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  • The 2024 Harvey Chute Awards Semi-Finalists for Business and Enterprise

    Three Black stripes on a yellow badge CIBA BadgeThe Harvey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction. The Harvey Chute 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 motivational, strategy, technology guides, social media, finance, investing & money, communications, marketing, business, and economics. We will put these books 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 2024 Harvey Chute Non-Fiction Short List to the 2024 Harvey Chute Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. Entries below are now in competition for 2024 Harvey Chute Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

    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 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

     

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Harvey Chute Book Awards novel competition for Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating these authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.

    • Ben Peterson – Engage Your Destiny
    • Ross Brand – Livestreaming Digital Media Predictions Volume Top Content Creators Help You Succeed in an Era of Rapid Change
    • Richard Weylman – 100 Proven Ways To Acquire And Keep Clients For Life
    • Roger Spitz – Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
    • Jenny Li Fowler – Organic Social Media: How to Build Flourishing Online Communities
    • Anastasia Karklina Gabriel – Cultural Intelligence for Marketers: Building an Inclusive Marketing Strategy
    • Zontee Hou – Data-Driven Personalization: How to Use Consumer Insights to Generate Customer Loyalty
    • Nuala Walsh – TUNE IN: How to Make Smarter Decisions in a Noisy World
    • Kori Reed – Men-in-the-Middle Conversations to Gain Momentum with Gender Equity’s Silent Majority
    • Neal Schaffer – Digital Threads: The Small Business and Entrepreneur Digital First Marketing Playbook
    • Steve Waddell, MBA, PMP – Valuepreneuers: The New Rules for Building Products, Growing Your Business, and Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Dream
    • Melina Palmer – The Truth About Pricing
    • Nick Barter & Christopher Fleming – Future Normal: 8 Questions to Create Businesses Your Children will be Proud Of
    • Jacqui Clarke – Stop Worrying About Money

    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.

    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!

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 Harvey Chute Awards is:

    Using Behavioral Science in Marketing

    By Nancy Harhut

    blue and gold badge recognizing Using Behavioral Science in Marketing by Nancy Harhut for winning the 2023 Harvey Chute Grand Prize

     

    See the full list of 2023 First Place Harvey Chute Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Harvey Chute Book Awards for Business and Enterprise Non-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!

  • The 2024 I&I Instruction and Insight Awards Short List for Non-Fiction Guides

    The 2024 I&I Instruction and Insight Awards Short List for Non-Fiction Guides

    I&I or Instruction & Insight Awards CIBA BadgeThe Instruction and Insight Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Guides and Self- Help Non-Fiction. The I&I 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 HOW-TO, Guidance, Travel Guides, Cookbooks, Instruction, Insight, Self-Help, and more.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2024 I&I Non-Fiction LONG LIST to the 2024 I&I Book Awards SHORT LIST. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

    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 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

     

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 I&I Book Awards novel competition for Guiding and How-to Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the Short List authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.

