The CHATELAINE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works of Women’s Fiction and Romantic Fiction. The CHATELAINE Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer Reviews International Book Awards.
The following titles will compete for the FIRST IN CATEGORY Positions (Contemporary Romance, Adventure & Suspense, Historical Romance, Inspirational/Restorative/Clean, and Romantic/Steamy/Sensual) Book Awards Packages for the 2017 Chatelaine Book Awards.
Congratulations to all those who made the SHORT LIST!
The Finalists Authors and Titles of Works that have made it to the highly competitive Short-List (aka The Semi-Finalists) of the Chatelaine 2017 Book Awards are:
Good Luck to All!
Diane Wylie – Magic of the Pentacle
Phillip Vega – Last Exit to Montauk
Elizabeth Crowens – Dear Mr. Hitchcock
Abbie Roads – Hunt the Dawn
Anna Durbin – King of Swords
J.L.Oakley – Mist-chi-mas: An Novel of Captivity
Nick Rester – Darlings
Ryan K. Nelson – Cash Valley
Eileen Charbonneau – Watch Over Me
Kate Vale – Chance Encounter
F. E. Greene – The Best-Left Questions
Cynthia A. Crowner – Blinded by the Night
Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Passage Home toMeuse
Cheri Champagne – The Trouble With Love
Cheri Champagne – Love and Deceit
Cheri Champagne – Love’s Misadventure
Michelle Cox – A Ring of Truth
Lucinda Brant – Proud Mary: A Georgian Historical Romance (Book 5)
Cerella Sechrist – A Song for Rory
Leigh Grant – Mask of Dreams
Keith Zwingelberg/Rory Church – Kindred Spirits the Healers
Sara Dahmen – Wine & Children
Dana Faletti – Beautiful Secret
The 2017 Chatelaine Short Listers will compete for the Chatelaine First-In-Category Positions. First Place Category Award winners will automatically be entered into the Chatelaine GRAND PRIZE AWARD competition. The CBR Grand Prize Genre Winners will compete for the CBR Overall Grand Prize for Best Book.
Chatelaine Grand Prize Winner M. A. Clarke Scott
All Short Listers will receive high visibility along with special badges to wear during the Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala.
Nicole Evelina awarded Chatelaine Grand Prize for DAUGHTER OF DESTINY
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Congratulations to the Short Listers in this fiercely competitive contest!
Good Luck to each of you as each one of your workscompetesfor the Chatelaine Awards First Class Category Positions.
Janet Shawgo Won the Chatelaine Grand Prize
The Chatelaine Grand Prize Winner and the First Place Category Position award winners along with all Short Listers in attendance will be announced at theApril 21st, 2018 Chanticleer Book Awards Annual Awards Gala,which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in Bellingham, Wash.
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Are you ready to be whisked away to a romantic Italian villa? Seduced by a brilliant – and sexy – architect? Not doctoral candidate Clio Sinclair McBeal. The red-haired beauty is nose down, struggling valiantly to complete her Ph.D. thesis and has no time for a social life – even with a gorgeous Italian lover. But here’s the great news, she finally has a topic for her dissertation, one that will give her project momentum: passion, ecstasy, bliss as portrayed in religious art of the Italian Renaissance.
Armed with a fresh idea and an adorable Fiat 500, Clio zips down a provincial Italian road anticipating meeting with her thesis adviser to share the updates. Instead, she finds herself in a roll-over accident that leaves her sans car, stuck in the mud and in need of assistance. Readers will swoon at who comes to her rescue, the dashing Guillermo Gabriel d’Aldobrandin. Clio recovers fast but can she resist his charms? How will she be able to handle this interesting and oh-so-handsome man in her life at the same time she’s attempting to complete her thesis? And holy cow – are her parents in town?
M.A. Clarke Scott’s The Art of Enchantment starts at a low simmer but rises to a body-searing burn as Clio and Guillermo find themselves pushed together repeatedly by both fate and the desire to save Guillermo’s family villa. Clio, however, must also cope with her own family legacy, one of academic excellence. Satisfying her dominating parents seems to be an uphill battle, however. And to complicate the situation, Guillermo mistakes her intense desire to meet with her thesis adviser as evidence of a deep love of scholarship.
Clarke Scott delivers fine, white-hot love scenes along with the opportunity to pick up some random Italian swear words that are fun to say, like stronzo! Aside from sex and swearing, Clarke Scott uses archetypes to woo her audience: the destructive rock star, the sexy, bold Italian, the shy, studious American attempting to please her parents. And these archetypes work well in this story, giving readers much of what they come looking for in romantic fiction.
M.A. Clarke Scott is an artist with words and paint. She writes women’s fiction as well as steampunk and science fiction, screenplays, novels, and essays. White walls, blank canvases and the empty page are all invitations for her to fill them with her exceptional creations.
A well-paced escape for those hungering for art, history and a hot ride with a handsome Italian hero.
The CHATELAINE Awards Writing Competition recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction. The CHATELAINE Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Novel Writing Competitions.
Congratulations to the 2016 CHATELAINE Awards First In Category Award Winning Romantic Fiction Novels:
The Chatelaine Award Winning Authors: M.A. Clarke Scottt, Diana Forbes, & Gail Avery Halverson
Historical Romance:The Boundary Stone by Gail Avery Halverson
Adventure/Suspense: Dair Devil:A Georgian Historical Romance by Lucinda Brant
Romantic & Sensual: Mistress Suffragette by Diana Forbes
Clean/Restorative: Building Mr. Darcy by Ashlinn Craven
Contemporary Romance:The Art of Enchantment by M A Clarke Scott
CONGRATULATIONS to M. A. Clarke Scott, author of the Chatelaine GRAND PRIZE winner — The Art of Enchantment!
