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The 2024 Clue Finalists for Suspense/Thriller Fiction
The Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Suspense and Thriller Mysteries. The Clue Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring suspense, thrilling adventure, detective work, private eye, police procedural, and crime-solving, we will put them to the test to discover the best! (For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards).

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 CLUE SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Clue Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE & GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Suspense and Thriller!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Pamela Beason – If Only
- Jeff Nania – Musky Run
- John DeDakis – Enemies Domestic
- Hannah D Sharpe – Between Lies and Revenge
- Meredith Forde – The Protectee
- M.K. Tod – That Was Then
- Lisa Malice – Lest She Forget
- Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Change of Mission: A Jake Fortina Series Novel
- Jeannee Sacken – The Rule of Thirds
- Sean Hagerty – Jones Point
- Kathryn Caraway – Unfollow Me
- Dana J. Summers – Hell’s Heart
- Dave Lager – Revelations
- Carl Vonderau – Saving Myles
- Chris Chan – She Ruined Our Lives
- Ray Collins – The General’s Briefcase
- Shanessa Gluhm – A River of Crows
- Miriam Verbeek – The Forest
- Michael Pronko – Shitamachi Scam
- Steve Lazarus – Call Me Sonny
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Clue Grand Prize Winner

The Other Murder

By Kevin G. Chapman

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Clue Book Award Winners for Suspense and Thriller Mysteries.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Clue Book Awards for Suspense and Thriller Mysteries.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 9, 2025
The Laramie Awards 2024 Semi-Finalists for Americana Fiction
The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Western, First Nations and Americana Fiction. The Laramie Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

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

These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 LARAMIE Short List to the 2024 Laramie Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Western and Americana Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Susanna Lane – Enduring Promise
- Jeanne Gehret – Secrets To the Wind
- Alice Vonkannon Hodapp – Heart’s Blood
- Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
- David Fitz-Gerald – First Drive
- Barry Robbins – Voices of the Civil War
- Heidi M. Thomas – Goth-girl to Cowgirl
- David Fitz-Gerald – A Grave Every Mile A Pioneer Western Adventure
- Patricia Roberts Wright – A Siren Called Truth
- Linda Broday – Courting Miss Emma
- Donald Willerton – Death in the Tallgrass
- CK Van Dam – Medicine Creek Claim: On the Dakota Frontier
- Woody Woodburn – The Butterfly Tree
- Evelyn Fletcher Symes – Five Horse Winter
- Brook Allen – West of Santillane
- John Hansen – Crazy Woman Creek
- Georgina Hogue – Cloud Cap
- Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
- Craig Hipkins – Bandy
- John G. Russell, III – Four Corners But Verily Only Two Choices
- C.M. Huddleston – Esther
- Karen Lynne Klink – At What Cost, Silence? Book 1 of The Texian Trilogy
- Nate Granzow – Black Cordite, White Snow
- Charlie Steel – Tom Sharp: The Man and the Legend (A Novel)
- Tim Piper – The Powell Expeditions
- Daniel Greene – Northern Shadows (Northern Wolf Series Book 5)
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Laramie Grand Prize Winner

The Last Man

By Thomas Goodman

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Laramie Book Award Winners for Western Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Laramie Book Awards for Western Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 9, 2025
The Chaucer 2024 Semi-Finalists for Early Historical Fiction
The Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Historical (Pre- 1750) Fiction. The Chaucer Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

