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  • The 2023 FINALIST CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction

    The 2023 FINALIST CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction

    The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus 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 space, time travel, life on other planets, parallel universes, alternate reality, and all the science, technology, major social or environmental changes of the future that author imaginations can dream up for the CYGNUS Book Awards division. Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Genetic Modification, Aliens, Super Humans, Interplanetary Travel, Climate-Fiction, and Settlers on the Galactic Frontier, Dystopian, our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 CYGNUS Science Fiction Semi-Finalists to the 2023 Cygnus Book Awards Finalists. These entries are now in competition for the 2023 Cygnus 1st Place and Grand Prize Winners. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC24.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These are the FINALISTS of the 2023 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

    Good Luck to All!

    • Lou Dischler – The Rising
    • E.T. Gunnarsson – Abandon Us
    • E.T. Gunnarsson – Remember Us
    • J.L. Birchwood – The Southron Deception
    • Alexandra Almeida – Unanimity
    • S.G. Blaise – Proud Pada
    • Diane Lilli – The Last Invention
    • N. John Williams – In the Shadow of Humanity: A Novel
    • Julia Tvardovskaya – Identifiable
    • Gareth Worthington – Dark Dweller
    • Michael Simon – Extinction
    • Timothy S. Johnston – The Shadow of War
    • Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock
    • Jeanne Hull Godfroy – Midgard
    • Rob Brownell – Invention Is a Mother
    • Dylan McFadyen – Oblivion’s Cloak
    • Donald Firesmith – Hell Holes: A Slave’s Revenge
    • Stu Jones – The Zone: A Cyberpunk Thriller
    • Nikki Kallio – Finding the Bones: Stories & A Novella
    • Sarena Straus – ReInception
    • Melissa Gowdy Baldwin – The Marriage Wars: Book One

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

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    Congratulations once more to the 2022 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner

    The Last Lumenian

    By S. G. Blaise

    The Blue and Gold Badge for the Cygnus 2022 Grand Prize Book Award for the CIBAs The Last Lumenian by S.G. Blaise

    Click here to see the full list of 2022 CYGNUS Book Award Winners for Science Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 CYGNUS  Book Awards for Science Fiction.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Screenwriter Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and coach and inspiring Mark Berridge, with more to be announced. CAC is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author and achieving your publishing goals.

    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 12th annual conference and discover why!

  • The M&M 2023 Short List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    The M&M 2023 Short List for Cozy and Not-So-Cozy Mysteries

    Cozy Mystery Fiction AwardThe M&M Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Cozy and not-so-Cozy Mystery & Mayhem. The M&M Book  Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

    Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring “mystery and mayhem,” amateur sleuthing, light suspense, travel mystery, classic mystery, British cozy, hobby sleuths, senior sleuths, or historical mystery, perhaps with a touch of romance or humor. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them. (For suspense, thriller, detective, crime fiction see our Clue Awards.)

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 M&M Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for 2023 M&M Semi-Finalists. The Finalists will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists. The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBAs divisions’ Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles have advanced to the SHORT LIST of the 2023 M&M Book Awards for Mystery & Mayhem