    • Margaret C Beeler – Tropetails: A Cocktail and Mocktail Book for Bookworms
    • Ross Brand – Livestreaming Digital Media Predictions Volume Top Content Creators Help You Succeed in an Era of Rapid Change
    • Lorraine Ballato – Success with Hydrangeas a Gardener’s Guide
    • Karen Gross – Mending Education Finding Hope Creativity and Mental Wellness in Times of Trauma
    • Mary Deal – Advanced Self-Hypnosis Techniques Hypno-Scripts Book
    • Tania Israel – Facing the Fracture How To Navigate the Challenges of Living in a Divided Nation
    • John M. O’brien Ph.d. – Rudeness Rehab Reclaiming Civility in the Workplace and Your Home Space
    • Grace Torres-Hodges – Private Practice Solution Reclaiming Physician Autonomy Restoring the Doctor-Patient Relationship
    • Elizabeth Fulgaro – Soul Care-Song Prayers: A Spiritual Practice Toward Resilience and Well-Being
    • Dr. Maheshika Halbeisen – The Job Well Done – The Queen’s Way To Successful Leadership
    • Katherine Fabrizio – The Good Daughter Syndrome: Help For Empathic Daughters of Narcissistic, Borderline, or Difficult Mothers Trapped in the Role of the Good Daughter
    • Martess Amunette Dowling – Is He Ever Going to Leave His Wife?
    • Amy L Bernstein – Wrangling the Doubt Monster: Fighting Fears, Finding Inspiration
    • Katie Myers – Being Seen
    • Kimberly Harms – Are You Ready? How to Build a Legacy to Die For
    • Anna Brooke and Vindy Teja – WRITE! Your Guide to Revealing the Writer Within
    • Chris Chan with Patricia Meyer Chan – The Autistic Sleuth: Screen Portrayals of Detectives on the Spectrum in Sherlock Holmes Adaptations, The Millennium Trilogy, The Bridge, Death Note, … Dog in the Night-Time, and Other Productions
    • Nuala Walsh – TUNE IN: How to Make Smarter Decisions In A Noisy World
    • Jane Kim Yu – Journey of Awakening and Higher Consciousness
    • Natalie Kohlhaas – Hello Anxiety My Old Friend: Harness Your Invisible Superpower
    • Léonie Rosenstiel – Protecting Mama: Surviving the Legal Guardianship Swamp
    • Bob Dahms, MBA, CPA, CMA – Let’s Talk About This: 50 Things You Need to Know About Starting and Managing a Small Business
    • Douglas A. Burton – The Heroine’s Labyrinth: Archetypal Designs in Heroine-Led Fiction
    • Jacqui Clarke – Stop worrying about money
    • Angela Lomenzo – Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women
    • Lisa Rhyne – Coming Out of the Metaphysical Closet
    • Holly Swenson – Stop, Drop, Grow, & Glow
    • Matthew J. Louis – Hiring Veterans: How To Leverage Military Talent For Organizational Growth

    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.

    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!

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

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 I&I Awards is:

    Eating Together Being Together

    By Julian C.E. Clauss-Ehlers and Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers

    blue and gold badge recognizing Eating Together Being Together by Julian C E Clauss-Ehlers and Caroline S Clauss-Ehlers for winning the 2023 Instruction and Insight Grand Prize

    See the full list of 2023 First Place I&I Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 I&I Book Awards for Guiding and Helpful Non-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!

     

  • The Humor and Satire Awards 2024 Finalists for Humorous and Allegorical Fiction

    The Humor and Satire Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Satire, Humor and Allegory Fiction. The Humor and Satire 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  satire, humor, political ideology, parody, fantasy, and allegory or fable. 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 from the 2024 HUMOR & SATIRE SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Humor and Satire Book Awards 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

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE AND GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Humor and Satire Book Awards novel competition for Humorous, Satirical and Allegorical Fiction!

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

    • T.C. Morrison – Who Put the Bots in the Tort$?
    • Jeffrey Hope – Real Spies Don’t Use Rowboats
    • Nancy Mccabe – The Pamela Papers a Mostly E-Pistolary Story of Academic Pandemic Pandemonium
    • Kt Nalla – I Scream We All Scream
    • Lou Dischler – Mona’s Odyssey the Curious History of the Girl Who Destroyed Time
    • Bill Burkland – The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus
    • DM Baronov – Arthur an Actuarial Odyssey
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Bye Bye Blackbird
    • JP Rieger – Sunscreen Shower
    • Julie L. Brown – No One Will Save Us: A novel
    • Daniel Lawrence Abrams – Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don’t Get Hungry
    • Ben Gonshor – The Book of Izzy
    • Alexander Boldizar – The Man Who Saw Seconds
    • John Young – Getting Huge
    • Dan Kopcow – Madcap Serenade
    • Marco Ocram – The Awful Truth About The Name Of The Rose
    • Patrick Finegan – Toys in Babylon

    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.

