Tag: Western Book Awards

  • The LARAMIE Awards for Western Fiction – the Long List for the 2020 CIBAs

    The LARAMIE Awards for Western Fiction – the Long List for the 2020 CIBAs

    Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction AwardThe LARAMIE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the Americana / Western, Pioneer, Civil War, Frontier, and First Nations Novels. The Laramie Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

     

     

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring cowboys, & cowgirls  the Wild West, pioneering, Civil War, Native American stories, and early North American History, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from SLUSH pile to the 2020 Laramie Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2020 Laramie Shortlist. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. Semi-Finalists will be announced and recognized at the CAC21 banquet and ceremony. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 17 CIBA divisions Semi-Finalists. 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 titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2020 LARAMIE Book Awards for Western Fiction. Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

    2020 Laramie Book Awards Long Listers

    • Fred Dickey – Days of Hope, Miles of Misery
    • David Fitz-Gerald – She Sees Ghosts? The Story of a Woman Who Rescues Lost Souls 
    • Clay Houston Shivers – The Marauders of Pitchfork Pass
    • DL Fowler – The Turn
    • JR Collins – Legend of Swell Branch
    • John W. Bebout – The Cause of Darkness- A Story of the Civil War
    • Eileen Charbonneau – Mercies of the Fallen
    • James Kahn – Matamoros
    • Gerry Robinson – The Cheyenne Story
    • J. Palma – The Chaffee Sisters
    • Susan Higginbotham – The First Lady and the Rebel
    • Barbara Salvatore – Magghie
    • Michael D. Abbott – Wyoming Wind
    • J.C. Graves – Death is a Sharpshooter
    • J.B. Richard – Jesse
    • Terry D. Heflin – Scarlet Hem
    • Mike Shellenbergar – Quail Creek Ranch
    • Mike Shellenbergar – Four-Flusher
    • Mike Shellenbergar – Refuge
    • T.K. Conklin – Promise of Spring
    • Elizabeth St. Michel – Surrender to Honor
    • Gail Meath – Fire Blossom
    • Van Temple – Whisperwood: A Confederate Soldier’s Struggle
    • Michael T. Tusa Jr. – And Trouble Followed
    • Rebecca Dwight Bruff – Trouble the Water, a Novel
    • John Hansen – Elk Meadows
    • Roger Newman – Will O’ the Wisp: Madness, War and Recompense
    • E. Alan Fleischauer – Hunted
    • T.J. Johnston – Lockett’s Crucible
    • Daniel Greene – Northern Wolf
    • W. Hock Hochheim – Rio Grande Black Magic

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

    Congratulations to Eileen Charbonneau whose work Seven Aprils took home the Grand Prize for the 2019 Laramie Book Awards.

     

    Here is the link to the 2019 Laramie 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 Laramie 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 Two – The 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards Overall Grand Prize Winner and Division Grand Prize and First Place Category Winners

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

    We are deeply honored and excited to continue to announce the 2019 Winners of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    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 cheered on the CIBA Premier Finalists with our bubbly of choice from wherever we were Zooming!

    The CIBA announcements were made LIVE with Chanticleerians participating and interacting from around the globe and North America. A virtual happy hour was held following each evening’s announcements.

    We want to thank all of the CIBA judges who read each and every entry and then comment, rate, and rank within each of the 17 CIBA Divisions. Without your labors of love for books, the Chanticleer International Book Awards would not exist. THANK YOU!

     

    We want to thank all of the authors and publishers who participated in the 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs). Each year, we find the quality of the entries and the competitiveness of the division competitions increasing exponentially. We added a new level to the judging rounds in 2019—the premier Level of FINALIST per each CIBA Division. The CIBA judges wanted to add the Finalist Level of Achievement as a way to recognize and validate the entries that had outstanding merit but were not selected for the very few First Place Award positions within each genre division.

    Grand Prize Ribbons!

    We are honored to present the

    2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards

    Grand Prize Winners 

    The 2019 CIBA Winners! 