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

    • Trish MacEnulty – The Whispering Women
    • Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Dead Man’s Pose
    • Craig H. Bowlsby – The Cyrano Solution
    • Ruud Richardson – The Girl Who Never Was
    • B.T. Polcari – Fire and Ice
    • B.T. Polcari – Against My Better Judgment
    • Tawn H. Skousen – Seashells and Scoundrels
    • Jeremy Gluck – Face Value
    • Ron Destro – The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne
    • Liese Sherwood-Fabre – The Adventure of the Purloined Portrait
    • Gail Grant Park – We Are Shadows: An Irish Ghost Story
    • Rebecca Olmstead – Dreams and Illusions
    • Charlotte Stuart – In$ured to the Hilt
    • Anna St. John – Doomed by Blooms
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles
    • Topper Jones – All that Glisters
    • Patrick E. Craig – The Quilt That Knew
    • A.J. McCarthy – A Stranger in the Family
    • Traci Andrighetti – Tuaca Tan
    • Marlene M. Bell – Copper Waters
    • E. W. Finke – Coyote’s Wail
    • Mary Seifert – Fishing, Festivities & Fatalities
    • Sharon Michalove – At the Ready
    • Liz Larson – Fireflies and Zeroes
    • Michel Prince – Always a Groomsman
    • M.K. Dean – A Corpse in the Condo
    • Kate Hallock – Nine Ways to Die: An Enneagram Murder Mystery
    • Steven Mayfield – The Penny Mansions
    • Cindy Sample – Birthdays Are Murder
    • Nancy J. Cohen – Star Tangled Murder
    • Carolyn Summer Quinn – Cloudy with a Chance of Answers
    • Michelle Cox – A Haunting at Linley
    • Charlotte Whitney – The Unveiling of Polly Forrest
    • Kim Herdman Shapiro – The Raven’s Cry
    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Negative Reaction
    • Lori Roberts Herbst – Photo Finished
    • Joni M Fisher – East of Evil
    • D.R. Ransdell – Party Wine
    • Connie Berry – The Shadow of Memory
    • Hadley K. Knox – Murder Sundae
    • Christine Knapp – Murder on the Widow’s Walk
    • Christine Knapp – Murder at the Wedding
    • M. A. Monnin – Death In The Aegean
    • Paisley Summer – Walk in the Light
    • Patricia Sorg – Habits that Haunts Me
    • Erica Miner – Aria for Murder
    • Wendy Bayne – Guilds and Gunpowder
    • Matthew Cost – Velma Gone Awry
    • Jule Selbo – 9 DAYS, A Dee Rommel Mystery
    • Amy S. Peele – Hold
    • Kim Davis – Buttercream Betrayal
    • Kamille Roach – A Matchbox Full of Pearls
    • D. J. Adamson – With a Vengeance
    • Lyn Squire – Immortalised to Death
    • Jeffrey Matthews – The Case of the Disappearing Beaune: A Sherlock Holmes Christmas Story
    • Brigitte Goldstein – Death of a Diva–From Berlin to Broadway
    • Eleanor Tatum – Countess of Change
    • Kim Davis – Muddled Matrimonial Murder
    • Brandon Lawniczak – Riding in Circles
    • J. Ivanel Johnson – Just A Stale Mate
    • Mary Seifert – Santa, Snowflakes & Strychnine
    • T.K. Sheffield – Vintage Model, the Backyard Model Mysteries Book 1

    Good Luck to All as Your Works Compete to Advance to the Next Level of the Chanticleer International Book Awards.

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Mystery & Mayhem Awards is:

    A Spying Eye

    A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel

    by Michelle Cox 

    The M&M Grand Prize for Mystery and Mayhem M&M Awards goes to A Spying Eye by Michelle Cox

    Here is the link to the 2022 M&M Book Award Winners!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 M&M Book Awards for Cozy-And-Not-So-Cozy Mysteries!.

    Please click here for more information.

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

    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 12th annual conference and discover why!

  • The 2023 HEMINGWAY Book Awards Short List for 20th Century Wartime Fiction

    Ernest Hemingway looking off to the rightThe Hemingway Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works for 20th Century Wartime Fiction. The Hemingway Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

    The Hemingway Book Awards competition is named for Ernest Hemingway who was born July 21, 1899.

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring 20th Century Wartime Fiction in Historical Fiction; Romance and Romantic Fiction; Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense Fiction of the time; Literary works and Satire and anything else that author imaginations can dream up for the HEMINGWAY Book Awards division. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

    For Post-1750s Historical Fiction, see our Goethe Awards here. For other Historical Fiction categories, please see more details here.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Long List to the Hemingway SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Hemingway SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

    The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA division Finalists.