    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 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner

    Quantum Consequence

    By Mike Murphey

    blue and gold badge recognizing Quantum Consequence by Mike Murphey for winning the 2023 Humor and Satire Grand Prize

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 HUMOR & SATIRE Book Award Winners for Humorous Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Humor and Satire Book Awards for Humorous 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!

     

  • The 2024 Hearten Book Awards Finalists for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction

    The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Inspiring and Uplifting Non-Fiction and Memoirs. 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 from the 2024 Hearten Non-Fiction SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Hearten Book Awards FINALISTS LIST. All FINALISTS will be recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

    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 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

     

    These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE & GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the Finalists List authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.

    • Elizabeth Fulgaro – Learning to Love (Not Loathe) Me
    • Linda M. Lockwood – Sky Ranch: Reared in the High Country
    • Genét Simone – Teaching in the Dark
    • Jenell M. Jones M.Ed. – Shattered
    • David Hutton – Drums of a Distant Tribe
    • Douglas Green – The Teachings of Shirelle: Life Lessons from a Divine Knucklehead
    • Dr George Ackerman – A Son’s Journey from Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver to Advocate
    • Kasey Claytor – Finding the Light
    • Olivia Goodreau – But She Looks Fine
    • Etsuko Diamond Miyagi – DIAMOND: The Memoir of a Lost Daughter of Japan
    • Lynne Spriggs O’Connor – Elk Love: A Montana Memoir
    • L.A. Witt – I Changed My Mind: My Journey from Infertile to Childfree
    • Mimi Zieman – Tap Dancing on Everest
    • Liz Alterman – Sad Sacked
    • Rachael Siddoway and Sonja Wasden – An Impossible Life: A True Story of Hope and Mental Illness
    • Ginelle Testa – Make a Home Out of You
    • Susan Bloch – Travels with my Grief
    • Mark Steven Porro – A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale
    • Susan Cole – Holding Fast: A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and Loss
    • Tony Jeton Selimi – The Unfakeable Code®

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

    Blue and Gold badge for the finalists of the Hearten award

    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!

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

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 Hearten Awards is:

    Running Away From The Circus

    By Nove Meyers

    Running Away from the Circus Cover

    blue and gold badge recognizing Running Away From the Circus by Nove Meyers for winning the 2023 Hearten Grand Prize

    See the full list of 2023 First Place Hearten Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Hearten Book Awards for Inspiring and Uplifting Narrative Non-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!

     

  • The Humor and Satire Awards 2024 Semi-Finalists for Humorous and Allegorical Fiction

    The Humor and Satire Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Satire, Humor and Allegory Fiction. The Humor and Satire 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  satire, humor, political ideology, parody, fantasy, and allegory or fable. 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 from the 2024 HUMOR & SATIRE SHORT LIST to the 2024 Humor and Satire Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Humor & Satire 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

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2024 Humor and Satire Book Awards novel competition for Humorous, Satirical and Allegorical Fiction!

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

    • Ariel Peckel – Bertram’s Emporium of Things People Say
    • T.C. Morrison – Who Put the Bots in the Tort$?
    • Jeffrey Hope – Real Spies Don’t Use Rowboats
    • Nancy Mccabe – The Pamela Papers a Mostly E-Pistolary Story of Academic Pandemic Pandemonium
    • Kt Nalla – I Scream We All Scream
    • Lou Dischler – Mona’s Odyssey the Curious History of the Girl Who Destroyed Time
    • Neal Rabin – Flat
    • Bill Burkland – The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus
    • DM Baronov – Arthur an Actuarial Odyssey
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Bye Bye Blackbird
    • JP Rieger – Sunscreen Shower
    • Julie L. Brown – No One Will Save Us: A novel
    • Daniel Lawrence Abrams – Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don’t Get Hungry
    • D.C. Cameron – Dysfunctional Regulatory Bodies: Cowpies and Lies
    • Ben Gonshor – The Book of Izzy
    • Alexander Boldizar – The Man Who Saw Seconds
    • Colette Tajemna – The Corpse in the Trash Room
    • John Young – Getting Huge
    • Dan Kopcow – Madcap Serenade
    • Marco Ocram – The Awful Truth About The Name Of The Rose
    • Patrick Finegan – Toys in Babylon

    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.