The Chaucer Book Awards competition is named for Geoffrey Chaucer the author of the legendary Canterbury Tales. The work is considered to be one of the greatest works in the English language. It was among the first non-secular books written in Middle English to be printed in 1483.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring Pre-1750s Historical Fiction, including pre-history, ancient history, Classical, world history (non-western culture), Dark Ages and Medieval Europe, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Tudor, 1600s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 CHAUCER Short List to the 2024 Chaucer Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club, hosted by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Chaucer Book Awards novel competition for Early Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Laura Gwendolyn Hill – The Saxon Sword the Song of Artemis Book One
- Dean Cycon – A Quest for God and Spices
- Liz Sevchuk Armstrong – To Remain Vigilant
- Julie L. Brown – No One Will Save Us: A novel
- Patrice Hapke – Summer of the Bear
- Jessica Russell – Hot Winter Sun
- J.C. Corry – The Storyteller’s War
- Rozsa Gaston – Anne Boleyn at Margaret of Austria’s Court
- Jessica Tvordi – The Schoolmaster
- Malcolm David Logan – The Wind in the Embers – A Story of the Fall of Rome
- C.V. Lee – Betrayal of Trust
- Roxana Arama – The Exiled Queen: A Roman Era Historical Fantasy
- Chuck Locklear – A Storm Coming
- Logan D. Irons – Sands of Bone
- Johnny Teague – The Lost Diary of Mary Magdalene
- Jean Gill – Among Sea Wolves
- Peggy Joque Williams – Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles
- M.N. Stroh – Rise of Betrayal
- John D. Cressler – Merchants of Iniquity
- Laura C. Rader – Hatfield 1677
- Lisa Llamrei – Feather of Ma’at
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

Congratulations once more to the 2023 Chaucer Grand Prize Winner

The Merchant From Sepharad

By James Hutson-Wiley

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Chaucer Book Award Winners for Early Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Chaucer Book Awards for Early Historical Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 8, 2025
The 2024 Little Peeps Awards Short List for Early Readers and Children’s Books
The Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Children’s Fiction. The Little Peeps 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 stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience for Early Readers. Story books, Beginning Chapter Books, Picture Books, Activity Books, and Educational Books. These books have advanced to the Long List for the 2023 CIBAs. (For Young Adult Fiction see our Dante Rossetti Awards, for Middle Grade Readers see our Gertrude Warner Awards.)

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 LITTLE PEEPS LONG LIST to the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Children’s Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Claire Annette Noland – Nancy Bess Had a Dress
- Ann Marie Perales Thompson – Halloween Pumpkins in Spring
- Lynne Gobioff – Bad Luck Kitty
- Michele L. Sayre – Along Came Spider the Making of a Superhero the Web Society
- Jack Wiens – What Bear Said
- Anne Lacourrege – The Greatest Treasure
- Rory Foresman – Timber and Loony Moony Night Rescue Book 2
- Kimberley Lovato – Pisa Loves Bella a Towering Tale of Kindness
- Anita Dromey – Littlest Mano at Bedtime
- Kristen J Anderson – Lorelei the Lorelei: The First of Many Firsts
- Ollie Miller – What is This?
- Miki Taylor – Bentley Makes a Dump Cake
- Elizabeth Fulgaro – Santa Claus Celebrates Jesus’s Birthday
- Robyn McCullough – The Journey of the Wee Shell
- Tracy Spring – Love Doesn’t Care Who You Love
- Raven Howell – Keep Trucking
- A.J. Chilson – Mary the Merry Miracle
- Ben St. James – Guinea Pig Power
- Brian Cleven – Kenzie Runs the World
- Grace Wolf – May I Come to Your Party?
- Stephen G. Bowling – Grandma’s House is Haunted
- P.E. Calvert & Charlotte Calvert Piel – WWCC Heroes: Pablo’s Adventure
- Irit Tal – Popina & Slumberina
- Lexie Kattelman – Grace’s Groceries: An Introduction to Intuitive Eating
- Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, Saving Perseverance
- Anthony Delauney – Iver and Luke and the Friends-for-Others-Club
- Julie Lomax – Melissa Moo Moo’s Special Lesson
- Sara H. Fowler – Castle of Knots
- Samantha Pillay – When I’m the President
- Melissa Rousu – Grandpa Loved Wild Things
- Daryllen Stone – Sienna the Spotless Giraffe
- Ruthie Godfrey – Grumpy Grump
- Regina Tranfa – My Dad Took Me To Dinosaur land
- Adalgisa and David Nico – Frogs on the Mountain: The Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs in Yosemite
- Shane Svorec – Acorn Adventures
- Sheryl Bass – Baby Dragon Finds His Family
- Katharine Mitropoulos – Let’s Work Smarter
- Ruth Amanda – Ess-Car-Go!
- Ruth Amanda – Island Moon
- Ruth Amanda – There’s a Pigeon in St Pancras
- Nico Altamirano – The Crocodile Choir
- Leila Summers – Mog and Tom
- Milt Lowe – The Hippo Who Hated To Fight
- Dr. Gerry Haller – Will’s Adventure to the Candy Mountain
- Kat Chen – Play Outside With Me
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – My Mocha Skin
- Anna Casamento Arrigo – Tessy Turtle
- Ashley Wall – The Day I Had a Dinosaur
- Shaziya M. Jaffer, Jessica Alexanderson and Brad W. Rudover – A Recycling Adventure to the Scrapyard!
- Alysson Foti Bourque – Alycat and the Sunday Scaries
- Anthony C. Delauney – Akash and Mila and the Big Jump
- Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Good Night, Good Night, Victoria Beach
- Mike Mirabella and Lenny Lipton – I Used to Be Shy
- Antwinette Scott – The Land of Hearts
- Sands Hetherington – Night Buddies and Evil School Bus #264
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Little Peeps Grand Prize Winner