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2023 Hemingway Book Awards novel competition for 20th Century Wartime Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

    • Linda Joy Myers – The Forger of Marseille
    • Elaine Aucoin Schroller – Dare Not Tell
    • Elaine Aucoin Schroller – The Bravest Soldiers
    • William McClain – Alice’s War
    • J.L. Oakley – The Brisling Code
    • Gary Baysinger – Margaret’s Last Prayer
    • Patricia Wilson – An Island Promise
    • Glenn Dyer – Trust No One
    • Kathryn Gauci – In the Shadow of the Pyrenees
    • Michael J Cooper – Crossroads of Empire
    • Kathryn Brown Ramsperger – A Thousand Flying Things
    • Lou Dischler – The Last Newsreel
    • Martin Roy Hill – Codename: Parsifal
    • Trish MacEnulty – Secrets and Spies
    • Marina Osipova – The Drau River Flows to Siberia: The Victims of Victory
    • Donald Willerton – Teddy’s War
    • J.A. Wright – Eat and Get Gas
    • Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee – The Long March Home
    • Jacek Waliszewski – Midnight in Syria
    • Linda Stewart Henley – Kate’s War
    • Jodi Lea Stewart – The Gold Rose
    • Richard LaMotte – Follow His Lead
    • Ivan Luiz Hernandez – Isla Vulnerable
    • Richard Bareford – Veterans Key
    • Jeff Schnader – The Serpent Papers
    • Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Crown
    • John Winn Miller – The Hunt for the Peggy C
    • Suzanne Trauth – What Remains of Love
    • Robert L. Decker – Not to Reason Why
    • Kevin Miller – The Silver Waterfall: A Novel of the Battle of Midway
    • Shirley Miller Kamada – No Quiet Water
    • Kathryn Gauci – The Song of the Partisans: A Powerful and Unforgettable Novel of Resistance

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

    Click here to see the 2021 Hemingway Book Award Winners for 20th c. WartimeFiction.

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Hemingway Book  Awards is:

    Running with Cannibals

    by Robert W. Smith

    Running with Cannibals Cover

    The Hemingway Grand Prize for Running with Cannibals by Robert W. Smith

    See the full list of 2022 Hemingway Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 Hemingway Book Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024. 

    Please click here for more information.

    For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:

    Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

    The Chanticleer Authors Conference

    Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

    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 12th annual conference and discover why!

  • The 2023 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards Semi-Finalists for High Stakes Suspense

    The 2023 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards Semi-Finalists for High Stakes Suspense

    Global ThrillerThe Global Thriller Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in High Stakes Thriller Fiction. The Global Thriller Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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.

    For other Mystery Divisions see our Clue Awards for Suspense/Thriller Novels and our M&M Awards for Cozy-and-not-so-Cozy Novels.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Global Thriller Book Awards Short List to the 2023 Global Thriller SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

    We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2023 Global Thriller Book Awards novel competition for High Stakes Fiction!

    Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

    • E.S. Ramirez – In the Fangs of Jackals
    • Thomas R. Weaver – Artificial Wisdom
    • Jayson Adams – Ares
    • D. L. Wilburn Jr. – The God Protocol: Dragon
    • Glenn Dyer – Trust No One
    • Mark James – Friendship Games
    • Susan Rogers and John Roosen – Cobra Pose
    • Joanne Jaytanie – Retrieving Remy (The Winters Sisters Book 5)
    • Randall Krzak – Ultimate Escalation
    • Dr. Frank J. Sapienza – The Greater Good
    • Hank Scheer – Fade to Blue
    • Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock
    • Jacek Waliszewski – Midnight in Syria
    • Ron Roman – Of Ashes and Dust
    • J. Lee – The Deadly Deal
    • Ralph R. “Rick” Steinke – Jake Fortina and the Roman Conspiracy
    • David Wickenden – The Home Front
    • E Alan Fleischauer – The Doctor is Invisible
    • Jeff Sheckter – The Daedalus Protocol

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

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the 2022 GLOBAL THRILLER Awards is:

    Hybrid Hysteria

    By Charlie Robinson

    The Grand Prize Badge for the Global Thriller Awards for Hybrid Hysteria by Charlie Robinson

        The 2023 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12 year Conference Anniversary!