    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 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner

    Quantum Consequence

    By Mike Murphey

    blue and gold badge recognizing Quantum Consequence by Mike Murphey for winning the 2023 Humor and Satire Grand Prize

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 HUMOR & SATIRE Book Award Winners for Humorous Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Humor and Satire Book Awards for Humorous 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!

     

  • The 2024 Hearten Book Awards Semi-Finalists for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction

    The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Inspiring and Uplifting Non-Fiction and Memoirs. 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 from the 2024 Hearten Non-Fiction SHORT LIST to the 2024 Hearten Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS LIST. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

    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 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

     

    These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the Semi-Finalists List authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.

    • Elizabeth Fulgaro – Learning to Love (Not Loathe) Me
    • Linda M. Lockwood – Sky Ranch: Reared in the High Country
    • Genét Simone – Teaching in the Dark
    • Jenell M. Jones M.Ed. – Shattered
    • David Hutton – Drums of a Distant Tribe
    • Douglas Green – The Teachings of Shirelle: Life Lessons from a Divine Knucklehead
    • Dr George Ackerman – A Son’s Journey from Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver to Advocate
    • Ingrid McCarthy – I Stood Among the Ruins and Cried
    • Kasey Claytor – Finding the Light
    • Jia Apple – The Tell
    • Olivia Goodreau – But She Looks Fine
    • Etsuko Diamond Miyagi – DIAMOND: The Memoir of a Lost Daughter of Japan
    • Lynne Spriggs O’Connor – Elk Love: A Montana Memoir
    • Jane Kim Yu – Journey of Awakening and Higher Consciousness
    • L.A. Witt – I Changed My Mind: My Journey from Infertile to Childfree
    • Mimi Zieman – Tap Dancing on Everest
    • Liz Alterman – Sad Sacked
    • Rachael Siddoway and Sonja Wasden – An Impossible Life: A True Story of Hope and Mental Illness
    • Christina Ford – In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt In The Pursuit of Happily Ever After
    • Glenda Goodrich – Solo Passage: 13 Quests, 13 Questions
    • Ginelle Testa – Make a Home Out of You
    • Jennifer Cramer-Miller – Incurable Optimist: Living with Illness and Chronic Hope
    • Susan Bloch – Travels with my Grief
    • Mark Steven Porro – A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale
    • Susan Cole – Holding Fast: A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and Loss
    • Tony Jeton Selimi – The Unfakeable Code®

    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.

    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!

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

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 Hearten Awards is:

    Running Away From The Circus

    By Nove Meyers

    Running Away from the Circus Cover

    blue and gold badge recognizing Running Away From the Circus by Nove Meyers for winning the 2023 Hearten Grand Prize

    See the full list of 2023 First Place Hearten Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Hearten Book Awards for Inspiring and Uplifting Narrative Non-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!

     

  • The 2024 Harvey Chute Awards Short List for Business and Enterprise

    Three Black stripes on a yellow badge CIBA BadgeThe Harvey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction. The Harvey Chute 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 motivational, strategy, technology guides, social media, finance, investing & money, communications, marketing, business, and economics. We will put these books 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 2024 Harvey Chute Non-Fiction entries to the 2024 Harvey Chute Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2024 Harvey Chute Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

    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 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

     

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Harvey Chute Book Awards novel competition for Business and Enterprise Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the Long List authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.