The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans

By Shaziya Jaffer, Brad Rudover and Jessica Alexanderson

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Little Peeps Book Award Winners for Children’s Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Little Peeps Book Awards for Children’s Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 8, 2025
The Chaucer 2024 Short List for Early Historical Fiction
The Chaucer Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Early Historical (Pre- 1750) Fiction. The Chaucer Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

The Chaucer Book Awards competition is named for Geoffrey Chaucer the author of the legendary Canterbury Tales. The work is considered to be one of the greatest works in the English language. It was among the first non-secular books written in Middle English to be printed in 1483.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring Pre-1750s Historical Fiction, including pre-history, ancient history, Classical, world history (non-western culture), Dark Ages and Medieval Europe, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Tudor, 1600s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 CHAUCER Long List entries to the 2024 Chaucer Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Chaucer Semi-Finalists. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club, hosted by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Chaucer Book Awards novel competition for Early Historical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Laura Gwendolyn Hill – The Saxon Sword the Song of Artemis Book One
- Mark Kraver – The Willow
- Dean Cycon – A Quest for God and Spices
- Liz Sevchuk Armstrong – To Remain Vigilant
- Ursula Werner – Magda Revealed
- Julie L. Brown – No One Will Save Us: A novel
- Patrice Hapke – Summer of the Bear
- Jessica Russell – Hot Winter Sun
- J.C. Corry – The Storyteller’s War
- Rozsa Gaston – Anne Boleyn at Margaret of Austria’s Court
- Jessica Tvordi – The Schoolmaster
- Malcolm David Logan – The Wind in the Embers – A Story of the Fall of Rome
- C.V. Lee – Betrayal of Trust
- Roxana Arama – The Exiled Queen: A Roman Era Historical Fantasy
- Chuck Locklear – A Storm Coming
- Logan D. Irons – Sands of Bone
- Johnny Teague – The Lost Diary of Mary Magdalene
- Jean Gill – Among Sea Wolves
- Peggy Joque Williams – Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles
- M.N. Stroh – Rise of Betrayal
- John D. Cressler – Merchants of Iniquity
- Laura C. Rader – Hatfield 1677
- Catherine Hughes – In Silence Cries the Heart
- Lisa Llamrei – Feather of Ma’at
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

Congratulations once more to the 2023 Chaucer Grand Prize Winner

The Merchant From Sepharad

By James Hutson-Wiley

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Chaucer Book Award Winners for Early Historical Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Chaucer Book Awards for Early Historical Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 7, 2025
The Laramie Awards 2024 Short List for Americana Fiction
The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Western, First Nations and Americana Fiction. The Laramie Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