        Submissions for the 2024 GLOBAL THRILLER Book Awards are open until the end of October. Enter here!

        Don’t delay! Enter today! 

        Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

        The Chanticleer Authors Conference

        Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

        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 12th annual conference and discover why!

         

      • The 2023 LITTLE PEEPS Book Awards Short List for Early Readers & Picture Books

        Early Readers and Picture booksThe Little Peeps Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Early Readers. The Little Peeps Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (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 in the judging rounds from the 2023 Little Peeps Early Readers Long List to the 2023 Little Peeps Book Awards Short List. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Little Peeps Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

        The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

        We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

        These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2023 Little Peeps Book Awards novel competition for Early Readers!

        Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

        • Michele L. Sayre – The Unluckiest Leprechaun by Far (Happy Tails)
        • Ginger Smith – The Magic Blanket
        • Cheryl Carpinello – Grandma Tales 3: Vampires in the Backyard and A Fish Tale
        • Janet Earnest-Jenkins – Hoppin’ Hankaroo-Zoo Adventure
        • Michele L. Sayre – What I Would Wish to Be (Wonders of Childhood & Beyond)
        • Aniela Emma Chaudhuri – The Accidental Orchestra
        • Beth Davis – Hanna the Hawk is a Super Youneek Beast
        • Laura Teste – Book of Bad Manners
        • W. B. Murph – Molly’s Miracle
        • TK Sheffield – Nellie’s Island, a tiny filly from a small farm earns her “filly esteem” while working among giant draft horses on Mackinac Island
        • Michael Dow, RN, MS – Nurse Florence® for Beginning Readers: Help, I’m Bleeding!
        • Joy K. Ball – Winnie’s Christmas Treasure Hunt
        • Kimberly Delude – Freddie the Fly: Seeing Through Another Lens
        • Brenda Wilson Huddleston – Liam & Little Tail
        • Cynthia C. Huijgens – Polar Bear and the UFO
        • Joshua Swank – Barry the Brave: A Flowerageous Journey to Courage
        • Michael Michie – Pablo Avocado
        • Adalgisa and David Nico – Fish in the Desert: The Untold Story of the Death Valley Pupfish
        • O.L. Flubermin – A Dinosaur Named Alone: What Will I Do?
        • Susan Sullivan – Bob Tales, Land of the Woody Warbles
        • Beth Davis – Lacinda the Lion is a Super Youneek Beast
        • Carolyn Wild – Jacob Sheep: Do You Have A Little Lamb?
        • Michele L. Sayre – The Not So Funny Bunny (Happy Tails)
        • Carolyn Wild – I Like Ducks: All Year Long
        • Laura Teste – Book of Bad Bargains
        • Chloe and LaRanda Burke – Keys to Your H.E.A.R.T.
        • Katrina Johnson – Captain Patch and the Treasure of the Sea Gods
        • Dave O’Hare – Quigley Lopez, A Friend For Life
        • Miki Taylor – Bentley’s Fantabulous Idea
        • Victoria Smith – Priscilla and Tux: Brothers are Caring
        • Brenda Wilson Huddleston – The Squirrel & the Dragonfly
        • Julie G Fox – Katya’s Sunflowers
        • Tzuri King & Julie G Fox – The Dreamer: The Girl Who Dreamed the War Over
        • Lynne Marie – The Three Little Pigs and the Rocket Project
        • Conrad J. Storad – Story Monster’s S.T.E.A.M. chronicles. Book one, Night watchers : nocturnal creatures of North America : coyotes, snakes, owls, spiders, and more
        • K.R. King – Charlie the Champion
        • Beth Davis – Mykal the Monkey is a Super Youneek Beast
        • Hillary Harper – Thankful FUR You
        • Ruth Amanda – Geckos in the Garden
        • Carolyn Wild – This Kitten; Has Blue Eyes
        • Sheryl Bass – Baby Dragon’s Big Sneeze
        • Julie G Fox – The Dreamer: The Girl Who Dreamed The War Over
        • David Horn – Eudora Space Kid: Do the Robot!
        • Anna Casamento Arrigo – Mr Moon Mr Moon
        • Brooks Olbrys – The Adventures of Blue Ocean Bob – A Secret in the Deep
        • Jonna Laster – Nutshell Regatta
        • Kristin Crowell Ellis – Firefly Fran’s Fran-tastic Day
        • Anna Casamento Arrigo – A Child’s Love
        • TK Sohal and Ms. Raman Kaur – Twin Adventures
        • Lori Keenen Smith – Lorlee and the Light
        • Anna Casamento Arrigo – What Little Girls Can Do!
        • Shaziya M. Jaffer, Brad W. Rudover , Jessica Alexanderson – The Girl Who Recycled 1 Million Cans
        • Raven Howell – Friends Come in all Sizes
        • Aniela Emma Chaudhuri – Picnic Pandaemonium
        • Anthony Delauney – Rohan and Nyra and Big Sister’s Bet
        • Laura Shovan – Welcome to Monsterville
        • Erik Perezbrain – Good Luck is My Guardian Angel
        • Ellie Smith – Tex the Explorer and The Jared Box Project
        • Katharine Mitropoulos – Ready… Set… Frog!
        • Katherine Lockwood – Why Me, Mama?
        • Anthony C. Delauney – Michael and Hannah and the Magic Money Tree
        • Joey Benun – Pebbles and the Biggest Number
        • Dominique Ellis – The Wisdom Tree: A Father’s Love
        • T.K. Sheffield – The Night Icelandic Horses Saved Christmas Eve
        • Katrina Johnson – Lily’s Song
        • Laura Teste – Book of Best Words
        • Betsy Coffeen – Cate and the Garden Bandits