    • Ben Peterson – Engage Your Destiny
    • Brian Lambert Phd – The AI Lead
    • Ross Brand – Livestreaming Digital Media Predictions Volume Top Content Creators Help You Succeed in an Era of Rapid Change
    • Richard Weylman – 100 Proven Ways To Acquire And Keep Clients For Life
    • Matthew Sekol – ESG Mindset: Business Resilience and Sustainable Growth
    • Roger Spitz – Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
    • Jenny Li Fowler – Organic Social Media: How to Build Flourishing Online Communities
    • Anastasia Karklina Gabriel – Cultural Intelligence for Marketers: Building an Inclusive Marketing Strategy
    • Zontee Hou – Data-Driven Personalization: How to Use Consumer Insights to Generate Customer Loyalty
    • Nuala Walsh – TUNE IN: How to Make Smarter Decisions in a Noisy World
    • Kori Reed – Men-in-the-Middle Conversations to Gain Momentum with Gender Equity’s Silent Majority
    • Neal Schaffer – Digital Threads: The Small Business and Entrepreneur Digital First Marketing Playbook
    • Steve Waddell, MBA, PMP – Valuepreneuers: The New Rules for Building Products, Growing Your Business, and Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Dream
    • Diana Peterson-More – Courageous Communication: A Return to Civility
    • Melina Palmer – The Truth About Pricing
    • Celia Soonets – The Wheel of 8 Fears of Entrepreneurs
    • Nick Barter & Christopher Fleming – Future Normal: 8 Questions to Create Businesses Your Children will be Proud Of
    • Adam Bennett – Great Change – The Way to Get Big Strategy Done
    • Jacqui Clarke – Stop Worrying About Money

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

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 Harvey Chute Awards is:

    Using Behavioral Science in Marketing

    By Nancy Harhut

    blue and gold badge recognizing Using Behavioral Science in Marketing by Nancy Harhut for winning the 2023 Harvey Chute Grand Prize

     

    See the full list of 2023 First Place Harvey Chute Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Harvey Chute Book Awards for Business and Enterprise Non-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!

     

  • The 2024 I&I Instruction and Insight Awards Long List for Non-Fiction Guides

    The 2024 I&I Instruction and Insight Awards Long List for Non-Fiction Guides

    I&I or Instruction & Insight Awards CIBA BadgeThe Instruction and Insight Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Guides and Self- Help Non-Fiction. The I&I 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 HOW-TO, Guidance, Travel Guides, Cookbooks, Instruction, Insight, Self-Help, and more.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2024 I&I Non-Fiction entries to the 2024 I&I Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2024 I&I Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

    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 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

     

    These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 I&I Book Awards novel competition for Guiding and How-to Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the Long List authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.