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

These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 LARAMIE Long List to the 2024 Laramie Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Laramie Semi-Finalists. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Western and Americana Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Susanna Lane – Enduring Promise
- Jeanne Gehret – Secrets To the Wind
- Alice Vonkannon Hodapp – Heart’s Blood
- Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
- David Fitz-Gerald – First Drive
- Barry Robbins – Voices of the Civil War
- Heidi M. Thomas – Goth-girl to Cowgirl
- David Fitz-Gerald – A Grave Every Mile A Pioneer Western Adventure
- Patricia Roberts Wright – A Siren Called Truth
- Imogen Martin – Under A Gilded Sky
- Jonita Mullins – The Tearful Trail
- Linda Broday – Courting Miss Emma
- Donald Willerton – Death in the Tallgrass
- CK Van Dam – Medicine Creek Claim: On the Dakota Frontier
- Woody Woodburn – The Butterfly Tree
- Evelyn Fletcher Symes – Five Horse Winter
- Brook Allen – West of Santillane
- Georgina Hogue – Cloud Cap
- John Hansen – Crazy Woman Creek
- Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
- M. B. Zucker – The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
- Craig Hipkins – Bandy
- John G. Russell, III – Four Corners But Verily Only Two Choices
- Josie Olsvig – Freedom’s Tears The History of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina and Port Royal Sound
- C.M. Huddleston – Esther
  Karen Lynne Klink – At What Cost, Silence? Book 1 of The Texian Trilogy
  Nate Granzow – Black Cordite, White Snow
- Charlie Steel – Tom Sharp: The Man and the Legend (A Novel)
- Tim Piper – The Powell Expeditions
- Lynn Downey – Dude or Die
- Daniel Greene – Northern Shadows (Northern Wolf Series Book 5)
PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

Congratulations once more to the 2023 Laramie Grand Prize Winner

The Last Man

By Thomas Goodman

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Laramie Book Award Winners for Western Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Laramie Book Awards for Western Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 7, 2025
The 2024 Shelley Short List for Paranormal Fiction!
The Shelley Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Paranormal Fiction. The Shelley Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

The Shelley Awards were formerly known as the Paranormal Awards. We are delighted to be able to honor the mother of science fiction with this award!

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring magic, the supernatural, weird other-worldly stories, super humans (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. We will put them to the test and discover the best among them for the 2024 Paranormal Book Awards!

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 Shelley Supernatural Fiction LONG LIST to the 2024 Shelley Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Shelley Book Awards novel competition for Paranormal Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Stephanie Edwards – Lowcountry Charm
- Jennifer Anne Gordon – Pretty Ugly
- E.S. Magill – Magica Book Rise of the Cult
- Evette Davis – The Gift
- Charles Allen – Maid of the Feast
- Kristin Homer – A Taste for Fear
- Miki Mitayn – Heated Earth Aedgar Moves In
- Peter B. Dedek – Possessed
- Jenny Allen – The Lotus Tree Book 3 in the Lilith Adams Series
- C.W. James – Mindfield: a Paranormal Thriller for Teens
- Alexander Fernandez – Above the Ashes
- Gracie Dix – Vork Chronicles Welcome to Superhero School
- Keith Steinbaum – In Lieu of Flowers
- Tim Facciola – Ghosts of Rheynia
- Beth Castrodale – The Inhabitants
- AA DaSilva – Periphery
- Anika Savoy – Mayhem in Disguise
- Charles Allen – A Graveyard of Ships
- E. L. Werbitsky – The Marsh Keeper
- Mark Sabbas – The Monarchs
- Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle – Vein Pursuits
- Sharon Barnes – Shanghai Sunset
- Evette Davis – The Others
- Brian Blackwood – Fractured
- Mike Fiorito – For All We Know: A UFO Manifesto
- W.B.J. Williams – Johnny Talon and the Goddess of Love and War
- Sherri L Dodd – Murder Under Redwood Moon
- Bradford Tatum – Hot Berry Punch
- LS Delorme – Bright Midnights
- Dennis D. Skirvin – Nicholas Knocker
- Joy Ross Davis – The Singer Sisters
- Shami Stovall – Time-Marked Warlock
- L. J. Aldon – Riddle of the Haunted Hoard
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS!