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

        PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 LITTLE PEEPS Awards is:

        Ravens Roost 

        by Maggie Bates

        Raven's Roost CoverThe Little Peeps 2022 Grand Prize Badge for Ravens Roost by Maggie Bates

        See the Full List of 2022 Winners here

        PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

         

        Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

        The Chanticleer Authors Conference

        Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

        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 12th annual conference and discover why!

      • The 2023 HEARTEN Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Inspiring & Uplifting Non-Fiction

        The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Hearten Book  Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

        Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

        These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 Hearten Non-Fiction Short List to the 2023 Hearten Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

        The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

        We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

        These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2023 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspirational Non-Fiction!

        Join us in cheering on the following Semi-Finalist authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

        • Lynne M. Kolze – Please Write: Finding Joy and Meaning in the Soulful Art of Handwritten Letters
        • Anna Casamento Arrigo – Patience Insanity & Wisdom
        • Lisa Niver – Brave-ish, One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty
        • Lally Pia – The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy: A Memoir of an Unlikely Doctor
        • Duncan McLauren – Owning Your Destiny
        • Julie Morrison – Barbed: A Memoir
        • Shanita Liu – Dear Durga: A Mom’s Guide to Activate Courage and Emerge Victorious
        • Trudy Wells-Meyer – Some Things Are Simply Meant to Be
        • Tony Jeton Selimi – The Unfakeable Code®
        • Tony Jeton Selimi – A Path to Excellence
        • Art Berman – Art in the Middle Ages: A Memoir of Midlife Renaissance
        • Nove Meyers – Running Away From the Circus
        • Patrick M. Garry – The Power of Gratitude: Charting a Path Toward a Joyous and Faith-Filled Life
        • Nove Meyers – Running Away From the Circus
        • Kate Hudson-Hall – Anxiety Hacks: Proven Techniques, Tools and Tips to Calmness
        • Hollie Stuart – I Can See For Miles
        • Cory Mortensen – The Buddha and the Bee
        • Julie Scolnik – Paris Blue
        • Cort Casady – Not Your Father’s America
        • Steven Greenebaum – An Afternoon’s Dictation: Inclusive Revelation for the 21st Century
        • Dian Seidel – Kindergarten at 60: A Memoir of Teaching in Thailand
        • Aurita Maldonado – The Zen of Dancing in the Rain: Becoming One with the Storm
        • Grant Harper Reid – The Apocalypto Kid Goes to College
        • Nanette J. Davis Ph.D. – Raging Currents: Mental Illness and Family
        • Catherine DeMonte – Beep! Beep! Get Out of My Way!: Seven Tools for Powerful Creation and Living Your Unstoppable Life
        • Dr. Kelly Rabenstein – Psychological Secrets for Emotional Success (It’s All About Love)