    • Margaret C Beeler – Tropetails: A Cocktail and Mocktail Book for Bookworms
    • Brooke Martin – Controlled Burn
    • Stephanie O’dea – Slow Living
    • Ross Brand – Livestreaming Digital Media Predictions Volume Top Content Creators Help You Succeed in an Era of Rapid Change
    • Lorraine Ballato – Success with Hydrangeas a Gardener’s Guide
    • Karen Gross – Mending Education Finding Hope Creativity and Mental Wellness in Times of Trauma
    • Mary Deal – Advanced Self-Hypnosis Techniques Hypno-Scripts Book
    • Tania Israel – Facing the Fracture How To Navigate the Challenges of Living in a Divided Nation
    • Daniel C. Rodgers – Escape the Clock Your Program Guide for Financial Freedom and Early Retirement
    • John M. O’brien Ph.d. – Rudeness Rehab Reclaiming Civility in the Workplace and Your Home Space
    • Grace Torres-Hodges – Private Practice Solution Reclaiming Physician Autonomy Restoring the Doctor-Patient Relationship
    • Chris Chan – Some of My Best Friends Are Murderers: Critiquing the Columbo Killers
    • G.E. Poole – Infrequent Frequencies Rare Resonance
    • Elizabeth Fulgaro – Soul Care-Song Prayers: A Spiritual Practice Toward Resilience and Well-Being
    • Dr. Maheshika Halbeisen – The Job Well Done – The Queen’s Way To Successful Leadership
    • Katherine Fabrizio – The Good Daughter Syndrome: Help For Empathic Daughters of Narcissistic, Borderline, or Difficult Mothers Trapped in the Role of the Good Daughter
    • Martess Amunette Dowling – Is He Ever Going to Leave His Wife?
    • Amy L Bernstein – Wrangling the Doubt Monster: Fighting Fears, Finding Inspiration
    • Katie Myers – Being Seen
    • Kimberly Harms – Are You Ready? How to Build a Legacy to Die For
    • Lorda Dabresil – Solutions to Nursing Shortage in New York
    • Anna Brooke and Vindy Teja – WRITE! Your Guide to Revealing the Writer Within
    • Chris Chan with Patricia Meyer Chan – The Autistic Sleuth: Screen Portrayals of Detectives on the Spectrum in Sherlock Holmes Adaptations, The Millennium Trilogy, The Bridge, Death Note, … Dog in the Night-Time, and Other Productions
    • Nuala Walsh – TUNE IN: How to Make Smarter Decisions In A Noisy World
    • Lynne Spriggs O’Connor – Elk Love: A Montana Memoir
    • Jane Kim Yu – Journey of Awakening and Higher Consciousness
    • Natalie Kohlhaas – Hello Anxiety My Old Friend: Harness Your Invisible Superpower
    • Léonie Rosenstiel – Protecting Mama: Surviving the Legal Guardianship Swamp
    • Bob Dahms, MBA, CPA, CMA – Let’s Talk About This: 50 Things You Need to Know About Starting and Managing a Small Business
    • Douglas A. Burton – The Heroine’s Labyrinth: Archetypal Designs in Heroine-Led Fiction
    • Jacqui Clarke – Stop worrying about money
    • Angela Lomenzo – Wisdom of Wildly Creative Women
    • Lisa Rhyne – Coming Out of the Metaphysical Closet
    • Holly Swenson – Stop, Drop, Grow, & Glow
    • Matthew J. Louis – Hiring Veterans: How To Leverage Military Talent For Organizational Growth

    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 2023 I&I Awards is:

    Eating Together Being Together

    By Julian C.E. Clauss-Ehlers and Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers

    blue and gold badge recognizing Eating Together Being Together by Julian C E Clauss-Ehlers and Caroline S Clauss-Ehlers for winning the 2023 Instruction and Insight Grand Prize

    See the full list of 2023 First Place I&I Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 I&I Book Awards for Guiding and Helpful Non-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!

     

  • The Humor and Satire Awards 2024 Short List for Humorous and Allegorical Fiction

    The Humor and Satire Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Satire, Humor and Allegory Fiction. The Humor and Satire 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  satire, humor, political ideology, parody, fantasy, and allegory or fable. 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 HUMOR & SATIRE Fiction entries to the 2024 Humor and Satire Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Humor & Satire 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

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

    These titles are in the running for the Semi-Finalists of the 2024 Humor and Satire Book Awards novel competition for Humorous, Satirical and Allegorical Fiction!

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

    • Ariel Peckel – Bertram’s Emporium of Things People Say
    • T.C. Morrison – Who Put the Bots in the Tort$?
    • John Arthur Robinson – More Later Lyle’s Letters From the University
    • Jeffrey Hope – Real Spies Don’t Use Rowboats
    • Nancy Mccabe – The Pamela Papers a Mostly E-Pistolary Story of Academic Pandemic Pandemonium
    • G.T. Walker – Curse of the Maestro and Other Stories
    • Kt Nalla – I Scream We All Scream
    • Lou Dischler – Mona’s Odyssey the Curious History of the Girl Who Destroyed Time
    • Neal Rabin – Flat
    • Bill Burkland – The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus
    • DM Baronov – Arthur an Actuarial Odyssey
    • Elizabeth Crowens – Bye Bye Blackbird
    • JP Rieger – Sunscreen Shower
    • Julie L. Brown – No One Will Save Us: A novel
    • Daniel Lawrence Abrams – Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don’t Get Hungry
    • D.C. Cameron – Dysfunctional Regulatory Bodies: Cowpies and Lies
    • Ben Gonshor – The Book of Izzy
    • Alexander Boldizar – The Man Who Saw Seconds
    • Colette Tajemna – The Corpse in the Trash Room
    • John Young – Getting Huge
    • Chris Chan – Nessie’s Nemesis
    • Dan Kopcow – Madcap Serenade
    • Marco Ocram – The Awful Truth About The Name Of The Rose
    • Patrick Finegan – Toys in Babylon
    • TK Sheffield – Model Wave
    • JP Rieger – The Big Comb Over