Chatelaine Grand Prize Winner M. A. Clarke Scott
The 2016 CHATELAINE Short Listers competed for these First Place Category Positions. The CHATELAINE First Place Category Award Winners’ novels have competed for the CHATELAINE Grand Prize Award for the 2016 Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction Novel. These winners were announced and recognized at the annual Chanticleer Authors Conference and Awards Gala, Bellingham, Wash., on April 1st, 2017.
The First In Category award winning titles will receive an award package including a complimentary Chanticleer Book Review of the winning title, digital award badges, shelf talkers, book stickers, and more.
Congratulations to those whose works made the CHATELAINE Awards 2016 FINALISTS and SHORT-LISTERS lists.
More than $30,000 worth of cash and prizes will be awarded to the 2017 Chanticleer Novel Writing Competition winners! Fifteen different genres to enter your novels and compete on an international level.
We are now accepting entries into the 2017 CHATELAINE Awards. The deadline is August 31st, 2017 Click here for more information or to enter.
More than $30,000 worth of cash and prizes will be awarded to the 2017 Chanticleer Novel Writing Competition winners! Fifteen different genres to enter your novels and compete on an international level.
The story is set in 1806 and follows five sisters who are on their own after the recent passing of their parents. The five are faced with the choice to remain and run the family store in the tiny settlement along the edge of Ohio’s Great Black Swamp or pull up stakes and join the youngest sister living with their aunt in Philadelphia.
By the banks of the Great Black Swamp, one woman fights to save her sisters caught between two cultures in Martha Conway’s tale, Thieving Forest.
The world is filled with such events that when the right author develops characters and plunges them into a real-world timeline, history comes alive. Martha Conway has succeeded in doing this in her debut novel, Thieving Forest.
Conway turns the story up a notch early as four of the older girls are kidnapped by a band of Potawatomi Indians who raid their home. Seventeen-year-old Susanna is left behind, and though shaken deeply, quickly comes to her senses and determines to rescue her siblings.
Trust is the theme as the story unfolds. The kidnapping is somewhat of an unexpected occurrence as the family had good relations with the natives. The issue is complex and Susanna finds herself questioning who she can trust along with the sad realization that sometimes people are not always who they claim to be. The sisters are eventually reunited, but as is true in real life, things can never be the same.
Martha Conway paints a stunning portrait of life in the early days of the United States expansion into the West. She has done her research, and it shows as she delves into Native American tribes and the relationship they have with the European settlers.
Detailed descriptions of day-to-day life, including the hardships experienced, are fleshed out with complex and engaging characters. A tale of self-discovery, personal growth, romance, family ties, loyalty and more in this book readers will find hard to put down.
Mother Love, written by Susan Collen Browne, is a romantic Irish story set in the colorful Village of Ballydara. She vividly portrays a written slice of contemporary life in Ireland with its pubs, puddings, pals and mams. Hers is a story of love, growth, and healing. It has just the right amount of chaos and family conflict, along with a good dose of Irish humor, to make it a fun and entertaining read.
Grainne knows exactly what her perfect man is like, down to each little detail—the only problem is her perfect man is getting married just as this book, and Grainne’s story, have begun. Grainne sadly acknowledges and grimly accepts the fact that her perfect man is about to become permanently unavailable. However, her biological clock is ticking and, on the eve of her 30th birthday, she is anything but reasonable.
A complex and realistic protagonist, Grainne is plagued by her own family conflicts. Grainne’s relationship with her mam is strained to say the least. Having grown up feeling that she was less important than her sisters, Grainne does her best to avoid visiting her family home more than she deems necessary. She can’t even be in the same room as her mam without making the entire situation uncomfortable for everyone around. Yet for a young woman who avoids her mother, Grainne spends more time wishing for her mam’s acceptance and attention than not.
Despite her tumultuous family life, Grainne is a devoted and doting nanny to three rambunctious kids whose own mother is too busy running a newspaper to pay them much attention. She finds happiness in her work as she dotes on the kids, but her wanting of her own family cannot be ignored.
Grainne’s mam is keen to turn her home into a B&B and Grainne’s sister has guilted our protagonist into helping out with the venture. Grainne grudgingly helps out, thinking this may be a good way for her to get to spend some time with Rafe—the one that got away. Grainne and Rafe’s story seems destined to end before it ever begins, but sometimes you never know what life has in store.
Rafe isn’t the only man in Grainne’s life. She’s also got good-guy Joe, a nice man with a decent job and only minor flaws and he has his eyes set on Grainne. And with all the family drama and emotional stress it’s a good thing Grainne has Justine—her best friend and flatmate—who spends her free time cooking and baking delicious food along with obsessing with the blog “Girl Talk.”
Grainne must navigate her way through this crazy and tumultuous life if she is to find happiness. Mother Love is a novel that lives up to the lore of Irish tales. If you like an entertaining light romance that is full of Irish humor and family fun, Browne’s story telling will not disappoint.
The CHATELAINE Awards Writing Competition recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction. The CHATELAINE Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Novel Writing Competitions.