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        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 HEARTEN Awards is:

        Inner Trek
        – a reluctant pilgrim to the Himalayas

        By Mohan Ranga Rao

        Inner Trek Cover

        The 2022 Hearten Grand Prize Badge for Inner Trek by Mohan Ranga Rao

        Click here to see the 2022 Hearten Book Award Winners for Uplifting Non-Fiction

        We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC24. 

        Please click here for more information.

        See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

        Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

        The Chanticleer Authors Conference

        Featuring authors like D.D. Black, Kim Hornsby, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

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      • The 2023 Goethe Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Late Historical Fiction

        The 2023 Goethe Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Late Historical Fiction

        Post 1750s Historical Fiction AwardThe Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works 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 before the 20th century, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

        The other three Historical Fiction Genres are the Laramie Awards for Americana Fiction, the Chaucer Awards for Early Historical Fiction, and the Hemingway Awards for 20th c. Wartime Fiction.

        These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Goethe Late Historical Fiction Short List to the 2023 Goethe Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists.  All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

        The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

        We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

        These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2023 Goethe Book Awards novel competition for Post-1750s Historical Fiction!

        Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the Goethe 2023 CIBAs.

        • Pat Wahler – The Rose of Washington Square: A Novel of Rose O’Neill, Creator of the Kewpie Doll
        • J. Stanion – My Place Among Them: A Novel
        • Sandra Wagner-Wright – Ambition, Arrogance & Pride: Families & Rivals in 18th Century Salem
        • Janis Robinson Daly – The Unlocked Path, A Novel
        • Lindsey S. Fera – Muskets and Masquerades
        • Jerena Tobiasen – Tsarina’s Crown
        • Mitzi Zilka – Water Fire Steam
        • Jeff Schnader – The Serpent Papers
        • Miriam Polli – Birds Of Passage
        • Jodi Lea Stewart – The Gold Rose
        • Chris Black – Chameleon
        • Lisa Voelker – The Spoon
        • Nichole Louise – Raven Rock
        • Susanne Dunlap – The Courtesan’s Daughter
        • Robert Brighton – The Unsealing
        • Gary Born – The File
        • Robert W Smith – A Long Way from Clare
        • David Calloway – If Someday Comes
        • Michael Miller – High Bridge – Matilda and Grover Battle Learned Ignorance
        • Susanne Dunlap – The Portraitist: A Novel of Adelaide Labille-Guiard
        • Susanne Dunlap – The Adored One
        • Alexandru Czimbor – The Soul Machines
        • Wendy Long Stanley – The Treason of Betsy Ross
        • Linda Ulleseit – The River Remembers
        • Ed Davis – Last Professional
        • Loretta Miles Tollefson – There Will Be Consequences
        • Don Jacobson – The Sailor’s Rest
        • Dean Cycon – Finding Home (Hungary, 1945)
        • William Maz – Bucharest Legacy: The Rise of the Oligarchs
        • Linda Rosen – The Emerald Necklace
        • T. M. Brown – The Last Laird of Sapelo
        • Nicole Evelina – Catherine’s Mercy
        • J.L Oakley – The Brisling Code

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        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 GOETHE Awards is:

        Eleonora and Joseph:

        Passion, Tragedy, and Revolution in the Age of Enlightenment

        by Julieta Almeida Rodrigues

        The Goethe Grand Prize Badge for Eleanora and Joseph by Julieta Almedia Rodrigues

        Click here to see the 2022 Goethe Book Award Winners for Late Historical Fiction.