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the Facebook post. However, it is easier for us to tag authors when they have Liked and Followed us on Facebook.

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We will also be promoting this list in our Newsletter, which you can sign up for here!

Congratulations once more to the 2023 Paranormal Grand Prize Winner

Becoming Crone

By Lydia M. Hawke

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Paranormal Book Award Winners for Supernatural Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Shelley Book Awards for Supernatural Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
January 6, 2025
The 2024 Series Awards Long List for Fiction and Non-Fiction!
The CIBA SERIES Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in any of our 16 Fiction Divisions and 7 Non-Fiction Divisions where the author has written a series. The Series Book Awards is a division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs) is seeking for the best book series in all of the CIBA Divisions. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 Series Award entries to the 2024 Series Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Series Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Series Book Awards competition!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Samantha Schinder – The Deliverance Series
- Antonia Gavrihel – Back To One
- John J. Spearman – Mercenary Navy
- Elliott Foster – Panic River
- Alan B. Gibson – Magic at Myers Beach
- D. L. Wilburn Jr. – The God Protocol
- Jule Selbo – Dee Rommel Mystery Series
- Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Yoga Mat Mysteries
- Evette Davis – The Council Trilogy
- Taryn R. Hutchison – A Cold War Trilogy
- Laurie Buchanan – Sean Mcpherson Novels
- Kari Bovee – The Pryce of Murder
- April Sebree – Through the Woods
- M.K. Dean – The Ginny Reese Mysteries
- Sandra Wagner-Wright – Salem Stories
- Melrose McFadden – Major Bummer Murders
- Valerie Green – The McBride Chronicles
- Jeff Nania – Northern Lakes Mystery series
- J.L. Oakley – The Jossing series
- A. Keith Carreiro – The Immortality Wars
- Mike Murphey – Tales of Physics, Lust and Greed
- Rose Prendeville – Brides of Chattan
- Don Stuart – Washington Statehouse Series
- Jomo Jesus Thomas Suriel – Emotional Intelligence Book Series
- TK Sheffield – The Backyard Model Mysteries
- Eve M Riley – The Techboys series
- Steven Joseph – Snoodles Book Series
- Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Jake Fortina Series
- Ron Singerton – Sword of Rome
- Karen Inglis – Secret Lake Mystery Adventures
- Anika Savoy – Ungilded
- Michael J Bowler – The Lance Chronicles
- D.V. Chernov – Nick Severs Mysteries
- McKendree Long – The Superstition Gun
- Tamar Anolic – The Vanguard Warrior Trilogy
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Just Die Series
- R.w. Meek – The Dream Collector
- Tim Facciola – A Vengeful Realm
- Glen Dahlgren – The Chronicles of Chaos
- Bert Entwistle – Leftover Soldiers
- D.F. Kennedy – So Help Me God
- J.C. Ahern – The Strategy series
Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Series Grand Prize Winner

Ghosts Along The Oregon Trail

By David Fitz-Gerald

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We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Series Book Awards for Fiction and Non-Fiction.

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Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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December 26, 2024
The 2024 Clue Semi-Finalists for Suspense/Thriller Fiction
The Clue Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Suspense and Thriller Mysteries. The Clue Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the best books featuring suspense, thrilling adventure, detective work, private eye, police procedural, and crime-solving, we will put them to the test to discover the best! (For lighter-hearted Mystery and Classic Cozy Mysteries please check out our Mystery & Mayhem Awards, and for High Stakes Suspense Novels please check out our Global Thriller Awards).

