agency – Tablet of Destinies
- Avanti Centrae – Kiss of the Cobra – An M2 Action Thriller
- Courtney Leigh Pahlke – Life Force Preserve; West End William
- Rafael Amadeus Hines – Bishop’s Law
- Marc McGuire – Missions
- Domenick Venezia – Do No Harm
- William Maz – A Cure for the Living
- William Maz – The Bucharest Dossier
- Erik Foge – One Way Roads
- David Tunno – Intrepid Spirit
- Tony Irvin – Waking the Sleepers
- James G. Skinner – Samaritan Drug Lords
- Randall Krzak – Colombian Betrayal
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards writing competition. The deadline for submissions is October 21st, 2021. Please click here for more information.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
April 8, 2021
The 2020 Laramie Book Awards for Western/Pioneer Fiction – the Semi-Finalists for the LARAMIE Division of the 2020 CIBAs
The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Western, Pioneer, & Civil War Historical Fiction and First Nation Novels. The Laramie Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring, the wild west, pioneering, Civil War, North American History, and First Nation Novels. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Laramie Book Awards?

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 Chatelaine Book Awards LONG LIST to the 2020 SHORT LIST and now have progressed to the 2020 Semi-finalists.

Congratulations to the following titles who have advanced to the 2020 Laramie Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS!
- Fred Dickey – Days of Hope, Miles of Misery
- David Fitz-Gerald – She Sees Ghosts? The Story of a Woman Who Rescues Lost Souls
- DL Fowler – The Turn
- JR Collins – Legend of Swell Branch
- Eileen Charbonneau – Mercies of the Fallen
- James Kahn – Matamoros
- Gerry Robinson – The Cheyenne Story
- J. Palma – The Chaffee Sisters
- J.C. Graves – Death is a Sharpshooter
- J.B. Richard – Jesse
- Terry D. Heflin – Scarlet Hem
- Mike Shellenbergar – Quail Creek Ranch
- Mike Shellenbergar – Refuge
- T.K. Conklin – Promise of Spring
- Rebecca Dwight Bruff – Trouble the Water, a Novel
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Hunted
- Daniel Greene – Northern Wolf
- Barbara Salvatore – Magghie
These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2020 Laramie Book Awards for Western, Pioneer, & Civil War Historical Fiction and First Nation Novels Fiction.

All CIBA Finalists will be announced at VCAC 21 April 21 – 24, 2021.

Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Laramie Book Awards for Western/Pioneer Fiction Fiction?

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

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Laramie Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is July 31st, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.

Please click here for more information.

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
April 7, 2021
The 2020 LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards for Early Readers and Picture Books – the Semi-Finalists for the LITTLE PEEPS Division of the 2020 CIBAs
The LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Readers that invites children to read and explore. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards Reviews is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books & Educational Books we will put them to the test to discovery today’s best children’s books. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards LONG LIST to the SHORT LIST and have now progressed to the 2020 SEMI-FINALISTS.

These titles are now Semi-Finalists for the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers
- Ellie Smith – Tex the Explorer Journey Through the Alphabet
- M. Lisa Rinaca – P Mind Your Q’s
- M. Lisa Rinaca – The Missing Punctuation Box
- Courtney Shannon Strand – Hollyhock Hill
- Masoud Malekyari – Great As A Button
- Susan Faw – Poppy Ogopogo
- Carmela Dutra – Little Katie and the STEAM Team
- D.K. Brantley – Every Mummy Has a Mommy
- Dr. Justine Green – Completely Me
- Courtney Shannon Strand – Ella’s Umbrella
- Lindy Ryan – Trick or Treat, Alistair Gray
- Dawn Marie Thompson – Sedwick the Seagull
- Mercy Hansen Mize – Samson’s Tail
- Alycyn Culbertson – Look What Happened While I Was Sleeping
- Johnny Ray Moore – ANTHILL FOR SALE
- Raven Howell – So You Want a Puppy?
- Pj McIlvaine – Little Lena and The Big Table
- Dianne Moritz – Hey Little Beachcomber
- Savannah Hendricks – The Book Who Lost Its Title
- Teal Blake – J is for Jackalope
- Melodie Tegay – Hannah’s Two Homes: life in a “blended” family; a 5 year old’s perspective
These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers.

Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Little Peeps Book Awards for Early Readers?

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

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Little Peep Awards Book Awards. The deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2021. The winners will be announced in April 2022.

Please click here for more information.

Don’t Delay! Enter Today!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.
April 5, 2021
The 2020 GOETHE Book Awards for post 1750s Historical Fiction – the Semi-Finalists for the GOETHE Division of the 2020 CIBAs
The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

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

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

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 Goethe Book Awards LONG LIST to the SHORT LIST and have now progressed to the 2020 SEMI-FINALISTS.

The 2020 Semi-Finalists for the Goethe Book Awards
- James Hockenberry – Send The Word
- Helena P. Schrader – Where Eagles Never Flew: A Battle of Britain Novel
- Conor Bender – Jubilee
- Linda Ulleseit – The Aloha Spirit
- Eileen O’Finlan – Erin’s Children
- Jon Duncan – Heart of the Few
- Grahame Shannon – Bay of Devils
- Leslie K. Barry – Newark Minutemen
- Richard Alan Schwartz – Wind Chimes, War and Consequence A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
- Kari Bovee – Folly at the Fair
- Betty Bolte – Becoming Lady Washington
- Kit Sergeant – The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII
- Jomo Merritt – Sons of a Mauffen King
- J.L.Oakley – The Quisling Factor
- Brigitte Goldstein – Babylon Laid Waste-A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols
- D.V Chernov – Commissar
- Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse
- Michelle Cameron – Beyond the Ghetto Gates
- Kathryn Gauci – The Poseidon Network
- Dorothea Hubble Bonneau – Once in a Blood Moon
- Nancy H. Wynen – We Did What We Could
- Pamela Jonas – Beneath a Radiant Moon
- John Hansen – Secrets of the Gros Ventre
- Donna Scott – The London Monster
- Jerena Tobiasen – The Crest, Book I of The Prophecy
- Jule Selbo – Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
- Liza Nash Taylor – Etiquette For Runaways- A Novel
- Theo Czuk – Hastings Street: Boulevard of Blues
- Sandra Perez Gluschankoff – Thorns for Raisel
- Ben Wyckoff Shore – Terribilita
- Carmela Cattuti – Between the Cracks: one woman’s journey from Sicily to America
- Lucinda Brant – Deadly Kin: A Georgian Historical Mystery
- Wendy Long Stanley – The Power to Deny
- David Selcer – The Old Stories, a.k.a Da Alt Geshikhtem
- Pyram King – Destiny’s War – Part 1: Saladin’s Secret
These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2020 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction.

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the Finalists positions, and then all Finalists will be announced at the VCAC21 ceremonies.

The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. The deadline for submissions is July 30, 2020. The 2021 winners will be announced in April 2022.
April 5, 2021
The 2020 OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction – the Semi-Finalists for the OZMA Division of the 2020 CIBAs
The OZMA Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Fantasy Fiction. The OZMA Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards discovers the best books featuring magic, the supernatural, imaginary worlds, fantastical creatures, legendary beasts, mythical beings, or inventions of fancy that author imaginations dream up without a basis in science as we know it. Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Dragons, Unicorns, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, or other out of this world fiction, they will be put to the test and the best selected as winners of the prestigious CIBAs.

The following fantasy fiction works have advanced from the Short List to the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 OZMA Book Awards:
- Susannah Dawn – Battle for the Armor of God
- Christopher Russell – Divinity’s Twilight: Rebirth
- T. Cook – Shin
- David Fitz-Gerald – She Sees Ghosts: The Story of a Woman Who Rescues Lost Souls
- Michelle Rene – The Canyon Cathedral: The Witches of Tanglewood, Book Two
- Robert C. Feol – A Journey to Mouseling Hollow
- MG Wilson and Phil Elmore – Ninja Girl Adventures
- J. Nell Brown – Orphan Tree and the Vanishing Skeleton Key
- Gordon Preston – Zendragon
- H.J. Ramsay – Ever Alice
- Jeny Heckman – The Warrior’s Progeny
- Sandra A. Hunter – Daughter of Earth & Fire, The Fledgling
- Jacob Andrew Emrey – Inferno Dawn
- LaVerne Thompson – Wild Child
- D.L. Jennings – Awaken the Three
- Derrick Smythe – The Other Magic
- KC Cowan & Sara Cole – Everfire
- Dr. Anay Ayarovu – STAZR The World Of Z: The Dawn Of Athir
- Alison Levy – Gatekeeper: Book One in the Daemon Collecting Series
- Glenn Searfoss – Cycles of Norse Mythology: Tales of the AEsir Gods
- T. K. Thorne – House of Rose
- Lee Hunt – Dynamicist
Good Luck to All as your works compete for the FINALIST rounds of the CIBAs!