        We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 Goethe Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction. The 2024 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2025. 

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        For our other Historical Fiction Awards, please see the following:

        Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

        The Chanticleer Authors Conference

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      • The 2023 Semi-Finalists JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

        The 2023 Semi-Finalists JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

        Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA BadgeThe Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

        Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring a Journey of true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here

        These titles have moved forward from the Short List Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2023 Journey Book Awards SEMIFINALISTS. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Journey Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

        The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

        We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

        These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2023 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

        Join us in celebrating the Semi-Finalist authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

        • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Saint Bloodbath
        • Rebecca Olmstead – Loved So Much It Hurts: Purpose in the Pain
        • Hollie Stuart – I Can See for Miles
        • Cathryn Vogeley – I Need To Tell You
        • Lori Lee Peters – God, the Mafia, My Dad and Me
        • Cort Casady – Not Your Father’s America
        • Francesca Miracola – I Got It From Here
        • Francesca Grossman – Not Weakness: Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain
        • Sara Alvarado – Dreaming In Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story in Puerto Vallarta
        • Joel Harris – Searching for Steve
        • Leslie Ferguson – When I Was Her Daughter
        • Antonia Deignan – Underwater Daughter: A Memoir of Survival and Healing
        • Phyllis Dyson – Among Silent Echoes: A Memoir of Trauma and Resilience
        • Andrew Saltarelli – Leaving Home
        • Nanette J. Davis Ph.D. – Raging Currents: Mental Illness and Family
        • Aurita Maldonado – The Zen of Dancing in the Rain: Becoming One with the Storm
        • Barbara Wolf Terao – Reconfigured: A Memoir
        • Trisha T Pritiin – The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices From the Fight for Atomic Justice
        • Sarah Martin – Dear Psychosis
        • Julie Morrison – Barbed: A Memoir
        • Jarie Bolander – Ride or Die: Loving Through Tragedy, A Husband’s Memoir
        • Mikky Eagle – Transcending to Power – the Freya Files : A Survivor’s Memoir Uncovering the Aftermath of Child Sexual-Abuse
        • Erika Shepard – Trans-Formations From Field Boots to Sensible Heels
        • Karen DeBonis – Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived
        • Mike Nixon – Life Travel And The People In Between

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

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        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 JOURNEY Awards is:

        A Fraction Stronger 

        by Mark Berridge 

        A Fraction Stronger Cover

        See our full list of 2022 Journey Winners here.

        The 2023 JOURNEY Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12 year Conference Anniversary!

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      • The 2023 Ozma Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Fantasy Fiction

        The 2023 Ozma Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Fantasy Fiction

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

        Chanticleer International Book Awards discovers the best books in the Ozma Awards 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. These books have advanced to the Long List in the 2023 CIBAs OZMA division.

        These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2023 Ozma Fantasy Fiction Short List to the 2023 Ozma Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24).

        The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

        We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

        These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2023 Ozma Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction!

        Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

        • Jenn Lees – The Quest: Arlan’s Pledge Book Two
        • Nicholas Varner – Seasons of the Blue Pearl
        • Tim Facciola – A Vengeful Realm: Book One: The Scales of Balance
        • L.R. Braden – Of Mettle and Magic
        • Lilla Glass – The Unseen
        • Ross Hightower – Argren Blue
        • John Diaz – Rogues of the Crosslands: Azoria’s Blade
        • Amber Kirkpatrick – Unleashed
        • Amber Kirkpatrick – Until the Rising
        • Charles Allen – The Order of the Red God
        • Jaime Castle & Andy Peloquin – Black Talon
        • Crystal D. Grant – Shadowcast
        • Ekta R. Garg – In the Heart of the Linden Wood
        • L.L. Gray – Shadows and Relics
        • Richard C. Brusca – The Time Travelers
        • D. K. Willis – The Unexpected
        • Celaine Charles – Seam Keepers
        • David V. Mammina – The Angels of Resistance
        • Dale Griffin – The Last Lion of Karkov
        • Jonathan Uffelman – Book of Leprechauns: The Lore Gatherers
        • PM Black – The Solar Realm – Silver Slayer
        • Omayra Vélez – Ultima Skylar
        • PJ Devlin – The Chamber
        • Rae St. Clair Bridgman – The Kingdom of Trolls
        • L. Ryan Storms – Temper the Dark
        • Alex B. Harper – Of Light and Nightmares: The Ashes of Magic Trilogy, Volume I
        • S.G. Blaise – Proud Pada