     

    Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction Award

    The LARAMIE Book Awards for American, Western, Pioneer, Civil War, and First Nation Novels

    The Grand Prize Winner is

    SEVEN APRILS by Eileen Charbonneau

          • E. Alan Fleischauer – Rescued  
          • Lynwood Kelly – The Gamble: Lost Treasures    
          • David Fitz-Gerald– Wanders Far-An Unlikely Hero’s Journey     
          • Juliette Douglas – Bed of Conspiracy  
          • John Hansen – Hard Times
          • J. R. Collins – Spirit of the Rabbit Place   

    The Chaucer Awards for Historical Novels

    The CHAUCER Book Awards for

    Pre-1750s Historical Fiction 

    Grand Prize Winner is

    FORTUNE’S CHILD: A Novel of Empress Theodora 

    by James Conroyd Martin

          • Gail Avery Halverson for The Skeptical Physick
          • Linda Cardillo for Love That Moves the Sun: Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarotti
          • June Hall McCash for Eleanor’s Daughter: A Novel of Marie de Champagne
          • James Hutson-Wiley for The Sugar Merchant
          • Catherine Mathis for Death in Coimbra
          • Patricia J. Boomsma for The Way of Glory
          • A.L. Cleven for 26.2

    Post 1750s Historical Fiction Award

    The GOETHE Book Awards for

    Post-1750’s Historical Fiction 

    Grand Prize Winner is

    PECCADILLO at the PALACE by Kari Bovee

          • Vanda Writer for Paris, Adrift 
          • PJ Devlin for Wissahickon Souls   
          • Mary Adler for Shadowed by Death: An Oliver Wright WWII Mystery   
          • Mike Jordan for The Runner     
          • J.G. Schwartz for The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy 

    Early Readers and Picture books

    LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards for

    Early Readers and Picture Books

    Grand Prize Winner is 

    GALDO’S GIFT: The Boovie

    by Trevor Young & Eleanor Long

        • Sylva Fae and Katie Weaver for Elfabet    
        • Lauren Mosback for My Sister’s Super Skills  
        • Norma Lewis for Totem Pole   
        • Kizzie Jones for A Tall Tale About Dachshunds in Costumes: How MORE Dogs Came to Be   
        • Justine Avery forWhat Wonders Do You See… When You Dream?
        • Kasey J. Claytor for  Pinky and The Magical Secret He Kept Inside   
        • Robert Wright Jr for Mummy in the Museum

    Gertrude Warner Children's Chapter Books

    GERTRUDE WARNER Book Awards for

    Middle-Grade Books 

    Grand Prize is

    The VALLEY of DEATH, Book 5 by Alex Paul

        • Amber L. Wyss – Phoenix Rising     
        • M.J. Evans – PINTO!   
        • Beth Stickley – Tarnation’s Gate    
        • Rey Clark – Legends of the Vale   
        • Laura M. Kemp – Burnt Feathers   
        • Alex Paul – The Valley of Death, Book 5, Arken Freeth and the Adventure of the Neanderthals
        • C.R. Stewart – Britfield and the Lost Crown    
        • Trayner Bane – Windhollow and the Axe Breaker (Windhollows, Book 3)
        • Carolyn Watkins – The Knock…a collection of childhood memories

    Dante Rossetti Awards for YA Fiction

    The DANTE ROSSETTI Book Awards

    for Young Adult Fiction

    Grand Prize Winner is

    BUT NOT FOREVER by Jan Von Schleh

        • Michelle Rene  Manufactured Witches  
        • Nancy Thorne  Victorian Town   
        • Susan Brown  Twelve 
        • Sandra L Rostirolla  Cecilia    
        • David Patneaude  Fast Backward   
        • John Middleton  Dillion & The Curse of Arminius   

    Congratulations to ALL!

    We will email each winner with more information about their prize packages and more information.

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    Please standby for our next posts that will honor:

    • Chatelaine Book Award Winners
    • Somerset Book Award Winners
    • Journey Book Award Winners
    • Nellie Bly Book Award Winners
    • Instructional and Insight Book Award Winners

    And the OVERALL GRAND PRIZE for the 2019 CIBAs!

    Here is the link to the first installment for announcing the 2019 CIBAS.

    Stay tuned for PART 3 of the 2019 Chanticleer International Book Award Winners

    We are now accepting entries into the 2020 and 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards.

    Click here for more information and submission deadlines: https://www.chantireviews.com/contests/

    As always, if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please email us at Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com   We will try to respond within 3 business days.

    Thank you for joining us in celebrating the 2019 CIBA Winners! – The Chanticleer Team