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

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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    Congratulations once more to the 2023 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner

    Quantum Consequence

    By Mike Murphey

     

    blue and gold badge recognizing Quantum Consequence by Mike Murphey for winning the 2023 Humor and Satire Grand Prize

    Click here to see the full list of 2023 HUMOR & SATIRE Book Award Winners for Humorous Fiction.

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Humor and Satire Book Awards for Humorous 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!

     

  • The 2024 Hearten Book Awards Short List for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction

    The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Inspiring and Uplifting Non-Fiction and Memoirs. 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 from the 2024 Hearten Non-Fiction LONG LIST to the 2024 Hearten Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2024 Hearten Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

    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 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

    A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

     

    These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the Short List authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.

    • Elizabeth Fulgaro – Learning to Love (Not Loathe) Me
    • Linda M. Lockwood – Sky Ranch: Reared in the High Country
    • Genét Simone – Teaching in the Dark
    • Wendy B. Correa – My Pretty Baby: A Memoir of Seeking Truth and Finding Healing
    • Jenell M. Jones M.Ed. – Shattered
    • David Hutton – Drums of a Distant Tribe
    • Douglas Green – The Teachings of Shirelle: Life Lessons from a Divine Knucklehead
    • Dr George Ackerman – A Son’s Journey from Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver to Advocate
    • Ingrid McCarthy – I Stood Among the Ruins and Cried
    • Kasey Claytor – Finding the Light
    • Jia Apple – The Tell
    • Olivia Goodreau – But She Looks Fine
    • Etsuko Diamond Miyagi – DIAMOND: The Memoir of a Lost Daughter of Japan
    • Lynne Spriggs O’Connor – Elk Love: A Montana Memoir
    • Jane Kim Yu – Journey of Awakening and Higher Consciousness
    • L.A. Witt – I Changed My Mind: My Journey from Infertile to Childfree
    • Mimi Zieman – Tap Dancing on Everest
    • Liz Alterman – Sad Sacked
    • Rachael Siddoway and Sonja Wasden – An Impossible Life: A True Story of Hope and Mental Illness
    • Christina Ford – In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt In The Pursuit of Happily Ever After
    • Glenda Goodrich – Solo Passage: 13 Quests, 13 Questions
    • Ginelle Testa – Make a Home Out of You
    • Jennifer Cramer-Miller – Incurable Optimist: Living with Illness and Chronic Hope
    • Susan Bloch – Travels with my Grief
    • Mark Steven Porro – A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale
    • Laura Hall – Affliction: Growing Up With A Closeted Gay Dad
    • Susan Cole – Holding Fast: A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and Loss
    • Louise Privette and Tristan Peigné – Dancing Through Life: A Memoir
    • Ben LeBoutillier – Practical Advice for a Better World
    • Kathleen Watt – REARRANGED: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed
    • Tony Jeton Selimi – The Unfakeable Code®

    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 2023 Hearten Awards is:

    Running Away From The Circus

    By Nove Meyers

    Running Away from the Circus Cover

    blue and gold badge recognizing Running Away From the Circus by Nove Meyers for winning the 2023 Hearten Grand Prize

    See the full list of 2023 First Place Hearten Winners here!

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Hearten Book Awards for Inspiring and Uplifting Narrative Non-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!