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

         

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        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 OZMA Awards is:

        Soar a Burning Sky

        By Steven Michael Beck

        The Ozma Grand Prize Badge for Soar a Burning Sky by Steven Michael Beck

        See the full list of 2022 Ozma Award Winners here.

        The 2023 OZMA Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12-year Conference Anniversary!

        Submissions for the 2024 OZMA Book Awards are open now. Enter here!

        Don’t delay! Enter today! 

        Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

        The Chanticleer Authors Conference

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      • The 2023 SEMI-FINALIST CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction

        The 2023 SEMI-FINALIST CYGNUS Book Awards for Science Fiction

        Cygnus Award for Science Fiction

        The Cygnus Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Alternative History, and Speculative Fiction. The Cygnus 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 space, time travel, life on other planets, parallel universes, alternate reality, and all the science, technology, major social or environmental changes of the future that author imaginations can dream up for the CYGNUS Book Awards division. Hard Science Fiction, Soft Science Fiction, Apocalyptic Fiction, Cyberpunk, Time Travel, Genetic Modification, Aliens, Super Humans, Interplanetary Travel, Climate-Fiction, and Settlers on the Galactic Frontier, Dystopian, our judges from across North America and the U.K. will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

        These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2023 CYGNUS Science Fiction Semi-Finalists to the 2023 Cygnus Book Awards Finalists. These entries are now in competition for the 2023 Cygnus Finalists. FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC24.

        We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference

        These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2023 Cygnus Book Awards novel competition for Science Fiction!

        Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

        • Andrew P. Blaber – Fallow
        • Lou Dischler – The Rising
        • E.T. Gunnarsson – Abandon Us
        • E.T. Gunnarsson – Remember Us
        • Arnie Benn – The Intrepid: Dawn Of The Interstellar Age
        • J.L. Birchwood – The Southron Deception
        • Alexandra Almeida – Unanimity
        • S.G. Blaise – Proud Pada
        • Tamar Anolic – The Fledgling’s Inferno
        • Diane Lilli – The Last Invention
        • N. John Williams – In the Shadow of Humanity: A Novel
        • Julia Tvardovskaya – Identifiable
        • Gareth Worthington – Dark Dweller
        • J.D. Clason – Salvation
        • Michael Simon – Extinction
        • Timothy S. Johnston – The Shadow of War
        • Howard Berk and Peter Berk – TimeLock
        • Jeanne Hull Godfroy – Midgard
        • Jamie Eubanks – Hall of Skulls
        • Rob Brownell – Invention Is a Mother
        • Dylan McFadyen – Oblivion’s Cloak
        • Donald Firesmith – Hell Holes: A Slave’s Revenge
        • Stu Jones – The Zone: A Cyberpunk Thriller
        • John Blossom – The Last Football Player
        • Nikki Kallio – Finding the Bones: Stories & A Novella
        • Sarena Straus – ReInception
        • Tyler Drinkard – Isolated Domain
        • Melissa Gowdy Baldwin – The Marriage Wars: Book One

         

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

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        Congratulations once more to the 2022 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner

        The Last Lumenian

        By S. G. Blaise

        The Blue and Gold Badge for the Cygnus 2022 Grand Prize Book Award for the CIBAs The Last Lumenian by S.G. Blaise

        Click here to see the full list of 2022 CYGNUS Book Award Winners for Science Fiction.

        We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 CYGNUS  Book Awards for Science Fiction.

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        Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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