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 CLUE SHORT LIST to the 2024 Clue Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Clue Book Awards novel competition for Suspense and Thriller!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Pamela Beason – If Only
- Jeff Nania – Musky Run
- John DeDakis – Enemies Domestic
- Hannah D Sharpe – Between Lies and Revenge
- Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Tree Pose
- Meredith Forde – The Protectee
- M.K. Tod – That Was Then
- Peter Berk – First Line of Defense
- Charlotte Stuart – Raven’s Legacy
- Lisa Malice – Lest She Forget
- Corey Lynn Fayman – The Esmeralda Goodbye
- Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Change of Mission: A Jake Fortina Series Novel
- Jeannee Sacken – The Rule of Thirds
- Steven Walker – Gunny Mac Private Detective Trouble in Chinatown
- Patrick Greenwood – Shores of Okinawa
- Chad Boudreaux – Homecoming Queen: A Small Town Political Thriller
- Dr. Sandra Tanner – Spirited Unraveling
- Saralyn Richard – Murder Outside the Box
- Sean Hagerty – Jones Point
- Kathryn Caraway – Unfollow Me
- Dana J. Summers – Hell’s Heart
- Dave Lager – Revelations
- Carl Vonderau – Saving Myles
- Chris Chan – She Ruined Our Lives
- Ray Collins – The General’s Briefcase
- Lisa Towles – Terror Bay
- Colleen Coyne – Bewept
- Shanessa Gluhm – A River of Crows
- Miriam Verbeek – The Forest
- Michael Pronko – Shitamachi Scam
- Wendy Bayne – Dark Entity
- Steve Lazarus – Call Me Sonny
- Sharon Lynn – IoT Gaslight
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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Clue Grand Prize Winner

The Other Murder

By Kevin G. Chapman

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Clue Book Award Winners for Suspense and Thriller Mysteries.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Clue Book Awards for Suspense and Thriller Mysteries.

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Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
December 22, 2024
The Laramie Awards 2024 Long List for Americana Fiction
The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Western, First Nations and Americana Fiction. The Laramie Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

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

These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 LARAMIE entries to the 2024 Laramie Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Laramie Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Western and Americana Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Robert Brighton – Winter in the High Sierra a Love Story
- Susanna Lane – Enduring Promise
- Linda Paul – The Last Gypsy Queen
- Jeanne Gehret – Secrets To the Wind
- Alice Vonkannon Hodapp – Heart’s Blood
- Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
- Kregg P.J. Jorgenson – 1886 the Last Campaign
- David Fitz-Gerald – First Drive
- Barry Robbins – Voices of the Civil War
- Heidi M. Thomas – Goth-girl to Cowgirl
- David Fitz-Gerald – A Grave Every Mile A Pioneer Western Adventure
- Patricia Roberts Wright – A Siren Called Truth
- Imogen Martin – Under A Gilded Sky
- Jonita Mullins – The Tearful Trail
- Linda Broday – Courting Miss Emma
- Donald Willerton – Death in the Tallgrass
- CK Van Dam – Medicine Creek Claim: On the Dakota Frontier
- Woody Woodburn – The Butterfly Tree
- Evelyn Fletcher Symes – Five Horse Winter
- Brook Allen – West of Santillane
- Sean James – The Vengeful Kind
- John Hansen – Crazy Woman Creek
- Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
- M. B. Zucker – The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
- Craig Hipkins – Bandy
- John G. Russell, III – Four Corners But Verily Only Two Choices
- Josie Olsvig – Freedom’s Tears The History of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina and Port Royal Sound
- C.M. Huddleston – Esther
  Karen Lynne Klink – At What Cost, Silence? Book 1 of The Texian Trilogy
  Nate Granzow – Black Cordite, White Snow
- Charlie Steel – Tom Sharp: The Man and the Legend (A Novel)
- Tim Piper – The Powell Expeditions
- Paul Buchheit – 1871: Rivers on Fire
- Lynn Downey – Dude or Die
- Daniel Greene – Northern Shadows (Northern Wolf Series Book 5)
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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Laramie Grand Prize Winner

The Last Man

By Thomas Goodman

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Laramie Book Award Winners for Western Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Laramie Book Awards for Western Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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 annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!
December 20, 2024