We will announce the Finalists of the 2020 CIBA divisions April 22, 23, & 24, 2021.

The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized each evening at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today!

We are now accepting entries into the 2021 OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards. Please click here for more information and to enter.
April 4, 2021
The 2020 DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction – the Semi-Finalists for the Rossetti Book Awards Division of the 2020 CIBAs
The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (#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 to discover the best. (For Middle Grade Fiction see our Gertrude Warner Awards, and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.)

These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2020 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction.
- Michelle Rene – The Canyon Cathedral: The Witches of Tanglewood, Book Two
- Strider S. R. Klusman – Within Reach
- Sue C Dugan – Suppressed
- B. L. Smith – The Fall of the Axe
- Liana Gardner – Speak No Evil
- Sara Hosey – Iphigenia Murphy
- Susanne Dunlap – The Paris Affair
- Susan Wingate – How the Deer Moon Hungers
- Felicia Farber – Ice Queen
- PJ Devlin – The Chamber — A Wissahickon Monsters Story
- Dallas Woodburn – The Best Week That Never Happened
- Kelly Vincent – Finding Frances
- Chynna Laird – Just Shut Up and Drive
- L.L. Eadie – Yearning for the Unattainable
- Jodi Lea Stewart – Blackberry Road
- Denis Olasehinde Akinmolasire – The Mission to End Slavery
- Tory Gates – Searching for Roy Buchanan
- Cris Harding – Red Wing
- Brooke Skipstone – Someone To Kiss My Scars
Good Luck to All as your works compete for the FINALIST rounds of the CIBAs!

We will announce the Finalists of the 2020 CIBA divisions April 22, 23, & 24, 2021.

The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.
The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

Register today!

We are now accepting entries into the 2021 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for YA Fiction.

As always, please contact us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com with any questions, concerns, or suggestions!
April 4, 2021
The 2020 Paranormal Book Awards for Supernatural Fiction – the Semi-Finalists for the Paranormal Division of the 2020 CIBAs
The PARANORMAL Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Paranormal and Supernatural Fiction. The Paranormal Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs) is looking for the best books featuring magic, the supernatural, weird otherworldly stories, superhumans (ex. Jessica Jones, Wonder Woman), magical beings & supernatural entities (ex. Harry Potter), vampires & werewolves (ex. Twilight), angels & demons, fairies & mythological beings, magical systems and elements. They will be put to the test and the best will be declared winners of the prestigious CIBAs.

The following paranormal fiction works have advanced to the Semi-Finalist List from the Short List of the 2020 Paranormal Book Awards:

The Semi-Finalists for the Paranormal Book Awards, a division of the 2020 CIBAs
- Christopher Leibig – Almost Damned
- K.A. Banks – Seven Sisters Road
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Just Die
- Lydia Staggs – Azrael
- Brooke Skipstone – Someone To Kiss My Scars
- James Kirst – Magic Once Removed
- Meg Evans – Enthrallment
- Blaise Ramsay – Blood Law
- Kaylin McFarren – Soul Seeker
- Joy Ross Davis – The Magnificent Celestine
- Stephanie Alexander – Charleston Green
- Franklin Posner – Boston Betty
- R.B. Woodstone – Chains of Time
- Ryan Young – The Shepherd’s Burden
- David W. Thompson – ‘Possum Stew
- Carissa Andrews – Secret Legacy
- Neil Chase – Iron Dogs
- S.K. Andrews – Bay of Darkness
- Matt Tompkins – Odsburg
Good Luck to All as your works compete for the FINALIST rounds of the CIBAs!

We will announce the Finalists of the 2020 CIBA divisions April 22, 23, & 24, 2021.

The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash.

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

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We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Paranormal Book Awards.

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April 4, 2021